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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 ...

Former Broken Trail owner Matt Simonds, left, talked at length about his decision to close the brewery/distillery. Brewer David Rosebeary is still working with him at Mother Trail, the production facility off 12th Street. Last week, I wrote on the many challenges all of us in the Crew face when trying to write about a brewery when it closes. ...

Hey, it’s us, at the start of our 10th annual Stout Challenge! From left, Stoutmeister, Andrew, Maureen, Erin, and Brandon. A dozen stouts, poured at random, and the first one poured ends up the champion. That was how it went Sunday afternoon, as the Brew Crew gathered for the 10th time to engage in a blind taste test of local dark eli ...

There will be fewer stouts this year, in a different venue than Franz Solo’s house, but the Stout Challenge will be happening! Here we go again. The Crew is gathering a few weeks later than most years, but it’s time for our annual Stout Challenge. Only there will be fewer of us participating, in a different location, and with few ...

Closed permanently or temporarily? We do not know for sure either way. As we noted in Tuesday’s beer history timeline article, the idea for that story came from a reader after we put out a request for a little inspiration to help us through a slow news period. Another reader had a shorter and simpler request for an article, asking what ...

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 ...

The last remaining piece of the first major brewery in Albuquerque, which was completed in 1899. With our next few stories in the Look Back/Look Ahead Series delayed for various reasons, we put out a request to our readers on Facebook for some story ideas. One that caught our eye, or specifically mine, was to type up a single, comprehensive ...

Nexus Brewery has managed to hang in there even in the face of all the restrictions caused by the pandemic. (All photos courtesy of Nexus Brewery) Nexus Brewery, like many of its contemporaries, had to figure out to how to adapt to the many challenges and restrictions of a pandemic world in 2020. The popular brewpub was able to survive with ...

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 ...

The sun is still shining on Boxing Bear even after all that 2020 threw at the brewery. (All photos courtesy of Boxing Bear, unless noted) Since we got the bad puns out of the way in the headline, we can now focus on the heart of the story, which is of course Boxing Bear Brewing. After debuting more than six years ago, these now-veterans of t ...