Breweries have been great about tapping into local charities and nonprofits for years now. The variety of good causes supported has been extensive, and this is one of those weekends where it almost feels like every possible cause is being represented. Love to support the doggos? Head to Bosque Nob Hill on Saturday. Love to support local artisans and vendors? Hit up the Saturday pop-up markets at Ponderosa and Unhinged. Love to support the outdoors? Visit Canteen for the latest edition of Day Drinking for a Cause on Saturday. Love to support local musicians? Marble has you covered with a special music benefit program on Sunday. Love to support sustainability? Canteen celebrates Earth Day on Monday. Love to support programs for autism? Then head to Tractor Wells Park on Monday. And, it’s OK to just be in it for a good time, because there are plenty other events for book lovers, cookie lovers, 420 fans, and more listed below in our events section.

Also, if you are a metalhead, there is the Dethklok show on Friday at Revel, and then the Amon Amarth show at Revel on Sunday. Just wanted to make sure everyone was aware. This will also explain to our co-workers why everything will hurt on Monday.

New Draft:

Boxing Bear will release Glass Pusher Pale Ale as part of their 420 celebration (see below), and also has Marzen on tap at all locations. Brew Lab 101 recently tapped their latest X-IPA, dubbed Sultan of Science. Canteen recently added Raspberry Wheat. Marble will bring back Cherry Chingon on Friday. Painted Lady tapped their third house beer, Go Into the Light (Kolsch). Tractor will tap Otra Vez Mexican Lager on Friday. Turtle Mountain tapped Lemonhope Pils. (UPDATES) Differential brought back Matcha Ginger Blonde. Flock of Moons tapped A Bustle in Your Hedgerow, an ordinary bitter. Gravity Bound rolled out Little Farm on the Berry, a new sour. Late Shift added Sensei’s Lessons, a Japanese-style rice lager. Lizard Tail tapped Rattler Red, an altbier. Thirsty Eye will bring back Odin’s Monocle infused with strawberry mojito tea, which was the first firkin to kick at the recent Cask Festival at Sidetrack.

Up in Santa Fe, Beer Creek will tap El Nuevo IPA on Friday.

And, as a reminder, Mashing Queen Juicy Pale Ale, the Pink Boots Society collaboration beer is available at the following places: Bosque, Boxing Bear, Canteen, Flock of Moons (draft only), La Cumbre (draft only), Marble (draft only), Rio Bravo, Rowley Farmhouse Ales (draft only), Santa Fe, Second Street (draft only), Sidetrack, Steel Bender, Thirsty Eye (draft only), and Tractor.

New Package:

Bow & Arrow will release Terra Helles in cans and on draft this Friday. Ex Novo will release Earth to Beer, an extra pale ale made for Earth Day, in cans and on draft this Monday. (UPDATES) Boxing Bear will also have Glass Pusher in cans. Canteen brings back two customer favorites, Trail Angel Pale Ale and Citranova, in cans and on draft. Downshift released Scooby Snacks IPA in cans and on draft.

Notable Events:

Today (Wednesday) — Bosque Heights will host the latest edition of Trivia for a Cause, this time with the Dune movies as the theme, starting at 6 p.m.

Thursday — Boxing Bear is teaming up with Bookworks for Books & Brews at the Firestone Taproom from 5 to 8 p.m.

Saturday — Watermelon Mountain Ranch is having a Pop-Up Adoption Event at Bosque Nob Hill from noon to 3 p.m.

Bow & Arrow will host a Cookie & Beer Pairing, featuring four classic Girl Scout cookies alongside four delicious brews for $20, running from noon to 4 p.m., or whenever the cookies run out.

Ponderosa hosts a Pop-Up Market from noon to 5 p.m., while Unhinged has a Local Vendor Pop-Up from 2 to 6 p.m.

Boxing Bear celebrates 420 at the Firestone Taproom from 3 to 8 p.m., featuring YooDab and other vendors.

Marble will have multiple bands on stage for a 420 Party from 4 to 10 p.m. Check their website for the lineup. We will have a lot more on everything Marble later this week for our full preview of their anniversary week.

Day Drinking for a Cause, with $1 from every pint sold going to the New Mexico Volunteers for the Outdoors, will take place all day at both Canteen locations.

Sunday — The Albuquerque Modern Band Lab Music Program will have a benefit show at Marble downtown from noon to 4 p.m.

Monday — Earth Day Plants and Pints will be at Canteen from noon onward. Loose Leaf Farms will provide the seedlings, which you can purchase along with a pint of your choice for just $12.

Tractor’s Beer for a Better Burque program will have a pint night benefiting Autism Society New Mexico from 3 to 9 p.m. at Wells Park.

Marble will hold a Brew Club Appreciation Party from 4 to 7 p.m. at all three locations.

Quick News Bits:

JUNO is closed today (Wednesday) as there is filming going on outside. They will be back open normal hours starting Thursday.

Bathtub Row is now open at noon seven days a week.

The Taos Mesa Brewing main location is closed until May 2 for some spring cleaning.

Some bummer news, as Tractor was forced to abruptly close their Los Lunas taproom last week after their lease was not renewed by their landlord. It marks a sad end to one of the only craft beer options in Valencia County.

