Year-round beer lineups change all the time at breweries, as style popularity ebbs and flows with the public, or various other factors come into play. Still, it was a little surprising to see Red Iron Red, a staple at Steel Bender since the brewery’s beginning, disappear from the canned beer lineup. Coupling that with Marble’s…
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The Week Ahead in Beer: The doggos get to enjoy spooky season at Sidetrack
As Balloon Fiesta zips toward its conclusion this weekend, spooky season will continue with a few more fun events, including one for the four-legged friends who frequent our brewery patios. Sidetrack is hosting a Dog Costume Contest this Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. The registration fee is $10 per dog, and all dogs must…
Rounding up all the Balloon Fiesta-themed events at local breweries
As we promised in our tourist guide to local breweries, here is a quick roundup of all the specifically balloon-themed events going on over the next week-plus in the Albuquerque area. First up, Steel Bender is again hosting Balloons & Brews, which will run every day from 7 to 10 a.m. The setup is pretty…
Beer Notes: Vision City sets opening date, Jemez Mountain’s 1st brew and more
Time to dust off the old notebook once again, starting with some good news to kick off the weekend. Vision City’s second location, formerly the original Boxing Bear at Corrales and Alameda, is set to open its doors on Friday, October 4. They will be open Friday through Sunday to start. We checked in when…
Downshift doubles down for Ruidoso with Collective Good and Oktoberfest
Every town, particularly those affected by natural disasters, needs a champion or two. Ruidoso has an entire brewery dedicated to its recovery after wildfires and subsequent flooding hammered the town over the course of this summer. Downshift Brewing is far from done, however, as that process continues for their surrounding community. We caught up with…
Steel Bender aims to be purposeful in all that they do throughout 2024
Well, we did it again. I sat down with the staff of Steel Bender Brewyard for their annual Look Back/Look Ahead Series interview, and when it came time to type up said interview, I realized that we were all talking for 50 minutes. That came out to more than 4,100 words when printed out. Oof….
The Week Ahead in Beer: Fending off winter doldrums one brew at a time
It happens every season, where one brewery stands up and shouts “NO MORE!” and releases the seasonal for the next quarter of the year. All things considered, it has been a fairly mild winter (apologies if this jinxes us), but nonetheless Steel Bender has had quite enough of the colder days and nights. To prove…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Slow sippin’ for a cause all November long
Anyone else exhausted? Halloween was a lot this year, stretched over a weekend-plus (or pretty much the entire month, right, Launchpad staff?) for regular folks and all the brewery employees out there. It’s times like this where it will be nice to just kick back with a relaxing pint and do good just by sipping…
Balloons and Brews at Steel Bender leads list of Fiesta-related brewery events
We have all been here before. The day before the Balloon Fiesta kicks off, the day before the chaos, the day before all the poor doggos bark their little heads off, the traffic backs up, and the tourists arrive in droves. Thank goodness there is local craft beer. Our breweries are our refuge from all…
Ullr Fest this weekend marks the end of summer (finally!)
It felt like it was regularly 150 degrees right up until this week, so you may have been caught off guard by the first beer festival of the fall season. Now it’s cool and rainy, and heck, there may even be prospects for snow someday. Ullr Fest at the Pajarito Mountain lodge above Los Alamos…
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