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 eight breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, one in Red River, one in Silver City, and one in Truth or Consequences also joining the party….
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.
Beer Notes: Broken Trail and Kaktus plan on returning this Friday
The number of breweries that have temporarily closed during this pandemic, eschewing the takeout-only model, is continuing to dwindle in the Albuquerque metro area. We have news on some planned reopenings, expanded hours, and more that just cried out for a Beer Notes. Broken Trail ready to return to action After shutting down its offsite…
Kicking off our beer history series with that time a shootout erupted at a brewery
Back when the pandemic first arrived in New Mexico, all of us in the Crew wondered if there would be many stories for us to write with breweries reduced to takeout only. As it turns out, the breweries have kept us plenty busy, but one idea for stories that we had back in late March…
New Mexico Brewers Guild goes virtual for Saturday beer festival
This era of stay-at-home has forced just about everyone and anyone to get creative when bringing people together. That includes state brewers guilds and other beer festival organizers, who cannot hold those festivals in the usual manner. A few state guilds have been experimenting with doing things online, and the New Mexico Brewers Guild will…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Ex Novo, Rio Bravo, Steel Bender and Tractor add new cans
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 eight breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, one in Red River, one in Silver City, and one in Truth or Consequences also joining the party….
Red Door Brewing ready to make some big changes including closing Roswell taproom
The statewide shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic has forced a lot of breweries to reconsider how they are set up. Red Door is one of those, as operations manager Ali Cattin told me from 6 feet away at the Candelaria taproom before they opened last Friday. “Matt’s been furiously applying for all sorts of…
The Crew reviews our new huckleberry Bock Holliday from Ex Novo Brewing
Sometimes the best laid plans just do not pan out, even virtually. We had planned an epic five-person review of Bock Holliday, one of the newest canned seasonal offerings from Ex Novo Brewing. Alas, personal matters caused Brandon to have to drop out, while all those many, many hours of brewing beers caused Ex Novo…
Thirsty Eye Brewing satiates the EDo neighborhood by reopening
A handful of breweries that initially closed their doors in March have begun to reopen for to-go-only orders. One of those is Thirsty Eye Brewing, which will reopen to the public starting today (Thursday) from 3 to 7 p.m. at 206 Broadway Blvd. SE. Curious about the process that led up to this decision to…
The Week Ahead in Beer: More breweries reopen and make other positive changes
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 eight breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, one in Red River, one in Silver City, and one in Truth or Consequences also joining the party….
Turtle Mountain Brewing sees its sales numbers climbing in right direction
This is our 10th and final brewery update in our current series. Hopefully the next time we do a series like this, we are discussing how each brewery is going to handle reopening to having onsite customers. For Turtle Mountain Brewing and owner Nico Ortiz, the to-go-only model seemed like a daunting challenge at the…
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