Spooky Season comes to its wonderful conclusion this week with plenty of breweries celebrating Halloween on Friday and/or Dia de los Muertos on Saturday. For anyone new to the region, the Day of the Dead is a pretty big deal around these parts. It’s a way of celebrating, rather than mourning, those we knew who…
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Statewide Oktoberfest Guide 2025: Every event celebrating the best season
There are quite a few Oktoberfest celebrations coming up this season in New Mexico, so we decided to round ’em all up to help you best plan out your weekends for the rest of this month and part of October. From Red River to Ruidoso, from Carlsbad to Angel Fire, and of course Albuquerque and…
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: Multiple breweries step up to help doggos
Love dogs? We sure do. We love them just about everywhere, but it’s a little extra fun seeing them enjoying brewery patios alongside their humans. This Sunday will feature a new event called Adopt the Block, where four breweries and two distilleries along First and Second streets will all have dog adoption setups from Animal…
Science of Beer returns to Explora with help from 6 local breweries
Way back in 2018, the Crew did a little preview of the Science of Beer event at Explora, and then went out and attended the event. What happened to those photos is a mystery lost to time, but the good news is we have a chance to rectify that as Science of Beer returns this…
Santa Fe Brewing sues former employee and current Marble co-owner
Over the past weekend, the Crew obtained a copy of a legal complaint filed by Santa Fe Brewing Company against a former employee who now just happens to be a co-owner of Marble Brewery. It caught us slightly off guard, so we can only imagine how Jarrett Babincsak felt. The Albuquerque Journal went ahead and…
Trio of NM breweries claim 5 World Beer Cup awards
The annual Craft Brewers Conference wrapped up in Indianapolis Thursday with the World Beer Cup awards ceremony. Three New Mexico breweries combined to win five awards. So yeah, that’s three awards for Second Street, the most they have ever earned in a single competition. Congrats to all the victorious brewers! We will follow up with…
New owners of Marble Brewery already hard at work during transitional phase
Meet the new bosses, not the same as the old bosses, but not too different, either. At least that is the sense I picked up on when I met up with the new owners of Marble Brewery, Jarrett Babincsak and Bert Boyce, to talk about where we were in the transition last Friday. The duo…
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…