So if anyone follows Tumbleroot on social media, you might have spied a reel highlighting a week of metal. Well, if you know us, you know how much we love the metal (it has as much to do with the name of this blog as our love of stouts and porters), so of course that is what we are leading with this week. It all starts today (Wednesday) as Pallbearer will bring some soul-crushing tunes to the indoor stage at the Agua Fria Taproom, with support from Red Mesa and Ruiner. Doors are at 7, tickets are $17 and are available online. If you cannot head up midweek, check out Arizona’s SaintBreaker with their grinding death thrash style on Saturday at 7 p.m. Then, keep the weekend going as Metalachi brings their unique blend of metal and mariachi (as if you could not guess) to the stage on Monday at 7:30 p.m. Hails!

Oh, and one of our favorite annual releases, Turkey Drool, is back at all Tractor locations this Friday, just in case a trip to Santa Fe isn’t in the cards. You can drink some and listen to metal, after all.

New Draft:

Bombs Away brought back Short Fuze Blonde Ale and added S.A.F. Cranberry. Bosque tapped Flat Earth, a Vienna lager, and old favorite Scale Tipper IPA. Gravity Bound added a new hazy IPA, Tidal Lock. Marble tapped Mittelfrüh Italian Pilsner. Palmer Brewery finally got around to tapping Derleicht Lager, which debuted at Beer Premier and packs a lot of flavor into just 3.9-percent ABV. Sunday Service Motor Company will tap Sunday Spiced Ale on … Saturday. Turtle Mountain tapped Beskar Basilisk Stout. (UPDATES) Marble also tapped Ditchwater DIPA, which we promise tastes a lot better than actual water from a ditch. Sidetrack added Snowbird Lager.

Up in Santa Fe, Tumbleroot tapped Fiesta Lager.

New Package:

Bow & Arrow will get another song stuck in your head with their Friday release of Some People Call Me the Space Cowboy, a new hazy IPA in cans and on draft. Boxing Bear brings back I Dip, You Dip, We DIPA in cans and on draft. Also, Boxing Bear and High Desert Flameworks team up again for Just Jonesin’ 3, a strawberry mango gose this time around, releasing in cans and on draft this Saturday. La Cumbre collaborated with Colorado’s Cannonball Creek Brewing and Comrade Brewing on another batch of Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Excellence IPA, now available in cans and on draft. Marble rolled out Turkish Style Coffee Stout in cans and on draft. Steel Bender brings back Brickie American Stout this Thursday in cans and on draft. (UPDATE) Gravity Bound rolled out Nightly Rituals Dark Mexican Lager in cans and on draft.

Notable Events:

Thursday — Adult Coloring Night, a fundraiser for AGORA Crisis Center, makes the first of three appearances this month. This edition is at High and Dry starting at 5:30 p.m., with music from The Chacalacas, pints of Elixir Ale for sale ($1 per pour goes to AGORA), and coloring sheets provided.

Friday — Goth Night & Dark Market is back at Tractor Wells Park at 8 p.m.

Saturday — Lager Liftoff, a weightlifting competition benefiting Locker 505, kicks off on the patio at Canteen at 9 a.m.

JUNO will host a special Food Drive from 3 to 6 p.m., with live music from INS and T.R.U.T.H., all to benefit the John Marshall Health Center.

Boxing Bear will hold a release party for the aforementioned Just Jonesin’ 3 at the Firestone taproom from 3 to 8 p.m., with live music and more.

The Desert Darlings return to Tractor Wells Park at 8 p.m. for Hops & Dreams: The Addams Family Edition.

Tuesday — Adult Coloring Night heads to Steel Bender at 5:30 p.m.

Quick News Bits:

Steel Bender is hiring a head brewer as Tom Sadja is heading out of state. Head to the brewery’s website and look for the tab that says Join Our Crew if you are interested in applying for the job.

While one craft taproom has closed in Southwest NM (see next item), another has opened! Open Space Brewing, located in Santa Clara, held its soft opening recently. Keep an eye out on social media to see what else is in store from our state’s newest brewery. For now they are just open from noon to 8 p.m. on Saturdays. We are working on a future trip down to this small town, nestled next to Bayard, north of Deming and just east of Silver City, to check it out.

Boogie’s Brewery and Distillery in Deming has closed its tasting room and will now only focus on selling bottles of its spirits to retailers in New Mexico and beyond. We never knew if they actually brewed their own beer, but now it appears they are only distilling.

Just in case you missed it, Brew Lab 101 is taking over the ReSource Brewing taproom later this month. ReSource bid farewell over Halloween weekend.

Albuquerque metro area breweries

Boese Brothers Brewery  — Featured seasonal: Imperial Porter (7.2% ABV), this big boy has been on tap for a while, so help drink it up so a new beer can appear.

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: Fresh Start (7.5% ABV, 15 IBU), a maple coffee stout, now available in cans and on draft.

Bow & Arrow Brewing — Featured seasonal: Bisti Pineapple Spice Hard Seltzer, which we are featuring at the brewery’s request before anyone thinks we’ve gone mad and highlighted a seltzer instead of a beer. They asked very nicely!

Boxing Bear Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Metal Head Stout (6.66% ABV), a beer so good they named it after the best musical genre of them all. In our humble opinion, anyway.

Brew Lab 101 Beer & Cider Company — Featured seasonal: Labtoberfest (5.8% ABV, 20 IBU), a tasty märzen available on draft.

B2B Garden Brewery — Featured seasonal: Contact the brewery for an updated list of seasonals.

Canteen Brewhouse — Featured seasonal: Pink Warrior Wheat (4.6% ABV, 15 IBU), a portion of the proceeds of this fruited wheat will go to Pink Warrior House.

Casa Vieja Brewery — Featured seasonal: Kojote Brown (5.4% ABV, 18 IBU), a Belgian-style brown ale.

