The third annual Blazin’ Brewfest will hit Las Cruces this Saturday from 4 to 9 p.m., officially kicking off festival season in New Mexico. The event will be held again on Main Street, with plenty of food trucks and live music to go with the offerings from 15 different breweries, including the event’s four host…
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Thursday at the Brewer’s Table: Duel and Blue Corn join forces
You never quite know what to expect from a Thursday at the Brewer’s Table at Blue Corn Brewery, except that there will always be good beer, good food, and good company. For April’s TATBT, it was a special collaboration between Duel Brewing and Blue Corn, two of Santa Fe’s breweries known for pushing the envelope…
Santa Fe Draft Station ups their game (space)
Just when you thought there was no place for 20-somethings/Millennials to play in Santa Fe, Draft Station has expanded, adding a large gaming space to their quite lucrative taproom. This new hall includes such games as ping pong, darts, foosball, air hockey, a giant Connect Four, and the possibility of more to come. I stopped…
La Cumbre assistant brewer achieves rare level of certification
The word Cicerone gets thrown around a lot these days at local breweries. It is one of those terms that people have likely heard, but not necessarily understood. Even those of us in the Crew only had a somewhat vague idea of what it meant. To learn a lot more about this type of special…
Marble anniversary week madness ready to get underway
A seventh anniversary does not sound like a reason to go all-out and party for an entire week. This is Marble Brewery, however, and “go big or go home” might as well be their (other) mantra. All week long there will be something special going on at one of their three locations. To help out…
Santa Fe Brewing’s new ABQ taproom begins to take shape
Back on Friday I was planning on charging down to the “crane-lifting ceremony” at Green Jeans Farmery, the site near Carlisle and I-40 that will host the first Santa Fe Brewing taproom in Albuquerque. Of course, whenever you have an hour to get from work to anywhere else, there will inevitably be delays. I pretty…
Surprise, the second annual Marchfest was a huge hit
Last Saturday was the second annual Marchfest put on by Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino. Previously, this was an event that many of the Crew had written off due, mostly in part to little to no advertising, except through commercials on the mainstream radio stations (I’d be pretty surprised if the Crew listened to the…
With 20 years in the business, SF Cider Works’ Dralle has brewed it all
For my third article in the NM Women in Brewing Series, I sat down and had a beer with experienced craft brewer, Jordana “Jordy” Dralle. This woman is a veteran of the industry. With one impressive brewing resume, she is an excellent example of strong women with even stronger passions for their craft, making a…
Bosque excited for future after brewing bills pass through NM Legislature
Bosque Brewing director of operations Gabe Jensen invited me over to his office, located just a few doors down from the brewery and taproom on San Mateo, to chat about just what all those new bills passing through the state legislature means for his business. “I’m not sure yet, so I called you all the…
Following up on the brewery bills at the legislature
Greetings, all, hope you had fun on this past sunny weekend. It was a fun time, wasn’t it? I mean, aside from that whole rain of 3-point death by Wisconsin against my Arizona Wildcats (curse you, cheeseheads!), I think just about everyone I know had a pretty good couple of days. Of course good days…
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