USA, NM: Red Door Brewing to launch in Albuquerque

Red Door Brewing Co. — the latest addition to Albuquerque’s growing craft beer scene — will open to the public on September, 17, according to managing partner Matt Biggs.

Red Door has settled into an 11,000-square-foot building.

While technically ready to open for the last few days, Biggs said the owners decided to hold off until this week to ensure the beer “was at the exceptionally high level we would expect from our neighbors,” citing La Cumbre, Il Vicino and Marble.

Biggs said Red Door will launch with its Threshold IPA, Roamer Red, Paint It Black Milk Stout, Gateway Blonde Ale and Unhinged Cider.

“I think we know when we open, we’ll be proud of our beer, our space, and our staff, who will be ready to rumble by that time,” Biggs said.

Red Door joins a lineup of about 20 microbreweries in the Albuquerque area, but neither its owners nor Chris Goblet of the New Mexico Brewers Guild think the city has reached its craft beer saturation point.

“Oh, not yet,” Goblet said. “There is a town in Oregon called Bend that has 80,000 people and 16 breweries.”

17 September, 2014