If you follow just about any brewery on social media, you have probably seen a post or two about the New Mexico Brewers Guild’s annual Pint Glass Day. The Guild has collaborated with New Mexico artists to create a special glass, and this year’s edition features a celebration of the upcoming 100th anniversary of Zozobra, created by Syd Linkletter. Every time the Guild has had one of these releases, the glasses sell out fast. Very fast. Get thee to a participating brewery as soon as you can (as in, during your lunch break, or immediately after work). Need the list? Here they are by cities/towns/metro areas.

• Albuquerque metro: Boxing Bear Brewing, Canteen Brewhouse, Ex Novo Brewing, Flock of Moons Brewing, JUNO Brewery, La Cumbre Brewing, Nexus Brewery, Quarter Celtic Brewpub, Rio Bravo Brewing, Sidetrack Brewing, Steel Bender Brewyard, Tractor Brewing, Turtle Mountain Brewing
• Carlsbad: Milton’s Brewing
• Farmington: Three Rivers Brewery
• Las Cruces: Icebox Brewing
• Los Alamos/White Rock: Bathtub Row Brewing, Piedra Blanca Brewing
• Santa Fe: Santa Fe Brewing, Second Street Brewery, Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery
• Socorro: Box Canyon Brewing
• Truth or Consequences: TorC Brewing

On the Ruidoso fires fundraising front, we have seen two events listed so far. Run for Ruidoso is this Friday at 6 p.m. at Canteen. It’s a fun run with a suggested $20 donation to the Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico. Each runner will receive a pint of beer, cider, or root beer with their donation. Donate more than $20 and you will get some additional swag. Over at Steel Bender on Tuesday, they will be holding a fundraiser for Albuquerque Animal Humane, which has taken in dogs and cats from both the Ruidoso area and from the areas near Las Vegas that recently saw flooding down the burn scar from last year’s big fires. Keep an eye on Steel Bender’s social media for more details. If any other Ruidoso-related fundraisers appear this week/weekend, we will add them here.

New Draft:

Bosque recently tapped Cereal Hobbyist, a juicy pale ale made with, well, you can guess. Boxing Bear reached back into the archives to resurrect Paw Swipe Pale Ale. Flock of Moons should have a new kolsch-style beer (name TBA) on tap by the weekend. Gravity Bound has a fresh batch of their popular IPA, Pistola. Harmon Lane recently added Tastes Like Summer, a wheat ale. Marble recently tapped Rosa Amarilla IPA. Quarter Celtic recently released an Italian pilsner called Spaghetti Western. Sobremesa added Pajarito Pilsner. Steel Bender will tap Escape Clause DIPA on Thursday. Tractor will tap Tropical Kolsch on Friday. Turtle Mountain added Three Amigos, a hoppy Mexican lager.

Up in Santa Fe, Second Street has a new batch of Kidder Special Bitter on tap. Down south, Truth or Consequences Brewing will bring back Hourglass Red on Thursday.

New Package:

Bosque will release Crimson & Clover, a golden ale with cherry and honey, in cans and on draft this Friday. Ex Novo released Single Hop: Chinook, the first in a new series of pale ales, in cans and on draft. Marble has the next IPA in their Alpha Acid Trip Series, Citrus Sunshine, now available in cans and on draft. (UPDATES) La Cumbre brings back two old favorites this Friday with bottles and draft of Piña Quercus (Tequila-Barrel-Aged Pineapple Tart Ale) and Persica Quercus (Peach version).

Notable Events:

Today (Wednesday) — All of you voracious readers should get to Tractor Wells Park at 5 p.m. for the Brewlastic Book Fair: Red, White & LGBTQ Edition.

Thursday — Trivia for a Cause: Broadway Edition is going down at the Bosque taproom on Eubank at 6 p.m.

Friday — Ex Novo hosts their big Pride event, Queer Cheer & Beers from 4 to 9 p.m. It will feature a vendor market, a bike ride, and a drag show in The Corral.

Gin & Jazz: Hip Hop Edition takes over Tractor Wells Park at 5 p.m.

Saturday — Summer Fest, a unique burlesque show with live music by Red Light Cameras, will take place on the Rio Bravo patio. Doors are at 7 p.m., the show starts at 8:30, and you can buy tickets in advance online.

Tractor Wells Park will host the Midsummer Dance Party at 8 p.m. with DJ Ren and DJ Moonside.

Quick News Bits:

Tickets for the 2024 New Mexico IPA Challenge are now on sale from the NM Brewers Guild via Eventbrite. The preliminary round, where the brewers themselves narrow the field down to the 16 finalists, is July 6. The public rounds are July 13 at Nuckolls Brewing in Santa Fe, July 20 at Lauter Haus Brewing in Farmington, and July 27 at Bow & Arrow Brewing.

Turquoise Trail Brewing, which closed down in Albuquerque a while ago, has now reopened in Moriarty. We will be heading out there once their own beers are on tap (just guest taps to start) to check out the new space.

Another new brewery? Another new brewery, as The Tatted Bee Brewhouse has taken over the former Black Snout location at Juan Tabo and Menaul.

