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| Enjoying new "craft" beers is as much a part of
any trip as anything else a tourist might do. We have visited
many brewpubs during our annual visits to New Mexico, Texas, and
Arizona. This year, we hit one new one, one old favorite, and
one we hadn't been to in several years. |
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| Our first one this time, and
a new one for us, was Barrio
Brewing Company in Tucson, where we stopped for lunch on our first
day. It is located on the edge of town in a more industrial area,
which is in keeping with the outside look and inside decoration of the
place. By the time we settled in for lunch here at about 2 p.m.
local time, we had been up for about 14 hours, had been on planes first
to Atlanta and then Phoenix, and had had only a muffin or something
similar for breakfast about 8 hours earlier, so everyone was hungry. |
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| The High Desert
Brewing Company in Las Cruces. First discovered by us with some
difficulty and requiring the services of a kind of a weird guy at the
side of the road to give us directions back in 2000, it is simply the
best brewpub we have ever found. Excellent beer, decent food,
friendly help, a small, unpretentious building at the edge of a
residential area on a side street in Las Cruces, New Mexico...what more
could you ask for? That it be in Athens? Maybe, but then it
wouldn't be the little place we can only get to a few days a year, and
we would take it for granted. |
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Jaxson's Restaurant and Brewing Company
in El Paso. We had been here before, but it had been a few years.
On Wednesday of our week in New Mexico, we had some extra time, so we
drove down to El Paso for a few hours, looked around, and ate lunch
here. |
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