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 eight breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, one in Red River, one in Silver City, and one in Truth or Consequences also joining the party….
Month: April 2020
Bosque Brewing seems to have found a stable path forward
Our ongoing series of updates on local breweries and how the pandemic has affected them a month-plus into this situation continues with Bosque Brewing. To say that things have been constantly changing there might be an understatement. Take a look at the timeline from mid-March onward. March 16: closed all locations March 18: reopened all…
Ale Republic shifts course by introducing cans and expanding its food menu
We started our April update on all the local breweries and their ongoing adjustments under the current stay-at-home regulations with La Cumbre on Monday. From here on out, we will try to put all the responders in alphabetical order, though if more come in beyond the other nine we have received, it might not strictly…
Grocery store can sales are surging for La Cumbre Brewing during pandemic
Three weeks after our last check-in with the breweries, we decided it was a good time to once again see how they are adjusting the new normal of to-go-only sales, plus the recent closure of liquor stores, and more. Rather than lump them all into one jumbo-sized story, we are are going to break out…
Beer Notes: The first brewery casualty of the shutdown has been named
We have a few small news items that cried out for a Beer Notes. We only wish it was all positive news, but alas, it is not. 1933 Brewing closes its doors permanently We started hearing rumors about the Rio Rancho brewpub closing a few weeks ago. The last Facebook post said 1933 was closing…
The Crew reviews ApocalypTHICC from Toltec Brewing
We have changed up our Zoom-based beer reviews. Rather than just us rambling on about a local beer or two, we invited the brewer who made the beer to join us. After all, a brewer’s insight is often far beyond what our mere mortal palates can tell you about a beer. This time around, we…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Ex Novo Brewing just keeps on cranking out cans
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 eight breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, one in Red River, one in Silver City, and one in Truth or Consequences also joining the party….
Gravity Bound Brewing was oh-so-close to opening when the pandemic hit
After Boxing Bear Brewing surprisingly opened its new taproom on Tramway, even in the midst of the current stay-at-home orders for the entire state, a popular topic in beer-related discussions was the state of the other breweries/taprooms-in-planning. All of us in the Crew knew that Gravity Bound (formerly Context) Brewing was the closest to opening…
All the breweries staying open or closing for Easter Sunday
As a public service, we wanted to save you all some time today (Sunday) if you are in need of beer and/or food from a brewery. To that end, here are the breweries in the Albuquerque and Santa Fe metro areas that have announced they are closing for Easter: Bosque Brewing (all locations, including Restoration…
The Crew reviews the new Cerveza Oscura from Marble Brewery
Sometimes, we luck out. It’s a phrase we have used before on social media, and it certainly applied again Friday afternoon when the good folks at Marble Brewery — most specifically the awesome and generous Geraldine Lucero — allowed us to pick up a six-pack of the just-canned Cerveza Oscura. The beer releases today (Saturday)…
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