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Sadly, there will be no mass ascension to watch from the Steel Bender patio this year, but that didn’t stop folks from giving it a ton of votes and a spot in the Northwest Regional Final. The last of the regional finals are upon us in our brewery patio bracket-style tournament. We finish as we did in the first two rounds with the brewerie ...

Head brewer Brandon Beard has rallied his supporters at Lauter Haus Brewing to pile up one heck of a voting total through two rounds. Can they do it again in the Northwest Regional Final? To say there has been a bit of enthusiasm for our brewery patio bracket-style tournament in Northern New Mexico would be a colossal understatement. There were ...

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 most votes among offsite taprooms in the first and second rounds went to this spot on West Central. (Photo courtesy of Boxing Bear) The regional finals in our brewery patio bracket-style tournament continue as we pit the best of the best among the offsite taprooms in three geographic groupings. While these have not been the most popular bra ...

The sun has not set on the Southeast and Southwest regions just yet! (Photo courtesy of 575 Brewing) After many polls, many votes, and us chasing down many photos, we have reached the week of the regional finals in our first brewery patio bracket-style tournament. As we have done for each round, we start with the breweries in the southern part ...

Man. Myth. Legend. And The Nupes is rather legendary, too. A few personalities in the Albuquerque beer scene have a way of standing out, and no one would argue if you said that Rob Palmer is one of them. A former pro-skateboarder and now the owner of Palmer Brewery, Rob was kind enough to kick back, toss his killer mullet over his shoulder, and ...

It’s not the size of the brewery that determines its voting totals, as Differential proved by leading all ABQ-area breweries in votes in the first round. (Photo courtesy of Peter Moore) The last couple of times our brewery patio bracket-style tournament hit up the Albuquerque breweries — divided by Interstates 25 and 40 into Northwe ...

Meet your top vote getter among all 96 brewery patios in the first round. Can this Farmington-based brewery keep it up? Welcome back to the second round of our brewery patio bracket-style tournament. After revisiting the southern breweries on Monday, followed by the offsite taprooms on Tuesday, we have three more polls today to narrow down thes ...

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 West Downtown Taproom received the most votes of any offsite location in the first round, but it was not quite enough to earn a bye to the regional final. The second round of our brewery patio bracket-style tournament rolls along as we return to the offsite taprooms. Last time, we had the taprooms outside Albuquerque in a se ...