Brewery Date and time reviewed: Thu, 15 May 2008 0:34:07 EDT Overall Score: 96.7 Selection: 5 | Service: 5 | Atmosphere: 4.5 | Food: N/A Reviewer: mkiester Santa Fe Brewing Company Sexiest brewery in New Mexico December 4, 2007 Breweries, bars, tasting rooms have different flavors of atmospheres depending on when one is in the establishment. This premise was no more demonstrated than the two times I went to the Santa Fe Brewing Company. Santa Fe Brewing Company (SBC) is a stones throw east of I-25 at the New Mexico Highway 14 exit south of Santa Fe. The sign can be seen from the interstate (only because it was grandfathered-in contrary to Santa Fe ordinance). The brewery in 2008 will be 20 years old, oldest in New Mexico.  read more »

Im one of those dwindling NEW BELGIUM BREWING partisans, dwindling at least in the sphere of craft-beer dorks, who see the wide availability and continued high drinkability of FAT TIRE as some kind of sacrilege. Having recently completed a round of trying out all of the key macro micros again, I believe that Fat Tire is the best of the bunch, beating my old favorite Anderson Valley Boont Amber and other 1990s studs like Pyramid Hefeweizen for sheer, good-time beer enjoyment.  read more »