The Great American Beer Festival held its annual awards ceremony Saturday morning in Denver, with two New Mexico breweries earning medals in a competition that featured 2,033 breweries and 9,300-plus entered beers. Marble Brewery earned a silver medal in the Dortmunder or German-Style Oktoberfest category for Thunder from Dortmunder. That delicious lager previously won a…
GABF 2023: The Crew will cover this year from home for a good reason
The Great American Beer Festival returns to Denver a little early this year, starting this afternoon at the convention center. We are not there this year. Well, technically Luke is there, but he is working for Hidden Mountain, so we will only call upon him if absolutely necessary. However, we do have a good reason…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Dank you very much for fall is truly here at last
We know that we have been begging the universe to free us from this endless summer of roasted doom for quite a while now. Guess what? Summer officially ends this weekend. Oh, sure, there is the whole Autumnal Equinox (get your pagan on), but this is also the release weekend for Project Dank: Fall Edition….
Canteen and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad glycol chiller
The hottest summer in recorded history was far from kind to breweries throughout the state. Many faced issues keeping their equipment humming, particularly any and all cooling devices. From Milton’s in Carlsbad to the CNM brewing school in Albuquerque, chillers big and small were strained to the limit. No one, though, had a worse run…
Ullr Fest this weekend marks the end of summer (finally!)
It felt like it was regularly 150 degrees right up until this week, so you may have been caught off guard by the first beer festival of the fall season. Now it’s cool and rainy, and heck, there may even be prospects for snow someday. Ullr Fest at the Pajarito Mountain lodge above Los Alamos…
Jemez Mountain Brewhouse finds some pizza perfection in the canyon
Late last week, I made an overdue visit to Jemez Mountain Brewhouse in the village of Jemez Springs. Owners Jef Bold, Scott Johnson, and David Martinez were there to greet me with pizza, beer, and tales of this little labor of love that they have begun to build at 17691 NM-4. This same spot was…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Here a fest, there a fest, everywhere a fest
Fest season continues this weekend with a couple of big ones. We will have Ullr Fest previewed in a separate article, so first we wanted to highlight the Rio Rancho Oktoberfest set for this Saturday from 2 to 10 p.m. It will be located, once again, in the parking lot of the Country Club Plaza…
Brew Lab 101 set to take over ReSource Brewing space in November
The news came via social media, as it typically does these days, late Monday afternoon that there was a shake-up coming to the craft beer scene in the Northeast Heights. ReSource Brewing owners Shawn and Stephanie Wright were selling their business to Brew Lab 101, which finally found its taproom east of the Rio Grande….
Painted Lady Bed & Brew adds new tours with its own beers coming soon
A couple years after our first story on Painted Lady Bed & Brew, we felt it was definitely time to head back over and check in with owner Jesse Herron to see how things are coming along. Back when Erin wrote that story, we were still in the final stages of the pandemic lockdown, and…
The Week Ahead in Beer: One of the top Marble fundraisers returns to 111
Working as an assignment editor at a TV station, I hear plenty of chatter over the scanners whenever city and county firefighters are called upon to assist with helping people lost or injured up in the Sandia Mountains. There is also the all-volunteer Albuquerque Mountain Rescue (AMRC), who work with authorities to keep everyone safe…
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