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 six breweries, one in Los Alamos, and one in Moriarty also joining the party. I will be keeping the intro pretty short this week, since I’m still…
Three Rivers preps for its amazing and spectacular 20th anniversary
During a road trip through Southwest Colorado at the end of June, I was fortunate enough to stop in and say hello to our friends at Three Rivers Brewery in Farmington. It had been about five months since I had previously visited as part of our Look Back/Look Ahead Series. This time, I spent the…
Beer Notes: Road tripping across the old USA
As you read this today, I, your humble Stoutmeister, will be traveling along Interstate 40 eastward. The last of my cousins (at least for a while) is getting married down in Pensacola, Florida, so I figured heck, why not drive out there and explore beer in a part of the country I have not visited…
A murder of hops: Diving deep into all the IPA variants
As this is the season of the zenith in hop dominance in our fair land, Brandon and I, Franz Solo, took it upon ourselves to seek out new hops and new hopilizations. We boldly went … (cue Beastie Boys’ Sabotage while tooling along in a fire apple red Trans Am circa 1970 with T-Tops) to…
Brewery collectibles show coming to Drafty Kilt
The Roadrunner Chapter of the Brewery Collectibles Club of America is holding its 14th annual Brewery Collectibles Show this Saturday at Drafty Kilt. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and admission is free. Roadrunner president Dan Scoglietti emailed the Crew to let us know that this has become a tradition to team…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Start your hop homework now
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 six breweries, one in Los Alamos, and one in Moriarty also joining the party. The preliminary round of the annual New Mexico IPA Challenge is just 10…
Brewery hours will vary for the 4th of July
As a public service, we wanted to save everyone the time of searching 30-plus brewery Facebook/Twitter/Instagram pages and just list any and all schedule changes for Tuesday right here. You are welcome in advance. As more breweries post their times, we will keep updating this post. Albuquerque metro area breweries (and one beer store) Ale…
Delving into the development of the hop-tastic 7K IPA from Santa Fe
It has been quite a while since Santa Fe Brewing, the largest brewery in the state by production, has introduced a new year-round beer. In fact, it was when Black IPA went from seasonal to regular, though in that case it was a long-standing beer loved by many. This time around, SFBC went with something…
KBS 2017: All your coffees are belong to us
Editor’s note: This little mini-tasting event that we had actually took place a while back. Somebody just didn’t get around to typing it up until now. Why run it? Because it’s Friday, and sometimes we just like sharing how much goofy stuff we get to do. Haven’t you always wondered what sort of rambling discussions…
Houston’s (mostly) hidden craft beer gems
I can already hear you asking: Why is a New Mexico beer site writing about breweries in Houston? My answer: Because sometimes people go to other places and want to drink beer there. This was the situation I found myself in a few weeks back when I booked a trip to visit a friend in…
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