How do you get into Hidden Tap?
We have not confirmed it. Hidden Tap is in the directory because it described as hidden, and that is the whole of what we can stand behind about its door.
Drinks of the era
We have not seen this venue’s own list, so what follows is the period rather than the bar: Bee’s Knees, Southside, and Last Word are all drinks of this era, and each links to its origin and its build.
Where Hidden Tap sits
Hidden Tap is in Ruidoso, New Mexico, in Lincoln County, in the Southwest of the United States.
This is currently the only verified hidden bar our directory lists in Ruidoso. If you know another, tell us.
New Mexico holds nine listed venues in this directory. See them all on our New Mexico speakeasy guide.
Prohibition in New Mexico
New Mexico did not wait for the federal government. Statewide prohibition took effect here in 1918, two years before the Eighteenth Amendment came into force nationally on 17 January 1920. By the time the Volstead Act was being enforced across the country, New Mexico already had an established illegal trade and the habits that went with it.
More on the period in our history of Prohibition in New Mexico.
What the newspapers recorded in New Mexico
Searching the Library of Congress run of New Mexico newspapers for speakeasy, blind pig and bootlegger across 1920 to 1933 returns dated pages anyone can open. These are from New Mexico:
- Albuquerque morning journal, April 29, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Albuquerque morning journal, May 28, 1920 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Albuquerque morning journal, January 16, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
- Albuquerque morning journal, February 15, 1921 — read the page at the Library of Congress
Planning a visit
You can reach Hidden Tap by phone on (575) 257-0497 and through its own website.
The address is 2408B Sudderth Dr, Ruidoso, NM 88345. Open in Google Maps.
What we have confirmed
For Hidden Tap we hold street address, telephone number, and official website. We do not yet hold social accounts, opening hours, a published drinks list, an online booking link, or a listed-building record.
It is in the directory because its own name calls it hidden.
Overture Maps carries this venue; OpenStreetMap has no matching record.
The source data classifies the premises as a brewery.