The very best thing about beer is that it doesn’t just come in a few flavor profiles or a handful of styles. Beer, as you know, is as diverse as a Disney cast in 2026. It can be bitter, chocolatey, sweet, funky, farmhouse-y, or downright lip-puckeringly sour. Fête de La Funk celebrates this large section of the beer spectrum somewhere in the middle, just as far away from Pilsners as it is from IPAs. For those who love the sour, the funky, the Farmhouse, and the fruit-forward, Fête de la Funk is your festival!

On Saturday (Tomorrow) April 18^th, Fête de La Funk, returns for it’s third edition, this time hosted by our friends and Santa Fe’s newest brewery on the block, Keeping Together.

“This year people can look forward to lots of different styles of sours and saisons. This is actually the year that we’ve had the most breweries participate in the event,” said NM Guild Director Ebbie Edmonston in a phone interview.

And once again, Edmonston was kind enough to send us the beer list beforehand, and from the looks of it, there is a plethora of reasons to come on out to celebrate these sassy styles:

Bathtub Brewing Co-Op

Beer:  Nuevo Sake 2.0

Style:  Spiced/Herbed Beer

ABV/IBU:  5.8% – 

Additional Info:  A sake inspired beer brewed with rice, jasmine tea, jenmaicha and lemongrass, fermented with sake yeast. 

Boxing Bear Brewing Co.

Beer:  Black and Blue Tart

Style:  Fruit Beer

ABV/IBU:  5.6% – 10

Additional Info: Crisp and tart, with a subtle sweetness, this wheat-based ale is bursting with flavor of blackberries and blueberries. 

Canteen Brewhouse

Beer:  Social Captial – Marg Party

Style:  Sour- Frutied

ABV/IBU:  6% – 15

Additional Info:  A crisp, tart sour ale inspired by a classic margarita, layered with bright lime, subtle orange citrus, and a touch of salt for a refreshing, zesty finish.

Ex Novo Brewing Co.

Beer:  Oh Noir!

Style:  Barrel-Aged Spon Beer

ABV/IBU:  9.3% – 

Flock of Moons

1 Beer:  Coven of the Pink Moon

Style:  Raspberry Berliner Weisse

ABV/IBU:  3.3% – 5

Additional Info:  

2 Beer:  The Grey Havens

Style:  Grisette

ABV/IBU:  4.5% – 16

High & Dry Brewery

1 Beer:  Tropic Like It’s Hot

Style:  Fruited Sour

ABV/IBU:  6.2% / 10

Additional Info:  Hops/Additions: Galaxy and Amarillo hops, passionfruit and pineapple (both dried and puree) Flavor/Aroma profile: A vibrant fruited tart ale bursting with juicy pineapple and zesty passionfruit, delivering bold tropical flavor and aroma. Brightly tart and beautifully balanced, it finishes clean with a crisp, refreshing tropical snap.

2 Beer:  Neon Desert TART-arita

Style:  Fruited Tart

ABV/IBU:  6.1% / 10

Additional Info:  Refreshing and punchy tart ale with briny sea salt, zesty lime and a sweet-tart mix of prickly pear and raspberry.

Keeping Together Brewery – is keeping it secret for the event but it’s four new beers, not currently on draft

Ponderosa Brewing Co.

Beer:  Razzle My Peaches

Style:  Kettle Sour w. Raspberries & Peaches

ABV/IBU:  5.6% – 21

Rio Bravo Brewing Co

Beer:  Watermelon Tajin Gose

Style:  Gose- fruited

ABV/IBU:  7.1% – 22

Additional Info:  Sweet, sour, salty

Rowley Farmhouse Ales

Beer:  Mountain of Light- Apple

Style:  Sour- Fruited Gose

ABV/IBU:  4.7% – 5

Additional Info:  Mountain of Light is our foeder-fermented and bulk aged gose-style wheat beer. It is brewed with a large percentage of Mecca Grade Shaniko, Alvarado, and Wickiup wheats, along with Weyermann Additional Pale Pils basemalt. We sour the beer with our house lactobacillus strain, then ferment it using a healthy pitch of Dupont yeast. It then sees the resident house mixed culture embedded in our foeder wood interstices and is allowed to meld into a finished product over an extended period of time. It features a light touch of salinity from Pacific sea salt added to the mash, lemony sourness from the lactobacillus fermentation, and a light touch of funk from the wood contact. It’s light but complex, and ultimately refreshing. 

Second Street Brewery

Beer: Tangerine Dream

Style:  Kettle Sour with Tangerine

ABV/IBU:  4.8% – 0

Additional Info:  Refreshing, tart, balanced, and perfectly drinkable all season long. 

Sidetrack Brewing Co.

Beer:  Barn Burner

Style:  Dry Hopped Saison

ABV/IBU:  5.4% – 30

Steel Bender Brewyard

Beer:  Pineapple Dynamite

Style:  Pastry Sour Ale

ABV/IBU:  5.4% – 5

Additional Info:  Just like all DYNAMITE pastry sours, brewed with two-row, Munich, wheat, and acidulated malts, hopped with Magnum, kettle soured, boiled with lactose, and fermented with our house European Ale yeast. Pure pineapple puree is added to the fermentation making for a sunny yellow color, sweet pineapple flavor, subtle creaminess, and tropical tanginess.

Thirsty Eye Brewing Co. 

Beer:  Bruce-ski

Style:  Nelson Sauvin Dry-Hopped Saison

ABV/IBU:  7% – 35

Every year Edmonston looks forward to this event, perhaps the most, as it is a passion project for her. “I like to see how much people get excited for this event. I love these styles of beer, and so it’s really nice to meet other people who enjoy these beers as well, and see it so well received,” Edmonston said.

Tickets are still available to purchase online through Eventbrite, and they will be available at the door as well. Your ticket will get you a sample of each of the beers, one full pour, and a commemorative glass.

Who: NM Brewers Guild

What: The third edition of Fete de la Funk, New Mexico’s biggest and best festival of sours and funky beers.

Where: Keeping Together, 2908 Rufina St, Santa Fe, NM 87507

When: Saturday April 18, 2026. 12-4 pm

Why you should go: Fifteen of New Mexico’s finest breweries are bringing some of their tartest, funkiest, and fruit forward beers to one of New Mexico’s coolest new taprooms. Brasas Food Truck will be running the grill all day for your gnoshing needs, and as is tradition, there will be a very funk-heavy musical set, this time from one of Santa Fe’s most revered vinyl spin-doctors, DJ Pygar.

I can’t wait to try some these great beers in Keeping Together’s year-round-patio taproom, even if some of the beers might remind me of being double-dog-dared to eat a bag full of warheads as a kid. I hope to see you there! To those who love the super sour, the fantastically fruit-forward, and to those who want the funk, and gotta have that funk! Cheers!

-Luke