Taprooms open, taprooms closed. Kitchens open, kitchens closed. Patios open, patios closed. One taproom open, another closed. The early weeks of the pandemic left Bosque Brewing’s employees, owners, and customers feeling like their heads were spinning. Things have stabilized, as much as anything can in 2020, since then, but it has still been a heck…
Month: December 2020
Tractor Brewing hopes to start firing on all cylinders again in 2021
The challenge of maintaining even a single brewery taproom has been tremendous during 2020. The challenge of maintaining five locations, including a production-and-packaging facility, has been downright monumental. In the face of everything 2020 has thrown at it, Tractor Brewing is still standing. Not all of its locations have lasted through the year, but on…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Raise your horns to a decadent decade of La Cumbre
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 stays grounded heading into 2021
Back in March, our friends at Gravity Bound were planning their soft opening to celebrate finally sharing their refreshing beer with the New Mexico craft brewing community. We all know what happened next, but the brothers and co-owners, Cameron and Chris Frigon, kept pushing forward and managed to open their doors during the pandemic a…
Brew Lab 101 sees its business model pushed into overdrive in 2020
Every now and again, while writing stories in our annual Look Back/Look Ahead Series, we get surprised. This year, with all the doom and gloom of the pandemic, we kinda feared those surprises. And then, along came Brew Lab 101 Beer & Cider Co. brewmaster/co-owner Scott Salvas. “2020 was a good year for us,” he…
High and Dry Brewing is staying aloft in their sophomore year
Just as High and Dry were successfully celebrating their second anniversary with live music and a packed taproom (remember those?), the world came to a screeching halt. Sounds like an epic party, right? No, no, it was COVID … and as with so many other businesses, they had to stop partying and quickly rethink their…
Adapting is key to Casa Vieja’s continued success in this crazy year
Another year is coming to a close, and what a year it has been. It’s difficult to even approach this year’s Look Back/Look Ahead Series, because don’t we all really only want to look ahead? And yet, we might sort of be afraid to at the same time. In some ways, there’s not a lot…
The Week Ahead in Beer: A blast of winter cannot stop the hops
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….
To patio or not to patio, that is the question for New Mexico breweries
The latest changes to the public health order were officially announced Monday, as New Mexico moves to a county-by-county system for easing restrictions as COVID-19 numbers ebb and flow. The Red-Yellow-Green system was generally welcomed by the brewery owners who responded to us via email Monday night, though not all are preparing to take advantage…
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