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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 ...

This not the stout in question, but soon our collaboration with Casa Vieja will be on tap, and we need help naming it! A little while back, the Crew was contacted by assistant brewer Michael Sharpe of Casa Vieja to see if we would be interested in collaborating on an imperial stout recipe. We never say no to such things, and pretty soon Franz S ...

We were very thankful to receive a four-pack of this special IPA from Yakima Chief Hops. Apparently, we are beer influencers now. Yeah, we are pretty surprised, too, but that was the reasoning behind the good folks at Yakima Chief Hops offering to send us a four-pack of Early Winters IPA, a collaboration of theirs with Old Schoolhouse Brewer ...

Adapting to the to-go model for much of 2020 was just one of the many challenges that Steel Bender faced. (All photos courtesy of Mario Caldwell/Steel Bender Brewyard, unless noted) Pivot is not a word that came up too often in breweries before 2020. Now it is perhaps the defining word of the year that was, and in some ways, the current year as ...

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 ...

Santa Fe sun setting on Tumbleroot Agua Fria Taproom Jason Kirkman takes a break from bottling to answer the phone call from a beer writer. He sits for a minute in the empty facility, once filled with the sounds of laughter, the odd clang of a hoseclamp here or there, and new beers bubbling away into buckets. He’s already waived off the ...

A massive thanks to Truth or Consequences Brewing for sending us a vertical of Truth Serum, both regular and barrel aged. A short while ago, the incredibly generous people at Truth or Consequences Brewing offered to send us a three-year vertical of Truth Serum Barleywine. There would be three 22-ounce bottles of the regular versions produced fo ...

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 ...

A set of tasting flights are ready to go out at Ponderosa Brewing. (All photos courtesy of Antonio Fernandez) While the pandemic shuttered many businesses across the state, one of Albuquerque’s most up-and-coming neighborhoods, The Sawmill District, has experienced rapid growth even in the past year. At the heart of it is Ponderosa Bre ...

We’ve all missed hanging out with Rob Palmer as much as he has missed all of us. (Photos courtesy of Palmer Brewery/Left Turn Distilling) I recently pinned down Rob Palmer for a short Zoom interview for the Look Back/Look Ahead Series. I have to admit, it is difficult for me to start these interviews. It’s basically just such a c ...