Beer Notes: Your weekend just got busier

We already highlighted a bunch of weekend events in The Week Ahead in Beer, but brace yourselves, there are even more. Is there too much of a good thing? Or will it just force us all to plan things out as carefully as possible? Either way, this might be a good weekend to cash in…

The Week Ahead in Beer: More good deeds abound at our breweries

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. Many times we have led off…

Santa Fe Brewing’s Oktoberfiesta 2015 in pictures

Santa Fe Brewing Company’s Oktoberfiesta was this last weekend, and as always, it was one big, crazy, fundraiser event! This is my third year in attendance, but it was my first year as event coordinator for Santa Fe Brewing. This was my baby, and along with the help and hard work of so many, this…

The Week Ahead in Beer: Kick it up a notch with Oktoberfiesta at SFBC

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. We all know how much the…

NM Brew Fest caps off the festival season with another successful event

The sudden appearance of colorful balloons in the skies over Albuquerque, along with the occasional onset of cooler weather (hey, this is New Mexico) is always a sign that the end of beer festival season is in sight here in these parts. One local festival always looms large over this time of year, and this year…

The 2015 Balloon Fiesta tourist guide to NM craft breweries

It’s that time of year again, when lots of folks from outside Albuquerque and New Mexico descend upon the Duke City for the Balloon Fiesta. While a lot of us locals grumble about the increase in traffic, even we’re big softies for the Fiesta (assuming we wake up in time). Well, we are, our dogs…

Bosque basks in a golden glow from GABF

No one can dispute that Bosque Brewing is in the midst of a great year. They opened two taprooms, won the National IPA Challenge, won a second straight New Mexico IPA Challenge, have bottled two beers (with a third on the way), and, oh yeah, just won their first gold medal at the Great American…