Bosque Brewing director of operations Gabe Jensen invited me over to his office, located just a few doors down from the brewery and taproom on San Mateo, to chat about just what all those new bills passing through the state legislature means for his business. “I’m not sure yet, so I called you all the…
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Following up on the brewery bills at the legislature
Greetings, all, hope you had fun on this past sunny weekend. It was a fun time, wasn’t it? I mean, aside from that whole rain of 3-point death by Wisconsin against my Arizona Wildcats (curse you, cheeseheads!), I think just about everyone I know had a pretty good couple of days. Of course good days…
Beer Notes: A stealth festival, new walking tour, and an avalanche of big IPAs
A year ago the folks up at Buffalo Thunder Casino held a beer festival that almost no one outside of Santa Fe knew about. Guess what? They’re holding it again, and once again, they have done next to zero advertising/promoting down here in Albuquerque. Hey, BTC staff, there’s an estimated 900,000 people down here in…
Bosque’s Myers keeps three locations all aimed in the same direction
The role of women in craft brewing has grown along with the industry in the last decade-plus. Whether across the country or here in New Mexico, women are taking more key positions than ever before, whether in positions of management, working atop the brewhouse, or holding down other important jobs that sometimes go unrecognized. Well,…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Another new brewery joins the fold
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…
ABQ Brew Dash combines two of our favorite things — running and beer
At some point we have all joked about running to get a beer. And at some point we have probably heard about insane people doing those “beer mile” races (drink a beer per lap around a regulation track, so it’s four for a mile; got to see the Cal-Berkeley cross country team do it once,…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Fighting the post St. Patrick’s hangover
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…
A quick guide to St. Patrick’s Day at your favorite breweries
As New Mexico basks in the glory of some truly amazing weather outside and Bosque Brewing’s Scale Tipper winning the Brewing News National IPA Challenge on Monday night, truly spring has sprung when everyone wears green and pretends to be Irish for a day. Ah, yes, St. Patrick’s Day, one of the major drinking holidays…
The all-NM showdown: Exodus vs. Scale Tipper for the National IPA Challenge title
I survived the state high school basketball tournament! Oh, thank the maker that is over. Now I can get back to beer. And baseball. And filling out my NCAA Tournament bracket. Speaking of brackets, the Final Four of the Brewing News National IPA Challenge was set and New Mexico made up half of it … wait,…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Everyone can celebrate this anniversary
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…