Plenty of breweries are huge supporters of the arts in Albuquerque, regularly hosting art openings and keeping those paintings on the walls afterwards. Some breweries will also invite homebrewers to join them to create special beers. This Sunday, ReSource Brewing is doing both, inviting the husband-and-wife team of Neil and Gina Arnote to bring their…
Month: March 2023
Harmon Lane embraces its place in the greater New Mexico brewing community
Harmon Lane started out as a hidden little brewery nestled inside the homebrew shop Southwest Grape and Grain. Take it from someone who used to work there, we often had people walk inside and tell us some variation of “huh, you have a working brewery in here, too?” These days, Harmon Lane is starting to…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Batter up as summer creeps ever closer
Baseball is back this Thursday with the start of the Major League season, and that marks the first sign that summer is around the corner. Other signs include Ex Novo opening The Corral seven days a week, and Tumbleroot opening its patio at the Agua Fria taproom this Thursday. We learned that Isotopes Park will…
Hidden Mountain Brewing hosts first annual Cask Festival
This Thursday, Hidden Mountain Brewing Company will host its first annual Cask Festival at a very familiar location on the south side of Santa Fe, and it’s going to be a firkin great time! Technically speaking, this would be the fifth cask festival in the same space, but the fourth was cancelled in 2020, for…
Hidden Mountain continues Blue Corn’s brewing traditions in Santa Fe
In what is probably one of the last of the Look Back/Look Ahead entries for the season (I’ve really dragged out my articles due to unending winter illnesses), I sat down with head brewer Andy Lane and assistant brewer Luke Macias of Hidden Mountain Brewing Company in Santa Fe. You may recognize Andy’s name, since…
Flix Brewhouse staff forced to disarm man who entered kitchen with a gun
The staff at Flix Brewhouse had to confront a gunman on Friday night, a frightening situation that thankfully ended without any shots being fired, as first reported by KOAT and later by the Albuquerque Journal. At approximately 11 p.m. on Friday, Darnell Hill walked into Flix with a loaded AR-15-style rifle. He went around the…
Legislative recap: Brewing industry left pleased with results of this session
There was a big sigh of relief last weekend when the 2023 New Mexico state legislative session came to a close. It was not just from the media covering it, or the legislators and lobbyists who participated in it, but from numerous business groups around the state, including the New Mexico Brewers Guild. I caught…
Chile Line Brewery entertains its way into 2023 amid a few changes here and there
Whenever I visit Chile Line Brewery, it’s like catching up with an old friend. I forget how fun they are to be around, and I’m always surprised with how much new stuff they’ve got going on. I recently made the trip to downtown Santa Fe. Whew. I know. Burqueños will laugh when I say it…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Ending spring break in a nice and relaxing style
Last week was more than a little crazy, right? There were so many new beers and so many events around St. Patrick’s Day, it almost swallowed us all. But, as I sit here preparing for my seventh consecutive day at work (fear not, off Thursday, gonna work on not one but three stories), I’m reminded…
Roosevelt Brewing Company rises above the competition at 2023 Stout Invitational
In case you missed it, last Saturday, 16 New Mexico breweries met at Bathtub Row Brewing Co-op in (an almost no-holds-barred) three-round battle royale, where only one contender of thicc, chewy darkness emerged victorious from the 2023 Stout Invitational. And boy, was it a great day for a showdown! The sun was out, the air…
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