Festival season arrives on Aug. 29 with old favorite Hopfest back at Isleta Casino. While that event is one we know well, many have begun to ask the Crew about the next big one on the New Mexico calendar, the Mountain West Brew Fest. The event will replace the old Labor Day weekend wine festival…
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The Week Ahead in Beer: The calm before the festival storm
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. Festival season is about to roar…
Rio Bravo closes in on their long-awaited opening
Slow but steady wins the race is one of those old timey sayings that can actually fit in the world of craft beer. Certainly, it never helps when a brewery rushes in trying to get open. Realizing this, the good folks over at Rio Bravo Brewing took their time to get everything right. The result…
New breweries update: Checking in on the progress of the many
One thing I had hoped to do in June, before life got in the way, was to go around and see where all the forthcoming breweries are in their progress toward opening. It is something that is easier to think about writing than actually writing. After all, these folks are busy somewhere in the process,…
Rio Bravo Brewing counting on experience as they barrel toward a May opening
One of the best parts of WinterBrew is that it can be a great event for networking, not just beer sampling. As an example, representatives from the forthcoming Rio Bravo Brewing were on hand and one of them passed along a business card to our Santa Fe writer, Luke. He in turn gave that card…
Beer Notes: Yes, there are more breweries on the way
There has been a lot of little beer-related news items coming across the Crew’s proverbial desk of late, so I figured I would jam them all together in a notebook. Now it’s just a test to see how many of those items I actually remember. Damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead. New breweries are…
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