The Enchantment Beer, Wine, and Spirits Festival is billed as the biggest event of its kind in New Mexico history. It certainly has one of the largest local craft lineups we have seen in a long time, but we will have to see how a mid-November event plays out with the beer/wine/spirits crowd. It all…
Author: Stoutmeister
Former sports writer in Tucson, LA, and Burque. Now I write about craft beer, which is a totally reasonable way to support my hobby of spending afternoons and evenings indulging in the finest stouts, lagers, and more.
The Week Ahead in Beer: A month of charitable brews continues
November has already seen the release of the charitable collaboration SereniTEA Now at Canteen, High and Dry, and Steel Bender to benefit the Agora Crisis Center. Now more charitable beers are beginning to appear, including the annual release of Copper Canyon Pale Ale, which benefits children in need in the Copper Canyon region of Northern…
The Week Ahead in Beer: La Negra returns as things start to slow down
The slow season is upon us once again. There is a stark lack of new releases this week, the number of events are way down (but, they always would be compared to Halloween weekend). The one bit of good news is that this gives us all a chance to catch up on the seasonals we…
Tractor had to bring back Stranger Things Arcade Carnival at full strength
Halloween weekend is truly back to normal in Albuquerque, and for proof, all one has to do is to return to Tractor Wells Park on Saturday night for the Stranger Things Arcade Carnival & Bazaar. After returning last year in a scaled-back format, it will reclaim the title of biggest event of the year at…
The Week Ahead in Beer: An onslaught of Halloween events are upon us
This is one of those weeks where the number of events go through the roof, while the number of new beer releases is rather small. Hey, it happens, especially when it happens to be essentially Halloween weekend. The holiday won’t fall until Monday, and let’s face it, that will be for the children (as an…
Box Canyon Brewing prepares to join booming Socorro craft beer scene
Despite being just 70 miles from Albuquerque and sporting a college of its own, Socorro has previously struggled to establish its own craft brewing culture. We say previously because all of a sudden, things are taking off in this grand little town. Box Canyon Brewing will become the second brewery in town, located within walking…
GABF 2022: Ex Novo Brewing rounds out the list of local medal winners
Life has, more than once, gotten in the way of all of us in the Crew in terms of getting stories done in a timely manner. As we all tried to find the time to catch up with the recent medal winners from the Great American Beer Festival, we almost left out Ex Novo Brewing,…
The Week Ahead in Beer: A milestone anniversary calls for celebration
One of the first under-construction breweries that the Crew visited in our first year of existence was the Bosque Brewing on San Mateo back in the fall of 2012. Well, since we turned 10 in January, it’s Bosque’s turn to reach the decade club, so naturally they will be throwing an anniversary party. Bosque North…
Turquoise Trail Brewing hits the road in search of a better location
Over the past decade, we have seen plenty of breweries make big moves, whether expanding their main locations, or adding taprooms, or moving into large-scale packaging/distribution. Moving the entire brewing operation from one building to another, however, is a much rarer occurrence. Boxing Bear did it the most recently, and Bosque and Tractor did the…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Welcoming the annual return of the darkest brews
We are still recovering from a wild long weekend in Denver, and Red River in the case of one of our staff, but the beer news is building up, so this is just the first of what could be many stories this week and in the weeks ahead. But, focusing on the purpose of this…
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