After a few false starts, summer is finally here, and the temperatures are soaring. We wish the best of luck to all of our beer friends in Southeast New Mexico, in particular, where the temps could reach 110 degrees this weekend. Yikes, that’s Arizona weather. Our best advice? Stay inside with a nice, cold pint or two until this all blows over.
New Draft:
Bosque has released The Ox, a dry-hopped golden ale, and Mammoths on Parade at the new Santa Fe location, The Drinkery. Boxing Bear smashed into the week with Hollywood Hulk Hazy IPA. Downshift added Tropical Snow Day. Gravity Bound tapped Smoke Beer Not Trees, a smoked helles. High and Dry had a big tap turnover, with a slew of new(ish) brews now available including Mrs. Stoubtfire, Error Berry (Sour), Kittens from Japan (Pale Ale), Sheep Skate (Pilsner), Access Tax (Hazy IPA), Hau Do You Spell Kolsch?, and Am’hazing Grace (Hazy Pale Ale). Nexus tapped a new version of Frio Cold IPA. Steel Bender brings back Blue Bullet Stout on nitro this Thursday. Tractor will tap Tangelo IPA on Friday. (UPDATES) Downshift added B-Side, a new blonde ale. Late Shift brought back Late Shift Lite (Lager). Marble tapped some fresh Kolsch.
Up in Santa Fe, Beer Creek will tap V IPA, its fifth-anniversary beer, this Friday.
New Package:
Bosque will release Moon Cannon Double Hazy IPA in cans and on draft this Friday. Ex Novo released It Rhymes with Orange, an oatmeal pale ale with cara cara oranges, in cans and on draft. La Cumbre will mark the season with the release of Project Dank: Summer Edition in cans and on draft this Friday. (UPDATES) Boxing Bear rolled out cans and draft of longtime favorite Bear Knuckle IPA and the new Team Steam, a California common.
Notable Events:
Today (Wednesday) — Bosque Heights will host Trivia for a Cause: Disney/Pixar Edition at 6 p.m.
Friday — Gin & Jazz: Summer Cocktail Edition will take over Tractor Wells Park at 5 p.m.
Boxing Bear Corrales will host the Summer Solstice Market from 6 to 9 p.m.
Saturday — Midsummer Dance Party with DJs Ren and Moonside will be at Tractor Wells Park at 8 p.m.
Sunday — Head over to Rio Bravo from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. for Beer, Bikes & Brunch.
Bow & Arrow will host a Pride Party and Pet Parade from noon to 5 p.m.
Tuesday — Bosque Cottonwood will host Trivia for a Cause: Succession Edition at 6 p.m.
Quick News Bits:
All of us in the Crew pass along our condolences to the entire Beer Creek Brewing family after we were informed of the passing of one of the brewery’s founders, Ryan McArdle. There are plans to have a celebration of life this Saturday, and we will share more details as to any public events as they are announced.
Bosque is opening a new location, The Drinkery, in Santa Fe this week. Located at 4980 Promenade Blvd, just off Cerrillos and Wellness Way, it will not have a kitchen, but neighboring Dion’s will bring food to your table.
We wondered in a recent Beer Notes if the Enchanted Circle taproom in Albuquerque was still open or not, and our question was answered in a recent Facebook post. Their new hours/days of operation are 4 to 9 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday.
Albuquerque metro area breweries
Boese Brothers Brewery — Featured seasonal: Zeus Juice (6.5% ABV), a white IPA with big citrus flavors.
Bombs Away Beer Company — Featured seasonal: The R.E.D. Ale (5.5% ABV, 20 IBU), an Irish-style red served on nitro.
Bosque Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Sunbrero (5.2% ABV, 20 IBU), a helles lager perfect for summer, available in cans and on draft.
Bow & Arrow Brewing — Featured seasonal: Rad Vista (5% ABV), a single-hop (Hallertau Blanc) pilsner available in cans and on draft.
Boxing Bear Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Polly’s Run Pale Ale (4.3% ABV, 20 IBU), a refreshing pale available in cans and on draft, benefiting The Race to Cure Pancreatic Cancer.
