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Boxing Bear opens its new Tramway taproom for beer to-go sales

Among the things we expected to find on the good old internet on Saturday were updates on the coronavirus, people waxing rhapsodic about the sporting events they attended on this date years ago, and breweries kindly asking customers to come on by for beer and/or food to-go orders. What we did not expects was an…

Hand sanitizer is the newest hot product from brewstilleries around the state

When the coronavirus began to shut down life as we all know it, Broken Trail Brewery and Distillery stepped up to make hand sanitizer, donating much of it to first responders in Albuquerque. Since then, 11 other distilleries have jumped on board, helping out across the state. The full list includes Algodones Distillery, Dry Point…

The Week Ahead in Beer: Steel Bender decides to heck with it and can ’em all

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….

The Crew zooms ahead with our first video beer review

Oh, the times are a changing, and with all of the Crew unable to really hang out together in person, we came up with a brilliant/terrible/questionable idea (we will let you all decide). For certain special-release beers during this time of social distancing, we are going to be doing reviews via Zoom and posting them…

Metro breweries still adjusting to new regulations during pandemic

Most craft beer drinkers have been able to adjust to the new normal of to-go beer only from breweries, but we still wanted to know just how the breweries have adjusted with no major changes in statewide edicts since dine-in sales were stopped. After Luke checked in with the Santa Fe-area breweries last week, I…

Sobremesa Restaurant & Brewery aims to bring the community together when the crisis is over

Back on the same day that restaurants and breweries were ordered to close their dining rooms and go to takeout orders only, I ventured out to a construction site on the west side of town at Coors and Sequoia. The future Sobremesa Restaurant & Brewery was starting to take shape as I met up with…

The Week Ahead in Beer: All the brews you can get to go during this quarantine

Toltec Brewing was fine-tuning the experience before Covid-19 arrived

We have been sitting on this Look Back/Look Ahead Series interview that I did with Toltec Brewing’s dynamic duo of head brewer Kaylynn McKnight and general manager Keri Fleming for some time now. With things having (ever so briefly) settled down for now, we thought we would bring a little light and levity back to…

Tractor Brewing closes all locations to keep its staff and patrons safe

We were a bit surprised Saturday morning to see the news that Tractor Brewing had closed all of its locations effective immediately. Like most breweries, Tractor had chosen to stay open for to-go orders of beer and food. Ultimately, though, Tractor co-owner/president Skye Devore told us that she could not in good conscience remain open….

All the breweries and taprooms staying open for to-go orders and all that are closed

This is a dynamic and updating list in the wake of the Governor’s decision to close all breweries and restaurants to everything except to-go orders starting Thursday throughout New Mexico. For details on what beers are available, see our constantly updating The Week Ahead in Beer post. (All information updated as of 1:30 p.m. Monday,…