How the heck has it already been 15 years for La Cumbre? It still feels like yesterday when we first walked in, sat around those barrels-as-tables, and had our first pints of Elevated IPA and Malpais Stout. But, time has passed, and now the brewery is celebrating another milestone with a week’s worth of events. Things kicked off back on Monday with a special draft release of an aged beer, and another followed Tuesday. You can check and see if there’s anything left of the 2024 La Negra and La Negra Reserve. Or, just wait for the next set of releases, which start today (Wednesday) with the 2024 Siren Song becoming available again on draft and in bottles. There will also be the release of Dunkel Lager in cans and on draft. This year’s La Negra Reserve will drop in bottles and on draft Thursday, followed by the Neptune Edition of Project Dank IPA in cans and on draft this Friday. Things will come to a head Saturday with the main Anniversary Party, which will feature the release of the special 15th Anniversary IPA in cans and on draft. In addition to all the releases, there will be Lords Ov Smoke serving up food Saturday and No Coast Goods will have shirt printing on site. Other events this week will include a special beer dinner at Farina Downtown today and the annual Bowling Tournament will be Sunday at 1 p.m. at Silva Lanes. Check the La Cumbre social media pages for information on how to sign up for that one. Happy anniversary, La Cumbre, and thanks for all the party favors!

New Draft:

Bosque recently tapped Sierra NM, a pale ale that pays tribute to a certain iconic California brew. Casa Vieja added Coyote Brown Ale. High and Dry tapped Gettin’ Figgy With It, a pastry tart. Marble added Burqueno Lager, Centennial IPA, Fiesta IPA, and Tecolate IPA. Tractor will tap Cranberry Ginger Cider on Friday. (UPDATES) Bombs Away tapped Anniversary IPA ($1 per pint will go to the EOD Warrior Foundation), Hazy Chain V.24 DIPA, and Radio Czech Pilsner. Brew Lab 101 added Gold Rush XIPA. Canteen will bring back Pecos Trail Brown and Wicked Raven BA Imperial Stout on Friday. Kaktus recently tapped Odds ‘N Ends Amber Ale and Through the Veil Pale Ale.

Up in Los Alamos, Bathtub Row tapped Holiday Cheer Barleywine and will soon add Sugar Plum Gose.

New Package:

Ex Novo brings back four classic variants of Kill the Sun — Grand Cru, Horchata, Dirty Chai, Coconut Chocolate Almond — in bottles and on draft this Friday. Steel Bender will release bottles of Mulled Spice Mead on Saturday. Second Street brought back Breaking Plaid Scotch Ale and added Superdelic Sloth Hazy IPA, both in cans and on draft.

Notable Events:

Thursday — Bosque West hosts Trivia for a Cause: Harry Potter from 6 to 9 p.m.

The Crypt Keeper’s Comedy Hour is back at Painted Lady at 7 p.m.

Friday — The Goth Night & Dark Market returns to Tractor Wells Park at 8 p.m.

Friday-Sunday — Flix Brewhouse hosts a donation drive every day from 1 to 8 p.m.

Saturday — Calavida Cantina hosts a Holiday Market from noon to 6 p.m.

Drag Queen Bingo is back at Canteen from 1 to 3 p.m.

Brew Lab 101 hosts the Holly Jolly Market from 1 to 5 p.m.

The Desert Darlings are back at Tractor Wells Park for Belly Nouveau at 7 p.m.

Painted Lady brings the spooky to December with Krampus and the Creatures of Christmas at 7 p.m.

Sunday — Flock of Moons hosts the Winter Market from 1 to 4 p.m.

Painted Lady’s Sunday Scaries returns with a special showing of The Nightmare Before Christmas at 6 p.m.

Monday — Bear Bingo will be back at Boxing Bear Tramway from 7 to 9 p.m., this time benefiting S.A.F.E. House NM.

Quick News Bits:

Bosque has closed both of their locations in Santa Fe, The Drinkery on the south side and Restoration Pizza at the Railyards. This is part of the ongoing Chapter 11 bankruptcy process. The Albuquerque area and Las Cruces locations are still open regular business hours.

The 377 Brewery will host a Christmas Food Drive until December 30. Check their social media for more details on what to donate.

The former Sobremesa location is planning to reopen by the end of the year under a new name and ownership. Blue Mesa, from the owners of Cocina Azul, will aim to be brewing beer again, though we will have to reach out to confirm the unique way they are preparing to do that.

Tickets for our favorite festival, WinterBrew, are now on sale. The 2026 event will take place January 23 in its usual spot at the Santa Fe Farmers Market.

Tractor has teamed up with The Barrett Foundation for a food drive that will last until Friday. Check their social media for what items are sought.

Albuquerque metro area breweries

Boese Brothers Brewery — Featured seasonal: Drunk Astronaut (8% ABV), the annual seasonal DIPA is loaded with Galaxy hops. Get it?

Bombs Away Beer Company — Featured seasonal: Stockpile Stout (5.2% ABV, 52 IBU), an American stout that tastes bigger than its ABV.

Bosque Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Driftwood (5.4% ABV, 25 IBU), the classic oatmeal stout is back on draft for a limited time.

Bow & Arrow Brewing — Featured seasonal: Buffalo Plaid (7.5% ABV), the wonderful Baltic porter is back in cans and on draft.

Boxing Bear Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Oso Otoño (6.4% ABV), the oatmeal brown ale is back for another run in cans and on draft.