In case anyone missed the early preview, Dripline Brewery is moving closer toward opening later this year in the Wells Park neighborhood.

In case anyone missed the other big news, Vision City is headed west to take over the former Boxing Bear Corrales space.

Albuquerque metro area breweries

Boese Brothers Brewery  — Featured seasonal: Drunk Astronaut (7.5% ABV), described as a “super juicy DIPA brewed with Galaxy hops and Cosmic Punch yeast.”

Bombs Away Beer Company — Featured seasonal: Black Ops Lager (5.8% ABV, 30 IBU), a dark lager inspired by the German schwarzbier style.

Bosque Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Perpetual Sunset (5.2% ABV, 10 IBU), a strawberry basil blonde ale available in cans and on draft.

Bossfight Brewing (formerly Kilt Check Brewing) — Featured seasonal: Way of the Samurai, a Japanese rice lager that will become a staple at the brewery.

Bow & Arrow Brewing — Featured seasonal: Flying Saazers (5.1% ABV), another amazing beer name from B&A, this one is a Belgian-style pilsner now available in cans (the artwork is gold) and on draft.

Boxing Bear Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Chinhook Mountain IPA (6.8% ABV), a hop-forward ale that combines elements of a West Coast and an East Coast hazy, is back in cans and on draft.

Brew Lab 101 Beer & Cider Company — Featured seasonal: Buzz Lightbeer (3.9% ABV, 10 IBU), a summer-worthy brew.

Canteen Brewhouse — Featured seasonal: Low and Slow Kolsch (5.2% ABV, 25 IBU), a perfect summer patio beer available in cans and on draft, and as a bonus it helps the Turtle Survival Alliance.

Casa Vieja Brewery — Featured seasonal: Cry of the Blackbirds Imperial Stout (8.6% ABV, 55 IBU), a very metal behemoth of a beer.

Cazuela’s Seafood & Mexican Grill — Featured seasonal: Contact the brewery for an updated list of seasonals.

Differential Brewing — Featured seasonal: Matcha Ginger Blonde (5% ABV, 14 IBU), it’s pretty much exactly as the name describes.

Echoes Brewery — Featured seasonal: Contact the brewery to see what’s currently on tap.

Ex Novo Brewing — Featured seasonal: Super Saaz Me (4.9% ABV), a tasty dry-hopped pilsner brewed in collaboration with Gravity Bound, now available in cans and on draft.

Flix Brewhouse  — Featured seasonal: Contact the brewery to see what’s currently on tap.

Flock of Moons Brewing — Featured seasonal: Bonfires of Ganymede (7.1% ABV, 29 IBU), a smoked maibock with just the right amount of charring, balanced out by the sweet malts and hops.

Gravity Bound Brewing — Featured seasonal: Little Farm on the Berry (4.7% ABV), a collaboration with Farm and Table, this sour features blackberries, lemon, and crushed sumac.

Harmon Lane Brewing at Southwest Grape and Grain — Featured seasonal: Honey Do IPA, the perfect beer after getting that yard work done.

High and Dry Brewing — Featured seasonal: Contact the brewery for an updated list of seasonals.

Hops Brewery — Featured seasonal: Contact the brewery for an updated list of seasonals.

JUNO Brewery — Featured seasonal: Contact the brewery for an updated list of seasonals.

Kaktus Brewing — Featured seasonal: Sweet Darkness Milk Stout, a nice treat for dessert after your pizza.

La Cumbre Brewing — Featured seasonal: Hop Drift Cold IPA (6.7% ABV), now available in cans and on draft.

La Reforma Brewery — Featured seasonal: Bomba de Malta (8.3% ABV), another big old malt bomb of a Scotch ale.

Late Shift Lager House at The Craftroom — Featured seasonal: Contact the brewery for an updated list of seasonals.

Lava Rock Brewing — The brewery is relocating to Moriarty.

Lizard Tail Brewing — Featured seasonal: Contact the brewery for an updated list of seasonals.

Marble Brewery — Featured seasonal: Que Onda IPA (6.8% ABV), part of the Alpha Acid Trip Series, now available in cans and on draft.

Nexus Brewery — Featured seasonal: Beam Me Up (Higher) Scotty (9.5% ABV, 29 IBU), which just won its second silver medal in three years at the World Beer Cup, is back on tap for a limited time.

Painted Lady Bed and Brew — Featured seasonal: Wolfman’s Got Nards, an amber ale and a tribute to the 80s classic The Monster Squad.

Palmer Brewery and Cider House — Featured seasonal: Cockness Monster (14% ABV), a monstrous Scotch ale aged in whiskey barrels for two years.

Ponderosa Brewing Co. — Featured seasonal: Italian Pilsner, the winner of back-to-back gold medals at the 2021 Great American Beer Festival and the 2022 World Beer Cup, is available on draft and in cans.

Quarter Celtic Brewpub— Featured seasonal: Super Stoop Malt Liquor (6.5% ABV, 18 IBU), which does not have to be consumed on a stoop or in a paper bag.

Red Door Brewing — Featured seasonal: Wagoner’s Porter (7.2% ABV, 36 IBU), a tasty American-style porter that recently joined the draft lineup.

