The real fun with the Outside Bike & Brew Festival in Santa Fe begins today (Friday) and continues through the weekend. The main event will take place at Fort Marcy Park tonight and Saturday from 3:30 to 9 p.m. There will be live music, a beer garden, and a whole lot more.

On the music front, Pigment plays from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. today, followed by Contraband from 5 to 7, and CON BRIO from 7 to 9. As for Saturday, the lineup is Mellow Mood from 3:30 to 4:30, Ribo Flavin from 5 to 7, and The Lonely Wild from 7 to 9.

Then, of course, there is the beer, which is the real reason you are probably reading this article. The lineup in breweries changes from today to Saturday, with the latter day focusing on canned beers as it will be a scaled-down version of Oskar Blues’ popular Burning Can Festival.

Here is the Friday cast of characters.

• Blue Corn — Two Lanterns ESB, Road Runner IPA, Atomic Blonde, End of Trail Brown
• Bathtub Row — Gose, Orange Blossom Belgo Pale, Organic Farmhouse, Wit Rock
• Second Street — TBA
• Bosque — Elephants on Parade, Bosque Lager, Riverwalker IPA, Brewer’s Boot, Driftwood Oatmeal Stout, Oaty McOat Face, Azacca SMASH, Red Cs
• La Cumbre — Elevated, Slice of Hefen, BEER, Project Dank, and either VMO #2 or Mind Phoq
• Ballast Point — Grapefruit Sculpin, Longfin Lager
• Oskar Blues — TBA
• Stone — Go To IPA, Pataskala Red IPA
• Founders — Rubaeus, Mosaic Promise

Saturday’s beer list. Remember, it’s all cans.

• Marble — IPA, Red, Double White, Pilsner
• Santa Fe — TBA, but we gotta imagine Happy Camper, Freestyle Pilsner, Java Stout, and Santa Fe Gold will be present
• NM Hard Cider — TBA
• Stone — IPA
• Oskar Blues — TBA
• Founders — Rubaeus, Mosaic Promise
• Ballast Point — Grapefruit Sculpin, Longfin Lager, Pineapple Sculpin

Passes for the weekend cost $25. Click that link up above to buy them online, or you can buy them in person at Fort Marcy Park.

There are also two beer dinners tonight. Santa Fe Brewing will be at Anasazi Restaurant, call (505) 988-3236 for more information. Sierra Nevada will be at Red Sage, the restaurant at Buffalo Thunder, so call (505) 819-2056.

Have fun this weekend, Santa Fe!

Cheers!

— Stoutmeister