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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 ...

Giant can stacks like these at Ex Novo could soon be a thing of the past due to a nationwide shortage. The buzz about a nationwide aluminum can shortage has been getting louder in the last couple of months. We have been waiting and wondering when it was truly going to hit our craft breweries in New Mexico, and starting late last week we star ...

Meet the first in a new series of fruited sours taking the place of Cactus Wins the Lottery. (Image courtesy of Ex Novo) While working on some longer features, a bunch of beer notes materialized on the proverbial desk that are in need of publication. Here we go … Ex Novo replaces one of its staples Every week, I receive a copy of the New ...

The results are in for the first take-home version of the annual New Mexico IPA Challenge! We kinda figured that the take-home edition of the 2020 New Mexico IPA Challenge was going to produce some surprises. The big surprise was the first-time winner, beating out two stalwarts of the hop-forward part of our local beer scene. Rio Bravo Brewing ...

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 ...

Boxing Bear’s ownership trio, from left, of Kevin Davis, Justin Hamilton, and David Kim talked to us about what brought them together to create a brewery all those years ago. (Photo courtesy of Boxing Bear) We are continuing our quest to get to know the people behind the beer in our amazing New Mexico brewing community, and this week we ...

Hey, it’s just a few of our favorite people from Ex Novo, past and present. Founder/president Joel Gregory is way in the back, brewmaster Dave Chichura is in the middle of the top row, looming over general manager Stevo Jeter, who’s got his arms crossed there in the gray shirt. (Photo courtesy of Ex Novo) When you’re sitting ...

Things have been quiet of late for one of Santa Fe’s older brewpubs. What’s up with Blue Corn Brewery? That’s been the gist of many of the questions I’ve received lately about one of Santa Fe’s elder breweries. For a while, during the thick of the pandemic, they had remained open at their south side loca ...

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 ...

Oh, hey, it’s us, sampling 36 IPAs like a bunch of crazy people. Only a band of complete lunatics would attempt to sample all 36 beers in this year’s New Mexico IPA Challenge. Well, we are those lunatics. Or, we were, since we did this two weekends ago. It just took us a while to process what we went through, how we felt about the e ...