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

Differential Brewing — Featured seasonal: Papaya Blonde Ale, which was brewed to hang onto summer just a bit longer.

Downshift Brewing at Outpost 1706 — Featured seasonal: Gratitude Pale Ale (5.4% ABV, 40 IBU), brewed to support local charities, right now $1 from every pint sold goes to Gratitud(ENMU), the local college in the Ruidoso area.

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

Ex Novo Brewing — Featured seasonal: Kokua (4% ABV), a session IPA based off a recipe by Maui Brewing, with proceeds going to the Maui Brewing Fire Fund.

Flix Brewhouse  — Featured seasonal: Autumn Leaves (5.7% ABV), a flavorful festbier.

Flock of Moons Brewing — Featured seasonal: Lunar Autumn Saison (6% ABV, 20 IBU), a flavorful fall beer.

Gravity Bound Brewing — Featured seasonal: Your Place or Stein (5.9% ABV), a wonderful Oktoberfest lager available in cans and on draft.

Harmon Lane Brewing at Southwest Grape and Grain — Featured seasonal: Stennes Blonde Stout, a collaboration with Quarter Celtic.

High and Dry Brewing — Featured seasonal: Freudian Hop Session (5.5% ABV, 40 IBU), an amber pale ale, with a portion of the proceeds going to Pink Warrior House.

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

JUNO Brewery — Featured seasonal: Vienna Lager, a smooth amber lager with a touch of sweetness.

Kaktus Brewing — Featured seasonal: Sovereign Shores IPA, which has one of those names that make us curious as to its origin/meaning.

Kilt Check Brewing — There are rumors that the brewery will be staying open, but we await the official word.

La Cumbre Brewing — Featured seasonal: La Negra (13% ABV, 70 IBU), a beautiful beast of a barrel-aged imperial stout, now available in bottles and on tap.

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.

Lava Rock Brewing — Featured seasonal: Contact the brewery for an updated list of seasonals.

Lizard Tail Brewing — Featured seasonal: Oktoberfest (5.8% ABV, 20 IBU), a proper German lager.

Marble Brewery — Featured seasonal: #ENDALZ (5.8% ABV), a cranberry-infused pale lager, a portion of the proceeds will go to the Alzheimer’s Association now through Friday.

Nexus Brewery — Featured seasonal: Festbier! (5.8% ABV, 21 IBU), is described by the brewery as “in the style of German tradition, this bier is toasty, slightly sweet with bread dough and cereal notes. The medium malt body takes the forefront and will leave your stein in need of a refill.” It is only available at the Blue Smokehouse now.

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: Capri-derhosen (5.3% ABV, 23 IBU), a past gold medal winner at the World Beer Cup, this tasty German-style red lager is back on tap.

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: 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: Matching Stoutfits (6.6% ABV, 30 IBU), a wonderful name for an oatmeal stout.

Sobremesa — Featured seasonal: Dominator, a German-style doppelbock.

Starr Brothers Brewing — Featured seasonal: There Wolf (5.8% ABV, 21 IBU), a flavor-packed Oktoberfest lager.

Steel Bender Brewyard — Featured seasonal: Elixir Ale (6% ABV, 20 IBU), a collaboration with Canteen and High and Dry, an ale brewed with chamomile. For every pint sold, $1 goes to AGORA Crisis Center.

Sunday Service Motor Company — Featured seasonal: Have Your Cake and Eat it Too, a German chocolate cake-inspired stout.

Thirsty Eye Brewing — Featured seasonal: Oktoberfest, described by the brewery as “a Märzen-style lager that’s slightly sweet, with bread and straw-like maltiness balanced with floral and spicy German noble hops.”

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

Tractor Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Pumpkin Porter (7.2% ABV, 38 IBU), because it’s the season, darn it.

Turtle Mountain Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Why Does It Hurt When IPA?, a Zappa-hop-heavy ale.

Unhinged Brewing — Featured seasonal: Los Muertos Porter, a very seasonal-appropriate robust porter.

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

Santa Fe breweries

Beer Creek Brewing — Featured seasonal: Diablo Bock (7.7% ABV, 25 IBU), a hybrid of a dunkel bock and a doppelbock, it’s devilishly delicious.

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

Hidden Mountain Brewing — Featured seasonal: Oktoberfiesta (6% ABV, 30 IBU), the annual German-style seasonal is back.

Rowley Farmhouse Ales — Featured seasonal: Ceremony, a wild ale brewed with tea.

Santa Fe Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Adobe Igloo, the winter seasonal is back in cans and on draft.

Second Street Brewery — Featured seasonal: Toast the Dawn (4.4% ABV, 12 IBU), a helles lager available in cans and on draft, perfect for relaxing the last warm days away.

Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery — Featured seasonal: Totality American Stout, because you will need a stout to get through all of those metal shows (see our intro).

Other breweries you need to visit

Bathtub Row Brewing — Featured seasonal: ULLR Fest Sahti (8.5% ABV), described by the brewery as a “Nordic brew from ancient Finland with juniper and rye, fermented with spicy yeast. Very malty, strong but well-concealed alcohol, intriguing woodsy/citrusy notes from the juniper.”

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

Red River Brewing and Distilling — Featured seasonal: Contact the brewery for an updated list of seasonals.

Sierra Blanca Brewing  — Featured seasonal: Well, Oktoberfest ran out, and Whiskey Stout is not quite ready yet, so you will just have to enjoy the vast and varied menu of year-round brews in Moriarty.

Truth or Consequences Brewing — Featured seasonal: Fiesta Anejo (5.3% ABV, 22 IBU), which the brewery described as “a smooth Mexican Lager infused with essence of tequila.”

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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.

Keep supporting local!

— Stoutmeister