The whole Christmas in July trend is fine, we guess. But, if you’re really gonna do it right, follow the lead of La Cumbre. This Friday the brewery is hosting Crispness in July, with four crispy lagers available amid all this heat. The quartet of PLS German Pilsner, Lager Softly, Czech Pils, and Helles Lager…
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The Week Ahead in Beer: Celebrating the solstice in style
Oh, sure, this weekend is all about pregaming Christmas at your favorite brewery, but it’s also the weekend of the Winter Solstice, the longest day of darkness every year in the Northern Hemisphere. Since darkness is kind of our thing, we wanted to highlight a couple of solstice-themed events. Painted Lady Bed and Brew is…
The Week Ahead in Beer: The stouts are the stars of this production
We led with the special stout releases last week and thought that we could switch it up this week. We were wrong. There’s so much stout goodness out there right now, it must take the lead. First up, La Cumbre’s 14th anniversary week continues with the re-release of 2023 La Negra in bottles and on…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Darkness, darkness everywhere!
It’s deathly quiet for beer news out there, in case our total lack of stories lately was not a clue. Well, not totally quiet, since there’s some fun dark beer releases coming up. La Cumbre will roll out bottles and draft of the epic La Negra Reserve this Friday. Then on Saturday, Steel Bender will…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Settling into the slower season
After a particularly rambunctious week on the events calendar, things are slowing down now as we barrel toward to the holiday season. Things are getting a bit quieter at the breweries, but that tends to be fine with us. We just like going out and enjoying a good conversation with friends and a couple pints…
Beer Notes: The uncertain fate of Lizard Tail and more to kick off cloudy week
We received the first inquiry late last week, asking if we had heard anything about Lizard Tail Brewing closing shop. At that point, we had not, but as the weekend went along, a few cryptic social media posts and a lot of word of mouth certainly indicated that the brewery and its two offsite taprooms…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Celebrating the summer solstice in style
First up, before we get into the usual accounting of new beers and events, we wanted to pass along our thoughts and hopes that everything turns out as well as possible for our friends at Downshift Brewing and Lost Hiker Brewing as the Small Fork and Salt Fires tear through the Ruidoso area. If there…
The Week Ahead in Beer: La Cumbre lends a hoppy hand with charitable IPA
As the pollen blows and swirls around us 24-7 this time of year, a proper hop-forward beer can offer a semblance of at least momentary relief, with its strong aroma and biting flavor restoring senses dulled by juniper and elm. While we joke about IPAs as allergy relief, La Cumbre believes that a proper beer…
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: Darkness returns to the winter solstice
The longest night of the year is almost upon us, and to celebrate, La Cumbre is tapping quite a few of its darkest creations for all to enjoy. Darkest Day is set for Thursday at the brewery, with three different special flights available. Midnight Madness will feature Siberian Silk (Baltic Porter), Malpais Stout, Gilded Age…
