Holy @#$% the Crew is brewing at Canteen

Morning, everyone. Just wanted to pass along this little tidbit. We’re brewing a beer at Canteen Brewhouse today (Friday). Not some little beer on a pilot system, either. We’re brewing up a big old Baltic Porter for all of you to enjoy on Canteen’s full system. No, seriously, head brewer Brady McKeown is letting us…

Reflections on the first Santa Fe Open Brewing Competition

This past weekend, the inaugural Santa Fe Open Brewing Competition took place in, you’ve guessed it, Santa Fe. From Friday morning to the awards ceremony on Sunday afternoon, the Sangre De Cristo Craft Brewers homebrew club (and friends and family) came together in a huge concerted effort to put on an event that proved an…

The Week Ahead in Beer: Cue the Imperial March

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…

Avery takes flight at Jubilation

Every now and again, all of us in the craft beer community in New Mexico have to sit and sigh when news of a great new brew is published, but we can’t get it here. From Founders to Bell’s to Firestone Walker to Great Divide to Ballast Point to Victory to many, many others, we…

Santa Fe Brewing takes a left turn at Albuquerque

Soon, Albuquerque, soon you will be getting the full Santa Fe Brewing Company experience. Soon, you’ll get to know them like I do, like family, like that crazy partying family that eats, sleeps, and breathes (and of course drinks) cerveza. No doubt you’ve already heard that Santa Fe Brewing Co. will be building a taproom…

Santa Fe Brewing returns to the dark side

A cold wind blows in from the north, chilling all who dare to venture outside. The leaves have all but fallen from the trees, leaving only skeleton sentinels to guard the streets of Santa Fe. The ghostly wisps of snow have already begun to gather in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, watching as the last…

Twisted Chile brings quality local craft beer back to Socorro

There be beer brewing again down south of ABQ. Twisted Chile Brewing has been operational for a few months now and with just enough of a hole in my schedule, I trekked down to Socorro to check out that town’s newest attraction this Tuesday. Owners K.C. and Stephanie McFadden welcomed me with a flight of…

The Week Ahead in Beer: All hail International Stout Day

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…