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…
The Week Ahead in Beer: The big lead-up to St. Patrick’s Day (now updated)
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….
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…
Beer Creek Brewing flows into 2020 with fully armed and operational brewhouse
Our last visit to Beer Creek Brewing found its brewing operation underway at last. Things are still humming along at 3810 Highway 14, south of Santa Fe, as I found out when I made the drive out for our Look Back/Look Ahead Series. The biggest change from October to now is offsite keg distribution, which…
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 Week Ahead in Beer: More canned brews, more art, more metal
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….
Brew Lab 101 still experimenting to satisfy the demands of its customers
As we wind down to the end of our Look Back/Look Ahead Series for 2019-20, many of the remaining breweries are on the far outskirts of the metro area. I set out for the wilds of Rio Rancho last week to catch up with Brew Lab 101 Beer & Cider Co. owner/brewer Scott Salvas, who…
DARK SIDE BREW CREW 