A tale of Turtle Mountain: Purgatorio behind, Paradiso for the taking.

Time and work have a way of dominating my creative juices at times. I have sat on this and another of our year-end articles for too long by my reckoning, and to the consternation of my editor to be sure. (Yeah, just a bit. — S) A while back I had the utmost pleasure of sitting down with brewer Tim Woodward and owner Nico Ortiz of Turtle Mountain on a lovely winter afternoon to discuss the triumphs and hardships of our last solar revolution, and the hopes and dreams for this one. Without further ado.

Tim: 2015 was a hell of a year for Turtle Mountain, specifically regarding getting that parking lot development going and getting the fire suppression installed in the building.

The project went quite over what was initially budgeted and unfortunately took up many of the resources that had been planned for other endeavors.

Tim: So, for the readers who don’t know, the City of Rio Rancho came in and told Nico that

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