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…
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Boxing Bear cleans up with 3 gold medals at NABA Beer and Cider Awards
The North American Brewers Association held their annual International Beer and Cider Awards competition recently, with winners announced late last week. Boxing Bear claimed three gold medals and Quarter Celtic picked up a bronze to represent New Mexico. Boxing Bear won for Albumurky in the Hazy or Juicy IPA category, Black Mesa Dunkel in the…
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…
Quarter Celtic aims to replicate a strong 2024 with an even better 2025
The skies overhead might have been gray and cold this morning, but maybe it was appropriate to have a rather Irish winter day when heading over to Quarter Celtic Brewpub and Meadery for their entry in our annual Look Back/Look Ahead Series. Co-owner Ror McKeown was there, being that guy wearing shorts in the wintertime,…
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…
GABF 2024: Quarter Celtic basks in glow of their first gold medal from Denver
The brothers McKeown, Brady and Ror, were hundreds of miles apart this past Saturday, but still had their eyes fixed on the same spot. The former was watching the livestream and the latter was present at the Great American Beer Festival awards ceremony in Denver, waiting to see if Quarter Celtic Brewpub and Meadery would…
A quick note about a new option at Quarter Celtic
Sometimes we report on things that are not strictly beer-related, but are more beer-adjacent. Quarter Celtic shared some news with the Crew and invited us to the brewery at 1100 San Mateo NE to join in a tasting of their latest offering: mead. I asked co-owner/head brewer Brady McKeown just what made him venture into…
Trio of New Mexico breweries snag medals at GABF awards ceremony
Three breweries from Albuquerque claimed medals at the Great American Beer Festival on Saturday morning. Quarter Celtic Brewpub and Meadery won their first gold medal, topping the Vienna Lager category with their Vienna Festbier. It beat out 122 entries for the top spot. Quarter Celtic had previously won two silvers in 2020 and a bronze…
Trio of New Mexico breweries combine for 6 medals at western beer competition
It was a bountiful day for three local breweries at the North American Beer Awards last weekend. Yeah, we probably should have written about this a lot sooner, but with age comes forgetfulness. Anyway, thanks to those who sent reminders and were patient. Without further ado, here are the six medals, two apiece, won by…
Quarter Celtic preps for golden summer after adding to hefty medal haul
We were already a bit late on catching up with Quarter Celtic Brewpub and Meadery after they won a silver medal at the World Beer Cup last month, and then they went ahead and picked up three more medals at the Australian International Beer Awards, including a trophy for the best overall European lager. Yeah,…
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