The number of brewery/distillery combinations continues to grow across New Mexico

While perusing the pending small brewer licenses with the State of New Mexico, a new entry appeared that caught my eye this past week. Albuquerque Distilling, which is located at 5001 Central on the east end of Nob Hill, is getting into the brewing game as well, or so it appears. This is just the continuation of a recent trend of distilleries adding a brewing component, and breweries adding distilling, and of course places opening right from the get-go with both licenses.

It is somewhat reminiscent of when breweries opened in New Mexico in the late 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s, taking one of three approaches — packaging only with no on-site sales, adding a brewhouse to an existing restaurant, or opening a brand-new brewpub.

The current boom of the “brewstilleries” started in the Brewery District off Interstate 25 between Comanche and Candelaria. Broken Trail Spirits an

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