The news came via social media, as it typically does these days, late Monday afternoon that there was a shake-up coming to the craft beer scene in the Northeast Heights. ReSource Brewing owners Shawn and Stephanie Wright were selling their business to Brew Lab 101, which finally found its taproom east of the Rio Grande….
Category: Interviews
Painted Lady Bed & Brew adds new tours with its own beers coming soon
A couple years after our first story on Painted Lady Bed & Brew, we felt it was definitely time to head back over and check in with owner Jesse Herron to see how things are coming along. Back when Erin wrote that story, we were still in the final stages of the pandemic lockdown, and…
A sight to behold: CNM brewing facility ready to educate the next generation
A few years back, the good folks at Central New Mexico Community College told us all about their grand plans for a proper brewing school program. We had high hopes, but there was no way they could pull off everything they discussed with us, right? Well, this past Friday, I met up with lead instructor…
12 questions with Nuckolls new head brewer Jen Treu
As promised, just one week after the grand opening, I returned to Nuckolls Brewing Co. to speak with Jen Treu, the new head brewer, to get some hard details about the brewhouse, the beer lineup, and what her goals are for getting beer flowing from the many taps of Santa Fe’s newest brewery. I figured…
Lost Hiker continues to thrive despite some unexpected new challenges
There are quite a few one-brewery small towns in New Mexico, in all different parts of the state, ranging from places with populations in the triple digits to those in the five-digit category. It can be interesting, then, to see what happens when a second brewery moves in down the street. There is often the…
Downshift Brewing shifts into expansion mode in its home base of Ruidoso
Downshift Brewing was born out of an idea to downshift in life, to change the perspective and lifestyle of its owners from big-city chaos to small-town tranquility. Sometimes, though, an opportunity presents itself that cannot be missed, and a little brewing operation suddenly ended up getting bigger overnight. To learn more about this sudden growth…
New Brewers Guild executive director takes the reins with first successful event
If you had ever stopped in at Rowley Farmhouse Ales while Ebbie Edmonston was behind the bar, in the span of just a few minutes, you’d see her call out orders to her staff, greet regulars, disappear to change kegs, take meals out to tables, and maybe take a quick seat to make schedules or…
20 questions with the new brewmaster of Hidden Mountain Brewing Co.
Andy Lane is not a new name in the New Mexico brewing industry. He’s been in the business for a while now. And, though his is not a flashy tale, it is the kind of success story that most brewers can respect, working his way up from humble beginnings as part of Santa Fe Brewing…
Turquoise Trail Brewing hits the road in search of a better location
Over the past decade, we have seen plenty of breweries make big moves, whether expanding their main locations, or adding taprooms, or moving into large-scale packaging/distribution. Moving the entire brewing operation from one building to another, however, is a much rarer occurrence. Boxing Bear did it the most recently, and Bosque and Tractor did the…
Warren settles into his comfort zone running the show at La Reforma
A few months back, we reported that former Blue Corn (now Hidden Mountain) head brewer James Warren was coming back to New Mexico to take over the operations at La Reforma. After we let him get settled in, Warren was happy to sit down last week to go over where he’s been and how things…
