Welcome to the second round of our brewery patio bracket tournament. We kick things off, as we did in the first round, with the breweries in the South and East, and South and West parts of New Mexico. Our original plan was to take the top four (out of eight) in each region and have…
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Beer Notes: Resurrections, closures, brewers-on-the-move and more
The news items are piling up around here, so let us start the week with what is going on around the New Mexico craft brewing scene. We’re not dead yet After we published our story about Eske’s Brew Pub and Eatery meeting an untimely demise after 27 years, we were eventually contacted by Mark Hoffman,…
IPA Challenge: Boxing Bear barely fends off Icebox in 1st round
The results are in from the first round of the 2019 New Mexico IPA Challenge, held today at Picacho Peak Brewing in Las Cruces. Two-time past champion Boxing Bear garnered 17 of the 65 votes cast, one more than the only Southern New Mexico brewery in attendance, newcomer Icebox Brewing (16). Perhaps the biggest surprise,…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Hop over to try some IPA Challenge entries
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 seven breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, one in Red River, one in Silver City, and one in Truth or Consequences also joining the party….
NM IPA Challenge goes private before public gets to tally its own votes
The 2019 edition of the New Mexico IPA Challenge kicks off this Saturday with the annual preliminary round, but there are changes afoot. The biggest change is that the preliminary round is no longer open to the public. “This year, they wanted to make it a little more along the lines of GABF judging,” said…
Las Cruces craft brewing scene keeps it local even as it rapidly expands
Las Cruces is the second largest city in New Mexico, but for years, its craft beer scene was far behind Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and even some smaller towns. There was High Desert Brewing, which had followed in the footsteps of O’Ryan’s Tavern (closed in 2000), and the Pecan Grill was contract brewing with Sierra Blanca,…
Blazin’ Brewfest lights up the Las Cruces night once again
There are only a few beer festivals left in New Mexico that no one from the Crew has attended. One was the Blazin’ Brewfest, but I will be heading down this Friday since it is not falling on my birthday or opposite a metal show this year (it was rather uncanny how many times that…
Beer Notes: The brewery taproom boom is not slowing down
It is a relatively quiet week out there, spring winds aside, so it felt like a good time to dust off the old beer notebook. New brewery updates We keep waiting for the number of forthcoming breweries to dwindle down, but that has not happened yet. There are currently five breweries with active small brewer…
Las Cruces breweries organize Beer for a Cause to help one of their own
Having a charity as a component of a beer festival is a fairly common occurrence in New Mexico. Having that charity be a brewer battling cancer is not common, but that is the case at Beer for a Cause, a special festival taking place this Sunday in Las Cruces. Pecan Grill head brewer David Allan…
Beer Notes: Flix Brewhouse earns more medals while new breweries rev up again
Here on this blustery Friday, it feels like a good time to stay indoors and catch up on some local beer news as we empty the notebook yet again. Flix picks up four medals at Best of Craft Beer Awards If there is a theme early on in 2019 to some of the beer competitions…
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