The end is nigh for the Bosque San Mateo taproom. A Farewell Fiesta is scheduled for this Saturday to say good-bye to the original location, and rather than mourn its passing, the Crew and some of the staff got together to share memories, stories, and more. “We just want it to be a celebration,” said…
Month: March 2019
Blue Corn Brewery hosts 3rd annual Cask Festival this Saturday
This Saturday, Blue Corn Brewery’s annual Cask Festival is back for a third round. Featuring food specials and beer from six of the Santa Fe area breweries, as well as a couple from our friends to the north, this event will once again give beer lovers plenty to sample and enjoy. This year the breweries…
Pink Boots Society ready to get a little Bossy with annual collaboration beer
The result of a recent gathering of the most talented women in New Mexico craft beer is set to go on tap this weekend. Bossy Hazy Guava IPA is the latest creation of the local chapter of the Pink Boots Society, brewed this time around at Bosque North back on International Women’s Day (March 8)….
The Week Ahead in Beer: One last (Mail) Order of decadent darkness
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 seven breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, and one in Red River also joining the party. OK, remember when we said that Marble’s Stout Americano…
Red Door opens new chapters canning in Albuquerque and adding taproom in Clovis
Red Door head brewer Matt Meier has been a busy man of late. Not only has his brewery started canning one of its most popular beers, Vanilla Cream Ale, but it also opened a new taproom in Clovis, and on top of all that work, he and his wife welcomed their first baby into the…
Beer Creek goes with the flow as it prepares to start brewing on-site
Seeing as how it had been a while, last summer to be exact, that anyone from the Crew visited Beer Creek Brewing, I headed out to the charming little stop on Highway 14 to catch up with co-owner Rich Headley on a recent rainy afternoon. Rich was his usual boisterous self when I arrived an…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Rock the shell as Turtle Mountain turns 20
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 seven breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, and one in Red River also joining the party. The back-to-back beer dinners at Turtle Mountain this Friday…
One of Albuquerque’s oldest brewpubs charts a new path without its own beers
At last, we have clarity regarding the future of Kellys Brew Pub and the former Chama River Brewing. After receiving some mixed messages from some of the staff at parent company Santa Fe Dining, I was invited to sit down with SFD vice president Justin Svetnicka late last week to clear up the entire matter….
Craft breweries are governor’s signature away from legislative victory
Senate Bill 413 is one of many sitting on the desk of New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan-Grisham after the completion of the 2019 Legislative Session. It is, however, the one that will specifically affect our craft breweries, in a very good way, if it obtains her signature. I sat down with Tractor Brewing co-owner/president Skye…
Truth or Consequences Brewing played a solid hand in 2018 and plans to double down in 2019
It’s not often that I get a chance to make it southward these days with a full work schedule taking up most of my time. But, as I still actively try to get out and see as much of New Mexico as I can, I recently found myself in the lower regions of our beautiful…
DARK SIDE BREW CREW 