Brew Lab 101 Beer & Cider Company — Featured seasonal: Beyond the Pale (6% ABV, 48 IBU), it’s a pale ale dedicated to metal lovers, so, um, all of us.
Canteen Brewhouse — Featured seasonal: Enthrall IPA (7.4% ABV, 65 IBU), with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the Thrall family, is down to just cans at both locations, so grab a sixer ASAP.
Casa Vieja Brewery — Featured seasonal: Tripel Threat, a hefty Belgian-style brew.
Cazuela’s Seafood & Mexican Grill
Differential Brewing — Featured seasonal: Cinnamon Apple Wheat (5.1% ABV, 26 IBU) is basically that one breakfast cereal transformed into a beer.
Downshift Brewing at Outpost 1706 — Featured seasonal: Gratitude Session IPA (4.2% ABV, 40 IBU), brewed to support local charities, right now $1 from every pint sold goes to the Shelter Fund of the Community Foundation of Lincoln County.
Echoes Brewery — Featured seasonal: Echoes IPA has now been joined by the one of the other core beers, a coconut coffee stout. A pilsner and an American pale ale are on deck.
Enchanted Circle Brewing Taproom
Ex Novo Brewing — Featured seasonal: But it’s a Dry Heat, a Mexican lager with lime and salt, available in cans and on draft for a limited time.
Flix Brewhouse — Featured seasonal: Super Barlio Brothers, an Italian pilsner, is on tap for a certain movie that was really nostalgic for a lot of Gen-X.
Gravity Bound Brewing — Featured seasonal: Dawnest Before the Dark (9.3% ABV), a hefty imperial stout conditioned on Slow Burn Coffee and Amburana wood.
Harmon Lane Brewing at Southwest Grape and Grain — Featured seasonal: O’Danny Boy Irish Red (6.5% ABV) is still available on draft.
High and Dry Brewing — Featured seasonal: Hop Pocket (6% ABV, 50 IBU), packed with Chinook hops, it’s an old-school IPA.
Hops Brewery — Featured seasonal: Killer Bee Pale Ale (6.3% ABV, 23 IBU), this beer is made with actual honey from killer bee hives in Southern New Mexico.
JUNO Brewery — Featured seasonal: Vienna Lager, a smooth amber lager with a touch of sweetness.
Kaktus Brewing — Featured seasonal: Tropic IPA, perfect for the blooming spring with notes of passion fruit, guava, and grapefruit complimenting the hop-forward ale.
La Cumbre Brewing — Featured seasonal: Azulito Blue Corn Lager (4.8% ABV, 16 IBU), a perfect sessionable lager to help kick off the warmer months.
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: Hop Villain (6.8% ABV, 102 IBU), a beastly IPA that is a change of sorts from the lager-dominated lineup.
Lizard Tail Brewing — Featured seasonal: Biscochito Brown (6.4% ABV, 25 IBU), a proper New Mexican dessert beer, it’s a cookie in a glass.
Marble Brewery — Featured seasonal: Bock ‘n a Half (7.3% ABV), a delicious dark lager to give you a break from the lighter spring fare. Be forewarned, it is nearly out, so click the link there for updated taproom menus.
Nexus Brewery — Featured seasonal: Oralé Mexican Lager (5.3% ABV, 18 IBU), a crisp summer beer with a touch of lemon/lime.
Palmer Brewery and Cider House — Featured seasonal: Cockness Monster (13% ABV), a monstrous Scotch ale aged in whiskey barrels.
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: Birra Al Gusto Di Birra, a collaboration Italian pilsner made with Palmer Brewery, it recently won gold at the North American Brewers Association’s International Beer Awards.
Red Door Brewing — Featured seasonal: Wagoner’s Porter (7.2% ABV, 36 IBU), a tasty American-style porter that recently joined the draft lineup.
ReSource Brewing — Featured seasonal: Contact the brewery to find out what’s on tap, as it changes frequently.
