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Ignore the weather outside today, blue skies are here again at Steel Bender, as a five-day anniversary celebration kicks off this Sunday. Back in the days of yore, brewery anniversary parties were often a very big deal, with special events, multiple beer releases, and more. The pandemic muted all of that in 2020 and 2021, but now things are ...

The dynamic duo of Franz Solo, left, and Stoutmeister will have you covered every week for new beer releases and more. ACHOO! Ah, yes, spring in New Mexico, better known as The Pollening. Actually, wait, isn’t it still winter? Nope, spring. Nah, winter. All right, look, we are as tired of the constantly fluctuating weather as all of yo ...

Dice Roll IPA picked up another honor this week. (Photo courtesy of Rio Bravo Brewing) It was a relatively quiet year for New Mexico breweries at the annual Best of Craft Beer Awards in Bend, Oregon, but that just means that Rio Bravo Brewing gets to bask in the spotlight all by itself. Rio Bravo snagged a silver medal for its Dice Roll ...

ReSource is joining a national collaboration called Brave Noise. One of the biggest news stories in the craft beer world in 2021 came about after brewer Brienne Allan went on Instagram and asked, “Have you ever experienced sexism in the beer industry?” The fallout was far-reaching across the industry, and still continues to this ...

The field of dark elixirs was strong at the Stout Invitational. It was a close vote at the 2022 New Mexico Brewers Guild Stout Invitational on Saturday, but at the end it was La Cumbre who came out on top. With 29 votes, the longtime Albuquerque heavyweight prevailed over a field of 16 stouts in a blind taste test held over three sessions at ...

Brewmaster Paul Mallory is still cranking out the finest ales and lagers. Hidden Mountain opened in January 2021 as a major rebrand of long-time local favorite Blue Corn Brewery. Now, one year later, I sat down with brewmaster Paul Mallory to see how the new business is faring, what has changed, what has stayed the same, and what’s in ...

Oh yeah, we’re back on the good ole YouTube! A few weeks back, we were a little surprised to receive an email from Oskar Blues Brewing of Colorado about their new Western Mutant IPA series, which is basically their version of La Cumbre’s Project Dank, a rotating series of West Coast-style ales. The surprising part of the email ...

The stouts, they do call to us. They bid us welcome, in the halls of Valhalla, where our names, may live, forever! Before the dark times arrived in March 2020, the last great beer event held was the New Mexico Brewers Guild Stout Invitational at Bathtub Row Brewing in Los Alamos. Flix Brewhouse took home the trophy in the February competitio ...

The dynamic duo of Franz Solo, left, and Stoutmeister will have you covered every week for new beer releases and more. Smarch! Yeah, it’s that false spring in New Mexico that begins around Mardi Gras and goes right up until late April or some important holiday around then. We will have some prime patio days coming right up, starting th ...

Owner Ken Carson, left, and head brewer Randy King have Nexus Brewery back on track after the pandemic. Nexus Brewery weathered the toughest parts of the pandemic, and is now almost back to its prior sales numbers. It has not been easy to get there, but owner Ken Carson and head brewer Randy King are feeling upbeat as 2022 rolls along. I sat ...