Turtle Mountain taproom inches ever closer toward the finish line

A little while back, a reader asked us if we might make a stop at the future Turtle Mountain Brewing taproom in northern Rio Rancho to check on the progress of one of the few offsite locations still in the works in New Mexico. Since I was headed out in that general direction to talk to someone for a different article, I figured why not double up on interviews, and TMBC owner Nico Ortiz was only too happy to oblige.

The taproom will be located at 7835 Enchanted Hills Blvd., in the Plaza at Enchanted Hills retail center off Highway 528. It is the first red light south of the intersection with Highway 550, though at present the construction on the bridge across the Rio Grande in Bernalillo is still (forever?) a mess, so I drove all the way up the length of 528 from Albuquerque.

Ortiz met me there with a crowler of Hoperation Hanging Garden IPL, and once we filled our glasses, we mov

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