La Cumbre Brewing Company

Brewpub in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 2010

Contact
3313 Girard Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, NM, 87107, United States
Description
Since 2010, the goal of La Cumbre Brewing Co. has been to produce beers that represent the absolute apex of the art of brewing. Ready for liftoff? “Get Elevated” with our Great American Beer Festival® gold medal hop masterpiece, Elevated IPA.

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7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
Draft. Amber beer with a cream head. Nice grapefruit aroma. Grapefruit and resiny pine flavor with backing malt. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Grapefruit and resiny pine linger with backing malt.
Tried on 24 Mar 2026 at 19:50

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Pint can. Passion fruit aroma with notes of pineapple, mango, tangerine, orange, grapefruit and light floral hops. Pours hazy golden colored with a finger of off white head that has excellent retention and lacing. Starts with juicy passionfruit, pineapple, orange and tangerine flavors. Finishes smooth but a touch dry with mango, grapefruit and floral hop flavors. Pretty nice hazy.
Tried from Can from Coaltrain Wine and Liquor on 22 Mar 2026 at 08:15

7.5/10
Tried from Can on 23 Jan 2026 at 22:57

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle from Stefan: pours black with almost no head. No idea how olde this is. Aroma is barrel, anise, dark chocolate, vanilla. Taste is somewhat sweet, lightly boozy, some bitterness. Nice aftertaste.
Tried from Bottle on 19 Jan 2026 at 01:37

7/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Pint Can. Pours a crystal clear yellow gold color with a big white head that has fair retention. The aroma is on the mild sire with grapefruit, pineapple and sawdust. The taste is grapefruit, and pine resins. The palate is on the lighter side and the carbonation is soft. Finishes short and dry. Overall: Easy drinking IPA that seems very much in the west coast style.
Tried from Can on 05 Jan 2026 at 21:23

7.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 6.5 Texture 7 Overall 7
Pint can. pours a hazy/cloudy pale yellow color with a smallish white head that soon fades away. The aroma is quite strong with pineapple, grapefruit and mango. The taste doesn't quite live up to the aroma with simple grapefruit. Bitterness is medium. The palate is full and the carbonation soft. Finishes medium in duration with lingering bitter grapefruit. Overall: Ok brew--This might be a nice summer quaff, but they are releasing it as a winter seasonal.
Tried from Can on 24 Nov 2025 at 22:16

5.8/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6 Flavor 5.5 Texture 6 Overall 5
A pint can found in Albuquerque on our last trip to northern New Mexico. I am pleased to find a new beer from La Cumbre to rate, an infrequent event. There is my Buffalo Bayou snifter ready to receive the pour and I proceed. The appearance is an opaque gold-yellow liquid completed by a slender skim of white bubbles. The scent is strong with tropical fruit and to a much lesser degree, citrus. The taste, well, it is different. Grapefruit, hops, herbal, a bit of lime, cardboard and a bare hint of mango. A rare misfire from the brewery for me.
Tried from Can on 08 Nov 2025 at 22:47

7/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Pint Can. Pours a crystal clear pale yellow with a small white head. The aroma is medium in strength with grapefruit, grains and rock candy. The taste, as in the aroma, is grapefruit, mild grains and some sweet candies. The palate is light and crisp with lively carbonation. Finished short and dry. Overall: East drinking pils.
Tried from Can on 27 Oct 2025 at 15:46

7.6/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 8 Texture 7 Overall 8
Sample at Ratio Beerworks. Clear golden pour with a medium thin white head that burns away steadily to a film. Sparse strings of lace. Aroma of piney hop, citrus and malt. Medium body with a resiny hop profile and notes of grapefruit and malt. The finish is moderately bitter with a slightly dank piney hop aftertaste. Pretty good overall.
Tried from Draft at Ratio Beerworks on 10 Oct 2025 at 19:38

7.5/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 7 Overall 7
Can from Stefan. Clear gold pour and foamy head nose is citrus and florals. Tastes of grapefruit, lemon, grass, floral, some malt. Thin bodied. Surprised to see DIPA thinnner and more subdued for style
Tried on 03 Sep 2025 at 03:17