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core beers on tap
Ghost Train IPA
Ghost Train IPA
Ghost Train IPA
7% ABV, 88 IBU
Let the aroma of orange blossoms and passion fruit take you away to your tropical paradise. This nectar-like elixir will hit your palate like a tsunami of citrus and honey & the dry malt finish will force you to dive back into refreshing waves of IPA goodness.
Rip Saw Red
Ghost Train IPA
Ghost Train IPA
6% ABV, 60 IBU
Pacific Northwest hops are right at home in this NW-style red ale: woody, spicy, piney and citrusy. They also enjoy playing against the lush backdrop of a blend of pale, carapils, caramel & chocolate malts.
Crosscut Kölsch
Ghost Train IPA
New Mexico Lime Lager
4.9% ABV, 25 IBU
Brewed just like in Cologne: German pilsner & wheat malts, German Magnum hops for bittering, Hersbrucker hops for aroma & a spicy note. Fermented slow & cooled with an authentic kolsch yeast strain brought back from our brewmaster's studies in Berlin.
New Mexico Lime Lager
Blood Orange Double Wit
New Mexico Lime Lager
5.5% ABV, 18 IBU
Ponderosa's take on a classic Mexican lager, this beer starts as a Vienna style lager, but then diverges sharply with the use of Southern Cross hops from New Zealand, which provide a natural lime flavor that we then boost with a small addition of lime peel for a refreshing beer.
Bellamah Brown
Blood Orange Double Wit
Blood Orange Double Wit
5.0% ABV, 30 IBU
Inspired from a traditional North England style brown ale, our Bellamah is bright & mahogany in color. Caramelized sugar and toffee will fill your nose & the roasted malts give the brown a rich dynamic flavor, finishing with a subtle dark chocolate bitterness.
Blood Orange Double Wit
Blood Orange Double Wit
Blood Orange Double Wit
7.0% ABV, 12 IBU
Take a traditional belgian style witbier, brewed with unmalted wheat for taste and body, spiced with a gentle addition of coriander and give it a ponderosa twist. Blood orange and lemon peel replace the traditional valencia sweet and bitter orange peel to give this beer a bright and juicy character.
seasonal beers on tap
Lumberjack Saaz Dark Lager
Lumberjack Saaz Dark Lager
Lumberjack Saaz Dark Lager
4.69% ABV, 25 IBU
This German classic beer is an excellent easy drinking dark beer for those winter days. The dark Czech style inspired lager is made with 100% Czech Saaz hops. the Czech Saaz has soft, spicy, earthy, and woodsy flavors that compliment the caramel, chocolate, and coffee notes from the crystal and roasted malts.
Raspberry Wheat Ale
Lumberjack Saaz Dark Lager
Lumberjack Saaz Dark Lager
5.5% ABV, 18 IBU
Take our American Wheat Ale and infuse with lots of organic red raspberry and you get this beer, an easy drinking, slightly tart and fruity glass of happiness.
Oatmeal Steam Stout
Oatmeal Steam Stout
Oatmeal Steam Stout
5.8% ABV, 35 IBU
50 Shades of Black is an Oatmeal Stout brewed with a twist. Instead of using an ale yeast to brew this black beauty, it is brewed using a lager yeast and fermented at 'warmer' temperatures. That's why it is dubbed a steam stout. With a silky body from using oats, this beer has subtle estery fruit flavors to go along with the chocolate, coffee, and roasted notes.
Italian Pilsner
Oatmeal Steam Stout
Oatmeal Steam Stout
4.9% ABV, 35 IBU
You may remember our Hoppy Pilsner, this is what that beer was based on, a German take on the classic pilsner with an improvement not allowed under the Reinheinstgebot purity law, a huge dry hop of Hersbrucker and German Relax hops take the classic noble hop flavor and aroma over the top!
awards
2022 World Beer Cup Gold Medal for Hoppy Lager (Italian Pilsner)
2022 World Beer Cup Gold Medal for Hoppy Lager (Italian Pilsner)
2022 World Beer Cup Gold Medal for Hoppy Lager (Italian Pilsner)
2021 GABF Gold Medal for Hoppy Lager (Italian Pilsner)
2022 World Beer Cup Gold Medal for Hoppy Lager (Italian Pilsner)
2022 World Beer Cup Gold Medal for Hoppy Lager (Italian Pilsner)
The brewery team
Brewmaster
We’re fortunate to have one of the most accomplished brewers in the country running our breweries.
Alan Taylor was named one of the nation’s best “unsung brewers” by All About Beer magazine in 2015, and we couldn’t agree more. Alan caught the brewing bug while in college, and it followed him to Germany, where he was studying linguistics.
Fortunately for us, he switched tracks and instead went to brewing school in Berlin. When he returned, he worked for a number of larger breweries, including Full Sail, Gordon-Biersch and Widmer Brothers, before joining our team.
Taylor’s breadth of experience is reflected in the quality you find in the beers he brews, whether he’s making a sticky American IPA or a delicate pale lager.
Head Brewer
Ira Strain-Bey III joined our team as Head Brewer in 2022 and is helming our 7 bbl brewhouse. Ira has 10+ years of professional brewing experience in our fair city of Albuquerque.
Ira likes to bring an enjoyable experience to the people. It doesn't matter what beer style as long as folks are having a good time.
Assistant Brewer
Shannon Downey has been helping out in the brewery for a number of years, washing kegs, making sure the fermentations are progressing correctly, and doing all the little things that pop up in the brewery.
You can also spot Shannon behind the bar on busy nights. She grooves on our dark lagers, porters and stouts.