Rio Bravo Brewing — Featured seasonal: Welcome to the Show (6.7% ABV, 34 IBU), a no-frills American stout that packs a tasty punch.

Rumor Brewing — Featured seasonal: Desert Monk (6.8% ABV, 21 IBU), a Belgian-style dubbel.

Sidetrack Brewing — Featured seasonal: Tropischen Pilsner (5.3% ABV, 35 IBU), a tropical lager brewed for the recent Crab & Pilsner event at Second Street.

Sobremesa — Featured seasonal: Face the Day Breakfast Stout (7.65% ABV, 40 IBU), a coffee-infused stout to wake you up after the long drive to the Westside (we kid, we kid).

Starr Brothers Brewing — Featured seasonal: St. Robby’s Girl (5.3% ABV, 26 IBU), a Dortmunder-style lager brewed in collaboration with Palmer Brewery.

Steel Bender Brewyard — Featured seasonal: Comfortably Plum Saison (5.6% ABV, 28 IBU), the description is pretty self-explanatory, and our apologies if the song is now stuck in your head, but SBB asked us to highlight this one.

Sunday Service Motor Company — Featured seasonal: Contact the brewery for an updated list of seasonals.

The Tatted Bee Brewhouse — The newest brewery in town does not have its own beers ready yet, but you can still enjoy a guest tap while you check out the space at Menaul and Juan Tabo.

Thirsty Eye Brewing — Featured seasonal: RIGor Mortis, an imperial coffee stout collaboration with Rust is Gold Coffee.

The 377 Brewery — Featured seasonal: Contact the brewery for an updated list of seasonals.

Tractor Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Pistachio Cream Ale (6.0% ABV, 20 IBU), a near-perfect melding of New Mexico’s popular nut and a classic cream ale.

Turtle Mountain Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: El Cob-ron Rojo (5.7% ABV, 21 IBU), a red corn lager made with Neomexicanus hops.

Unhinged Brewing — Featured seasonal: Madcap Mosaic Hazy IPA, a brew of which the entire staff is quite proud of, as relayed to us by many people, who also sang its praises as an above-average hazy.

Vision City Brewstillery — Featured seasonal: Contact the brewery for an updated seasonal list.

Santa Fe breweries

Beer Creek Brewing — Featured seasonal: Temporada (6.1% ABV), a Belgian saison brewed with 100-percent New Mexico-grown pilsner malt and Neomexicanus hops. Described by the brewery as “crisp and dry with hints of bubblegum. Not a Brett beer.”

Chile Line Brewing — Featured seasonal: Contact the brewery for an updated seasonal list.

Nuckolls Brewing — Featured seasonal: Spice Car, a farmhouse saison brewed with Thai chili peppers, guava, mango puree, and lime juice.

Rowley Farmhouse Ales — Featured seasonal: Thibadeux (5% ABV, 50 IBU), a collaboration kvass with Beer Creek.

Santa Fe Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Starter Fluid (9.5% ABV), a hazy DIPA with a kick, now available in cans and on draft.

Second Street Brewery — Featured seasonal: Brown Ale (5.9% ABV, 38 IBU), an award-winning classic, now available in cans and on draft.

Travel Bug — Featured seasonal: This bookstore/cafe that we featured a while back only has two beers on tap, Rough Draft Ale (4.5% ABV) and Second Draft English Bitter (6% ABV), but if any seasonals ever pop up, we will list them here.

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery — Featured seasonal: Molé Stout (9.2% ABV), the seasonal beer with a lovely kick of spice is back on draft and in bottles. Oh, they put some on nitro now, too.

Other breweries you need to visit

Bathtub Row Brewing — Featured seasonal: Mild & Lazy (4% ABV), a lovely English mild ale, perfect for slow sipping on the patio.

Downshift Brewing — Featured seasonal: Gratitude Pale Ale (5.4% ABV, 40 IBU), brewed to support local charities, right now $1 from every pint sold goes to The Big Ben Sanchez Youth Foundation.

Little Toad Creek Brewing and Distilling — Featured seasonal: Contact the brewery for an updated list of seasonals.

Red River Brewing and Distilling — Featured seasonal: Cacao Fuego Chocolate Green Chile Stout. (6.5% ABV, 30 IBU), described by the brewery thusly, “Our oatmeal stout with a kick! Made with Hatch green chile and organic cacao nibs, it has an earthy start and a chocolate finish, It’s sure to warm you up on these cool evenings.”

Sierra Blanca Brewing  — Featured seasonal: Pecan Brown Ale, a classic offering from the brewery.

Truth or Consequences Brewing — Featured seasonal: Robledo Rye (5.9% ABV, 46 IBU), described by the brewery as “a crisp golden ale with substantial hop bitterness and flavor. Malted rye adds a spicy, earthy quality, moderated by the subtle honey sweetness of Vienna malt. Warrior hops contribute smooth bitterness and flavors of pine, grapefruit, and pineapple.”

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That’s all for this week! If you have any questions or comments, leave them below or contact us on our Facebook page.

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— Stoutmeister