It has not been an easy time in the local craft beer industry, as we have reported so often of late, and for Calavida Cantina things seemed to go from bad to worse with a recent robbery that grabbed the local headlines. Well, we are happy to report that the brewery is not only recovering…
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The Week Ahead in Beer: Ending fest season with a double bang
It was bound to happen eventually, but it appears we are at the end of Oktoberfest season. Oh, some of those delicious lagers will still be available for a while, but the last two events we had on our radar are this Saturday. One is in Albuquerque, the other in Santa Fe, and both have…
Breaking down the meaning of the Bosque Brewing bankruptcy filing
The news started to break Sunday night that Bosque Brewing had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. By Monday afternoon, the Crew was able to confirm that the brewery had indeed filed. So what does it mean? Well, first and foremost, Bosque is not closing, not as a company nor any individual locations. A Chapter 11…
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…
The Week Ahead in Beer: One brewery could use an extra boost in sales
The crime problem in Albuquerque has hit breweries in the past, and this week it struck again. Calavida Cantina, previously known as Vision City, was hit by a thief who disabled their alarm system, crawled in through a skylight, and proceeded to rob the taproom of just about anything and everything he could take. As…
If a brewery closes and no one reports it, did it really happen?
First and foremost, an apology to many a college journalism professor for having this article start with a question mark as a headline. Second, sorry this is running so late on a Friday. Non-Crew stuff is quite afoot these days, which we will share how it will affect the site in a couple weeks (fear…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Rejoice for the brews are back at Turtle Mountain
A little while back we received the good news that Turtle Mountain had received final approval to fire up their relocated brewhouse next to the North taproom. The two locations had gone far too long without any house beers. This week, we got the even better news that the beers are flowing again, with three…
The local brewing industry pays tribute to one of their own
Canteen Brewhouse is throwing a fitting farewell party to head brewer Zach Guilmette today (Friday) from 3 to 6 p.m. All of us in the Crew raise our glasses, but the more we thought about it, our words and well wishes only mean so much. So, we went out and asked a whole lot of…
Bosque moves production of core beers from out-of-state to Marble
Recently, in other parts of the country, a trend has emerged where two or more breweries will team up to share a production space. Rather than pay for separate facilities, the breweries team up to lower costs so long as they can make a shared space work. It’s already happening here, on a smaller scale,…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Flock of Moons teams up with CNM on new collab
For some time now, Central New Mexico Community College has been training future brewers in their program. Sometimes you will see the students at breweries, going on the best kinds of field trips to study how things are done outside the classroom. Well, on a recent field trip, the students worked together with Flock of…
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