Though Santa Fe Brewing Co. is the oldest and largest of New Mexico’s craft breweries, with a great deal of veteran experience inside and outside of our local industry, nothing could have prepared them for this year. At all levels, from production to taproom, SFBC has faced many of the same challenges as the rest…
Category: Look Back/Look Ahead Series 2020-21
New Mexico Brewers Guild keeps the collaborative spirit alive during tough times
Back in March 2019, Leah Black accepted the role of executive director of the New Mexico Brewers Guild. She told us then it might take a full year to get fully acclimated to the job. A full year later, the job changed in ways she could not have imagined due to events completely out of…
Bosque Brewing weathers multiple challenges at multiple taprooms in 2020
Taprooms open, taprooms closed. Kitchens open, kitchens closed. Patios open, patios closed. One taproom open, another closed. The early weeks of the pandemic left Bosque Brewing’s employees, owners, and customers feeling like their heads were spinning. Things have stabilized, as much as anything can in 2020, since then, but it has still been a heck…
Tractor Brewing hopes to start firing on all cylinders again in 2021
The challenge of maintaining even a single brewery taproom has been tremendous during 2020. The challenge of maintaining five locations, including a production-and-packaging facility, has been downright monumental. In the face of everything 2020 has thrown at it, Tractor Brewing is still standing. Not all of its locations have lasted through the year, but on…
Gravity Bound stays grounded heading into 2021
Back in March, our friends at Gravity Bound were planning their soft opening to celebrate finally sharing their refreshing beer with the New Mexico craft brewing community. We all know what happened next, but the brothers and co-owners, Cameron and Chris Frigon, kept pushing forward and managed to open their doors during the pandemic a…
Brew Lab 101 sees its business model pushed into overdrive in 2020
Every now and again, while writing stories in our annual Look Back/Look Ahead Series, we get surprised. This year, with all the doom and gloom of the pandemic, we kinda feared those surprises. And then, along came Brew Lab 101 Beer & Cider Co. brewmaster/co-owner Scott Salvas. “2020 was a good year for us,” he…
High and Dry Brewing is staying aloft in their sophomore year
Just as High and Dry were successfully celebrating their second anniversary with live music and a packed taproom (remember those?), the world came to a screeching halt. Sounds like an epic party, right? No, no, it was COVID … and as with so many other businesses, they had to stop partying and quickly rethink their…
Adapting is key to Casa Vieja’s continued success in this crazy year
Another year is coming to a close, and what a year it has been. It’s difficult to even approach this year’s Look Back/Look Ahead Series, because don’t we all really only want to look ahead? And yet, we might sort of be afraid to at the same time. In some ways, there’s not a lot…
Marble Brewery aims to move out of the shadow and roll back into the light in 2021
All of 2020, or at least since mid-March, has been a battle to find the bright spots in a dark year. Over at Marble Brewery, the staff has been focused on staying as positive as they can, all while keeping the machinery moving along through one challenge after another. Over the course of a few…
ReSource Brewing will remain dedicated to the beer and the community
Knowing what we know now, most of us would have said 2020 was the worst possible year to open a business. Thankfully, Stephanie and Shawn Wright decided to defy that viewpoint to successfully open ReSource Brewing Co. at 3107 Eubank Blvd. NE, Suite 12, in Albuquerque’s Northeast Heights this past October. We caught up with…
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