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Month: January 2023

The Week Ahead in Beer: The world is terrible so hide in a brewery or two

The ashes of your fantasy team have been cast into the winter winds. Your favorite football team didn’t make the playoffs. We are months away from filling out brackets and ignoring work more than usual. New Mexico can’t figure out what season is supposed to be happening now. These are dark days. Our advice? Take…

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La Reforma enjoys a year of relative normalcy after past ups and downs

It’s business as usual over at La Reforma, which is interesting in that business as usual has never really existed since it opened in mid-2019. I sat down with co-owner John Gozigian for our Look Back/Look Ahead Series to go over what amounted to 12 months of normalcy, and what the plans are for another…

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The Year in Beer: The Crew picks our favorites from the last 12 months

Back before the holidays, I sent an email out to the rest of the Crew to start making their picks for some best of the year elements in the world of craft beer. I did not follow that up with a text, so then I had to email them again, because that is what happens…

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The Week Ahead in Beer: Get creative to show some extra support in January

With the advent of Dry January and all those New Year’s resolutions in general, January tends to be one of the toughest months of the year for breweries in terms of keeping those sales numbers up. Now, we don’t want anyone to overdo it in terms of drinking to show more support to your favorite…

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Rio Bravo Brewing checks all the boxes after a productive and creative 2022

As 2022 came to an end, Rio Bravo Brewing wrapped up a successful year of fun beer releases, festivals, and outdoor events, and now the staff is looking toward the year ahead feeling optimistic about all that they have accomplished and for what is to come. I met up with director of brewing operations, Austin…

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Fete de la Funk is for the sour beer lovers, for those who brave the acidity of the funkiest of beers, those crave the puckering of their lips after that first sip. -- New Mexico Brewers Guild Featuring beers from 13 breweries, held at Rowley Farmhouse Ales from noon to 4 p.m., tickets at eventbrite dot com.

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