This almost midpoint of February feels a bit jammed, doesn’t it? There is the Super Bowl on Sunday, Mardi Gras on Tuesday, and Valentine’s Day next Wednesday. It certainly gives the breweries plenty of fodder for the weekend, with events themed around one or all of the three holidays (let’s face it, at this point,…
Kilt Check begins process of transforming into Bossfight Brewing
When brewer/owner Mike Campbell passed away last year, the future of Kilt Check Brewing was left up in the air. Would the brewery close down? Would it be sold to new owners? Or would some members of the Campbell family choose to keep it going? The latter now appears to be the fate of the…
Marble adapts and innovates amid the changing times in the industry
The tough times are still out there in the craft brewing industry, as we have written about plenty of times over the last few months. Even the biggest breweries in our state are not immune, but nor are they backing down in the face of those new challenges. Marble Brewery is holding fast against the…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Going back over the best of WinterBrew
It occurred to us the other day that we never did type up a Best Beers of WinterBrew type of story. In the end, though, we figured it would probably be best to just put that right here, while noting that everything we are about to list is actually available at breweries. Well, almost everything….
Boese Brothers continues to make positive strides across 3 New Mexico towns
There are only a handful of New Mexico breweries that choose to operate in two different cities/towns, and fewer still that have locations in three. One of those is Boese Brothers Brewing, which still has taprooms going strong in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Los Alamos. I sat down with co-owner George Boese last week at…
Bathtub Row Brewing finishes new brewhouse with new brewer at helm
Having moved to Santa Fe from Los Alamos a few years ago, I don’t get back to Bathtub Row Brewing (AKA “the Tub”) nearly as often as I would like. We recently decided to kill a few birds, so to speak, and meet friends there and conduct our Look Back/Look Ahead interview. It was a lovely Saturday…
WinterBrew 2024 boasts a stacked lineup of some exceptional seasonal beers
First off, if you did not get a ticket to this year’s edition of WinterBrew, you might not want to keep reading. It might just make you mad or sad that you failed to get a chance to try some of these rather amazing brews. WinterBrew tickets sold out this week, both general admission and…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Fending off winter doldrums one brew at a time
It happens every season, where one brewery stands up and shouts “NO MORE!” and releases the seasonal for the next quarter of the year. All things considered, it has been a fairly mild winter (apologies if this jinxes us), but nonetheless Steel Bender has had quite enough of the colder days and nights. To prove…
Sidetrack maintains a nice routine even amid industry-wide tumult
There is nothing wrong with having a perfectly normal year in beer. After all, nothing has been very normal since 2020, so Sidetrack Brewing will definitely embrace a year of things just being, well, routine. I caught up with co-owners Dan Herr and Anne O’Neill, plus head brewer Cordell Rincon, to go over all of…
Thirsty Eye hits some milestones even before a milestone anniversary
If it still seems like time makes no sense anymore, then consider the fact that Thirsty Eye Brewing will celebrate its fifth anniversary in June. Wait, what? It seems like the funky little pub opened just the other day on Broadway in East Downtown. But, it’s true, Thirsty Eye officially opened back on June 14,…
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