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Brewery buzz: The Tatted Bee enters the local brewing scene with a seasoned brewer at the helm

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THE TATTED BEE BREWHOUSE

THE TATTED BEE BREWHOUSE

HOURS: 11 a.m.-midnight Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Sunday-Thursday

WHERE: 11500 Menaul Blvd. NE

INFORMATION: thetattedbeebrewhouse.com

Scott Jeter has his hands in several honey pots.

He runs a successful bee removal business and has now ventured into opening a brewery called The Tatted Bee Brewhouse. In his past life, he ran a pawn shop on Central Avenue before the Albuquerque Rapid Transit project began. The project led to a decline in business, Jeter had to lay off employees, and then the pandemic hit. His business did not meet the requirements to receive relief funds. He soon began looking for another job and connected with a high school friend and took over his bee removal business, NM Bee Removal.

Brewery buzz: The Tatted Bee enters the local brewing scene with a seasoned brewer at the helm

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The Tatted Bee Brewhouse recently opened its doors. The brewery has an electric two-barrel system and brews into two and four barrel fermenters.
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The Tatted Bee Brewhouse features numerous TVs playing various sports events including boxing and UFC fights.

鈥淗e pulled two bees out of a bee box and he stung me on my shoulder to make sure that I wasn鈥檛 allergic and I didn鈥檛 go into anaphylactic shock,鈥 Jeter said. 鈥淎nd since I wasn鈥檛 allergic to bees, he鈥檚 like, 鈥楥ool, you can work it.鈥 I just started working it, learning as I go.鈥

Jeter said he has been busier than usual this summer carefully removing unwanted bee hives and colonies from homes.

鈥淚 pull everything out,鈥 he said. 鈥淚 take the comb with the bees on that. If there aren鈥檛 enough bees on the comb, I鈥檒l actually scoop a bunch of them out with my hand and try and put them on the comb before I put it into a ventilated hive box that we engineered so bees regulate their own temperature.鈥

His work with bees led to a serendipitous meeting between him and brewer Bob Haggerty, who has years of brewing experience under his belt. Haggerty most recently was head brewer at Steel Bender Brewyard and also worked as a brewer at La Cumbre Brewing Company and Marble Brewery.

鈥淗e came by (Steel Bender) one day and dropped off a big batch of honey that had been part of a hive that he鈥檇 cut out of a wall in the North Valley,鈥 Haggerty said of Jeter. 鈥淗e dropped it off and said, 鈥業f the cook can use this or the brewer can use this, go ahead.鈥 And it was that, that actually got me into beekeeping. I got the honey. And then another customer at Steel Bender said, 鈥極h, I鈥檝e got an old beehive if you want it.鈥 And then another person I overheard at the gym say, 鈥業鈥檝e got too many bees.鈥 And I kind of said, 鈥楨xcuse me, did you say you have too many bees. I would take some bees.鈥 And you know, that was, I think that was about five years ago now.

鈥淎nd since then, I have really been taken with the idea of both honeybees and the plight of the native pollinators. So really working hard to plant not just for the honeybees and for the health of them, but also for the health and preservation of the native pollinators, and trying to get as many native plants out there, just try to do my part to keep the whole thing going.鈥

When Jeter decided to open a brewery, he reached out to his brother who is the general manager at Ex Novo Brewing Co., but he did not have any leads. A friend of Jeter鈥檚 suggested he reach out to Haggerty who owns a apiary and orchard in Chimayo.

鈥淗e kept turning me down,鈥 Jeter said of Haggerty. 鈥淚 was saying, 鈥楳an, I鈥檒l give you this much money for four recipes, this much money for five recipes.鈥 And he kept saying no. And I was like, 鈥榃ell, why not?鈥 He said, 鈥榃ell, look man, I鈥檓 a beekeeper, and I鈥檝e got 17 bee colonies. I need to make them 100 colonies within two years.鈥 So he said, 鈥業鈥檓 going to dedicate two years of my life to trying to make 100 bee colonies and then I can do my orchard.鈥 And I told him, 鈥楤uddy, this is what I do for a living. I can get you 100 colonies in less than 90 days.鈥 And I said, 鈥楾hey won鈥檛 be commercialized bees from a bee farm, either. They can be feral, local, conducive to this climate honeybees.鈥 And he said, 鈥楧eal.鈥 And then later on, we found out that he actually fell in love with beekeeping, because all the honey I dropped off. We had never met each other prior to that.鈥

The Tatted Bee is also a hive for sports lovers. TVs surround the brewery and constantly have sport events playing. There is no bad seat in the house.

鈥淚t鈥檚 a sports bar theme,鈥 Haggerty said. 鈥(Jeter鈥檚) a big boxing and UFC fan, so he鈥檚 going to be carrying all the big fights.鈥

Haggerty has been busy brewing on the brewery鈥檚 electric two-barrel system.

鈥淲e鈥檙e brewing into two and four barrel fermenters, so it鈥檚 enough to get a good start,鈥 Haggerty said. 鈥淎nd then when it succeeds, then it will be time to look at scaling up. But it is quite fun to be brewing on the small system and to there鈥檚 a lot of flexibility on that size system to be creative and to think outside the box. I鈥檝e been having some fun with that.鈥

The brewery currently offers a pale ale and a saison of its own and 12 guest taps from local breweries. They will eventually phase out the guest taps and offer more of their own craft beer.

鈥淲e鈥檙e definitely going to be including honey in some of the recipes,鈥 Haggerty said. 鈥淭he main beer lineup is going to be sort of really accessible, really drinkable beers.鈥

Haggerty will be pass the brewing duties to another brewer once the business gets off the ground to focus on his own line of beers

鈥淚鈥檓 also going to be doing my own line of beers through the pub that鈥檚 going to be called Quixotic,鈥 Haggerty said. 鈥淨uixotic is going to be my label. And so those will be some more of the esoteric stuff. And I鈥檓 guessing that honey will be included across a wide range of beers. I鈥檓 definitely going to be including some saisons and, some of the wild child beers that I like to brew.鈥