A few newsy beer-related items found their way to our proverbial desks this week. Rather than go two days in a row without a new story, here is a quick summation of what we know. Rio Bravo says damn the season and full imperial stout ahead Sure, it may be toasty out there these days,…
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: Ex Novo makes the best out of a wee little typo
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….
Tractor among the event-heavy breweries that must refocus for the foreseeable future
It feels a little quieter at Tractor Brewing these days. That has nothing to do with the crowds; like their fellow breweries, they are limited to 50-percent occupancy, but the tables were full and people were beginning to gather on the expanded patio when I visited the Wells Park brewery taproom last week. No, it…
Gravity Bound Brewing lands on its feet after pandemic shutdown delays its opening
Gravity Bound Brewing had planned to open its doors to the public back on March 25. Well, as we all know, something happened before that which proved to be a bit of a impediment. As of Thursday, Gravity Bound has at last joined its fellow breweries in being open for customers at 50-percent occupancy. We…
The Pink Boots Society collaboration beer arrives on tap and in cans at 13 local breweries
Long, long ago, in a more innocent time, many of the women in our craft brewing industry gathered together at Canteen Brewhouse to create a special beer. Yes, in those days of yore, otherwise known as early March, the 2020 collaboration brew for the New Mexico chapter of the Pink Boots Society came into this…
Boese Brothers Brewery returns after taking some necessary downtime
The majority of breweries in New Mexico decided to stay open during the early days of the COVID-19 shutdown, offering their beers and/or food for takeout only. A few, however, decided to close their doors and wait things out. As breweries return to having customers inside and on their patios at 50-percent occupancy, now even…
Steel Bender and other brewpubs still facing their own unique challenges in reopening
While much of the attention over the last several days has focused on the many breweries getting to reopen at last, the brewpubs (which we define as any brewery that offers food made on site) have been navigating the 50-percent occupancy waters for some time now. Their kitchens may have granted them that privilege of…
The Week Ahead in Beer: A Dank on draft helps us all get at least halfway to normal
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….
Albuquerque’s two biggest breweries survive the initial onrush of returning customers
Over the course of the next few days and weeks, the Crew will be catching up with as many breweries as we can to see how they survived the lockdown, how things are going with customers allowed back inside and on patios at 50-percent occupancy, and what additional changes and developments are afoot. To kick…
The tumultuous times and tribulations of the first Santa Fe breweries in the 1800s
As we have traveled through the distant past of New Mexico’s brewing history, from wild shootouts in Albuquerque to the growth of the biggest pre-Prohibition brewery, to the small-town brewing outposts of the 19th century, and finally to the ill-fated rebirth of local brewing in the 1930s, there is one place that we have conspicuously…
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