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The staff at Kaktus Brewing is almost ready to welcome guests back to their updated outdoor seating areas for hopefully many more warm, sunny days ahead. (Photo courtesy of Michael Waddy) One year ago, when COVID-19 first threatened to become a full blown pandemic in the U.S., breweries throughout New Mexico took various approaches as to how ...

You can’t drink this at the bar yet, but you can still enjoy a pint everywhere else at Sobremesa. 2020 might not have seemed like the best year for a small business … nay, ANY business, to get its foot in the door in virtually any industry. But, when you have the acumen and experience of the folks behind Albuquerque west side n ...

Ex Novo founder/president, Joel Gregory, looking all artsy at sunset. (All photos/images courtesy of Ex Novo) The sun is shining, the flowers are blooming, the wind is blowing and the people are sneezing. It’s springtime in New Mexico, folks, and we’re finally able to venture out to our favorite breweries and enjoy pints on the p ...

The brew part of that title will soon include beers brewed on site. (All photos courtesy of Painted Lady) Until the anomaly of 2020, Albuquerque tourism had been steadily on the rise for the better part of a decade, with both the number of visitors and the amount of money those visitors fed into our economy increasing year after year. Wh ...

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. Stoutmeister p ...

Naming a hazy double IPA, You Can’t Park Here, might not make a lot of sense at first glance, but we tip our caps to the team at Gravity Bound for coming up with it. About a week ago or so, a couple of us in the Crew were enjoying pints at a brewery, where the name of a new beer caught our eye. You Can’t Park Here is an apt name for ...

The BCBC Crew, from left, Ryan McArdle, Rich Headley, Matt Ohler, and Jami Nordby Beer Creek Brewing Company has been tested before. The men (and ladies) of Beer Creek have had to prove their toughness and steadfastness many times before out in the middle of what one might consider nowhere, and especially in a location whose history had seen ...

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. Stoutmeister p ...

This closed brewery is coming back to life, albeit now under the ownership of a different brewery. It’s complicated. Over the last few days, as we worked to follow up on our recent story about the challenge of reporting on brewery closures, we learned that three places we have reported as closing for good may be coming back to life. ...

That sign isn’t lying, Clovis’ first brewery is now open for business. (Photo courtesy of Bandolero Brewery) In terms of craft beer, options were fairly limited out in Clovis for a long time, to put it mildly. A town of 38,000 people had no breweries or taprooms to call their own. Things began to change a couple years ago, wh ...