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The front-of-house staff at Sidetrack collectively earned MVP honors from the brewery owners. (Photo courtesy of Sidetrack Brewing) During a conversation with a front-of-house employee from a local brewery, he noted that it felt rather nice to see words of praise from one of the owners in a recent Brew Crew story. That got me thinking about how ...

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 ...

Taprooms were empty for a good portion of 2020, such as the one at Ex Novo. (Photo courtesy of Joel Gregory) Rather than wait until New Year’s Eve or Day, we decided that today (Tuesday) marked a perfectly good time to run our annual Year in Review. So, did anything happen in 2020? Well, gosh, a lot happened, and it was not all pandemic-r ...

RFA is working towards a brighter 2021 If you’ve been following along with our Look Back/Look Ahead Series, you may have gathered by now that 2020 has been a rough year for the brewing industry. For the last 10 months, I’ve been following closely with the Santa Fe craft beer industry, doing my best to keep up with how our guys ha ...

The cans have been rolling off the assembly line in Corrales all year. (All photos courtesy of Ex Novo Brewing, unless noted) Ex Novo Brewing in Corrales has quickly become a big player in the local craft beer scene, an impressive feat for a place that only opened in May 2019. Just like its fellow New Mexico breweries, however, 2020 has been a ...

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 ...

Head brewer Matt Meier, left, watches carefully as the canning line do its thing in pre-COVID times. (All photos courtesy of Red Door Brewing) Strange times call for remote interviews as I forged on with this year’s Look Back/Look Ahead Series with our friends at Red Door Brewing. On the call with me this time around were head brewer M ...

Just before the most recent two-week closure, we visited the Beer Hall to see the new landscaping. Though Santa Fe Brewing Co. is the oldest and largest of New Mexico’s craft breweries, with a great deal of veteran experience inside and outside of our local industry, nothing could have prepared them for this year. At all levels, from p ...

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 ...

Back in the before times, at the Stout Invitational at Bathtub Row in Los Alamos, someone snapped this wonderful photo of Brewers Guild executive director Leah Black, left, and board of directors president Anne O’Neill hamming it up. Ah, the memories. (Photo courtesy of Red Door Brewing) Back in March 2019, Leah Black accepted the role of ...