It felt like it was regularly 150 degrees right up until this week, so you may have been caught off guard by the first beer festival of the fall season. Now it’s cool and rainy, and heck, there may even be prospects for snow someday. Ullr Fest at the Pajarito Mountain lodge above Los Alamos…
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Longtime Canteen staffer Mike Thrall dies after yearlong battle with cancer
The sad news began to trickle out late last week: Canteen beertender Mike Thrall, a fixture in the craft beer community for many years, had lost his battle with throat cancer. The Crew received confirmation that Mike died last Thursday morning, which Canteen shared in a Facebook post today (Monday). “It is with great sadness…
Events Roundup: Entire weekend packed to the brim with brewery shindigs
For the second week in a row, we decided that the sheer number of events going on required a full breakout from just the simple listings in The Week Ahead in Beer. Let us dive in, shall we? Friday: Getting a bit goth-y Just a couple of cool events to highlight for tonight. First up,…
Canteen and 15 other breweries express their love for lagers with new event
In the heat of summer, sometimes nothing is better than enjoying a nice, crisp lager in the shade of a brewery patio. The problem, though, is figuring out which brewery and which lager, as there are oh-so-many across the metro area. Well, problem solved, to some degree, as the new For the Love of Lagers…
Bear Fest roars again at Boxing Bear’s Firestone location
While one big beer festival did not return for this Memorial Day weekend, another is back in full force as Bear Fest will once again take over the back parking lot at Boxing Bear’s Firestone taproom and brewery. The event runs from noon to 6 p.m. this Saturday, featuring five guest breweries and one distillery,…
Canteen Brewhouse gets back in the win column at the 2023 World Beer Cup
Canteen Brewhouse has the most combined medals of any New Mexico brewery between the Great American Beer Festival (12) and World Beer Cup (six). That was part of why it had been so surprising that no new medals had been added to Canteen’s total since the 2016 WBC. That streak ended at the 2023 WBC…
Day Drinking for a Cause returns for another round at Canteen Brewhouse
The cause is just. The beers are many. The good times are all but guaranteed. Day Drinking for a Cause is back at Canteen Brewhouse this Saturday from noon to close. This now annual, sometimes even biennial event, is designed to benefit a specific cause, in this case one close to the hearts and minds…
Canteen Brewhouse keeps trucking along thanks to the people behind the beer
The ultimate saving grace of 2022 for Canteen Brewhouse was in the people, from the staff at both locations to the customers that kept coming in the door. We caught up with general manager Jamie Schwebach and head brewer Zach Guilmette for our Look Back/Look Ahead Series last week to discuss the challenges that the…
The Week Ahead in Beer: Feel soup-er with awesome Canteen charity event
Someone page Senator Bernie Sanders, because Canteen Brewhouse is hosting The Great Soup Off this Saturday at 1 p.m. This is another wonderful charity event to benefit beertender Mike Thrall and his family as he recovers from throat cancer. The general gist of this event is that for $25 you get a pint of beer,…
Balloon Fiesta celebrations land at multiple local breweries and taprooms
As any Albuquerque resident knows, the first week of October belongs to the Balloon Fiesta. The morning skyline is dotted with those familiar (and some not-so-familiar) floating shapes, balloon-themed merchandise dominates the shelves of every corner store and coffee shop in town, and the tourists, well, they are everywhere. Whether you choose to take part…
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