One of the perks of this job, if you can really call it a job, is to go behind the scenes at the breweries and hang out with the many characters who brew for a living. Well, imagine taking many of your favorite people from breweries all over town and then jamming them into a…
Psst … It’s open! BRB quietly opens their doors in Los Alamos
Bathtub Row Brewing in Los Alamos has opened their doors at last! Wednesday’s opening was of the “soft” variety, meaning that the the actual grand opening will be in May. In addition, until the brewing equipment is fully up and running, they will be serving a variety of New Mexico beers from esteemed establishments such…
Marble’s Gonzalez keeps the taprooms humming amid the chaos
After a little lull, otherwise known as “I had to cover the Isotopes’ opening homestand,” the Crew is restarting our series on NM Women in Brewing. At long last, we are delving into the (many) women working in key positions down at Marble Brewery. Being a tad busy right now with their Anniversary Week, rather…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Blue Corn and Duel join forces for the benefit of all
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…
Marble anniversary week madness ready to get underway
A seventh anniversary does not sound like a reason to go all-out and party for an entire week. This is Marble Brewery, however, and “go big or go home” might as well be their (other) mantra. All week long there will be something special going on at one of their three locations. To help out…
Santa Fe Brewing’s new ABQ taproom begins to take shape
Back on Friday I was planning on charging down to the “crane-lifting ceremony” at Green Jeans Farmery, the site near Carlisle and I-40 that will host the first Santa Fe Brewing taproom in Albuquerque. Of course, whenever you have an hour to get from work to anywhere else, there will inevitably be delays. I pretty…
Beercation Guide: A Wolfe comes to Pagosa Springs
We Sturms made our yearly pilgrimage to Pagosa Springs for what we like to call “decomposition time,” where all of your cares and troubles are melted away in the sulfurous waters and wonderful craft brews in a mountain town that screams of the freedom to relax and enjoy the finer things in life. Last year…
Siegel keeps the Drafts flowing at the Station
It’s indisputable that women are important to the craft beer scene. I think the NM Dark Side Brew Crew has made a nice case for that with our NM Women in Craft Brewing series. As we’ve shown, women work in every aspect from brewing to managing, serving, and bartending. You name it, women do it,…
All hail the Land of Hopchantment!
As the member of the Brew Crew who adores hops probably the most of all, I have made it my mission of late to try each and every double IPA and high-IBU standard IPA to come out of our local breweries in the past couple of months. I was inspired by how well New Mexico…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Marble’s week-long celebration is almost upon us
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…
DARK SIDE BREW CREW 