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Quarter Celtic brewers Brady McKeown, left, and Brendan Pecorella were rather happy to win two silver medals at the 2020 Great American Beer Festival. The brewpubs have not had the fallback of mass can distribution alleviating at least some of the financial strain during the pandemic of 2020, so finding uplifting moments has been a bit of a cho ...

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 awesome wall mural inside the newly expanded La Reforma was created by local artists Carlos Contreras and Gregory “MR. MRVL” Tafoya. The virtual version of the Great American Beer Festival awards ceremony caught more than a few people by surprise. In the case of La Reforma Brewery co-owner John Gozigian and head brewer Robert Bu ...

Another new brewery? Why yes! Say hello to ReSource Brewing in the Northeast Heights. Bright spots are hard to find amid all the gloom of the pandemic these days, but the craft brewing industry in New Mexico continues to move along even under difficult conditions. Any time we hear of a new brewery still coming to fruition, it gives us a small m ...

Those are two ecstatic brewers right there. That’s Second Street’s Tom Ludzia on the left and Rod Tweet on the right, holding their gold-medal-winning Brown Ale. Congrats, gentlemen! (Photo courtesy of Second Street Brewery) The fastest Great American Beer Festival Awards ceremony in history — these things happen when it is al ...

No one will be attending the GABF awards ceremony in person like in past years, but the show must go on (virtually) for 2020. Though the actual festival part of the Great American Beer Festival did not happen this year in Denver, the competition for medals still went on, albeit with far fewer New Mexico breweries participating than in years pas ...

From left: Assistant Brewer Marcus DiFilippo, Mayhem Coordinator Elissa Ritt, Master Bartender Ebbie Edmonston, Head brewer Mike Donovan, Assistant Brewer Tyler King, Brewmaster John Rowley As we near the pandemic version of the Great American Beer Festival awards ceremony, which will stream online this Friday at 5 p.m., I thought it was 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 ...

Three of the top-selling beers at Nexus are now for sale in four-pack cans, plus Black is Beautiful cans will be available for a limited time as well. The news that Nexus Brewery was preparing to can its own beers had slowly trickled out over the last few months, but there was still nothing 100-percent official as to when those cans would arriv ...

Stereogeist records their part of a virtual concert at the brewery. (All photos and images courtesy of High and Dry Brewing) All of us in the Crew have been missing live music since the pandemic put a halt to concerts, big and small, at our breweries and other music venues. We have, at times, watched internet broadcasts of some of our favorite ...