The Wednesday news that much of New Mexico was moving to the green/turquoise levels on the state’s colored reopening chart came as a relief to many breweries. After a long period of being stuck in yellow, Bernalillo and Sandoval counties are moving to green, enabling 40-plus breweries and their taprooms to expand their occupancy. Well,…
Month: April 2021
Bonito Valley Brewing offers up a slice of history with its beers
The final stop in our recent tour of breweries in Southern New Mexico felt like a trip back in time. None of us had ever been to the small town of Lincoln, which sits along Highway 380, just east of Capitan. Many of the buildings here date back to the 19th century, including the one…
The Week Ahead in Beer: La Cumbre brings back the taste of summer
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….
Lost Hiker Brewing finds a home in the cozy confines of Ruidoso
At some point, all of us have probably that moment where we think it would be a good idea to quit the job, sell the house, move to a quiet little town and start anew. Most of us then sigh, shake our heads, and get back to work. For longtime Austin-area teachers Dan and Jennifer…
Red Door closes its original location but will not be calling it a career
Breweries can still surprise us from time to time. Take Red Door Brewing, which suddenly dropped the news late last week that it will be closing its original brewery and taproom on Candelaria this Saturday. Wait, what? Once we got over the initial surprise, I hustled to round up the command staff of owner Matt…
Metal and beer come together with new collaboration between Red Mesa and High and Dry Brewing
As all of us in the Dark Side Brew Crew can attest, a love of metal and a love of craft beer can be quite the harmonious intersection. Those were two of the main things that brought us together before we launched this site in 2012 (our name has never been a Star Wars reference,…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Multiple breweries welcome The Curse
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….
575 Brewing takes flight from the sunny confines of Alamogordo
Bill and Vicky Arnold were never the type of couple to settle quietly into retirement. Oh, sure, there were the long vacation road trips, and spending time with their grandchildren, but they found themselves more than a little restless. It came down to a combination of those road trips, a love of craft beer, friends…
A quick trip among the offsite taprooms of Las Cruces
Three of us in the Crew launched our trip to Southern New Mexico on Friday with a change from the original plan. Rather than head straight for the mountain towns of Cloudcroft, Lincoln, and Ruidoso, we instead went to Las Cruces first, saving the rest for Saturday. The reason was fairly simple: we had no…
The Crew returns to the road to visit breweries in southern NM
It has been a long, long time since multiple members of the Crew piled into a vehicle and hit the road to visit breweries beyond the confines of the Albuquerque and Santa Fe metro areas. Well, with vaccine coursing through our systems, and eager to avoid a potential influx of Texas tourists in the summer,…
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