Brekki Brekki/Cantina Craftworks — Featured seasonal: As a reader pointed out to us, the beers produced at Brekki Brekki are sold at all the restaurants under the Cantina Hospitality Group umbrella, so we should note that here. Contact the various locations to see what they have on tap.

Brew Lab 101 Beer & Cider Company — Featured seasonal: Singularity (10% ABV, 55 IBU), a barrel-aged stout perfect for whenever winter comes back.

Calavida Cantina — Featured seasonal: Midnight ESB, a very appropriate late fall seasonal.

Canteen Brewhouse — Featured seasonal: Industrial District Porter (6.6% ABV, 33 IBU), a devilish robust beast of a porter.

Casa Vieja Brewery — Featured seasonal: Festbier (6.4% ABV) is still on tap, so help them drink it up.

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

Dripline Brewery — Featured seasonal: Super Bloom APA (5.4% ABV), a sweet, floral pale ale that goes quite well with the new lineup of tasty smash burgers from the kitchen.

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

Ex Novo Brewing — Featured seasonal: Nevermore (12.1% ABV), a beautiful barrel-aged black barleywine, available for a limited time in bottles and on draft at both locations.

Flix Brewhouse  — Featured seasonal: Flix Brühaus, their version of an Oktoberfest lager, is back for the season.

Flock of Moons Brewing — Featured seasonal: Citrinitas (6.7% ABV, 29 IBU), a classic saison brewed in collaboration with the students of the CNM Brewing Program.

Gravity Bound Brewing — Featured seasonal: Maizey Train, a Mexican lager that actually seems to be able to stay on tap somewhat consistently because you all drink up the IPAs way too fast. Which is a good thing.

High and Dry Brewing — Featured seasonal: Ace of Haze (6.2% ABV), a hazy IPA that’s become a favorite of the locals.

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: Oktoberfest Bier will get you in the right seasonal mood.

La Cumbre Brewing — Featured seasonal: Oktoberfest (5.9% ABV), one of our favorite annual releases from the brewery, now available in cans and on draft.

La Reforma Brewery — Featured seasonal: West Ghost IPA, the most appropriate spooky season beer even if spooky season is over (but is it ever over?).

Lasso Brewing — Featured seasonal: Gravity Bound’s sister brewery is just starting out with their core four beers — German Pilsner, Helles, Dunkel, Weissbier — so try all of them and pick your favorite.

Marble Brewery — Featured seasonal: White Out (9% ABV), the big brother to Double White is back for a limited time in cans and on draft.

Nexus Brewery — Featured seasonal: Lush American Stout (6.9% ABV, 40 IBU), a hefty but still crushable stout.

Painted Lady Bed and Brew — Featured seasonal: A Naked American Man Stole My Balloons is not just a line from An American Werewolf in London, it’s also the name of their new stout.

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: Vienna Festbier, the award-winning lager is back on draft.

Rio Bravo Brewing — Featured seasonal: Psychedelic Decade (5.5% ABV), a mushroom brown ale brewed for their recent 10-year anniversary.

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: Belgian Strong (11% ABV), this behemoth is available in bottles only for a limited time.

Starr Brothers Brewing — Featured seasonal: Brown Chicken Brown Cow (6.8% ABV, 25 IBU), one of their original rotating specialties, this double brown ale is a chewy delight on colder nights.

Steel Bender Brewyard — Featured seasonal: Teddy Roe’s Policy IPA (7.8% ABV, 48 IBU), a new juicy version of the popular ale is available in cans and on draft.

Sunday Service Motor Company — Featured seasonal: Burque Fest, a robust take on a traditional Oktoberfest.

The Tatted Bee Brewhouse — Featured seasonal: Contact the brewery for an updated list of seasonals.

Thirsty Eye Brewing — Featured seasonal: Tengu Black Rice Lager, a special collaboration with Painted Lady and Flock of Moons.

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

Tractor Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Traktoberfest (6.2% ABV, 15 IBU), the classic märzen has returned.

Turtle Mountain Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: At Wit’s End (6.7% ABV, 20 IBU), a classic Belgian-style witbier, with $1 from every pour donated to Storehouse West.

Unhinged Brewing — Featured seasonal: Contact the far Westside brewery for an updated list of seasonals.

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.”

Nuckolls Brewing — Featured seasonal: Coal Car (5.5% ABV), an oatmeal stout that’s just one of 11 house beers now available.

Rowley Farmhouse Ales — Featured seasonal: Second-String Loser (9.6% ABV, 26 IBU), a Belgian golden strong ale.

Santa Fe Brewing Company — Featured seasonal: Oktoberfest (6% ABV), which continues to linger on tap and in cans until we drink it all up. Well, not just us, the rest of you have to help, too.

Second Street Brewery — Featured seasonal: Superior Porter, a robust dark brew perfect for the start of winter, 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: Contact the brewery for an updated list of seasonals.

Other breweries you need to visit

Bathtub Row Brewing — Featured seasonal: okTUBerfest (6.4% ABV), because we refuse to let fest season die and Los Alamos is with us on this one.

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.

Jemez Mountain Brewhouse — Featured seasonal: Strange Occurrences, their take on an Oktoberfest.

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: Oktoberfest is back in bottles and on tap for the season.

Truth or Consequences Brewing — Featured seasonal: Honey Winter Ale (9.5% ABV), described by the brewery as “a strong, sweet, deep amber beer, with rich flavors of caramel, toast, & dates. Fresh Rio Grande Valley honey adds a delicate floral sweetness to the beer’s malty foundation.”

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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