It’s been a pretty quiet week so far, as one could probably tell by our lack of stories the last two days, but things should start to pick up as we get closer to the weekend. Canteen is certainly ready for Saturday with the return of Thirst for the Outdoors at the brewery from noon to 4 p.m. This “outdoor adventure fair” will bring together experts from numerous organizations throughout New Mexico to help you safely plan your next fun excursion into the wilderness. There is a full list of participants on Canteen’s social media pages, including US Fish and Wildlife, Petroglyph National Monument, Continental Divide Trail Coalition, REI, and more. Grab a beer and find your next wild getaway.

As an added bonus, Canteen also has a special Friday event. Lager Flight Friday will feature a tray of five selected lagers (Laid Back Lager, High Plains Pilsner, Cabana Mexican Lager, and the two new ones listed below) as the brewery continues to celebrate the style as summer drags along. That will run all day at both locations as long as the beers don’t run out.

New Draft:

La Reforma tapped Mosaic Madness IPA for all of you lovers of that particular hop. Sidetrack will tap a new blonde ale, Fabio, at some point this week. Starr Brothers added Orangie Sky, a new hazy IPA. The Tatted Bee now has a Session Ale on tap. Tractor will tap BrrrQue Cold IPA on Friday. (UPDATES) Canteen has a double release for that lager flight on Friday with Export Lager and Shogun Willie Rice Lager. Canteen also added Burq Reynolds West Coast IPA. Thirsty Eye has a batch of Odin’s Monocle made with coconut limoncello tea.

Down south, Truth or Consequences Brewing will drop Lemondrop Sour on Thursday.

New Package:

Bosque will release Resto Hazy Pale Ale in cans and on draft at all locations this Friday. Boxing Bear has OktoBEARfest ready to go in cans and on draft, but they have not announced an official release day yet. La Cumbre will officially release their hugely popular Oktoberfest in cans and on draft this Friday. Marble adds to the seasonal creep (we kid, we kid) with Pumpkin Noir now available in cans and on draft. (UPDATE) Ex Novo released Consequential Sequin Potential, a new hazy IPA, in cans, with draft coming soon, and then also released Penny from the Block, a new American lager, in cans and on draft.

Notable Events:

Today (Wednesday) — Poetry & Beer is back at Tractor Wells Park at 7 p.m.

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

Saturday — High and Dry brings back Punk Matinee at 1 p.m., featuring 27 Devils Joking of Taos and local stalwarts Roadside Memorial.

Bosque’s Heights taproom will host the Birds of a Feather Parrot Rescue Fundraiser from 2 to 6 p.m.

Both Albuquerque and Santa Fe can enjoy some talented bellydancers performing at 8 p.m. The Desert Darlings are back at Tractor Wells Park for Hops & Dreams: SpongeBob Edition. Meanwhile, 1001 Nights of Bellydance will be at Second Street Rufina.

Saturday and Sunday — The sixth annual Santa Fe Beer & Food Festival will run from noon to 6 p.m. both days at El Rancho de Las Golondrinas. We will see what we can find out about which breweries are participating and what they will be taking to the fest. You can purchase tickets online here.

Quick News Bits:

Little Toad Creek’s staff is going on a retreat and both the Silver City and Las Cruces taprooms will be closed Sunday and Monday.

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.

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.

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: Tropi Kolsch (5.6% ABV, 20 IBU), a kolsch with lots of tropical-flavored hops.

Bosque Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Crimson & Clover (6.1% ABV, 10 IBU), a blonde ale with cherry and honey, now available only in cans, so get it quick before the supply runs out.

Bossfight Brewing (formerly Kilt Check Brewing) — Featured seasonal: Way of the Samurai, a Japanese rice lager that has become a staple at the brewery.

Bow & Arrow Brewing — Featured seasonal: Pearl Snaps (5% ABV), a tasty Japanese-style rice lager that is available in cans and on draft.

Boxing Bear Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: A Decade of Dorks Dort (5.3% ABV), a perfect lager for surviving the dog days of summer, brewed for the recent 10-year anniversary and available 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: Lemon Black Tea Cream Ale (4.2% ABV), which is 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: The entire Decem Series of beers, now available in cans and on draft, all of which are collaboration beers, including a pale ale, Italian pilsner, and cold IPA.

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: Monic Hazy IPA, the recent IPA Challenge winner, which you had better get soon because you know how fast good hazies come and go at GBB.

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 Koelsch is back for another run and for the record, that is not how we spell it, but we’ll still drink it.

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.

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: Shinobi (5.3% ABV, 18 IBU), yet another Japanese-style rice lager to help us get through August, available in cans and on draft.

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: Escape Clause DIPA (8.5% ABV, 75 IBU), a powerful hop bomb to help you escape from the world.

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

The Tatted Bee Brewhouse — Featured seasonal: Game On, an old-school pale ale that is one of the first three house beers now on tap.

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: Agent Orange Hazy DIPA (7.3% ABV, 17 IBU), which is infused with actual oranges, and not just citrus-like 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 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: Black Pearl (5.4% ABV), a Schwarzbier-inspired American dark lager.

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.

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— Stoutmeister