The Midnight Red is now available at Blue Corn Brewery. After a week on tap, it has certainly hit its stride. It’s been a while since Blue Corn released a beer as monstrous as this big, dark, malty Imperial Red Ale, and so I sat down with brewer James Warren to taste his beer and…
The Week Ahead in Beer: It’s Monsoon (IPA) season at Bosque
Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with the reunified edition of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s four breweries and one newcomer down in Socorro also joining the party. We tried hard to keep the state edition going, but without…
The numbers add up for Tractor’s new assistant brewer
A while back I believe that I mentioned we would be re-starting our NM Women in Brewing Series now that ABQ Beer Week is in the rear view mirror. During the first round of interviews, one little bit of info that I picked up at Tractor caught my attention. While the Crew had been working…
Full disclosure: So, I got a job at a brewery
In the Dark Side Brew Crew, we try to remain as objective as possible and build our headlines on pillars of truth. We tell it like we see it, and if we didn’t like it, we’ll say so. Remember the fiasco at the zoo? Me neither. Thank you, six-pack therapy. So what if one of…
Ponderosa plucks their new brewer from just down the road at Marble
A while back we reported on the pending departure of founding brewer Matt Kollaja from Ponderosa Brewing. At the time we did not know why Matt was leaving the nascent brewery, nor who his replacement would be. While serving as the proverbial fly-on-the-wall for the creation of the 505 Collaboration beer, Matt told me that…
Mother Road Brewing to New Mexico: “It’s all your fault”
“It’s all your fault, New Mexico,” said Mother Road Brewing founder and chief beer officer Michael Marquess with a big grin. “We thought we were shipping enough beer for six to eight weeks, but you ran us dry in less than two.” He was referring to “Big Blue,” the tentative name for the huge, insulated…
Pork & Brew is back with an emphasis on the latter
The 12th annual Pork & Brew is one of those events that happens every July 3-5 out in Rio Rancho with only a passing interest from us here in the Crew. I mean, we would love to trek way out to the Santa Ana Star Center, but that little bit of extra incentive just was…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Things are just peachy around here
Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with the reunified edition of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s four breweries and one newcomer down in Socorro also joining the party. We tried hard to keep the state edition going, but without…
Our picks for the best brews of ABQ Beer Week 2015 that you can still drink
So once upon a time I asked all of our writers, new and old, if they could please send me their picks for the best beers they had during ABQ Beer Week that were still available for purchase either on tap or in bottles/cans/bombers around the metro area. After waiting a long time for people…
Santa Fe brews up a plan to help save the Santa Fe River
In 1855, the Santa Fe River rose beyond its banks and washed away a good portion of a major brewery in Santa Fe. That instance made the papers and thus became our first official documentation of any brewery in New Mexico. Now, that’s not to say that there weren’t other breweries in existence, but we…
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