A lot of tired brewers and brewery owners came to life when their names were announced at the GABF Awards Ceremony! DENVER — The 2018 Great American Beer Festival awards ceremony was another good one for New Mexico breweries. The Saturday morning event saw 2,404 breweries enter 8,864 beers, judged by 193 people, and spread across 102 cate ...
Read More »GABF 2018: The Crew storms the Halls of Valhalla, take 3
The Crew finds Stoutmeister’s favorite street. First, the good news: the Dark Side Brew Crew is in Denver for another round of the Great American Beer Festival! This is normally where one would follow that with some sort of bad news, but there isn’t any, at least not for us. Once again, we are covering America’s largest craft ...
Read More »The Week Ahead in Beer: Mountain Rescue Brew Fest and Metal Monday return
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: Old favorites and new discoveries abound
After two years, it was nice to drink you again, Irish Handcuffs. Before we dive into our latest round of beer adventures, a little business comes first. Starting Thursday, the Crew will have live coverage from the Great American Beer Festival in Denver. Yours truly, plus Franz Solo and Luke, all have press passes that will get us into the Thur ...
Read More »Chama River may be closed but its brewhouse is still churning out beers
The old brewhouse is still going strong at Chama River, now brewing most of the beers for Kellys Brew Pub. There are still faint echoes of the brewpub that was at Chama River. The booths are still there, the copper-top bar is still present, and much of the kitchen equipment remains. It has all gathered some dust since Chama closed its doors in ...
Read More »Cantero Brewing all set for soft opening this Saturday
It’s go-time, at last, for Cantero Brewing! In case anyone out there was unaware, the newest brewery in the Duke City will open this Saturday at 11 a.m. Cantero Brewing is holding its soft opening after a long, laborious process to get to this point. There will be at least five house beers on tap, the kitchen will be up and running, but a ...
Read More »Red Door soars toward year number four
Red Door brewer Matt Meier has a new beer ready for us on Friday! Another year has passed for Red Door — wait, how did this year just, wasn’t it just GABF, ahem, never mind! — and they will be celebrating this Friday at the Candelaria brewery location (we recommend utilizing Lyft and such as parking is at a premium). Stoutmeis ...
Read More »The Week Ahead in Beer: Quarter Celtic takes us halfway to St. Patty’s Day
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: Chasing down brews from the Windy City to our own backyard
There is no such thing as too much food at Steel Bender, apparently. Of all the Crew, I (Stoutmeister) am the only one who does not get a true weekend. Well, sometimes Brandon works, too, but I am guaranteed to work every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday without a vacation-time request, which often limits my excursions to breweries and bars (heck, ...
Read More »Blue Grasshopper building full-fledged brewery in Wells Park neighborhood
That red building back there is the future home of Blue Grasshopper’s brewery and taproom in the Wells Park neighborhood. The brewing conditions at the original Blue Grasshopper Brewery and Pub in Rio Rancho have always been more than a bit cramped. That will be changing in the future, but not through any expansion of that location. Inste ...
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