New Mexico Brewers Guild

MISSION STATEMENT: The New Mexico Brewers Guild exists to promote and protect New Mexico's craft brewers and help cultivate a collaborative SPIRIT across the state and beyond.

The New Mexico Brewers Guild has been successful in lobbying for:

  • Excise tax relief for growing breweries

  • A third off-site tasting room for breweries

  • The right to hold both beer & wine and distribution permits

  • Alternating proprietorship for brewery partnerships

  • The right to fill and sell growlers

  • The right to serve New Mexico wine and cider in breweries and tap rooms

  • The right to serve NM wine, cider and craft beer at private off-site celebrations throughout the state

  • The right to open and sell housemade craft beer in package “to go” starting at 11am on Sundays

The New Mexico Brewers Guild began in the mid-1990s as an informal gathering of professional brewers who shared a passion for craft beer. In its early days the Guild met occasionally to share ideas, quaff experimental brews, trade ingredients, and join in friendly competition in the annual IPA Challenge. Many of these same brewers launched the Guild as an official 501(c)(6) entity in 2012. You may not know it, but as a new brewery or brewery in planning, you have already benefited by the considerable efforts of the New Mexico Brewers Guild and its members!