The Week Ahead in Beer: Merry Christmas to all and to all a good (beer-filled) night

Greetings, New Mexico craft beer lovers. Stoutmeister here with the reunified edition of The Week Ahead in Beer. This column covers all the breweries in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties, with Santa Fe’s four breweries and one newcomer down in Socorro also joining the party. We tried hard to keep the state edition going, but without participation from the breweries outside the I-25 corridor, it was futile.

Welcome to the first of two major holiday weeks. To help you all out, we’ve gotten a listing of (almost all) the breweries’ holiday hours. Take note, EVERYONE is closed for Christmas Day. These are the hours for today (Wednesday), AKA Christmas Eve. Let this be your planning guide for last-minute growler fills and/or merchandise pickups.

• Back Alley: closed all day
• Bosque: open until 5 p.m.
• Boxing Bear: open until 8 p.m.
• Broken Bottle: closed all day
• Canteen: open till 3 p.m.
• Cazuela’s: open till 7 p.m.
• Chama River

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