All right, this is one of those posts where you can react one of two ways: Be excited, because you bought a ticket Be seriously bummed, because you did not and the event is sold out If you fall under No. 2 there, you might want to just move on with your internet browsing. Unless…
Month: January 2017
La Cumbre grows with purchase of adjacent property
Back when we ran our Look Back/Look Ahead Series entry on La Cumbre, Jeff Erway said he was getting close to acquiring “a property very close to here” that would help expand the brewery’s distribution footprint. The only thing Jeff left out was which building, but just about anyone walking down Girard had to notice…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Satisfying the sweet (stout) tooth
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 Socorro, one in Los Alamos, and one in Moriarty also joining the party. There are many varieties of stout these days, but it…
Bathtub Row Brewing continues its roll
For this edition of our ongoing Look Back/Look Ahead Series, we are focusing on one of the more distant breweries in New Mexico (for most of you, at least). Bathtub Row Brewing (BRB) in Los Alamos has now been in business for over a year and a half, and things are going quite well in…
Beer Polls: The final results were predictable and surprising
In the week between Christmas and New Year’s, the Crew put out a series of beer polls (you can find them here, here, and here) to see if all of you would vote differently than the readers of Albuquerque The Magazine in its Best of the City awards. In four categories, our readers and theirs were…
Get thee to the slopes for the Taos Brewmasters Festival returns
Happy cold, gray Thursday everyone. If you need some light back in your life, there is some good news for this weekend. The Taos Brewmasters Festival kicks off Saturday at the Ski Valley, marking its 21st annual running below the slopes. Normally, the festival is held in December, but it was pushed back this year…
A second glance at Second Street’s big expansion
Our Look Back/Look Ahead Series continues from Santa Fe with Second Street Brewery. Back in July, I did an article on the new brewing facility and taproom under construction at 2920 Rufina St. Recently, I sat down with president/brewmaster Rod Tweet and talked about how this year went, how the big expansion is progressing, and…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Resolve to try more new brews
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 Socorro, one in Los Alamos, and one in Moriarty also joining the party. Every week we, well mostly I, endeavor to let you…
Ponderosa Brewing prepares for another busy year
Editor’s note: It is time for us to resume our Look Back/Look Ahead Series. We only knocked out 13 of the 40 or so breweries in November and December, so now it is time to start with all that remain, beginning with Shawna’s trip to Ponderosa from a couple weeks back. — S For this…
Beer Notes: Brewers Guild ready for upcoming legislative session
It is that time of year again. No, not just the time for winter beer festivals, but time for the New Mexico State Legislature to get together and hash out all the bills and budget for 2017. Keeping a close eye on the proceedings, once again, is the New Mexico Brewers Guild. Guild director John…
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