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Santa Fe Brewing Company
The Santa Fe Brewing is basically a company which set its sights a bit higher than the delicacy of Milwaukee?s best. Using custom square vessels and open-top fermenters obtained from the defunct Boulder Brewing Company, Mike Levis began brewing the Pale Ale that remains the Santa Fe Brewing flagship today.
In 1997, with the arrival of Dave Forester, Brian Lock, Carlos Muller, and Ty Levis, the company was ready to expand its century-old tradition.
Moving to Turquoise Trail, the brewery increased its capacity to 15-barrels, and brought its brews to a wider audience in New Mexico, and parts of Colorado.They then opened a tasting room, and invited the public to sample the fares from the brewer?s barrel.
Shortly after came Chicken Killer Barley Wine, known as the finest drink ever to be named after a Death-Dealing Dachshund. Muller and Forester have officially bid farewell to the Turquiose Trail Tasting Trough, leaving Lock and Levis to carry the brewery into the 21st century.
The brewhouse has finally found its permanent home also on the Turquoise Trail, just up the road from its former rental and with the help of a brilliant Alfonz Vizsolay.
In 4,000 B.C, some guys living in Sumeria figured out how to brew barley into beer. The Gilgamesh Epic, recognized as one of the world?s first great works of literature, describes a primitive man transforming into a civilized one.
Enkidu drank seven cups of beer and his heart soared. In this condition he washed himself and became a human being. Clearly beer was also a boon to gender relations.
It?s a compromise still widely honored today women will let men drink beer if the men will bathe and act like human beings. Everyone thought it was such a good idea, that they started civilizations left and right, and went roaming around the world looking for ideal geographic conditions to brew beer.
For the next 6,000 years, entire cultures coalesced, subdivided, conquered each other, and split up again, in a thinly veiled attempt to brew better beer.
By the 17th century, through a combination of taste and international trash-talking, some Czechs and Bavarians had most of the world convinced they were the pre-eminent brewers of all time.
Meanwhile, in the southwestern region of North America, the native peoples were brewing a beer made from the fermentation of maize, but lacked an effective P.R. campaign. Santa Fe, New Mexico already boasted breweries serving beer ?at once foaming with vim and freezing with cold?.
Advertisements proclaimed the local brew ?Guaranteed equal to any St. Louis or Milwaukee beer!? But published menus also show that the brewers? talents were not confined to yellow beer; they were also offering Ale, Porter, and ?Native Wine?.
And at $14 per barrel, one might surmise that not just the reporters were imbibing freely during those years. After ownership had changed hands a few times during the years, in 1892, ?The Santa Fe Brewing Company? was first incorporated under that official name.
Interstate transport was quickly becoming more refrigerated, and more rapid. Those brewers back east were ready to take advantage. They were big enough, they were smart enough, and doggone it, people really liked those Clydesdales.
By 1896, the Santa Fe Brewing Company had closed its doors but not for good. 1,568 breweries closed in January of 1920 when Prohibition became national law over President Woodrow Wilson?s veto.
This law would not be repealed for 13 long boot-legging moonshining years. During the next 50 years things didn't get any easier. Medium-sized brewers gobbled up small brewers, large brewers gobbled up medium-sized brewers, and humongous brewers gobbled up large brewers, until only a handful were left in the country.
Eventually, the lack of variety in the brewing industry led a bunch of people to take a lot of drugs, play trippy music, and flip off mainstream society.
After several years of excessively using the word ?boogie?, these folks abruptly got new haircuts and decided that mainstream society was actually just fine, if they could get filthy rich, buy BMWs, move to the suburbs, and wear ridiculous jogging suits.
Once everybody calmed down and started wearing denim, plaid, and fleece, they decided how cool it was to drink beer made in your own town.
In 2005, times had changed and more beer had brewin. With the ability to brew ten times the beer, Santa Fe Brewing went to abroad. Distribution into Colorado, Arizona, Oklahoma and Texas were available to those states in 2006.