Micah Fiske has reopened 550 Brewing in Aztec after eight months of renovations. The brewery originally opened in 2013 but closed ten years later when Fiske’s father, Mike Paschall fell ill. Now, 550 Brewing is back open as a community hub in downtown Aztec. By Ryan Simonovich. This story is sponsored by San Juan Regional Medical Center and The Big Idea Makerspace at San Juan College.
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If you’re looking for a cold beer in downtown Aztec five 50 Brewing has reopened for business in a newly renovated building on East Chesca Street. You’re watching the Farmington Local News, brought to you by San Juan Regional Medical Center and the big idea makerspace at San Juan College. I’m Ryan Simonovich five 50 Brewing originally opened in 2013 under the ownership of Mike Pascal and his son Sean, but the brewery closed his doors in 2023 when Mike became ill. Now, Mike’s daughter, Micah Fisk has revived the family business.
We decided to reopen and I had to renovate so I could brew over here. So that was quite the project, to be honest. It’s a lot of work. Yeah, we’ve been getting going ever since. You have to wait for the state, so it’s a little bit of a process, but once we got that going, we’ve been trying to get brewing again and getting it going.
The licensing and renovation process took about eight months. The brewery has three of its own beers on tap and serves New Mexico, made beer and spirits.
I have the Irish Red El, the honey ham home blonde, and our ginormous stout. And then I have Arvato in the Fermenter right now, so, and we’ll be doing the Mile High next, which is our IPA. I think people are excited for that.
The location hosts food trucks on the weekends, and patrons are welcome to bring outside food. The brewery has pool and foosball inside and extensive outdoor patio seating. Fisk said she hopes to attract customers by being an active member of the Aztec community.
They’ve just been so amazing. Everyone has, we’re just see so much support and we’re trying to do yoga on Wednesdays. The Maddie Carter does that for us. And you know it, as long as we can just keep events down here and keep some little, nothing too loud. ’cause I do love my neighbors in the neighborhood and I want to be respectful, so, but yeah, I think just collaborating with other businesses would be really awesome. And we’ve got a lot of support from Randy over at Rubio’s and so it’s been nice. It’s been nice coming back.
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