UPDATE (Monday 8:40 p.m.): Bosque Brewing is closing all of its locations in the state, including Restoration Pizza, for an indefinite period of time. As one of the five largest breweries in the state, this is a very bad sign, to put it mildly. Today (Tuesday) we heard back from ownership that they are quite…
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Breweries must reduce public capacity to 50 percent starting Monday
The big weekend crowds at breweries, bars, and restaurants will not be continuing this coming week, and potentially for a lot longer in New Mexico and nationwide. While California, Illinois, and Ohio have closed all of the above indefinitely, our local breweries will still be allowed to open, albeit under new restrictions. Starting Monday, all…
Our plan going forward in the age of the coronavirus
As the breweries are still open for regular business during this pandemic, we will still continue to write and keep this site updated. After all, there is not much else to read about on the internet these days, is there? Of course, we will have to be flexible, as we have all seen the situation…
Pandemic hits local brewing industry as hard as everything else
Never in our lives did we imagine that a story about a global pandemic’s impact on local craft breweries would ever appear on our site, but here we are. We will keep a constant listing of closings and event cancellations/postponements here, but please keep consulting individual breweries’ social media pages for updated information. We can…
Drink a Harmon Lane beer while shopping for your beer-making supplies at Southwest Grape & Grain
It’s a project that has been in the works for quite a while as Southwest Grape and Grain has now opened Harmon Lane Brewing inside the homebrew store 3401 Candelaria Rd NE. SWG&G has always been a great place to shop for equipment, grain, yeast, etc. (along with winemaking and cheesemaking supplies), but isn’t it…
Rounding up all the breweries and taprooms showing NM United away games
As a public service, we decided it would be best to compile the list of all the breweries and offsite taprooms that are showing New Mexico United away games this year. After all, the season opener is tonight at 6:30 against the Austin Bold, and while many of our friends traveled to the game, most…
NM chapter of Pink Boots Society set for collaboration brew day at Canteen
Canteen Brewhouse will have a lot of extra folks manning the brewhouse this Friday morning. The catch is that none of them are actually men. The women of the New Mexico chapter of the Pink Boots Society will be gathering for their fifth annual collaboration beer day, which happens to fall just before International Women’s…
The number of brewery/distillery combinations continues to grow across New Mexico
While perusing the pending small brewer licenses with the State of New Mexico, a new entry appeared that caught my eye this past week. Albuquerque Distilling, which is located at 5001 Central on the east end of Nob Hill, is getting into the brewing game as well, or so it appears. This is just the…
Blue Grasshopper begins the difficult process of scaling back
A surprising post on Facebook changed our plans on Saturday, when we read that Blue Grasshopper Brewery was holding a “grand closing” of its location at Second Street and Summer in Wells Park. Taking a chance, I drove down and found co-owner Peter Apers was still around and willing to chat about everything that is…
New Mexico breweries bring home dozen medals from Best of Craft Beer Awards
The first national brewing competition of the year is in the books as the Best of Craft Beer Awards were announced Monday in Bend, Oregon. Once again, New Mexico breweries cleaned up, with five splitting up 12 medals between them, including three gold medals. Leading the pack was Ex Novo Brewing with four medals, while…
