Brewery Patio Bracket Round One: The best of the burbs and the taprooms far afield

All right, as we detailed last week, it is time for the opening round of our first brewery patio bracket challenge. This is all purely for fun, a way to celebrate our breweries and their efforts to maximize their patios during the current year.

We started with the breweries down south, where 575 Brewing of Alamogordo and Cloudcroft Brewing have piled up a ton of votes so far. After that, we split up the offsite taprooms of Albuquerque between those east and west of Interstate 25, and the results have been awfully close so far. You can still vote in those polls if you have not already.

Today, we have two brackets that do not necessarily go together, but we gotta get ’em in there. First, there are the breweries in the Albuquerque suburbs located in Sandoval County, namely those in Bernalillo, Corrales, and Rio Rancho, plus one bonus brewery on the east side of the Sand

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