The Week Ahead in Beer: Tastes like fall around here

Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with the reunified edition of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s four breweries and one newcomer down in Socorro also joining the party. We tried hard to keep the state edition going, but without participation from the breweries outside the I-25 corridor, it was futile.

We technically entered into autumn this week, but it’s been acting like fall for a while in the craft brewing world. While the big boys (Samuel Adams, Sierra Nevada, etc.) have been filling the shelves with their pumpkins and marzens since August, breweries in New Mexico are now catching up. Hey, you all were drinking so much of their stock this summer they were fighting to keep up with demand. Now that things have cooled off (literally, I guess), the locals are releasing their fall beers as well. Don’t worry, the

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