Brown Ale

Brown Ale is a brown ale from Second Street Brewery, which runs a Railyard brewpub and a Rufina Street taproom in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Brewery Description

The brewery site has no page or description for the brown ale. In an interview the brewmaster called it:

a really well balanced, focused formulation, just Centennial and Cascade hops

Punctuation lightly normalized.

Source: Edible New Mexico: Second Street Brewery interview

Tasting Notes

Not Found

Ingredients

The interview is the only published ingredient source; it names the two hops and nothing about malt or yeast.

Hop Profile

Brewing Details

Style Context

As category context only, the Brewers Association guideline for American-Style Brown Ale calls for roasted, caramel and chocolate malt with balanced hop flavor, 4.2 to 6.3 percent ABV and 30 to 45 IBU. The current listed strength and bitterness fit the cited ranges; the two named hops are American varieties, in keeping with the style.

Awards History

Generated from the loaded results for this brewery and beer name, not researched separately; years not loaded are not covered.

Brewery Context

Second Street Brewery is in Santa Fe, NM. Brewery type in Open Brewery DB: Brewpub.

Links checked 2026-10-14: Website, Instagram, Untappd.

Related

• Brewery: Second Street Brewery
• Hop varieties: Cascade, Centennial
• Hop farms that grow these varieties: grown by Goschie Farms, grown by B&D Farms, grown by Coleman Agriculture, grown by CLS Farms, grown by Billy Goat Hop Farm

Each farm listed as growing a variety grows that variety according to the hop farm data; the brewery has not said it bought hops from that farm.

Links

• Untappd (hand-read citation): Second Street beer list
• Additional beer research
• Additional beer research
• Second Street Brewery
• Second Street Brewery: beer list
• Edible New Mexico: Second Street Brewery interview
• Brewers Association: beer style guidelines

Gaps

• Not Found: Tasting notes, Color (SRM), Original gravity, Final gravity, Hop form, Hop use, Hop lot or farm, Malts and grains, Yeast, Adjuncts, Water, Process. Checked nmdarksidebrewcrew.com, secondstreetbrewery.com, secondstreetbrewery.com, untappd.com, beeradvocate.com, ediblenm.com, web searches recorded in the research notes.

Research Notes

• Field pass 2026-10-13: The brewery's Untappd beer list supplies ABV and IBU for the exact Brown Ale entry. The older BeerAdvocate listing instead gives 5.4% ABV and 26 IBU; those values were not adopted. 2020 reporting also gives 38 IBU but does not establish the 2026 batch. No brewery-hosted beer page was found.
• The brewery's beer list shows Kolsch, Boneshaker Amber, 2920 IPA, Sloppy Sloth, seasonal series, Agua Fria Pilsner and Cream Stout, with no brown ale; a guessed brown ale page returned 404.
• The undated Edible New Mexico interview says the brown won a World Beer Cup medal and, the year before, a GABF gold; it is not clear that it is the same recipe as the 2026 entry.
• No ABV, IBU or 2026 medal announcement was found.
• Researched 2026-10-13.
• Catalog.beer 2026-10-14: Catalog.beer: Brown Ale lists 5.4% ABV, 26 IBU, style "American-Style Brown Ale" (entry last modified 2020-05-02). Where it differs from the brewery's own published value, the brewery's value stands.
• Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the brewer's words in Edible New Mexico give only the Centennial and Cascade hops already recorded.