Beer Prom brings together 8 brewery collaborations with retro dance party

Get your dancing shoes on, it’s beer time. Well, it’s Beer Prom time this Saturday at Ex Novo Corrales, a reinvention of the United in Beer collaboration festival. “Well, the origin of change, truly, we were wanting to be a better direct connect with the (New Mexico) Brewers Guild,” said Stevo Jeter, Ex Novo’s director…

Beer Notes: World Beer Cup winners and weekend happenings

Greetings all, this is Stoutmeister, back from my one-week vacation in Valencia, Spain. Found some good hidden beer spots, ate a lot of serrano ham, and walked and walked some more. I promised a quick roundup of anything I missed while I was gone, and while there were no big, earth-shattering stories, there was the…

The Week Ahead in Beer: Closing out January by doing some good

The quietest month of the beer will (mercifully) come to a close this weekend. There have not been many events beyond WinterBrew (we promise, our favorite beers list will be out this week, it just got pushed back by yesterday’s GABF news), and few new beer releases as the taps have remained fairly unmoved since…

Ex Novo Brewing keeps ascending even amid industry turmoil

Sometimes being busy is a good thing. December and January are generally two of the slowest months of the year for breweries, but Ex Novo founder Joel Gregory still let us know that his brewery is not slowing down. He requested the opportunity to answer our three Look Back/Look Ahead Series questions via email, and…

Great American Beer Festival underway once again in Denver

Once upon a time, the Crew was all about the Great American Beer Festival. One or more of us was there every year between 2016-19, plus 2022 when it returned after the pandemic. Since then? Eh, not a high priority on our annual calendar. It’s not necessarily the fault of the event itself. Surge pricing…