After last week’s onslaught of new beers (most of which had to be added over and over to this after the original posting), we had hoped that this would be a nice, relaxing week. Who were we kidding? No, it’s a big weekend for anniversaries. We already shared some details on Flock of Moons’ first anniversary party that’s going down this Saturday. Boxing Bear will be also be celebrating Saturday with the first of 10 days of their 10th Anniversary CeleBEARtion at the Firestone taproom. For Sunday, Marble will be honoring their Westside taproom’s in-house eatery, Ohana Hut, for their eighth anniversary. Toss in the jumbo-sized Desert Party at Santa Fe Brewing’s headquarters on Saturday, and no one is allowed to say there is nothing to do this weekend. Just pace yourselves, please.

New Draft:

Boese Brothers recently tapped Raspberry Vanilla Sour. Bow & Arrow will release their collaboration, Arrows and Roses Hazy IPA, with Arizona brewery Roses by the Stairs this Friday. Boxing Bear will release Decade of Dorks Dort, a Dortmunder-style lager, for their anniversary on Saturday. Casa Vieja tapped Cold Break, a cold IPA. Flock of Moons will bring back Ithilien Helles Lager on Saturday, while also unveiling their anniversary beer, Min Coranar Hazy IPA. Kaktus recently brought back summer favorites Basil Lager and Cucumber Blond Ale. Painted Lady keeps winning the best-beer-name-game with Please Don’t Kill Me Mr. Ghostface, a blonde ale that’s due out this Thursday. Tractor will tap Watermelon Cider on Friday. (UPDATES) Canteen will bring back Tuttle IPA on Friday. Ex Novo added Midsummer Classic, a “cranked up” version of the Farm League West Coast IPA. Gravity Bound tapped Monic Hazy IPA. Rio Bravo rolled out a new Kölsh. Starr Brothers added Mango-Neato, a mango/peach sour.

Up in Santa Fe, Second Street did a double drop of big beers Isolator Doppelbock and the new EDM Dozer, an imperial stout. (UPDATES) Santa Fe Brewing tapped Fire Spirit Hazy DIPA, the second release in their Centennial Zozobra Series. Down south, Downshift added Beach Season, a new hazy IPA.

New Package:

Bow & Arrow will release Pearl Snaps, a Japanese rice lager, in cans and on draft this Friday. Canteen will have Cabana Mexican Lager back in cans later this week (it’s already available on draft). La Cumbre will bring back Trail Hazard Hazy DIPA in cans and on draft this Friday. (UPDATES) Boxing Bear will also be canning Decade of Dorks Dort. Rio Bravo released Kitchen Sink DIPA in cans and on draft.

Notable Events:

Thursday — Down in Ruidoso, Downshift is hosting Paints & Pints to benefit the Bridge to Art Studio, which was damaged by the recent flash floods. It’s a $40 minimum donation that comes with one beer or non-alcoholic drink of your choice. It starts at 6 p.m.

Painted Lady will host Scary Movie Bingo from 7 to 9 p.m., featuring the original Scream and the release of that aforementioned blonde ale.

Saturday — The Desert Party, with multiple bands, vendors, and more, kicks off at Santa Fe Brewing’s headquarters from 3 p.m. to midnight. See their social media pages for all the details.

Sidetrack is among the places participating in Drink Local Downtown from 4 to 8 p.m., with drink specials and more to be announced.

Boxing Bear’s anniversary party runs from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Firestone taproom.

Flock of Moons’ anniversary party runs from 6 to 11:30 p.m.

Sunday — Rowley Farmhouse Ales will host Española Humane for a pet adoption event from noon to 3 p.m. There will be a Pulls for Pups beer handle at the bar, with all proceeds going to the nonprofit, so make sure to ask when you order your pint.

Boxing Bear will have a Custom Hat Bar, where you can make your own baseball-style caps, from 1 to 5 p.m.

The Ohana Hut anniversary party at Marble Westside runs from 3 to 6 p.m.

Tuesday — If you are a big fan of the awarded streaming series The Bear, get over to Bosque Nob Hill for it is the subject for the latest Trivia for a Cause at 6 p.m.

Quick News Bits:

Tickets for the final round of the 2024 New Mexico IPA Challenge are now on sale from the NM Brewers Guild via Eventbrite. The last round will be divided into three sessions over two-hour blocks starting at noon on July 27 at Bow & Arrow Brewing.

Nuckolls Brewing has announced that it has 15 more taps (!) now online, so there will be even more beer (and wine) flowing at the Santa Fe Railyard.

Boese Brothers has a post on their website saying that the downtown taproom is closed for renovations until September 6.