Rio Bravo Brewing — Featured seasonal: Black Sparrow (13% ABV, 60 IBU), a rum-barrel-aged imperial stout.
Rumor Brewing (formerly Ale Republic) — Featured seasonal: Desert Monk (6.8% ABV, 21 IBU), a Belgian-style dubbel.
Sidetrack Brewing — Featured seasonal: The Udder Stout (5.1% ABV, 15 IBU), a proper cream stout.
Sobremesa — Featured seasonal: Dominator, a German-style doppelbock.
Starr Brothers Brewing — Featured seasonal: War Face (9.6% ABV, 100 IBU), a behemoth DIPA.
Steel Bender Brewyard — Featured seasonal: Hefe Lifting (5.5% ABV, 10 IBU), a hefeweizen now available in cans and on draft.
Sunday Service Motor Company — Featured seasonal: HWY 47 Double Honey Blonde (5.9% ABV, 24 IBU), a collaboration with Steel Bender.
Thirsty Eye Brewing — Featured seasonal: Father O’Malley’s Holy Water (4.2% ABV, 33 IBU), which is described by the brewery as “an Irish-style dry stout served on nitro for a smooth, creamy head, and deep roasted malt that’s still light bodied enough to leave room for seconds.”
Tractor Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: El Dorado Gold (5.8% ABV, 50 IBU), a slightly hop-forward ale featuring El Dorado and Wai’iti hops, it offers up an alternative to the big beers of winter.
Turquoise Trail Brewing — The brewery is closed at its original location, and is aiming to reopen out in Moriarty. We will have more on this move when they’re closer to opening.
Turtle Mountain Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Cosmic Campground (6.25% ABV, 66 IBU), a decadent black IPA brewed in honor of the International Dark Sky Sanctuary of North America, which is located in the Gila Wilderness of southwest New Mexico.
Unhinged Brewing — Featured seasonal: Tatooine Spring (7.8% ABV, 80 IBU), an imperial amber with a great name.
Vision City Brewstillery — Featured seasonal: Contact the brewery for an updated seasonal list.
Santa Fe breweries
Beer Creek Brewing — Featured seasonal: Longboat Cowboy, a traditional Sahti ale brewed with Kveik yeast, rye, and juniper boughs and berries.
Chile Line Brewing — Featured seasonal: A Huevo (5% ABV, 20 IBU) is a Yerba Matte-inspired beer.
Hidden Mountain Brewing — Featured seasonal: Snow White and the Seven Brewers, a Scotch ale brewed in collaboration with Beer Creek and Madrid Brewing.
Rowley Farmhouse Ales — Featured seasonal: Season of Night (4.8% ABV, 20 IBU), a dark saison that our own Luke Macias helped brew.
Santa Fe Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Freewheeler Hazy IPA is the summer seasonal available on tap and in cans.
Second Street Brewery — Featured seasonal: Dragon’s Blood Sour (5.6%), a blood orange sour available in cans and on draft.
Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery — Featured seasonal: Hoppy Pils, a beer for which the name says it all.
Other breweries you need to visit
Bathtub Row Brewing — Featured seasonal: Rub a Dub Dub, United in a Tub (5% ABV) is a raspberry porter brewed in collaboration with Ex Novo for the United in Beer festival.
Little Toad Creek Brewing and Distilling
Red River Brewing and Distilling — Featured seasonal: Steam Coffee Porter (6.5% ABV, 30 IBU), from the brewery: “Smooth and malty with a solid creamy head. Roasted grains are well balanced with base malts and just enough hops to offset any residual sweetness. Add in some coffee from Steam and it’s winter in a glass.”
Sierra Blanca Brewing — Featured seasonal: Cherry Wheat, a three-time GABF medal winner that is perfect for summer nights in the beer garden.
Truth or Consequences Brewing — Featured seasonal: Fiesta Gold (5.3% ABV, 22 IBU), which the brewery described as “inspired by thirst-quenching Mexican lagers like Modelo & Bohemia, this crisp International Pale Lager has a straw-gold color with just a touch of herbal spiciness from German hops.”
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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
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