As we noted back on Monday in our jumbo preview of New Mexico Brewers Guild events, the Beer Premier is back with 21 breweries debuting 20 brand-new, never-before-brewed beers. This year’s event will be held at Nexus Blue Smokehouse on Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m., and tickets are still available online. While there is…
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Quarter Celtic Vandalized
Sometimes you just get bad news in the morning. Overnight, a group of individuals broke into Quarter Celtic Brew Pub on San Mateo and trashed the place. We in the Crew reached out to general manager Allison York for additional details regarding this terrible act. Allison wrote, “So what happened is they threw a small…
Quarter Celtic general manager piles even more responsibilties on her plate
Some people just love the chaos of a busy workplace, finding a home of sorts amid the hustle and bustle. Most of us in the Crew have known Allison York to be one of those unique people during her time at Quarter Celtic Brewpub (and Erin has knew her long before that). We managed to…
Beer Notes: Celebrating medals instead of mourning closures
It seemed like a good of a time as any to clear out the small pile of beer news that has begun to assemble on our proverbial “desk.” For a change in 2020, we are leading off with some good news. If you have any news, good or bad, that needs to be shared, drop…
The Week Ahead in Beer: We give thanks for the onslaught of local stouts
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 eight 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….
Double-medal win at GABF gives Quarter Celtic a lift amid tough times
The brewpubs have not had the fallback of mass can distribution alleviating at least some of the financial strain during the pandemic of 2020, so finding uplifting moments has been a bit of a chore for many of them. Quarter Celtic is one of those brewpubs, enduring the tough ups and downs of having limited…
The Week Ahead in Beer: All the GABF winners are available on tap right now
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 eight 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….
Four New Mexico breweries bring home five medals from 2020 GABF
The fastest Great American Beer Festival Awards ceremony in history — these things happen when it is all virtual — saw four New Mexico breweries claim five medals on Friday night. Two golds, two silvers, and one bronze are all coming home from the annual competition, which was still held even as the festival itself…
Brewery Patio Bracket Regional Finals: The time has come to settle on the best of Burque
The last of the regional finals are upon us in our brewery patio bracket-style tournament. We finish as we did in the first two rounds with the breweries of Albuquerque, divided into four regions by the two interstate highways. It was a second round that was both predictable and not, depending on the region. The…
Brewery Patio Bracket Round Two: The Battle of Burque rages on with no clear-cut favorite
The last couple of times our brewery patio bracket-style tournament hit up the Albuquerque breweries — divided by Interstates 25 and 40 into Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, and Southwest (Downtown) regions — there was not as much separation as we expected. The Northwest had two at the top, but figuring out fourth place was difficult, while…
