The World Beer Cup, a biennial global beer competition, announced its winners in 96 categories on Friday evening from the Craft Brewers Conference in Philadelphia. Needless to say, New Mexico breweries had another excellent showing. First up, Nexus built off their silver medal for Honey Chamomile Wheat at the Great American Beer Festival last fall…
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Gazing into the future of the New Mexico brewing scene
After a slew of slow news days regarding the local brewing scene, the intrepid Stephanie Guzman of Albuquerque Business First posted a story today about Rio Bravo Brewing applying for a $5 million county industrial revenue bond. A surprising move? Maybe to some, not to others. Rio Bravo has been talking big since before they…
Good beer for a good cause: Atalaya Search & Rescue
Good beer and good causes go hand in hand. It’s one of our favorite things as beer bloggers to write about, and one of our favorite ways for us, as beer drinkers, to help our fellow men, women, or puppies. Who doesn’t love drinking great beer, knowing that we’re supporting a real, local organization, and…
SB238 has major implications for Second Street and Turtle Mountain
As many of you know, the legislative session closed several weeks ago, and we ran a rather popular article about it because, despite the session being called a rather “dead session,” our craft beer industry had quite a lively time at the wake. Since then, the Crew has taken to hunting down more information on…
With 20 years in the business, SF Cider Works’ Dralle has brewed it all
For my third article in the NM Women in Brewing Series, I sat down and had a beer with experienced craft brewer, Jordana “Jordy” Dralle. This woman is a veteran of the industry. With one impressive brewing resume, she is an excellent example of strong women with even stronger passions for their craft, making a…
Second Street’s Colleen Sager and a tale of two restaurants
Women have always been on the frontier of beer. Before hops, words like “craft,” and before there was an industry, women kept their households stocked with the ancient ales. Traditionally they were the brewers, or “brewsters.” Now, from the “front of house” to the fermenters, women are excelling in every aspect of the craft beer…
Beer Notes: Marble looks marvelous, 3 IPAs advance, brewer change pending
The good folks at Marble finished their taproom renovation on time and the old joint looks wonderful. It has a nice new bar smell and everything. Rather than try to explain what it looks like, here are a bunch of photos. As noted above, looking good, Marble. It’s brighter, more welcoming, and in general a…
Beer Notes: Four NM breweries reach Sweet 16 of National IPA Challenge
The snowstorm that hit Albuquerque this weekend kept most of us at home. Thankfully, wherever they are holding the National IPA Challenge, weather was not an issue. The annual event, held by The Brewing News, had its round of 32 this weekend, with four New Mexico breweries’ IPAs participating. The good news? All four are…
Beer Notes: Yup, there are more new breweries on the way
Some things just never seem to stop around here in Albuquerque. The weather will always be weird and unpredictable. The drivers will continue to stupify us with their, well, stupidity. And new breweries will keep opening. Albuquerque Brewing Co. currently has their first lineup of beers in the fermenters and the bright tanks. They could…
Summing up the year that was and the year that is in the local beer scene
I meant to write up a final summation of our annual Look Back/Look Ahead Series last week, but I was holding out hope we would get the last breweries done. Alas, it was not to be, as they (Broken Bottle and Pi) never responded to Franz Solo’s interview requests. So we finish this series with…
