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Canteen gets totally radical for their most excellent 30th anniversary shindig

Cue the 90s pop culture references. How many? All of them. Canteen Brewhouse is turning 30 years old and throwing it back to the decade that they started as Il Vicino Brewing with some epic events this Thursday through Sunday, with the big party set for Saturday. It was way back in 1994 that Rick…

Quarter Celtic preps for golden summer after adding to hefty medal haul

We were already a bit late on catching up with Quarter Celtic Brewpub and Meadery after they won a silver medal at the World Beer Cup last month, and then they went ahead and picked up three more medals at the Australian International Beer Awards, including a trophy for the best overall European lager. Yeah,…

Boxing Bear expands Bear Fest to 2 days while also making it a free event

Another beer festival is changing things up this year, but in ways that might just make it better. Certainly, we cannot imagine anyone being annoyed that Bear Fest, Boxing Bear’s annual on-premises event, is now free to attend. It will also take place over two days this Saturday and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m.,…

The Week Ahead in Beer: Kicking off busy season with a red-hot weekend

While any meteorologist will tell you that we are still a few weeks from it officially being summer, in the eyes of most people, Memorial Day weekend marks the official start of the season. Back in the day, that meant gathering around to watch the Indy 500 or going to a baseball game or just…

The collaborations are loose: United in Beer’s 13 brews head into the wild

If you missed this year’s United in Beer festival at Ex Novo, we first want to say sorry, because you missed one amazingly well-run and fun event. Rather than dwell on that, however, now comes the next obvious question. Will the 13 collaboration beers be released at the participating 26 breweries? Yes! Well, we think…

Ex Novo kicks off busy summer with United in Beer and a lot more

By now, the odds are good that just about every Ex Novo fan has heard the news about the downtown taproom. We certainly did, so our apologies that it has taken this long to get to it, but life gets in the way sometimes. First, however, there is something more immediate to lead off this…

The Week Ahead in Beer: A final calm before the summer storm arrives

There are a few big events this weekend, but for the most part this counts as perhaps the last quiet stretch before everything really ramps up for the start of the summer beer season. The busiest time of year for breweries is nearly here, much to the delight of all of our palates. Until all…

Tractor Brewing decides to have their own beer week worth of events

Just a few hours after we published our story saying good-bye to ABQ Beer Week last Thursday, an email popped up from Tractor Brewing’s events and marketing director, Jeremy Kinter. While the main ABW is done, Tractor is bringing back some of its most popular events of years past and holding their own beer week….

Paying a final homage to that which once was ABQ Beer Week

Every now and again, the Crew receives emails from the Brewers Association. Sometimes they are just reminders about the Great American Beer Festival and Craft Brewers Conference, or perhaps an invitation to sit in on a Zoom chat about the state of the industry. The most recent delivery was a reminder that American Craft Beer…

The Week Ahead in Beer: Moms love brews but buy her a present, too

Years ago, I was scrambling to figure out something to buy my mom for Mother’s Day. I sat down at Canteen to think of something over a pint, and it hit me that her favorite beer, Irish Red, was on tap. So I had them fill a growler (remember those days?) and brought it home….