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From left, Red Mesa’s Alex Cantwell, Brad Frye, and Roman Barham show off the special crowler cans for their collaboration beer with High and Dry, Disharmonious Red IPA. (Photo courtesy of Red Mesa) As all of us in the Dark Side Brew Crew can attest, a love of metal and a love of craft beer can be quite the harmonious intersection. Tho ...

Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s eight breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, one in Red River, one in Silver City, and one in Truth or Consequences also joining the party. Stoutmeiste ...

Owner/brewer Bill Arnold has created a prime gathering spot for craft beer lovers in Alamogordo. Bill and Vicky Arnold were never the type of couple to settle quietly into retirement. Oh, sure, there were the long vacation road trips, and spending time with their grandchildren, but they found themselves more than a little restless. It ca ...

The colorful Truth or Consequences taproom in Las Cruces is very much worth the visit. Three of us in the Crew launched our trip to Southern New Mexico on Friday with a change from the original plan. Rather than head straight for the mountain towns of Cloudcroft, Lincoln, and Ruidoso, we instead went to Las Cruces first, saving the rest for ...

The Crew is hitting the road again to visit some breweries, though we will be headed south, rather than east/southeast this time. It has been a long, long time since multiple members of the Crew piled into a vehicle and hit the road to visit breweries beyond the confines of the Albuquerque and Santa Fe metro areas. Well, with vaccine cou ...

Packaging manager Lindsay Mangin, left, and lab technician Cassandra Ford fill key roles at Marble Brewery. Back in 2015, the Crew ran a series of articles on many of the women holding key roles at New Mexico breweries, from brewers to managers and all jobs in between. One could say more than enough time has passed for us to get back to high ...

Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s eight breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, one in Red River, one in Silver City, and one in Truth or Consequences also joining the party. Stoutmeiste ...

Despite the wind, a pint of Ducks in a Row Dark Lager tasted great at Beer Creek the other day. With vaccines now being administered, and many of our counties now at the yellow level or better, the urge to get out of the house and onto the road has begun to take hold with many of us in the Crew. Last week, with nothing else to do (the da ...

Despite the wind, a pint of Ducks in a Row Dark Lager tasted great at Beer Creek the other day. With vaccines now being administered, and many of our counties now at the yellow level or better, the urge to get out of the house and onto the road has begun to take hold with many of us in the Crew. Last week, with nothing else to do (the da ...

Head brewer Tom Ludzia pours me a pint of their award-winning Brown Ale. I waited in my car until I was given the signal from Tom Ludzia to follow him inside, through the service door, into the brewhouse at 2920 Rufina Street. There, in a fortress of stainless steel, less than a handful of other masked do-gooders stood around looking as if t ...