WinterBrew 2015 was an epic fest for the ages!

It’s been a week now, and the dust has finally settled on another successful WinterBrew. New Mexico beer enthusiasts have been back, hard at work, with memories (hopefully) of many great beers, plenty of new friends on their Facebook rosters, and a slew of crazy pictures on their cellphones. From the beer, to the food,…

WinterBrew set to kick off 2015 festival season in style

The first beer festival of 2015 is upon us. WinterBrew is set for Friday at the Santa Fe Farmers Market from 4 to 9 p.m. The event, run by the New Mexico Brewers Guild, has already sold out all 750 of its tickets. So for those 750 lucky people, this preview is for you. For…

The best New Mexico beers of 2014 in our humble opinion

As noted in the most recent edition of The Week Ahead in Beer, the Crew put out the call for everyone’s favorite beers from New Mexico breweries for 2014. The replies from our readers, not to mention from all of our writers, were fairly diverse. We’re not gonna do an ultimate ranking or anything —…

Time to trek to Taos for annual Brew Master’s Festival

Ah, yes, it’s that time of year when I have to cover a football game and not go to the Taos Brew Master’s Festival. Of course, the rest of you don’t have to write about the New Mexico Bowl to pay for future beers, so you might as well hit the road Saturday afternoon and…

Time to get festive with the 12 Beers of Christmas for 2014

T’was 12 days before Christmas, when all through the brewhouse. Beer fans were stirring over some nicely brewed stouts. The kegs were filled by the brewers with care, In hopes that there’d be enough carbonation there… Every year around the holidays, Santa Fe Brewing Company gets into the giving and sharing spirit with a festive…

The Crew’s holiday beer merch guide — Santa Fe edition

Editor’s note: By popular request, the Crew is compiling all the info you will need on all the non-beer gifts you can purchase for others (or yourself) from our local breweries this holiday season. Luke, our Santa Fe-based writer, handled the breweries up there. We had hoped to get more of these stories ready before…

Reflections on the first Santa Fe Open Brewing Competition

This past weekend, the inaugural Santa Fe Open Brewing Competition took place in, you’ve guessed it, Santa Fe. From Friday morning to the awards ceremony on Sunday afternoon, the Sangre De Cristo Craft Brewers homebrew club (and friends and family) came together in a huge concerted effort to put on an event that proved an…

Santa Fe Brewing takes a left turn at Albuquerque

Soon, Albuquerque, soon you will be getting the full Santa Fe Brewing Company experience. Soon, you’ll get to know them like I do, like family, like that crazy partying family that eats, sleeps, and breathes (and of course drinks) cerveza. No doubt you’ve already heard that Santa Fe Brewing Co. will be building a taproom…

Santa Fe Brewing returns to the dark side

A cold wind blows in from the north, chilling all who dare to venture outside. The leaves have all but fallen from the trees, leaving only skeleton sentinels to guard the streets of Santa Fe. The ghostly wisps of snow have already begun to gather in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, watching as the last…