Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s four breweries and one down in Socorro and the other in Los Alamos also joining the party. In case you missed it, but we are guessing you…
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Local breweries bask in the glow of World Beer Cup gold
As soon as the World Beer Cup results were announced, we decided to do the impossible and get the six Albuquerque-based winning brewers to meet at the same place at the same time. It can be the hardest thing in the world to find even a sliver of free time for some of the busiest…
Seven New Mexico breweries claim seven medals at the World Beer Cup
The World Beer Cup, a biennial global beer competition, announced its winners in 96 categories on Friday evening from the Craft Brewers Conference in Philadelphia. Needless to say, New Mexico breweries had another excellent showing. First up, Nexus built off their silver medal for Honey Chamomile Wheat at the Great American Beer Festival last fall…
Nexus and Chama collaborate for St. Patrick’s Day
There is always something special when two of our local breweries collaborate on the creation of a new beer. For Chama River and Nexus, it happens to be even a little more special than usual today. The two breweries on opposite sides of Interstate 25 have created The Lighter Fare and The Darker Fare, an…
After another steady year Nexus aims west with a new taproom
With the holiday hiatus behind us, I managed to corral owner Ken Carson and brewer Kaylynn McKnight over at Nexus on Wednesday afternoon for the next entry in our ongoing Look Back/Look Ahead Series. Before enjoying some more of that delicious Salted Caramel Stout, we talked about a busy 2015 and the big plan for…
And the winner of the best beer name of 2015 is …
Baby Got Bock! Yes, Red Door’s homage to a “classic” song was the winner of our first poll. Since we did not add a timing element to the poll itself, we just decided all votes after 10 p.m. MST would not count. Thus, Baby Got Bock proved to be the winner. (We should add it…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Ring in the New Beer, er, Year!
Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s four breweries and a pair of newcomers, one down in Socorro and the other in Los Alamos, also joining the party. Now that we all (hopefully) survived…
Pick the best beer name in New Mexico for 2015
Every now and again in New Mexico a beer gets released whose name alone catches your eye. Sometimes they are funny, sometimes they are simply creative, and other times they are downright weird. Naming a beer can often be a fun process for brewers and their staffs. It can also be a pain in the…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Stock up on brews, a blizzard is a comin’!
Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s four breweries and a pair of newcomers, one down in Socorro and the other in Los Alamos, also joining the party. By all accounts of the weather…
Membership has its benefits at New Mexico breweries — 2016 edition
A while back we asked for info on every brewery’s membership/mug club for 2016. And we waited. And we waited some more. So here, with much fanfare, we finally present our annual guide, as we could not wait any longer. It only features 11 breweries, two of which share the same membership card, and only…
DARK SIDE BREW CREW 