Sometimes you just gotta get out of town for a weekend. It just helps if where you go also has some darned good craft beer. So three of us in the Crew — Stoutmeister, Andrew, Luke — headed north to Colorado, taking a new route for all of us (at least in several years, or…
Category: Out-of-Town Brews
Brew Lab 101 heads south for unique offsite location on the water
That headline might leave one confused, since New Mexico is not a state that is replete with bodies of water. However, if you ask a longtime resident or two, they might just answer the question for you. Elephant Butte is arguably one of the most famous man-made lakes in the state, and starting the first…
Box Canyon Brewing keeps chugging along under new ownership
Back in the early part of this year, it appeared that another brewery casualty of the erratic beer economy would be Box Canyon Brewing in Socorro. Right up until the February 28 deadline for state licenses to expire, it appeared that the charming little brewery would be pouring a final pint or two. Then one…
Open Space Brewing fuses love of the great outdoors with love of great beer
One of the best parts of traveling around New Mexico to visit various breweries is to see how each of them fit into their respective places. Some embrace small-town charm, others open into the great vastness of the outdoors. Open Space Brewing, as the name might imply, does a lot of the latter, and a…
Taking a trek to pair of newer breweries in Southern New Mexico
It has been a little while since any of us in the Crew had the opportunity to travel to breweries in New Mexico outside the Albuquerque and Santa Fe metro areas, so long before the windy forecast popped up, I made the decision to head south for an overdue visit. Wish me luck with the…
Notes from the North: Blü Dragonfly and Red River enter expansion mode
Over the past week, the Crew received a couple of emailed updates on two of the breweries in Northern New Mexico. These both followed up on our most recent articles on Blü Dragonfly Brewing outside Raton and on Red River Brewing. First up, Blü Dragonfly owner Colin Tawney wrote that while his brewery is still…
Red River Brewing expands production with new distillery location
A little while back, we heard that there was some big news coming out of Red River. It arrived in our inbox a couple weeks ago, we sent some follow-up questions that were soon answered, and now, at last we had a day where we could run this story. It certainly counts as big news….
Jemez Mountain Brewhouse finds some pizza perfection in the canyon
Late last week, I made an overdue visit to Jemez Mountain Brewhouse in the village of Jemez Springs. Owners Jef Bold, Scott Johnson, and David Martinez were there to greet me with pizza, beer, and tales of this little labor of love that they have begun to build at 17691 NM-4. This same spot was…
A quick crawl through a fraction of the breweries in Minneapolis-St. Paul
As anyone that follows us on social media knows, I just spent a long weekend up in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, attending a couple baseball games, a metal show, and of course hitting up many, many breweries. Since I don’t have anything else to write about until later in the week, how about a recap…
The Socorro craft beer scene now includes Baca House alongside the Capitol Bar
It was only about two years ago when I visited the newly christened Capitol Bar and Brewery in Socorro. Their first two beers had just been tapped, and they were in a celebratory mood bringing locally brewed craft back to their town. Fast forward to last week, and the Cap, as locals call it, is…
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