Get your lager-drinking shorts on, it’s that time of year again. For the Love of Lagers returns to celebrate all the variants of the style at Canteen Brewhouse this Saturday. This has been one of our favorite laid-back festivals for a while now, summer heat be damned! The setup is essentially the same as years…
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Beer Notes: Boxing Bear and Canteen bring home some hardware
The North American Brewers Association held their annual competition last week and a pair of New Mexico breweries picked up medals. Boxing Bear earned a bronze in the Helles Lager category for their Golden Gloves Premium Lager. Canteen also snagged a bronze, in the India Pale Lager or Cold IPA category, for their High Voltage…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Rock the block (party) with Canteen and La Cumbre
The events are coming fast and furious now as summer season is fully underway at our local breweries. To that end, La Cumbre and Canteen are teaming up with their neighbors in the old Brewery District, which has now been renamed the Makers District. The two breweries have helped organize a neighborhood block party that…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Canteen doubles down on the good deeds
Canteen Brewhouse loves to keep people moving, with all sorts of fun runs and walks, bike rides, and more that start and end at the main brewery. Many of these events also have a charity tie-in, and this week Canteen has two such events. Friday night will feature Hops & Healthcare, a 5K run/walk that…
Canteen aims to kick butt and take names after year with big change in brewery
February was a weird, slow month. Leave it to Canteen Brewhouse to help us finish it with a proverbial bang. Last week, I sat down with Canteen general manager Jamie Schwebach and head brewer Will Moorman for our annual Look Back/Look Ahead Series. Yeah, just when all of you probably thought we gave up on…
Canteen and Steel Bender team up for adult coloring nights and a new IPA
Once again, it is time to sharpen those artistic skills for a good cause. Oh, and you can bring your hophead friends. Canteen and Steel Bender are teaming up for their annual series of adult coloring nights, complete with a special collaborative beer release, all in support of AGORA Crisis Center. “Back in 2019, when…
Beer Notes: Good on Beer Creek and Rumor, Halloween tidbits and more
A quiet beer news week in terms of full-on features does not mean there was nothing worth sharing. Read on as we clear out a light beer notebook. Beer Creek and Rumor step up to help It was probably impossible to miss the news this week that federal SNAP benefits will end on Saturday due…
A familiar face in a new place: Canteen stays local with new head brewer
Will Moorman was a familiar face to anyone who visited Flix Brewhouse on the westside from the time it opened in 2017 to around the pandemic era. After all, they slapped a life-sized cut-out of him on the brewery door for all the movie and beer patrons to see. Then Moorman climbed the ladder and…
Statewide Oktoberfest Guide 2025: Every event celebrating the best season
There are quite a few Oktoberfest celebrations coming up this season in New Mexico, so we decided to round ’em all up to help you best plan out your weekends for the rest of this month and part of October. From Red River to Ruidoso, from Carlsbad to Angel Fire, and of course Albuquerque and…
The local brewing industry pays tribute to one of their own
Canteen Brewhouse is throwing a fitting farewell party to head brewer Zach Guilmette today (Friday) from 3 to 6 p.m. All of us in the Crew raise our glasses, but the more we thought about it, our words and well wishes only mean so much. So, we went out and asked a whole lot of…
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