John Oliver always opens his show on HBO with the line “it’s been a busy week,” but that’s past tense, so we’ll just go ahead and say that “it will be a busy weekend” because that’s oh so true for what’s on deck. There are World Cup watch parties for the USA-Australia match on Friday…
NM Brewers Guild’s annual Pint Glass Day pays tribute to the Mother Road
It’s time to make some room in the old beer glass cabinet. The New Mexico Brewers Guild’s annual Pint Glass Day is this Wednesday at breweries across the state. The design this year, by local artist Stefan Jennings Batista, is meant to honor Route 66 on its 100-year anniversary. That, of course, was planned out…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Breweries buckle up for World Cup madness
Just in case you have been living under a rock or something, you might have missed that the world’s biggest sporting event is about to kick off this Thursday. The 2026 FIFA World Cup begins with Mexico vs. South Africa at 1 p.m., setting the stage for this 48-nation soccer/futbol extravaganza. So are the breweries…
Beer Notes: Boxing Bear and Canteen bring home some hardware
The North American Brewers Association held their annual competition last week and a pair of New Mexico breweries picked up medals. Boxing Bear earned a bronze in the Helles Lager category for their Golden Gloves Premium Lager. Canteen also snagged a bronze, in the India Pale Lager or Cold IPA category, for their High Voltage…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Golfing for the Guild returns for another round
June and July are big months for the New Mexico Brewers Guild. The latter will have the IPA Challenge (dates and locations TBA, and no, we’re not just holding back, we really don’t know yet) and later this month is Pint Glass Day. First up among the Guild fundraisers is the Annual Golf Tournament, which…
Bandolero Brewery apparently closes one year after being put up for sale
It has been a minute since my last visit to Clovis, which was mainly to join some East Coast relatives back in 2023 to see my cousin whose Air Force husband is stationed out there. As we always have in the past, there was a visit to Bandolero Brewery on that trip. The downtown Clovis…
Brewers Association annual report shows dip in production across New Mexico
Back in April, the Brewers Association published their annual list of the 50 largest craft breweries in America, as measured by barrels produced. No New Mexico brewery cracked that list, nor has one ever come close to doing so, but it still led us to ask the BA if they could send us a list…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Rock the block (party) with Canteen and La Cumbre
The events are coming fast and furious now as summer season is fully underway at our local breweries. To that end, La Cumbre and Canteen are teaming up with their neighbors in the old Brewery District, which has now been renamed the Makers District. The two breweries have helped organize a neighborhood block party that…
Beer Prom brings together 8 brewery collaborations with retro dance party
Get your dancing shoes on, it’s beer time. Well, it’s Beer Prom time this Saturday at Ex Novo Corrales, a reinvention of the United in Beer collaboration festival. “Well, the origin of change, truly, we were wanting to be a better direct connect with the (New Mexico) Brewers Guild,” said Stevo Jeter, Ex Novo’s director…
Catching up on a quick Colorado road trip filled with brewery goodness
Sometimes you just gotta get out of town for a weekend. It just helps if where you go also has some darned good craft beer. So three of us in the Crew — Stoutmeister, Andrew, Luke — headed north to Colorado, taking a new route for all of us (at least in several years, or…
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