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 four breweries and a pair of newcomers, one down in Socorro and the other in Los Alamos, also joining the party. It’s that time of year, when…
Beer Notes: Yet another taproom coming to downtown
Consider this the short version of Beer Notes, since yours truly is battling a cold. The worst thing about a cold is clearly the inability to drink beer. Stupid medicinal conflicts are the main reason, but also of course there is the inability to properly taste what one is drinking. Hopefully I will be able…
Get your Skiesta and SW Chocolate and Coffee Fest beer lists here
We are a long way from regular festival season, but there are two events this weekend featuring some of our local breweries. Up at Pajarito Mountain above Los Alamos is Skiesta, which Reid previewed earlier this week. Over at the State Fairgrounds is the Southwest Chocolate & Coffee Fest, a two-day event this Saturday and…
Nexus and Chama collaborate for St. Patrick’s Day
There is always something special when two of our local breweries collaborate on the creation of a new beer. For Chama River and Nexus, it happens to be even a little more special than usual today. The two breweries on opposite sides of Interstate 25 have created The Lighter Fare and The Darker Fare, an…
Bosque basks in the glory of another National IPA Challenge title
Yeah, yeah, we are a couple days late with getting the reaction from Bosque Brewing about winning their second straight National IPA Challenge, a feat never accomplished before by any brewery. Well, thanks to my dad forgetting something important when traveling, I could not sit down with the staff Monday. Then on Tuesday, after doing…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Everyone is Irish for one day
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 four breweries and a pair of newcomers, one down in Socorro and the other in Los Alamos, also joining the party. St. Patrick’s Day is falling on…
Bathtub Row Brewing has a busy week ahead culminating in Skiesta
As usual, things are busy with Bathtub Row Brewing in Los Alamos. The big one is Skiesta, which will be held this Saturday. If you’re into skiing and beer (and I bet a healthy percentage of you reading this are), this is an event not to be missed. It’s getting awfully warm out there, so who…
Ponderosa plows ahead even after changing brewers again
Ponderosa Brewing has endured a fair amount of change since opening in September 2014. They are already on their third head brewer, yet have managed to build up a strong following in the Sawmill District and from beer lovers all around town. To tackle how 2015 went, and what 2016 holds for Ponderosa, it took…
Bosque goes big with future production facility
Long ago, the Crew heard rumors that Bosque Brewing was looking at moving into the old Jackalope building along Highway 550 just west of the Rio Grande in Bernalillo. Bosque managing director Gabe Jensen told us he was about 50-50 on moving into the property, but could offer up no further details. Lo and behold,…
The Week Ahead in Beer: New breweries unleash new creations
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 four breweries and a pair of newcomers, one down in Socorro and the other in Los Alamos, also joining the party. Sometimes new breweries wait a while…
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