Business may have slowed a bit for Chili Line Brewery while the pandemic stay-at-home orders were in full effect, but that doesn’t mean the staff members have taken any time to rest. From moving their whole brewhouse and fermentation room, to pulling out of the Lamy station, there’s been plenty going on. In keeping several…
A quick guide to every brewery now open for dine-in customers
As we noted with last week’s surprise OK to open patios at certain breweries, the majority of those places would also be allowed to open indoor seating starting today (Monday) at 50-percent capacity. Well, as a public service, we wanted to make as easy as possible for everyone to know where you can sit down…
Tin Can Alley partially opens in a socially distant world
All of us in the Crew have been waiting to see when Tin Can Alley, the new complex at Alameda and San Pedro that includes a Santa Fe Brewing taproom, would open under the current lockdown rules. This weekend, it finally opened, though it is not totally open. After all, people cannot sit anywhere inside,…
A masked brew-tour and a quick chat with Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery
We are now 11 weeks into the pandemic restaurant/brewery shutdown, and most restaurants and breweries are still poised to open their doors as early as next week after this week’s quite spontaneous patio soft-opening announcement. With true indoor opening dates as well as dine-in rules still up in the air, I thought it would be…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Steel Bender taps some old favorites and cans something new
Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s eight breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, one in Red River, one in Silver City, and one in Truth or Consequences also joining the party….
Most breweries do not get to reopen for patio service under latest state rules change
There was optimism this week that Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham would announce a Phase 2 of reopening that would enable breweries and restaurants to start to have dine-in customers again. Well, restaurants get to have customers on their patios (should they have patios, of course), but most breweries will not be allowed. New Mexico Brewers…
The short-lived and not-so-good comeback of brewing in ABQ after Prohibition
As we continue our trek through the history of brewing in New Mexico, following our tales of a brewery shootout and the ups and downs of the first two Albuquerque breweries, we skip past the era of Prohibition (1918-33) to the time of the first two breweries after those dark years. Let us just say…
Virtual Albuquerque Beer Week kicks off with multiple beer releases and events
Beer festivals and the like are among the many event casualties of the current pandemic. Gathering people in large numbers anywhere is not a particularly good idea, so it has forced event organizers to get a little creative in how to keep annual traditions going. Take ABQ Beer Week, the annual multi-day, multi-event extravaganza that…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Ex Novo goes all in on All Together IPA
Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s eight breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, one in Red River, one in Silver City, and one in Truth or Consequences also joining the party….
The wild times of the first two Albuquerque breweries from 1883 to 1918
After a relatively quiet weekend for beer news, we decided it was time to get back to our Beer History Series. Last time around, we focused on an actual shootout that erupted at the first Southwestern Brewery in 1884. This time around, we wanted to take a longer look at Albuquerque’s first brewery, as well…
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