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Bosque moves production of core beers from out-of-state to Marble

Recently, in other parts of the country, a trend has emerged where two or more breweries will team up to share a production space. Rather than pay for separate facilities, the breweries team up to lower costs so long as they can make a shared space work. It’s already happening here, on a smaller scale,…

Ex Novo doubles down on official beers for New Mexico State Fair

One of the two largest events of the fall in Albuquerque has come to truly embrace the local craft brewing scene, and in turn, one of the larger breweries in the state has come to embrace that event. For the third year in a row, Ex Novo Brewing is rolling out the official beer of…

The Week Ahead in Beer: Flock of Moons teams up with CNM on new collab

For some time now, Central New Mexico Community College has been training future brewers in their program. Sometimes you will see the students at breweries, going on the best kinds of field trips to study how things are done outside the classroom. Well, on a recent field trip, the students worked together with Flock of…

The updated list of every active brewery in the state of New Mexico

Back when we reported that Harmon Lane Brewing was closing, one comment on Facebook caught us by surprise. The writer stated that he had never heard of the brewery inside Southwest Grape & Grain. At the time we read it, we just went “huh” and moved along. But, over time, that has kind of gnawed…

Lagerpalooza draws in lovers of the style from southern New Mexico and beyond

After leading off the current edition of The Week Ahead in Beer with a quickie preview of this Saturday’s Lagerpalooza at Truth or Consequences Brewing, we wanted to go a little more in-depth about this new celebration of the style. Luckily for us, TCB co-owner/chief beer officer John Masterson was more than willing to answer…

The Week Ahead in Beer: Southern NM lagers get their moment to shine

We do love the ongoing trend of lager festivals. They help get us through these scorching summers, after all. Now it’s southern New Mexico’s turn with Lagerpalooza, this Saturday at Truth or Consequences Brewing from noon to 5 p.m. Tickets are $19 in advance and available online. Otherwise, it will be $22 at the door….

Santa Fe Beer & Food Festival offers up wide variety of tasty brews

We mentioned in The Week Ahead in Beer that this Saturday and Sunday is the Santa Fe Beer & Food Festival at El Rancho de las Golondrinas. Now, as we tend to do any time there is a festival, we went ahead and got as many of the beer lists as we could for the…

The Week Ahead in Beer: Santa Fe festival returns in historic setting

The Santa Fe Beer & Food Festival is back this Saturday and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. both days at the historic El Rancho de las Golondrinas. It’s accessible from Exit 271 outside the city of Santa Fe. Tickets are available via that earlier link, or you can go straight to Hold My Ticket….

Beers of the City site aims to encourage craft fans to expand their horizons

Back before the pandemic, Albuquerque the Magazine used to roll out an annual brewery passport, a printed little guide to all the local places where you could get a stamp and a discount. Nowadays, though, paper is out, digital is in, and the result is Beers of the City. This new app/website is now available…

The Week Ahead in Beer: Earn a pint by helping Canteen help a local school

We’re gonna keep this intro short and sweet this week. Let’s just say that Brandon and I, despite our best efforts to defy the laws of physics, could not get a big couch through a small door this morning. Anyway, both Canteen locations are hosting a school supply drive this Sunday from noon to 9…