Welcome back to the second round of our brewery patio bracket-style tournament. After revisiting the southern breweries on Monday, followed by the offsite taprooms on Tuesday, we have three more polls today to narrow down these regional fields. The breweries in the northern reaches of New Mexico really fired up their supporters, with a record…
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Brewery Patio Bracket Round Two: Time to separate the best of the best offsite taprooms
The second round of our brewery patio bracket-style tournament rolls along as we return to the offsite taprooms. Last time, we had the taprooms outside Albuquerque in a separate story from the two sets on the east and west sides of Interstate 25, but now we are putting all three polls in this story. Why?…
Brewery Patio Bracket Round Two: The Southern challengers to the top titans must be decided
Welcome to the second round of our brewery patio bracket tournament. We kick things off, as we did in the first round, with the breweries in the South and East, and South and West parts of New Mexico. Our original plan was to take the top four (out of eight) in each region and have…
Brewery Patio Bracket Round One: The Battle of Burque swings south of I-40
All right, as we detailed last week, it is time for the opening round of our first brewery patio bracket challenge. This is all purely for fun, a way to celebrate our breweries and their efforts to maximize their patios during the current year. We started with the breweries down south, where 575 Brewing of…
Brewery Patio Bracket Round One: The Battle of Burque begins north of I-40
All right, as we detailed last week, it is time for the opening round of our first brewery patio bracket challenge. This is all purely for fun, a way to celebrate our breweries and their efforts to maximize their patios during the current year. We started with the breweries down south, where 575 Brewing of…
Brewery Patio Bracket Round One: The kings of the North shall be crowned
All right, as we detailed last week, it is time for the opening round of our first brewery patio bracket challenge. This is all purely for fun, a way to celebrate our breweries and their efforts to maximize their patios during the current year. We started with the breweries down south, where 575 Brewing of…
Brewery Patio Bracket Round One: The best of the burbs and the taprooms far afield
All right, as we detailed last week, it is time for the opening round of our first brewery patio bracket challenge. This is all purely for fun, a way to celebrate our breweries and their efforts to maximize their patios during the current year. We started with the breweries down south, where 575 Brewing of…
Brewery Patio Bracket Round One: Offsite but still on target as the best taprooms
All right, as we detailed earlier this week, it is time for the opening round of our first brewery patio bracket challenge. This is all purely for fun, a way to celebrate our breweries and their efforts to maximize their patios during the current year. Originally, we were going to start with the breweries in…
Brewery Patio Bracket Round One: The South will rise again
All right, as we detailed earlier this week, it is time for the opening round of our first brewery patio bracket challenge. This is all purely for fun, a way to celebrate our breweries and their efforts to maximize their patios during the current year. Originally, we were going to start with the breweries in…
The bracket battle for the best brewery patio of 2020 begins now
The global pandemic aside, this is truly patio season at all of our state’s craft breweries and offsite taprooms. The weather is (mostly) not too scorching hot, there occasional monsoon provides some cooling rain, and overall is a rather lovely time for a pint outdoors. Of course, regardless of weather, that is all the breweries…