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After being shut down for the weekend due to an employee testing positive for the coronavirus, Turtle Mountain will reopen this week with limited hours, one of three breweries currently being affected by this type of situation. Anyone following the local news of late has seen the sharp increase in daily positive tests of COVID-19 throughout New ...

The Crew will likely be indulging in our collaboration with Bow & Arrow, Pastry Slayer, for International Stout Day. We are not the ones responsible for International Stout Day, but we are definitely among the beer lovers who will celebrate this annual “holiday” devoted to the darkest of beers. As a public service, we decided it ...

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 ...

Meet new head brewer Mike Donovan. Rowley Farmhouse Ales has a new head brewer. When former head brewer Wes Burbank accepted a new position at Ex Novo Brewing in Corrales this summer, he left some pretty big barrels to fill back in Santa Fe. It was a good thing Rowley and crew have built up such a wide network of friends and collaborators ...

Steel Bender owners Ethan and Shelby Chant are always good at keeping things properly serious. Our continuing journey to get to know our brewery owners and staff members on a more personal level has led us to Steel Bender Brewyard in Los Ranchos. We had a lovely tête-à-tête with Ethan Chant (co-owner with his brothers Chri ...

Rashan Jones of High Desert Flameworks, left, and Boxing Bear’s Justin Hamilton show off their new collaboration, Just Jonesin’ Peach Cobbler Ale. Plenty of breweries have collaborated on beers over the years here in Albuquerque and parts beyond. Now it may be time for a new sort of collaboration, and not just something involving be ...

Restaurants and breweries have had it rough this year, as everyone knows. With the pandemic, most of these businesses haven’t been the same since early March. Morale has often dipped as low as the temperatures these days. But, the consensus seems to be that the beer industry folks are still hanging in there, as they continue to turn 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 ...

We did another collab with one of our local breweries, but this one is in cans! The Crew went and made another collaboration beer with one of our local breweries. The twist? Well, this one is going in cans, and we finally made use of Derek’s professional filming skills to shoot this full video. Pastry Slayer Imperial Stout: A collaboratio ...

Ex Novo Brewing founder Joel Gregory shows the two ways you can enjoy the gold-medal-winning Perle Haggard Pilsner. Ex Novo Brewing is unique among local breweries in that it has a twin sister brewery located more than a thousand miles away in Portland, Oregon. During the online-only 2020 Great American Beer Festival awards ceremony last week, ...