After 15 years, a brewery can be fairly set in its ways, content to just keep doing the same things that have enabled it to succeed for that long. Marble Brewery, however, is not about to rest on its laurels as the milestone anniversary approaches in April. For our annual Look Back/Look Ahead Series, I…
The Thanksgiving guide to brewery hours of operation and more
As we promised Tuesday, here is our massive compilation of all the changes to hours of operation for breweries this Thanksgiving week. Most are closed on Thursday, of course, but a few are staying open. Most have normal hours today (Wednesday), but a few may close early. Friday hours are trending toward normalcy, but we…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Running a day early to help in holiday preparations
Greetings, all. Yes, this is a day early, but with Thanksgiving on Thursday, we figured it would be a good idea to help you prepare for the holiday in terms of what beers are available for you to pick up in order to survive the big family dinner. We will have a separate story Wednesday…
Echoes Brewery is open… is open… is open… is open… (get it?)
Old dive bars never die, they just get remade into small breweries. Long-time Burqueños will remember the old Burt’s Tiki Lounge, a dive of a live music venue, on Gold between Third and Fourth Streets in downtown. It has now been remade and rebranded into Echoes Brewery. Stoutmeister and I headed over last weekend to…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Feel soup-er with awesome Canteen charity event
Someone page Senator Bernie Sanders, because Canteen Brewhouse is hosting The Great Soup Off this Saturday at 1 p.m. This is another wonderful charity event to benefit beertender Mike Thrall and his family as he recovers from throat cancer. The general gist of this event is that for $25 you get a pint of beer,…
Enjoy a Sunday Service any day of the week at unique new local brewery
It feels like there’s a bit of a trend emerging among the new breweries in Albuquerque. While breweries do tend to be pretty community-oriented in general, the most recent breweries seem to really be putting that in the forefront of their operations in unique ways. Recently, we told you about the new Vision City Brewstillery…
Tractor welcomes a return to normalcy in both brewing and hosting events
Oh, it is that time of year again. For those who have not followed us in the past, welcome to the first entry in our annual Look Back/Look Ahead Series. At the end of every year and into the start of the next, we sit down with as many breweries as possible to discuss how…
Enchantment Festival closes out big event season in New Mexico
The Enchantment Beer, Wine, and Spirits Festival is billed as the biggest event of its kind in New Mexico history. It certainly has one of the largest local craft lineups we have seen in a long time, but we will have to see how a mid-November event plays out with the beer/wine/spirits crowd. It all…
The Week Ahead in Beer: A month of charitable brews continues
November has already seen the release of the charitable collaboration SereniTEA Now at Canteen, High and Dry, and Steel Bender to benefit the Agora Crisis Center. Now more charitable beers are beginning to appear, including the annual release of Copper Canyon Pale Ale, which benefits children in need in the Copper Canyon region of Northern…
20 questions with the new brewmaster of Hidden Mountain Brewing Co.
Andy Lane is not a new name in the New Mexico brewing industry. He’s been in the business for a while now. And, though his is not a flashy tale, it is the kind of success story that most brewers can respect, working his way up from humble beginnings as part of Santa Fe Brewing…
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