Sobremesa is hosting the Rock & Brew Book Drive now through April 28. Drop off new or gently used children’s books and receive $1 off your beer order.

The first medals of 2024 have been handed out at the Best of Craft Beer Awards annual competition, with three New Mexico breweries winning one apiece. Ex Novo and Flix both won medals in the Scottish Ales category, with the former earning silver for Sons of Scotland and the latter taking bronze for ABQ 10 Day. Steel Bender also snagged a bronze for Sparkfitter Amber in the English Ales category. Congrats to all three breweries!

Albuquerque metro area breweries

Boese Brothers Brewery  — Featured seasonal: Irish Red (5.2% ABV), described by the brewery as “a classic red ale with caramel and toasted malt flavors.”

Bombs Away Beer Company — Featured seasonal: SNAFU Stout (5.2% ABV, 30 IBU), a chewy oatmeal stout.

Bosque Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Bosque Festbier (5.8% ABV, 25 IBU), a German-style lager perfect for warmer March days, now available in cans and on draft.

Bow & Arrow Brewing — Featured seasonal: Funksloth (6.3% ABV), a farmhouse ale aged 16 months in an oak foeder, it was then dry hopped with hand-foraged wild Neomexicanus hops

Boxing Bear Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Bulldog English IPA (6.1% ABV), go back to the roots of the style with this hoppy ale, available in cans and on draft.

Brew Lab 101 Beer & Cider Company — Featured seasonal: Contact the brewery for an updated list of seasonals.

Canteen Brewhouse — Featured seasonal: Irish Red (5.4% ABV, 25 IBU), one of those awesome recurring seasonals that deserves all the love, now available in cans and on draft.

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: Banana Nut Brown (4.7% ABV, 27 IBU), brewed with Belgian yeast, it is pretty much exactly what it reads like.

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

Ex Novo Brewing — Featured seasonal: A Star is Bjorn (8.7% ABV), a delightful Baltic porter, 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: Quickening Moon (7.6% ABV, 24 IBU), a lovely Scottish wee heavy, and luckily for you, there need not be only one.

Gravity Bound Brewing — Featured seasonal: Strawberry Shortcake (6.2% ABV), a flavorful sour made with … well, you can guess.

Harmon Lane Brewing at Southwest Grape and Grain — Featured seasonal: Alebenezer, a seasonal barleywine that you need to help drink up as winter fades away.

High and Dry Brewing — Featured seasonal: Dawn Patrol Coffee Stout (4.5% ABV, 10 IBU), a light-in-ABV but not in flavor or mouthfeel dark brew, this is a collaboration with the coffee shop located next to the Nob Hill Stage music venue on Copper and Carlisle.

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: Contact the brewery for an updated list of seasonals.

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

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

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 — The brewery is relocating to Moriarty.

Lizard Tail Brewing — Featured seasonal: Biscochito Brown (6.4% ABV, 25 IBU), a beer whose name is pretty self-explanatory.

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: Albuquerque Kirk (5.1% ABV, 14 IBU), described by the brewery thusly: “This witbier is lightly spiced with orange zest and a pinch of coriander. New Zealand’s Pacific Jade Hops add a second layer of citrus, herbs and light spice.  Also, please feel even better drinking this beer knowing that some of the proceeds will benefit the Multiple Sclerosis Society.”

Painted Lady Bed and Brew — Featured seasonal: The Undead Surround Us (5.67% ABV, 44 IBU), this American stout conjures up all the spirits of this haunted hotel.

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: Mild Davis (5.5% ABV, 20 IBU), this wonderful English mild ale is back, and this time it is also in cans.

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: Foggy Monocle (6.1% ABV, 17 IBU), an excellent oatmeal stout that has twice won the Crew’s Stout Challenge.

Steel Bender Brewyard — Featured seasonal: Double Berry Blast (10.4% ABV), one of the anniversary beers, this “liquid pie filling” has a blend of marionberry and boysenberry packed into a powerful brew that is available in cans and on draft.

Sunday Service Motor Company — Featured seasonal: Double Black IPA (8.5% ABV), a perfect winter ale.

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: Turkey Drool (8.4% ABV), which is our favorite annual seasonal release from the brewery, and yes, we will declare that publicly.

Turtle Mountain Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Old Oku Barleywine (9.2% ABV, 25 IBU), part of the 25 Years of Beers throwback line, this is an old recipe re-imagined.

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

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 seasonal list.

Hidden Mountain Brewing — Featured seasonal: De Péche Mood, a peach wheat ale with a tremendous name.

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: Southpaw Sour (4.2% ABV), an apricot kettle sour, now available in cans and on draft.

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 Food4Kids.

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: Whiskey Stout is back for another seasonal run in bottles and on draft.

Truth or Consequences Brewing — Featured seasonal: Soakinator Doppelbock (9.4% ABV), described by the brewery as “a rich, malty, strong German lager. Sweet malt flavors dominate, including toast, dark fruit, & luscious caramel/honey. Stored cold (“lagered”) for more than a month, this coppery-brown elixir was known by the monks of the 17th century as “liquid bread”, as its nourishing qualities helped them through the long cold days of fasting during Lent.”

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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