The Brew Crew quietly turned 13 a few days ago, which means we have been doing editions of Week Ahead for a very long time now. That also means we repeat some of these lead-ins from year to year, based on seasons, events, releases, and so on and so forth. Once again in January, we are calling upon everyone to do a little extra to help out the breweries. When I sat down with Ex Novo for Look Back/Look Ahead, they joked about preparing for the slowness of January as far back as July. At least, I think they were joking, but probably not. While we all recognize that many folks participate in Dry January (including two Crew members this year, and we are proud of them both), there are still ways to support your favorite breweries. Most, if not all, have NA beverages available. You can order food to go from those with kitchens, if sitting in the taproom is too tempting to order a pint. Missed out on something you wanted as a gift over the holidays? Gift yourselves, the merch shelves are still fully stocked. Buy a gift card or a membership for use later in the year. Snag some cans or bottles that will age well and hide them in the back of your fridge. There are lots of ways to help, so get on out there and show some support. Trust us, every brewery could use a little extra these days!

New Draft:

Boese Brothers tapped a Nitro Porter. Bombs Away brought back Condition Red Lager. Bosque added Keep the Wolves Away, a hazy pale ale, and Dark & Ominous, a dark ale. Dripline will tap their second and third beers, Santé Mexican Lager and Waiting Game Wheat Beer, on Thursday. Flock of Moons will tap Spring Clean for the May Queen, an ESB on nitro, this Friday. Kaktus recently added the mushroom-infused Lion’s Brew Dunkel. Marble tapped Drytalian Pilsner and Canadian Tropics IP-Eh (early contender for beer name of the year). Ponderosa added a Hefeweizen. Rio Bravo mixed together their biscochito dunkel and coffee porter to create Rio Runs on Dunk, available on nitro, and then also released a new barrel-aged imperial stout, Love Gravy. (UPDATES) Brekki Brekki tapped Cherry Stout. Canteen brought back Pop’s Pilsner on draft for now, with cans coming soon. Rumor just tapped a new batch of their Berliner weisse, Bug Juice.

Up in Los Alamos, Bathtub Row collaborated with Wanderlust Brewing of Flagstaff to create Last Chair Pale.

New Package:

Ex Novo quietly released Coconut Penguin Tuxedo Stout in cans and on draft. La Cumbre will release Yum Wagon, a double hazy IPA, in cans and on draft this Friday.

Notable Events:

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

Friday — La Cumbre is hosting Plants & Pints, where you can exchange a potted plant for a pint at both locations all day.

Saturday — Ex Novo will host a Doggo Adoption event from noon to 3 p.m. in Corrales.

Sunday — Painted Lady Bed and Brew will celebrate Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Quick News Bits:

The countdown to WinterBrew is on! Our favorite festival of the season (year?) will be at the Santa Fe Farmers Market at the Railyard on Friday, January 24. Get those tickets now because it will sell out. We will have a full preview with beer lists next week.

The names have been named when it comes to the new owners of Marble Brewery. We hope to sit down and interview them sooner than later.

Rumor Brewing has launched a Kickstarter campaign to build a new playground for all the children of their customers who could use a fun place to play. Check out this link for more information.

New winter hours at Flock of Moons are noon to 10 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday, noon to 11 Thursday, and noon to midnight Friday and Saturday.

Painted Lady Bed and Brew shared their new hours for the Ghost Light Saloon. They will be open 5 to 9 p.m. on Thursdays, 5 to 10 on Fridays and Saturdays, and 5 to 9 on Sundays.

After a reader tipped us off that Palmer Brewery beers are no longer on tap at Left Turn Distilling, we removed their entry below. We hope to have more on this story soon. And before anyone asks, Rob is fine. Nobody panic on that front.

Quarter Celtic’s Vienna Lager (returning soon) won another gold medal, this time at the European Beer Star competition. It previously won at the Great American Beer Festival in October. Congrats, again, to the QC brewing team!

Albuquerque metro area breweries

Boese Brothers Brewery  — Featured seasonal: Brown Ale (5% ABV), an English-style, sessionable brown.

Bombs Away Beer Company — Featured seasonal: Chuck’s Pilsner (5.4% ABV), a single-hop and single-malt lager made with malt from Schwebach Malz in Estancia.

Bosque Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Potato Cannon (6.3%), a sweet potato porter that won’t take a door off a car.

Bossfight Brewing (formerly Kilt Check Brewing) — Featured seasonal: Dark Magic Baltic Porter, a beer so good it will double your usual pinball score. Well, maybe not, but it’s good.

Bow & Arrow Brewing — Featured seasonal: Frosty Mesa (5% ABV), a crisp German-style pilsner, is now available in cans and on draft.

Boxing Bear Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Metal Head Stout (6.66% ABV), one of our seasonal favorites, is nearly out, down to just draft at the Firestone location, so get it quick.

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

Brew Lab 101 Beer & Cider Company — Featured seasonal: Singularity BBA Imperial Stout (11% ABV), the annual barrel-aged beast is back on tap.

Canteen Brewhouse — Featured seasonal: Grundy Thunder Porter (6.2% ABV, 25 IBU), a robust porter perfect for the season, available in cans and on draft.

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

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

Differential Brewing — Featured seasonal: Chai Stout (5% ABV, 24 IBU), a darker way to enjoy your favorite tea spice.

