Beer Guide for visiting New Mexico

In the last few weeks I have visited a few of the new breweries that recently opened here in town. Both Bow and Arrow and Quarter Celtic were nice spots, with a lot of people visiting in the first few days of opening, Very cool to see the locals out supporting Craft Beer here in Abq. Although waiting in lines at breweries was a first for me here in town, i'm sure that wont be the case for very long while every one is just flocking to the newest shiniest spots in town.

Bow and Arrow's spot was very refined, with a huge open tap room and nice bar- with a modern appeal and a large space to grow the brewery out substantially. The space kind of reminded me of Rio Bravo, but the beer was already exponentially better, and given some time I figure they will be making solid beers.

Quarter Celtic really blew me away, for being a brand new brewery they were already running like a well oiled machine. Much smaller tap room than Bow and Arrow, but a full menu and open kitchen set this place apart from every other brewery in town. Food was good, with a nice menu and service was quick. And most importantly the beers were quality, and didn't taste like those of a new brewery at all, everything already seemed dialed in, and I look forward to what they produce in the future. The staff was very familiar as well, looks like practically the entire canteen staff is now working at Q.C.

Still need to visit the Duel Tap room, Kaktus tap room, and Firkin brewhouse... although i'm in no rush to get out to those places, when I keep hearing how good the new project Dank is, and beers like the newest session IPA from Bosque are pouring (probably the juiciest beer i've ever had from a NM brewery).