Recently, in other parts of the country, a trend has emerged where two or more breweries will team up to share a production space. Rather than pay for separate facilities, the breweries team up to lower costs so long as they can make a shared space work.

It’s already happening here, on a smaller scale, with Boese Brothers and Gravity Bound/Lasso working side-by-side in the brewery at Gold and Sixth. Now it’s about to happen on a much larger scale.

Bosque Brewing will begin moving the production of their core beers to the main brewery at 111 Marble Ave. Yeah, the rumor that two of the biggest breweries in the state were merging was partially true.

Here’s the path that led them to this decision. At the end of 2024, Bosque shut down most of their brewing operations at their North facility in Bernalillo. The stated reason was over a dispute with the town over waste water.

As such, Bosque once again shifted their core beer production back to Sleeping Giant in Denver, which they had previously done while North was under construction back in 2016-17. They did keep producing small-batch and specialty/seasonal beers at North, though most of those were of the draft-only variety.

It was not an ideal situation for Bosque, so their leadership began talking to the Marble leadership, which had excess brewing capacity. Both breweries also have Admiral Beverage as their distributor now, with Marble having switched over following their sale to the current ownership team led by Bert Boyce and Jarrett Babincsak.

Now the deal has been struck, and Marble will handle the brewing, production, and distribution of core Bosque brands such as Riverwalker IPA and Elephants on Parade, bringing those back from Denver. Bosque will continue to brew their one-off beers in Bernalillo.

Under the Marble umbrella, Bosque’s beers will get an even wider distribution across New Mexico. Otherwise, not much else will change. The recipes will stay the same, and Bosque will maintain full ownership and control of all of their many, many taprooms across the state.

We reached out to Boyce at Marble and hope to hear back soon, since we did have a few lingering questions about this. When those answers arrive, we will update this post.

In the meantime, we raise our glasses to the spirit of partnership and collaboration that is still going strong among New Mexico breweries.

Keep supporting local!

— Stoutmeister