A belated thank you to everyone who came out to our fifth anniversary celebration at Tractor a couple weeks ago. Well, even if you did not make it out there, we still have quite a few shirts for sale. Our friend Michael Wieclaw, a.k.a. the mad genius behind Metal the Brand, made this batch of…
Turtle Mountain gets back in the game at long last
Franz Solo here. At long last, I’ve had a chance to actually get to my remaining Look Back/Look Ahead Series articles. Life sometimes has other plans for you than you desire and that’s definitely a good bit of what kept these on the backburner. Without further ado, I was able to hang out with both…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Sidetrack and Rowley ratchet up the fun
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 Socorro, one in Los Alamos, and one in Moriarty also joining the party. This anniversary party thing is gaining steam. Last week, it…
Ale Republic starting to make its mark in the East Mountains
Traveling over a mountain pass can create the illusion of having crossed into a different world. Opposite sides often display vast differences in culture, landscape, and energy. Maybe it’s just evidence of growing up in a place without mountains, but I confirm this magic every time I travel over the Sandias. My recent visit to Ale…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Come party with the Crew, we’re big kids 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 Socorro, one in Los Alamos, and one in Moriarty also joining the party. It may be hard to believe, but the Dark Side…
Santa Fe Brewing continues its rapid expansion project into 2017
Ever since Luke, and later Julie, joined the Crew, we have had them handle just about all the stories on the breweries in Santa Fe. Every now and again, though, some of us Albuquerque-based folks still have to step up and fill in, as I did with the Santa Fe Brewing entry for our Look…
Rowley Farmhouse Ales has a barrel of fun in 2016, and will continue to roll out the good stuff in 2017
The Look Back/Look Ahead series continues to roll with a look at Santa Fe’s newest brewery, Rowley Farmhouse Ales (RFA). Though the brewery is new to the industry, the owners and partners certainly are not, and that’s why their first year went as well as it did, and why this year, and subsequent years, will…
A Look Back/Look Ahead for the entire New Mexico brewing industry
Looking back over the year, 2016 was a doozy, to put it lightly. The political, social, and economic struggles of 2016 made us glad we have plenty of great places to go for a beer. Fortunately, the New Mexico brewing industry enjoyed many successes in 2016, with very few losses along the way. We saw…
WinterBrew returns with some intriguing beer lineups
All right, this is one of those posts where you can react one of two ways: Be excited, because you bought a ticket Be seriously bummed, because you did not and the event is sold out If you fall under No. 2 there, you might want to just move on with your internet browsing. Unless…
La Cumbre grows with purchase of adjacent property
Back when we ran our Look Back/Look Ahead Series entry on La Cumbre, Jeff Erway said he was getting close to acquiring “a property very close to here” that would help expand the brewery’s distribution footprint. The only thing Jeff left out was which building, but just about anyone walking down Girard had to notice…
