A year before the Brew Crew came into existence, 2011 to be exact, a random gaggle of hockey-loving metalheads and burgeoning beer geeks found their way to a new taproom in the heart of Nob Hill. It quickly became a late-night refuge for us, and as it would turn out, for so many locals from…
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Sidetrack rides to the top at the first New Mexico Craft Beer Awards
This past Friday, after the annual New Mexico Brewers Guild Technical Conference wrapped up at CNM, the attendees trekked over to nearby Flock of Moons for a special ceremony. For the first time, the Guild organized the New Mexico Craft Beer Awards, giving the local professionals and other certified judges a chance to vote and…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Gen Xers and Elder Millennials unite at Tractor
Sometimes, breweries come up with the most unusual events in collaboration with outside organizers. Tractor is a champ when it comes to those, and this Saturday night the brewery and Color Wheel Toys introduce Not Your High School Reunion at Wells Park. Open to anyone who graduated between 1995 and 2005, it will be a…
A little winter returns just in time for Stout Invitational at Bathtub Row
The temperatures are dropping outside, as if Mother Nature knew that this weekend is all about the stouts and wanted to provide a suitable atmosphere. The New Mexico Brewers Guild’s annual Stout Invitational returns to Bathtub Row Brewing Co-op in Los Alamos this Saturday afternoon, A field of 16 stouts will be sampled and judged…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Closing out January by doing some good
The quietest month of the beer will (mercifully) come to a close this weekend. There have not been many events beyond WinterBrew (we promise, our favorite beers list will be out this week, it just got pushed back by yesterday’s GABF news), and few new beer releases as the taps have remained fairly unmoved since…
Tractor Brewing learns that pressure is a privilege amid a year of growth
The Tractor Brewing duo of head brewer TJ Frederich and operations manager Jeremy Kinter came prepared this year for their Look Back/Look Ahead Series interview, which is hardly uncommon for them, but this time around they went the extra mile. They knew the three primary questions — biggest challenge of 2025, biggest accomplishment, big goal/idea/plan…
Tractor and NM Brewers Guild team up to create Zombie Carnival
Murphy’s Law was an uninvited guest to last year’s pre-Halloween festivities at Tractor Wells Park, as some may recall. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong, it seemed. Undaunted by that experience, Tractor events and marketing director Jeremy Kinter will bring back the Zombie Carnival this Saturday night from 6:30 p.m. to midnight. “This…
Santa Fe Beer & Food Festival offers up wide variety of tasty brews
We mentioned in The Week Ahead in Beer that this Saturday and Sunday is the Santa Fe Beer & Food Festival at El Rancho de las Golondrinas. Now, as we tend to do any time there is a festival, we went ahead and got as many of the beer lists as we could for the…
Stout Invitational 2025: A back-to-back winner for first time in event history
For the first time in history, a brewery has won the New Mexico Brewers Guild Stout Invitational in consecutive years. Tractor Brewing prevailed with 30 votes for their second straight win, edging out Nexus Brewery, which had 29, in the annual event at Bathtub Row Brewing in Los Alamos. “It was really funny, I didn’t…
Tractor Brewing intends to keep building off a banner year
It is not all doom and gloom out there in the craft brewing industry. Stop by Tractor Brewing and you cannot help but feel the sense of optimism and excitement, even after 25 years in business. Winning a first major gold medal certainly helped, but that was only part of the story of how 2024…
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