This past weekend brought quite the doubleheader for the craft beer industry, with the New Mexico Brewers Conference on Friday and the inaugural Great New Mexico Beer Festival on Saturday, both held at Balloon Fiesta Park. While nearby lightning chased everyone off the field early on both days, it was still a good weekend for…
Category: Great NM Beer Fest
Great NM Beer Festival holds a first competition between local breweries
For the first time in a long while, an all-New Mexico breweries competition was held in advance of Saturday’s Great New Mexico Beer Festival. Local breweries competed for three medals in each of four categories, with a different brewery claiming gold in each category. Well, almost, since no gold medal was awarded by the judging…
Great New Mexico Beer Fest takes flight at Balloon Fiesta Park this Saturday
In the pre-COVID times, there was always a bit of an unusual gap in the middle of the New Mexico summer between major events. From ABQ Blues & Brews on Memorial Day weekend until the start of the NM IPA Challenge in July, there were no large-scale events in the Albuquerque metro area. Enter Dean…
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