Some breaking news from the Brewers Association hit our inbox Tuesday as the future of the organization’s premier event, the Great American Beer Festival, is changing in a big way. After decades as a three-day event inside the spacious Colorado Convention Center in Denver, GABF is scaling back to two days and will move outdoors…
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WinterBrew boasts new beer releases and some classic big brews
Do not let that approaching winter storm deter you, for WinterBrew is back this Friday at the Santa Fe Farmers Market at the Railyard. There are still some tickets available, so grab them while you can because this event always sells out. As we noted in our first preview from a couple weeks ago, there…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Fighting the January doldrums
The slow season is upon us. Again. Yeah, January is generally the slowest month of the year for breweries (and regular restaurants). All we can do is to encourage people to show some extra, or at the very least their regular support in January. There are still some fun events below, and a few new…
High and Dry starts to hit their stride with key equipment upgrade
When we last checked in with High and Dry Brewing over the summer, the new leadership team was just taking the reins and starting to figure out just about everything. Well, six months later, we trekked back over to meet with general manager Kyle Gaston and head brewer Cami O’Brien to see how everything has…
The Week Ahead in Beer: An avalanche of events before Christmas
Holy hell, the events section below is stacked. It feels like every brewery has something going on before we get to a semi-break with Christmas falling on a Thursday next week. There’s some trivia, a video game event, craft nights, charity supporting events, informative lectures, bellydancers, pet adoptions, holiday markets, Christmas carolers, drag queen bingo,…
Turtle Mountain turns biggest challenge into major accomplishment
We figured there would be some interesting answers to our three questions for the current edition of the Look Back/Look Ahead Series. We did not figure that the first two questions about a brewery’s biggest challenge and biggest accomplishment would produce the same answer. Leave it to Turtle Mountain Brewing owner Nico Ortiz to pull…
Sunday Service Motor Co. expands brewing operations during busy year
At this point, it is probably not a well-kept secret that I, Stoutmeister, am huge a Bayern Munich fan. My family lived in Bavaria (Southern Germany) in the early 1980s, so when it came time to pick a European soccer team to root for, well, that choice was easy. I recently got to attend my…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Quoth the raven and get to the next big brew release
Oh, big beer season is upon us, and it is glorious. Sure, the weather is weird and just can’t seem to move forward (though of course it may this weekend on all the NM United fans in Tulsa) into truly settling into a cooler pattern instead of these wild day/night temperature swings. The havoc it…
Local breweries pay tribute to veterans
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the guns fell silent and all was quiet on the Western Front. The end of World War I in 1918 marked what would eventually become Veterans Day in the United States, honoring all those who served in the military. From brewery owners at…
Beer Notes: Good on Beer Creek and Rumor, Halloween tidbits and more
A quiet beer news week in terms of full-on features does not mean there was nothing worth sharing. Read on as we clear out a light beer notebook. Beer Creek and Rumor step up to help It was probably impossible to miss the news this week that federal SNAP benefits will end on Saturday due…
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