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The Week Ahead in Beer: Raise a toast to the women of craft brewing

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 seven breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, and one in Red River also joining the party. This Friday is International Women’s Day, which makes for…

The next generation of Nexus ready to open its doors and engage

The long wait is finally over today (Tuesday) as Nexus Blue Smokehouse holds its grand opening at 1511 Broadway Blvd. SE. Located on the west side of the street, just three buildings south of Avenida Cesar Chavez (the first two are a gas station and an Albuquerque Police substation), Nexus Blue will be open from…

NM Brewers Guild selects a familiar face as its next executive director

The next step in the evolution of the New Mexico Brewers Guild will come with the appointment of its new executive director, who just happens to be someone familiar to most people involved in the local craft beer community. Marble Brewery public relations and social media director Leah Black will officially succeed John Gozigian on…

Marble and other local breweries send some big checks to Sierra Nevada

The results are in from one big charitable effort on the part of several New Mexico breweries, and they are good. Marble Brewery presented a check for more than $22,000 to Sierra Nevada Brewing’s Camp Fire Relief Fund on Friday, all from the sales of Resilience Butte County Proud IPA. Marble was one of six…

The Week Ahead in Beer: New brews to fit the warming weather

Highs have definitely outnumbered the lows so far at High and Dry Brewing

The great neighborhood pub experiment is rolling along in several areas of Albuquerque, perhaps most notably at 529 Adams St. NE, where High and Dry Brewing has gained a loyal following in just one year of operation. While operating the smallest brewing system (1 barrel) in town, brewer/owner Andrew Kalemba and his staff have managed…

Beer Notes: Flix Brewhouse earns more medals while new breweries rev up again

Here on this blustery Friday, it feels like a good time to stay indoors and catch up on some local beer news as we empty the notebook yet again. Flix picks up four medals at Best of Craft Beer Awards If there is a theme early on in 2019 to some of the beer competitions…

The Week Ahead in Beer: Red Door joins long line of canning breweries

Local women in craft beer share their thoughts after fallout from Brewing News controversy sinks National IPA Challenge

The NIPAC is dead. Over the weekend, in the quietest way possible, the Brewing News left a small note on the front page of the National IPA Challenge website that the annual competition was canceled for 2019. It was perhaps the final, inevitable outcome after last week’s national furor over a story by publisher/owner Bill…

Lost Hiker finds its way to the top of the Stout Invitational

For the first time in four years, Stoutmeister made it to the Stout Invitational up at Bathtub Row Brewing in Los Alamos this Saturday. This annual New Mexico Brewers Guild event brings stout lovers together from across the state in a unique setting atop the mountain in a perfect stout weather kind of day. The…