Do not let that approaching winter storm deter you, for WinterBrew is back this Friday at the Santa Fe Farmers Market at the Railyard.

There are still some tickets available, so grab them while you can because this event always sells out. As we noted in our first preview from a couple weeks ago, there are now 18 breweries (up from 16), and there will be a heated outdoor patio with food trucks to keep you satiated for something other than beer. This is one of the biggest fundraisers of the year for the New Mexico Brewers Guild, and more than worth supporting.

But, in the end, this event is all about the beer, befitting the season with a plethora of dark, decadent offerings. In other words, this the Crew’s kind of festival, and arguably our favorite of the year (heck, drop the arguably, this is our favorite).

As we always tended to do with these sorts of fests, we asked the breweries what beers they will be bringing. So far, we have heard back from 16 of the 18 participants. If the remaining four send us their releases, we will share them below.

• Bathtub Row Brewing Co-op: Prometheus Pilsner, Ctrl-Alt-Repeat, Sugar Plum Gose, Holiday Cheer Barleywine
• Beer Creek Brewing: TBA
• Bow & Arrow Brewing: TBA
• Brew Lab 101: Singularity BBA Imperial Stout, Sexi NuMexi Mexican Lager, Wicked Pissah NEIPA, Peachy Keen Hard Cider
• Canteen Brewhouse: Autumn Rose Vienna Lager, Industrial Porter, Resolution Smesolution, Laid Back Lager
• Flock of Moons: Vele (BBA Baltic Porter), Confusticate and Bebother! (Dark Yorkshire Ale), A Policeman’s Dream (Pastry Stout), Forever Twilight (Munich Dunkel), Retrograde Rebel (Hazy IPA)
• La Cumbre Brewing: Azulito Mexican Lager, Malpais Stout, A Slice of Hefen, Mystic Mesa Hazy IPA, Disco Flavor WCIPA
• Nuckolls Brewing: Sun Junipero (Gruit), Usata (Czech Dark Lager), Kyle Line (Scotch Ale), Hold on Saison (Dark Saison), Doodle Bug (Saison)
• Red River Brewing: Here Comes Trouble (Light Lager), Copper Chair Amber, Butter Pecan ESB, Prospector Porter
• Rio Bravo Brewing: Kolsch, Mushroom Brown, A Tun-a Fruit, Barrel-Aged Dunk-a-Chito
• Rowley Farmhouse Ales: VIP hour — Two-Year Spontaneous Blend, plus cans of Every Brewery has a Paul (Farmhouse Ale); First hour — Ned Ryerson Double Barrel (Barleywine); Second hour — Mike Drop (Imperial Stout); Final hour — Ned Loves Mike
• Santa Fe Brewing: Honey Rye, Social Experiment Blackberry, Adobe Igloo, State Pen Porter, plus cans of Java Stout, Barrel-Aged Chicken Killer, 30th Anniversary Barleywine, Starter Fluid (Hazy DIPA)
• Second Street Brewery: 2920 IPA, Space Heater (English Winter Warmer), Agua Fria Pilsner, Breaking Plaid (West Coast Scottish Ale), House IPA, Superior Porter, Rod’s Best Bitter, Cream Stout, Bone Shaker Amber, Kolsch
• Steel Bender Brewyard: Red Iron Double Red IPA, Deep Cuts DIPA, Blackberry Dynamite Pastry Sour, Brickie American Stout, Mulled Spice DebaucherMead
• Thirsty Eye Brewing: Biscochito Liquido, The Wild Gourdberries, el Drac IPA, Huning Highlander Scotch Ale, La Llagerona
• Tractor Brewing: Bohemian Shade (Czech Dark Lager), Ole Wizard Fingers (Doppelbock), Blood Orange Cider, Mustachio Milk Stout, Turkey Drool
• Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery: Molé Imperial Stout, Golden Bear (WCIPA), Maibock, Tober (Festbier/Märzen)
• Turtle Mountain Brewing: Solstice Stout, Burqueño Black (Schwarzbier), Dankle Dunkel, Make It a Dubbel, Thunderbolt Tripel, Jigsaw IPA (Belgian IPA)

The beers we are looking forward to trying, either for the first time or just because they are a reliable old favorite, include the Holiday Cheer Barleywine, Singularity BBA Imperial Stout, Autumn Rose Vienna Lager (gotta sneak in a sessionable one), Confusticate and Bebother! (a WinterBrew exclusive debut), Kyle Line, Butter Pecan ESB, Ned Loves Mike (really, just about every RFA exclusive release), Breaking Plaid, Huning Highlander, Ole Wizard Fingers (a WinterBrew exclusive debut), Molé Stout, and Solstice Stout.

Oh, this is going to be a good one.

Keep supporting local!

— Stoutmeister