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: Finding time for brews amid pre-holiday madness
It’s definitely not the best picture of our always-in-motion Metal Mayor, but we were happy to see him at a local brewery. A long winter nap is becoming more and more tempting, but there are beers to drink, and the Crew kept after them this past weekend. My weekend started early, as per usual, but it was more of a working weekend, with tr ...
Read More »Marble overcomes unexpected challenges on its never-ending quest for excellence
The light shined brightly upon Marble Brewery again in 2018. There are plenty of challenges in life, for brewery employees and beer writers. While Marble Brewery had to deal with some surprising challenges in 2018, I presented myself with the challenge of choosing to interview six key staff members separately, and then typing up those interview ...
Read More »Boxing Bear goes into detail about the process of selecting a new taproom location
Boxing Bear is preparing to open its first taproom in West Downtown, but the brewery is not necessarily planning to stop with just that location. In the blink of an eye, a little rumor recently whispered to us became reality this week when Boxing Bear Brewing officially announced it was opening a taproom in the former 5 Star Burgers space on We ...
Read More »Dark Side Brew Crew presents the Winter is Here Beer Dinner at Blue Corn Brewery
If this isn’t the type of beer dinner that you would think we would be happy to present, you must be new around here. It’s almost time for Blue Corn Brewery’s winter beer dinner! If you haven’t snagged your tickets yet, I’d get on that right away, as these things have a nasty habit of selling out like iheartradio c ...
Read More »The Week Ahead in Beer: It’s a bold strategy for La Cumbre on the Ocho
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: The frigid temps won’t keep us from the brews
The Pining for Breakfast Maple Brown at Red Door joins the pantheon of wonderful dessert beers in town. The weekend was humming along at such a nice pace, and then the Steelers went out and f@#$ed it all up for me. It’s hard being a sports fan, but these days it’s easy being a beer lover. My weekend actually kicked off back on Thurs ...
Read More »Bombs Away Beer Company launches into its 2nd full year
It was a busy, but fun year for Bombs Away. It’s been a busy first year for Bombs Away Beer Company owners John and Hilary Degnaro, and they show no signs of slowing down, as we found out for our annual Look Back/Look Ahead Series. By 3:30 p.m. on the Wednesday afternoon before Thanksgiving, the side streets outside the brewery were lined ...
Read More »12 Beers of Christmas returns to Santa Fe Brewing Company
Dave Merkin, workin’ it. Hails! It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Well, if you’re a Target shopper, it was beginning to look a lot like Christmas way back in September. Well, now that Turkey month is basically over, and we’re sleighing full-speed toward Saturnalia, it’s time to get our holi-day-drinking ...
Read More »Boese Brothers finishes 2018 with new taproom in Northeast Heights
Sam, left, and George Boese are proudly opening their second location this weekend. Long, long ago, the Crew was tipped off by a reader that the area of town where he lives, near Tramway and Paseo del Norte, was potentially getting a brewery taproom. He asked us what brewery might be heading to just about the most northeast corner of the city, ...
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