Years ago, I was scrambling to figure out something to buy my mom for Mother’s Day. I sat down at Canteen to think of something over a pint, and it hit me that her favorite beer, Irish Red, was on tap. So I had them fill a growler (remember those days?) and brought it home. She was thankful, but she did add that a beer as a present should only be a one-time thing. The good news is that breweries have more than just beer to offer this week. Truth or Consequences Brewing has a Mother’s Day Market on Thursday from 4 to 7 p.m. Boxing Bear will host the Mama Bear Market at 11 a.m. on Saturday at the Firestone taproom. Bow & Arrow will have their Mother’s Day Market starting at noon. If your mom is into gardening, Turtle Mountain North will host Lulu’s Leaves Pop-Up Plant Sale starting at 11 a.m. If mom would rather you give to a worthy charity, consider the Pints for Parenthood event at Marble downtown, which features live music and more from 3 to 10 p.m., all of it benefiting Dar a Luz Birth & Health Center. Basically, there are lots of options, and you can always treat yourself to a pint or two. After all, what mom wants most is for us to be happy, right?

New Draft:

Bosque brought back Sunbrero, a Munich Helles lager. Painted Lady tapped a beer-name-of-the-year candidate, All the Damn Vampires IPA. Sidetrack brought back Bizarro Basecamp Hazy IPA. Thirsty Eye will have a new batch of its tea-infused brew, Odin’s Monocle, this weekend. Turtle Mountain tapped a new fruited sour lager, Watermelon Rescue. (UPDATES) Boxing Bear is dipping into the archives in preparation for their 10th anniversary, bringing back Bear Shark IPA and Umbers Cucumbers Saison. Brew Lab 101 tapped Buzz Lightbeer. Gravity Bound added a new hazy IPA, Mayday.

Down south, Truth or Consequences Brewing will release Joe Cross (Dark) Lager this week, a beer that references the movie Eddington that has been filming in the town.

New Package:

Bosque will release Perpetual Sunset, a strawberry and basil blonde ale, in cans and on draft this Friday. Bow & Arrow brings back the taste of summer with Rancho Light Lager in cans and on draft this Friday. Steel Bender marks the return of Hefe Lifting, a hefeweizen, in cans and on tap this Thursday. Second Street has put Riwaka Juicy Pale Ale in cans for the first time.

Notable Events:

Today — New Mexico’s Premier Variety Showcase is back at Tractor Wells Park from 6 to 9 p.m., featuring a variety (get it?) of different musicians including Nick Furioustylz, Sin Limite, Saint of Trains, Blame it on Rebekah, and JV Music.

Thursday — The aforementioned Mother’s Day Market is at Truth or Consequences Brewing from 4 to 7 p.m.

Canteen will host Beers for Bikes all day through Sunday at both locations. Bring in any old bicycle or bike parts and receive a pint or discounts. All will be donated through Esperanza Community Bike Shop and the City of Albuquerque Parks and Recreation Department to people in need.

Friday — Blue Lab Comedy Night is back at Brew Lab 101 starting at 8 p.m.

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

Saturday — The aforementioned Mama Bear Market is at Boxing Bear Firestone starting at 11 a.m., while Lulu’s Leaves Pop-Up Plant Sale is at Turtle Mountain North also starting at 11, and the Mother’s Day Market at Bow & Arrow starts at noon.

Rio Bravo will host an Animal Adoption Event with BernCo Animal Care Services from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Sidetrack is also getting into the puppers with Bone Appetit, as Animal Humane will have adoptable dogs on site, and 15 percent of all proceeds from beer sales will go to the charity from noon to 4 p.m.

Bow & Arrow will also have a Mother’s Day Market at the Rambler Taproom in Farmington from noon to 5 p.m.

Flock of Moons will host an art opening for one of their own team members, Gina Arnote, from 1 to 5 p.m.

Bosque Cottonwood will host the Birds of a Feather Fundraiser from 2 to 6 p.m.

The aforementioned Pints for Parenthood, benefiting Dar a Luz Birth & Health Center, is from 3 to 10 p.m. at Marble downtown. The music lineup includes All Thicc, Willa Jay, Sweet Roll, Sun Sounds, Trillbot, and Red Light Cameras. Donations will be accepted at the door.

The Bard Crawl will make the first of two brewery stops at High and Dry, starting at 7:30 p.m.

The Desert Darlings are back at Tractor Wells Park at 8 p.m. with one of their most popular shows, Hops & Dreams: The Star Wars Edition. Just let the Mos Eisley Cantina song get stuck in your head now in preparation.

Tuesday — The Bard Crawl reaches Ex Novo at 6 p.m.

Quick News Bits:

Bosque is now hiring for its new Westside location, the former Lava Rock Brewing spot on Unser.

Sidetrack will now open at noon on Saturdays and Sundays.

Anyone scanning the Santa Fe area listings below will notice the overdue additions of Nuckolls Brewing and Travel Bug, plus the absence of Hidden Mountain Brewing. The latter not only changed its name back to Blue Corn Cafe, it also ended all brewing operations and will now only carry guest taps. Another piece of New Mexico brewing history has disappeared. Pour one out in memory of a place that launched many a great brewing career.

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: Thunder Mouth (8.5% ABV, 70 IBU), a new hazy IPA now 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: Terra Helles (4.7% ABV), a tasty lager available in cans and on draft.

Boxing Bear Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Sucker Punch DIPA (8.1% ABV), the big bad hop bomb is back for another run, 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: Farm League (7%), a wonderful West Coast IPA available in cans and on draft that can help you forget about how bad the Isotopes are this season.

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: 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: 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.

La Cumbre Brewing — Featured seasonal: Helles Lager (5.1% ABV), the perfect spring sipper which is finally available in cans in addition to being 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: 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: 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: You’ve Got Red on You (5.8% ABV, 65 IBU), a delightful hop-forward red ale, named for one of our favorite movies, Shaun of the Dead.

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: Disco After Dark (6.4% ABV, 75 IBU), a West Coast IPA brewed in collaboration with Adobe Disco.

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: El Cob-ron Rojo (5.7% ABV, 21 IBU), a red corn lager made with Neomexicanus hops.

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: 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 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: Contact the brewery for an updated list of seasonals.

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.

Keep supporting local!

— Stoutmeister