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 seven breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, and one in Red River also joining the party. The back-to-back beer dinners at Turtle Mountain this Friday…
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Turtle Mountain strikes gold before turning 20 years old
Turtle Mountain is turning 20 years old in just a few weeks, which is quite the milestone for a brewery, let alone a restaurant. I was able to sit down and chat with both head brewer Mick Hahn and owner Nico Ortiz regarding their stellar 2018, and what 2019 has in store for them. Solo:…
The Crew has an extra ticket for someone to enjoy the loaded lineups at WinterBrew
WinterBrew 2019 is so close we can almost taste all the great beers that will be poured at the Santa Fe Farmers Market on Friday from 5 to 9 p.m. If you were not one of the lucky 700 to get a ticket, well, you might be able to land the extra pass the Crew…
New Mexico Brew Fest keeps it local for its 9th edition
One of our favorite annual beer festivals, the New Mexico Brew Fest, is back at the State Fairgrounds this Saturday afternoon. The ninth edition starts at 1 p.m. (noon for early entry ticket holders) and runs until 6. Tickets are available online here. What makes this a favorite fest of ours? Well, to start with,…
Weekend Beer-cap: From wonderful Marblefest to the woeful Lobos and back to Denver again
This was one of those weekends where most of us should have been in recovery mode, but the beer events (and metal shows) would not allow us to rest. For me, the in-town fun was this past Thursday, when I took a trip out to Turtle Mountain to celebrate owner Nico Ortiz’s “39th” birthday and…
GABF 2018 Notes: On lagers vs. ales and finding another NM winner
Phew, that was quite the weekend up in Denver. We missed some stuff in our constant rush to get from place to place, from beer to beer. Hey, it was just another Great American Beer Festival, but we did have some additional tidbits of info and the like that we wanted to share. During my…
GABF 2018: New Mexico breweries bring home 7 medals
DENVER — The 2018 Great American Beer Festival awards ceremony was another good one for New Mexico breweries. The Saturday morning event saw 2,404 breweries enter 8,864 beers, judged by 193 people, and spread across 102 categories, plus a new collaboration and the Pro-Am competition. Eight New Mexico breweries shared in seven medals, a significant…
Beer Notes: Bear down on some overdue renovations
Even with the temperatures at 100 degrees, the beer news stops for no heat wave. Here is just a little of what’s happening around the state this month. New look, same good beer We noticed, via social media, that Boxing Bear was doing some renovations on its pub, though specific details were a bit scarce….
The Week Ahead in Beer: Turtle Mountain turns 19 and we all benefit
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 six breweries, one in Los Alamos, one in Moriarty, and one in Las Cruces also joining the party. Turtle Mountain is celebrating its 19th anniversary with more…
Turtle Mountain powers into its 19th year as new challenges await
Franz Solo here, recapping when I headed up the hill to Rio Rancho for Turtle Mountain’s entry in our Look Back/Look Ahead Series on an unsuspecting Wednesday, and was greeted with a splendid variety of seasonal beers ranging from the tartest pink cranberry sours to the maltiest of burly smooth barleywines. My first interview was…
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