Boxing Bear shakes up the collaboration game with a new artist-inspired series

Plenty of breweries have collaborated on beers over the years here in Albuquerque and parts beyond. Now it may be time for a new sort of collaboration, and not just something involving beer writers like us.

Boxing Bear Brewing and local glass-blowing artist Rashan Jones of High Desert Flameworks have teamed up for a collaboration brew called Just Jonesin’, a peach cobbler ale that debuts this Saturday in four-pack cans and on draft at all three taprooms.

The collaboration came about as a result of the longtime friendship between Jones and head brewer/co-owner Justin Hamilton, but also as a way to shake things up on the collab front.

“This was a collaboration that I’ve kind of had an idea for doing for a while,” Hamilton said. “We wanted to kind of do something outside the box as far as what collabs we’ve been doing with beer. We don’t do a w

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