Elephant Ranch Shakes Up the Bar Scene
A PINK POLKA-DOTTED ELEPHANT beckons with an invitation to Elephant Ranch, an outdoor beer garden, bar, liquor store, and communal gathering space on the western outskirts of Las Cruces. “It’s like…
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Category: Breweries & Bars
A Toast to Spirited Women
UNTIL THE 1960S, MANY STATES DID not permit a woman without a male escort to sit at a bar, never mind take her seriously as a spirits aficionado. Ironically, women are credited with fermenting grains…
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Step Up Your Mixology Skills
YOUR GRANDMOTHER’S ANGOSTURA BITTERS may have done the trick for her occasional Manhattan, but these days, that drop of added flavor has grown exotic and eclectic. Since 2010, Santa Fe’s Bitter End…
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Alamogordo's Newest Brewery Takes Off
THE EARLIEST KERNELS of 575 Brewing Company began fermenting in Bill Arnold’s Alamogordo kitchen. “I just bought a homebrew kit one day,” he says. “I made a mess, but it was kind of drinkable.” He…
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Socorro Saloon Gets An Update
Above: Capitol Bar & Brewery, in Socorro, welcomes visitors year round. Photograph by Douglas Merriam. THE ANCIENT PLANKS OF WOOD that stretch across the barroom floor are worn smooth. They don’t…
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Try These Refreshing Hard Seltzers
New Mexico–made hard seltzers are popping up across the state. WHEN MARBLE BREWERY CANNED ITS FIRST two hard seltzers in 2019, I went to the release party on the patio at the downtown Albuquerque…
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Try These Inventive Craft Cocktails
Rolling Still’s craft cocktails are available at the distillery and to go. MIXOLOGIST CHRIS MILLIGAN put his 31 years of bar knowledge into the lineup of artistic take-home cocktails at Rolling Still…
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Sweet and Sour Botanical Syrups
Fruity flavors zest up Monique Carr’s concoctions. Photograph by Douglas Merriam. THE MORNING SUN WARMS THE bosque near Albuquerque, catching the ruby-red skins of wild currants, ripe and juicy for…
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Little Toad Creek Offers Craft Cocktails in a Can
Little Toad Creek's three varieties of canned cocktails are all based on traditional ginger and lime flavors of the mule. Courtesy of Little Toad Creek Brewery & Distillery/Travis Lewis. TERESA…
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How Las Cruces Became A Beer Town
Above: Little Toad Creek Brewery'and Distillery. Photographs by Douglas Merriam. In the space of just a few years, businesses like Icebox Brewing, Picacho Peak Brewery, Little Toad Creek Brewery and…
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