Every town, particularly those affected by natural disasters, needs a champion or two. Ruidoso has an entire brewery dedicated to its recovery after wildfires and subsequent flooding hammered the town over the course of this summer. Downshift Brewing is far from done, however, as that process continues for their surrounding community. We caught up with…
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The Week Ahead in Beer: Let’s get spooky a few weeks early this year
It’s never too early to get into Spooky Season, right? At least that won’t be the case at three local breweries this weekend, which ties in nicely with Friday being the 13th and all. Leading things off, naturally, is Painted Lady Bed and Brew with a special book signing/reading of Haunted Albuquerque, featuring author Cody…
Ex Novo Downtown lives up to just about every single bit of the advance hype
Ever since Ex Novo Brewing announced that they were taking over the former Firestone garage at Seventh and Central downtown, just about everyone has been waiting with baited breath as to how it would look when it’s finished, how it would feel, how it would bring some needed class and change to a much-maligned part…
Beer Notes: GB mini-break, IPA identities, Tatted Bee beers, new brewery, lager fest
A lot of little random bits of beer-related news have been piling up over here, so we decided it was time for another emptying of the proverbial notebook. To start things off, you will have to wait until the weekend to get your Gravity Bound fix. Co-owner Chris Frigon told us after Saturday’s IPA Challenge…
The collaborations are loose: United in Beer’s 13 brews head into the wild
If you missed this year’s United in Beer festival at Ex Novo, we first want to say sorry, because you missed one amazingly well-run and fun event. Rather than dwell on that, however, now comes the next obvious question. Will the 13 collaboration beers be released at the participating 26 breweries? Yes! Well, we think…
Ex Novo kicks off busy summer with United in Beer and a lot more
By now, the odds are good that just about every Ex Novo fan has heard the news about the downtown taproom. We certainly did, so our apologies that it has taken this long to get to it, but life gets in the way sometimes. First, however, there is something more immediate to lead off this…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Celebrating women, baseball and a Run with Joy
Some weeks it can be hard to pick a single thing to focus on here in the intro. This week, the dilemma was more what don’t we focus on, and leave out, and subsequently feel really bad about doing that. Ah, to heck with it, let us sum up a very event-heavy week with some…
Ex Novo, Bosque and La Cumbre lead the way in Untappd Community Awards
Late last week, the Crew noticed some online chatter about something called the Untappd Community Awards. This was new, at least to us, and led us over to the website where the beer ranking/recording app had compiled the collective ratings of every beer in certain style categories, divided up among the 50 states. The final…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Local breweries team up with New Mexico United
This Saturday marks the start of the local pro soccer season, as New Mexico United kicks off its 2024 campaign at Isotopes Park at 2 p.m. The club has made a point of teaming up with local businesses, and there are two breweries that have jumped on board those partnerships. Bosque Brewing and Ex Novo…
Ex Novo and 25 other breweries paired up for return of United in Beer festival
While some of us (well, me) were working on Sunday afternoon, reps from 25 different breweries joined the Ex Novo staff at The Corral for the second United in Beer draft day. For anyone who missed it last year, United in Beer is a collaboration festival, with those breweries paired up at random. The goal…
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