Just in case anyone missed it, Ex Novo has been forced to postpone the opening of their new location in downtown Albuquerque. We have long said that the final step of getting the doors open for any brewery is the steepest step of all, and once again, we’re sadly proven right.

Turquoise Trail Brewing, which closed down in Albuquerque a while ago, has now reopened in Moriarty. We will be heading out there once their own beers are on tap (just guest taps to start) to check out the new space.

Another new brewery? Another new brewery, as The Tatted Bee Brewhouse has taken over the former Black Snout location at Juan Tabo and Menaul.

In case anyone missed the early preview, Dripline Brewery is moving closer toward opening later this year in the Wells Park neighborhood.

In case anyone missed the other big news, Vision City is headed west to take over the former Boxing Bear Corrales space.

Albuquerque metro area breweries

Boese Brothers Brewery  — Featured seasonal: Drunk Astronaut (7.5% ABV), described as a “super juicy DIPA brewed with Galaxy hops and Cosmic Punch yeast.”

Bombs Away Beer Company — Featured seasonal: Black Ops Lager (5.8% ABV, 30 IBU), a dark lager inspired by the German schwarzbier style.

Bosque Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Crimson & Clover (6.1% ABV, 10 IBU), a blonde ale with cherry and honey, now available on tap and in cans.

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: Flying Saazers (5.1% ABV), another amazing beer name from B&A, this one is a Belgian-style pilsner now available in cans (the artwork is gold) and on draft.

Boxing Bear Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Chinhook Mountain IPA (6.8% ABV), a hop-forward ale that combines elements of a West Coast and an East Coast hazy, is back in cans and on draft.

Brew Lab 101 Beer & Cider Company — Featured seasonal: Buzz Lightbeer (3.9% ABV, 10 IBU), a summer-worthy brew.

Canteen Brewhouse — Featured seasonal: Low and Slow Kolsch (5.2% ABV, 25 IBU), a perfect summer patio beer available in cans and on draft, and as a bonus it helps the Turtle Survival Alliance.

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: Matcha Ginger Blonde (5% ABV, 14 IBU), it’s pretty much exactly as the name describes.

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

Ex Novo Brewing — Featured seasonal: She Sells Seashelles (5.3% ABV), an awesome helles lager 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: Bonfires of Ganymede (7.1% ABV, 29 IBU), a smoked maibock with just the right amount of charring, balanced out by the sweet malts and hops.

Gravity Bound Brewing — Featured seasonal: Memory Lane, an orange creamsicle sour to help you get through this stretch of scorching heat.

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: How Do You Spell Kolesch is just one of a whole new lineup of beers on tap, as they just recently updated their menu online (click that link to see what else is now available).

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

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

Kaktus Brewing — Featured seasonal: Sweet Darkness Milk Stout, a nice treat for dessert after your pizza.

La Cumbre Brewing — Featured seasonal: Hop Drift Cold IPA (6.7% ABV), now available in cans and 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: Contact the brewery for an updated list of seasonals.

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: Citrus Sunshine 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: Wolfman’s Got Nards, an amber ale and a tribute to the 80s classic The Monster Squad.

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: Rising Hope Collaboration (5% ABV, 40 IBU), an orange blossom pale ale with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation.

Rumor Brewing — Featured seasonal: Desert Monk (6.8% ABV, 21 IBU), a Belgian-style dubbel.

Sidetrack Brewing — Featured seasonal: Tropischen Pilsner (5.3% ABV, 35 IBU), a tropical lager brewed for the recent Crab & Pilsner event at Second Street.

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: St. Robby’s Girl (5.3% ABV, 26 IBU), a Dortmunder-style lager brewed in collaboration with Palmer Brewery.

Steel Bender Brewyard — Featured seasonal: Comfortably Plum Saison (5.6% ABV, 28 IBU), the description is pretty self-explanatory, and our apologies if the song is now stuck in your head, but SBB asked us to highlight this one.

Sunday Service Motor Company — Featured seasonal: Contact the brewery for an updated list of seasonals.

The Tatted Bee Brewhouse — Rumor has it that the first two house beers, a pale ale and a saison, may now be on tap. Clearly we need to visit the new brewery at Menaul and Juan Tabo to find out for sure.

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: Pistachio Cream Ale (6.0% ABV, 20 IBU), a near-perfect melding of New Mexico’s popular nut and a classic cream ale.

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: Madcap Mosaic Hazy IPA, a brew of which the entire staff is quite proud of, as relayed to us by many people, who also sang its praises as an above-average hazy.

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: Tipsy Parrot (6.4% ABV), a piña colada-inspired beer 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 The Big Ben Sanchez Youth Foundation.

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: Pecan Brown Ale, a classic offering from the brewery.

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