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Read More »Craft breweries rejoice after Senate Bill 413 is signed into law
Senate Bill 413 passed the Roundhouse and obtained the Governor’s signature. The good news broke Wednesday night at the top of the page listing bills signed into law by Governor Michelle Lujan-Grisham. Senate Bill 413, which we profiled just recently, got the signature that craft breweries were hoping for and will become effective on July ...
Read More »Tart at Heart aims to go big in its 5th year at Sister
The sours and barrel-aged beers will be back at Sister in a week-and-a-half! (Photo courtesy of Craft King Consulting) Pucker up, people, because one of your favorite beer tastings of the year is back for another go around. Tart at Heart returns to Sister on Saturday, April 13 for its fifth annual onslaught of sour and barrel-aged beer goodness ...
Read More »The Week Ahead in Beer: Gracias to this latest collaboration brew
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 seven breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, and one in Red River also joining the party. Stoutmeister puts on his serious face to handle The Week Ahead i ...
Read More »Bosque and La Reforma achieve new level of synergy going forward
Yeah, it was crowded for a couple hours at the farewell fiesta for Bosque’s San Mateo taproom. The Bosque San Mateo taproom closed out its nearly seven-year run with a farewell fiesta on Saturday. The only thing is, Bosque will still be brewing at that location, even with La Reforma Brewery set to take over the taproom space this summer. ...
Read More »Bosque bids a fond farewell to its original taproom with one heck of a party
The lights at the original Bosque location are turning off this weekend, but not before a big party takes place. The end is nigh for the Bosque San Mateo taproom. A Farewell Fiesta is scheduled for this Saturday to say good-bye to the original location, and rather than mourn its passing, the Crew and some of the staff got together to share memo ...
Read More »Blue Corn Brewery hosts 3rd annual Cask Festival this Saturday
This Saturday, Blue Corn Brewery’s annual Cask Festival is back for a third round. Featuring food specials and beer from six of the Santa Fe area breweries, as well as a couple from our friends to the north, this event will once again give beer lovers plenty to sample and enjoy. This year the breweries in attendance include host Blue Cor ...
Read More »Pink Boots Society ready to get a little Bossy with annual collaboration beer
The members of the New Mexico chapter of the Pink Boots Society have a beer ready for all to enjoy. (Photo courtesy of Bosque Brewing) The result of a recent gathering of the most talented women in New Mexico craft beer is set to go on tap this weekend. Bossy Hazy Guava IPA is the latest creation of the local chapter of the Pink Boots Society, ...
Read More »The Week Ahead in Beer: One last (Mail) Order of decadent darkness
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 seven breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, and one in Red River also joining the party. Stoutmeister puts on his serious face to handle The Week Ahead i ...
Read More »Red Door opens new chapters canning in Albuquerque and adding taproom in Clovis
Red Door head brewer Matt Meier has been kept plenty busy with canning Vanilla Cream Ale, along with everything else at the brewery and beyond. Red Door head brewer Matt Meier has been a busy man of late. Not only has his brewery started canning one of its most popular beers, Vanilla Cream Ale, but it also opened a new taproom in Clovis, and on ...
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