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 six breweries, one in Los Alamos, and one in Moriarty also joining the party. Stoutmeister puts on his serious face to handle The Week Ahead in Beer. One of our f ...
Read More »Quarter Celtic comes up big Down Under
Quarter Celtic head brewer/co-owner Brady McKeown now has another five medals to smile about. (Photo courtesy of Quarter Celtic) Thursday proved to be a very good day for Quarter Celtic Brewpub as the staff learned the results of the Australian International Beer Awards competition. QC racked up a total of five medals — one gold, three si ...
Read More »La Cumbre and Dialogue will represent NM at national beer-food pairing event
La Cumbre often pairs its beers with special offerings from the food trucks, but now it’s headed to the ultimate pairing event in Washington D.C. (Photo courtesy of La Cumbre) One of the more unique little treats for members of the media during the Great American Beer Festival was the time we got to spend at a special beer and food pairin ...
Read More »The Week Ahead in Beer: The final calm before the storm
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 six breweries, one in Los Alamos, and one in Moriarty also joining the party. Stoutmeister puts on his serious face to handle The Week Ahead in Beer. Oh, hey, in ...
Read More »2017 Outside Bike & Brew festival rides into town this weekend
The crowds will be out in force again this weekend for the annual Outside Bike & Brew Festival in Santa Fe. Hey, everyone! Luke and Julie here from Dark Side Brew Crew, Santa Fe squad. This weekend, the fourth annual Outside Bike & Brew Festival returns to Santa Fe with four more days of cycling and craft beer events. This great week-lo ...
Read More »Beer Notes: More openings and closings around metro area
It is curtains for Draft Station’s Albuquerque location. (Photo courtesy of Draft Station) Well, it’s Friday, and the little bits of news are starting to bunch up. Here we go … R.I.P. Draft Station, and Sandia Chile Grill, too? It appears that two more local beer spots have closed their doors. One is now confirmed, the other ...
Read More »Red Door expands to Northeast Heights with forthcoming taproom
Say hello to the future Red Door taproom at Comanche and Wyoming. The news broke last week that Red Door Brewing was set to open a taproom in the Northeast Heights this summer. It will be the second off-site taproom for Red Door, quite a ways from both their main brewery on Candelaria west of Interstate 25 and their taproom downtown in the Simm ...
Read More »The Week Ahead in Beer: Thank your mom with more than just a growler
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 six breweries, one in Los Alamos, and one in Moriarty also joining the party. Stoutmeister puts on his serious face to handle The Week Ahead in Beer. True story, ...
Read More »Tractor plows ahead with new taproom and a whole lot more
Tractor’s new 16-ounce cans will soon be appearing on shelves. Things are always busy over at Tractor Brewing, but in the last few weeks, things have gone from zero to 60 in a hurry. To make sure I had every last bit of information for this story, I sat down with co-owner/president Skye Devore at the end of last week to go over all the bi ...
Read More »Little Toad Creek gets bigger to serve Southwest New Mexico
A local artist added this awesome image to the new Little Toad Creek production facility. After visiting all four breweries in the southeastern part of the state last weekend, Luke and I decided to take the long way around from Carlsbad to Silver City. We wanted to check out Toadfest, the annual street event collaboration between Little Toad Cr ...
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