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

Ex Novo Brewing — Featured seasonal: Kill the Sun, the annual release of four Russian imperial stouts in bottles and on draft, with the adjunct-free Grand Cru, and the decadent trio of variants — Pecan Pie, Almond Coffee, and Biscochito. Only the Grand Cru and Pecan Pie are still on tap in Corrales.

Flix Brewhouse  — Featured seasonal: Contact the brewery/movie theater for an updated list of seasonals.

Flock of Moons Brewing — Featured seasonal: Tomorrow Begat Tomorrow (10.2% ABV), a big, sweet, not too yeasty Belgian dark strong.

Gravity Bound Brewing — Featured seasonal: Subtitles On, the classic Munich dunkel is back for a limited time, just like every other beer tends to be at GB.

Harmon Lane Brewing at Southwest Grape and Grain — Featured seasonal: Oktoberfest-ivus (6.9%), a hefty lager that everyone needs to help drink up, darn it!

High and Dry Brewing — Featured seasonal: Date Night Disaster (5% ABV, 10 IBU), a simple, no-frills stout that’s perfect for this weather.

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: Winter Doppelbock, a hefty lager to get you through the chilly season.

La Cumbre Brewing — Featured seasonal: La Negra (14.1% ABV), the beautiful beast of a Russian imperial stout is back in bottles and on draft.

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

Late Shift Lager House at The Craftroom — Featured seasonal: We were told that they are currently not brewing, with no timetable for that resuming.

Marble Brewery — Featured seasonal: Turkish Style Coffee Stout (7.5% ABV) is once again available in cans and on draft.

Nexus Brewery — Featured seasonal: Beam Me Up (Higher) Scotty (9.3% ABV), the two-time World Beer Cup medal winner is back for the season.

Painted Lady Bed and Brew — Featured seasonal: To The Brim With Fright, a dark Christmas ale that will keep the spooky in the season.

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.

Rio Bravo Brewing — Featured seasonal: Very Demure (6.7% ABV, 19 IBU), an apricot wheat with a clever name.

Rumor Brewing — Featured seasonal: La Madera Mild (5.5% ABV, 22 IBU), a chewy little biscuit of an English-style brew that is perfect before or after a day on the hiking trails around Cedar Crest.

Sidetrack Brewing — Featured seasonal: Stay Wild (5.3% ABV, 15 IBU), because sometimes you need a refreshing American lager as a break from (or warm-up to) all these big beers.

Sobremesa — Featured seasonal: Stout Seco, an Irish dry stout is now on tap.

Starr Brothers Brewing — Featured seasonal: Wakin’ Bacon (7.2% ABV, 20 IBU), a smoked maple brown ale brewed in collaboration with Boxing Bear, it’s quite the dessert ale.

Steel Bender Brewyard — Featured seasonal: Italian Stallion (6.1% ABV, 65 IBU), a bigger, stronger, hoppier version of Esmerelda, now available on draft.

Sunday Service Motor Company — Featured seasonal: Red Velvet Cake Stout (8.2% ABV), a not-too-sweet dessert beer that hides the ABV rather well.

The Tatted Bee Brewhouse — Featured seasonal: Tatted Stout, a nice and chewy dark ale of decadence.

Thirsty Eye Brewing — Featured seasonal: Biscochito Liquido, the annual holiday favorite is back on tap for a limited time.

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

Tractor Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Turkey Drool (8.2% ABV), the Crew’s favorite seasonal from this brewery is an amazing holiday concoction.

Turtle Mountain Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Scarlet Letter (12.5%), the brewery’s first seltzer is an imperial one, made with cranberry and sage.

Unhinged Brewing — Featured seasonal: Tatooine Spring (7.8% ABV), the imperial amber is back for another run.

Vision City Brewstillery — Featured seasonal: Winter Lager, a season-appropriate seasonal if we ever saw one.

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 list of seasonals.

Nuckolls Brewing — Featured seasonal: Hoppy Wife, Hoppy Life, a hazy pale ale and a possible contender for Beer Name of the Year.

Rowley Farmhouse Ales — Featured seasonal: Sin Barreras – Colkegan Barrel ’24 (13.5% ABV, 50 IBU), a little of this barrel-aged beast of an imperial stout is still on tap after Blackest Friday, so get it while it lasts!

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: Superior Porter (6.3% ABV, 34 IBU), a seasonal-appropriate robust porter, 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: Contact the brewery for an updated list of seasonals.

Other breweries you need to visit

Bathtub Row Brewing — Featured seasonal: Oz’s Oatmeal Stout (5% ABV), it’s back on tap after a short absence, because you need a stout after skiing at Pajarito, right?

Downshift Brewing — Featured seasonal: Gratitude Pale Ale (5.4% ABV, 40 IBU), brewed to support local charities, and right now $1 from every pint sold goes to helping in the recovery efforts from the South Fork and Salt fires.

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

Red River Brewing and Distilling — Featured seasonal: Russian Imperial Stout (10% ABV, 30 IBU), which proves you just have to head north into the colder regions of New Mexico to find the big stouts.

Sierra Blanca Brewing  — Featured seasonal: Pecan Brown Ale, a classic offering from the brewery.

Truth or Consequences Brewing — Featured seasonal: Rio Rojo Red Ale (4.5% ABV, 30 IBU), a nice malty treat similar to the Irish red, but made with different malts and a German ale yeast that produce some distinctive differences.

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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