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, and one in Red River also joining the party. Stoutmeister puts on his serious face to handle The Week Ahead i ...
Read More »Ex Novo Brewing rises up in the heart of Corrales
The sizable Ex Novo production brewery building is nearly complete in the center of Corrales. It is almost a Merry Christmas for craft beer lovers living in Corrales. They can look to the heart of the village and see their own craft brewery rising up. Ex Novo Brewing has gone from concept to almost-completed structure at 4895 Corrales Road. The ...
Read More »New Mexico Brewers Guild gears up for big year in government and for events
Whether in Denver at the Great American Beer Festival, or in Santa Fe at the State Legislature, or in Albuquerque at multiple events, Brewers Guild executive director John Gozigian is one of the hardest working people in our local scene. New Mexico Brewers Guild executive director John Gozigian and the board of directors had a busy, but fairly ...
Read More »Tractor continues to innovate in all aspects after a year of big projects
It was another big, busy year for Tractor Brewing. It would be perfectly understandable for everyone at Tractor Brewing to just take it easy in the coming year. After a year that saw so many new developments it was almost hard to recall every single one, no one could blame the staff if they just decided that they could rest on their laurels. Th ...
Read More »The Week Ahead in Beer: Last-minute brew gifts and events abound
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, one in Red River, and one in Las Cruces also joining the party. Stoutmeister puts on his serious face to hand ...
Read More »Weekend Beer-cap: Drinking for a good cause after a short wait
You can also get Resilience IPA at Canteen, Steel Bender, Rowley Farmhouse Ales, and starting Friday at Quarter Celtic! Gonna keep this edition short on my part due to time constraints. As mentioned a while back in The Week Ahead in Beer, several of our local breweries have joined others around the country in making Resilience IPA, a Sierra Nev ...
Read More »Change for the better is the great constant at Broken Trail
The original Broken Trail location is just for production now, so make sure to hit up the Uptown Taproom or the Green Jeans Taproom. Unbelievably, here we are again at the end of another year. As part of our annual Look Back/Look Ahead Series, I pretty much literally corralled Matt Simonds, Broken Trail owner (and mad scientist, perhaps?), to a ...
Read More »The Crew’s brewery merchandise guide for 2018
Get festive with merch gifts from your favorite breweries, including Marble. As we did the last four years, the Crew has put together a brewery merchandise guide for all of you just in time for your last-minute holiday shopping. Hey, it might be nice to just buy people beer, but sometimes they need more in life, like cool shirts, hoodies, growl ...
Read More »Taos Brewmasters Festival returns for its 23rd edition
Gazing down upon a Taos Brewmasters Festival from years past. If there is such a thing as a white whale among New Mexico beer festivals, for me it is the Taos Brewmasters Festival. It has been around for 23 years counting this Saturday’s event, and yet I have never managed to time my own schedule to where I can thanks to either my day job ...
Read More »Blue Corn Brewery hits its stride in 2018 and cruises into 2019 with high hopes and hops
Head brewer Paul Mallory and assistant brewer Dominic Crandall toast to a successful year In 2018, Blue Corn Brewery seemed like quite the dark horse when it won the New Mexico IPA Challenge. To many, it was a win that seemed to come out of nowhere. Seemed, being the operative word. But, why wasn’t it thought of as a major contender? Perh ...
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