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O Beautiful Beer: 21st Amendment's Bitter American

Beer: Bitter American Brewery: 21st Amendment Brewery Style: American Pale Ale ABV: 4.4 percent Welcome back to Craft Beer OTW, where our discussion of canned craft beer continues. Now, it's come to my attention that despite my very convincing proselytizing on canned craft beer's behalf, there are ... More >>

Heineken Upset About Phoenix Man Selling "Heinie Sniff'n" Dog Toy, Lawsuit Claims

A Phoenix dog-toy manufacturer who was once involved in a lawsuit with Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch over his dog toy called "Buttwiper" is now involved in a federal lawsuit with another brewer.This time, a lawsuit filed on behalf of Stephen Sacra's Phoenix-based company, VIP Products, claims that ... More >>

Beers for Fears

Alaskan Baltic Porter

Beer: Baltic Porter Brewery: Alaskan Brewing Co. Style: Baltic Porter ABV: 9.8 percent Alaskan Brewing is known for their Smoked Porter, and why not? The beer's won more golds than Michael Phelps, impressing so many beer judges that they've basically made the brew the standard by which all other ... More >>

Gordon Biersch Märzen

Beer: Gordon Biersch Märzen Brewery: Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant Style: Märzen/Oktoberfest ABV: 5.8 percent It was a cool fall day more than 200 years ago, and the Germans were partying. It had just been announced that Crown Prince Ludwig, who would later become King Ludwig I, was to be mar ... More >>

Hoppy Birthday

East Meets Northwest

SanTan Brewing Co. Mr. Pineapple Wheat

Beer: Mr. Pineapple Wheat Brewery: SanTan Brewing Co. Style: Fruit wheat beer ABV: 5 percent Last week, I bought a pineapple. It was an impulse buy, driven in part by its alien appearance and by the realization that I rarely eat the fruit. I bet I can make some interesting stuff with that, I thoug ... More >>

Canned Gods

AZ Beer Week In Photos

Zachary FowleSo many brews! How does one choose?​Beer appreciation (some might say snobbery) takes a certain amount of dedication. Constant vigilance in trying out new brews, keeping up with trends and happenings, all this and more is more or less required of the avid beer enthusiasts. As such ... More >>

AZ Beer Week In Photos

Zachary FowleSo many brews! How does one choose?​Beer appreciation (some might say snobbery) takes a certain amount of dedication. Constant vigilance in trying out new brews, keeping up with trends and happenings, all this and more is more or less required of the avid beer enthusiasts. As such ... More >>

Peoria Beer Festival and Ghostie Cupcakes in Today's Eater's Digest

www.thecookingphotographer.com​ Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?West-Side Beer FestivalCan't stand the though of another Oktoberfest but still looking for something to do this weekend? Well Beer Drinkers, we dug up a little hidden gem of a Bee ... More >>

Brewed For Battle: Oktoberfest

Jonathan McNamaraAvery Brewing Co.'s The Kaiser (left) and Victory Festbier. ​At what point does one elevate from merely drinking beer to being a full-on beer snob? Answer: when you feel compelled to tell other people what to drink. And the inevitable result of this peculiar ailment is the bee ... More >>

Desert Botanical Gardens' Beer Garden: Why We're Not Going

Jonathan McNamara We'll be hanging out at Taste of Tops instead. ​You fancy yourself a bit of a beer aficionado. You enjoy knowing about different styles and you have your favorite. You're a regular at Four Peaks and Papago and you're becoming a regular at Taste of Tops. You can get down wi ... More >>

Summer Breeze

Try new brews at Yucca

Summer Breeze

Try new brews at Yucca

Arizona-Only Beer Fest Gives Grand Canyon State a Little Something to Take Pride In

Arizona Only: Phoenix's PBS station threw a beer fest only open to our state's microbrews.​Something about an Arizona beer festival felt a little trivial Saturday, a day when angry hordes across the country beat up our state's idiotic new immigration law at May Day rallies.Hell, they were p ... More >>

'Made in Arizona' Beer Festival to Celebrate Local Ales Saturday

KAET Four Peaks' Andy Ingram explains the brewing process during the TV show "Craft Beer: The New Wine," produced by Valley PBS station KAET.​The Valley has many beer festivals, but the second annual Eight Craft Beer Festival will be the first to focus solely on beers made in Arizona. Dubb ... More >>

Yucca Tap Room Adds Craft Beer and Whiskey Lounge

​Tempe's Yucca Tap Room has been a Tempe dive bar favorite for years, especially for its live music. (Photo by Benjamin Leatherman) But now there's a whole lot more on tap. Earlier this month, owner Rodney Hu unveiled the Yucca's expansion into the space next door, a craft beer and whiskey ... More >>

Brew Crew

Hang with beer-drinking peeps in DoPho

Dave’s Electric Brewpub Continues Tempe’s Winning Formula of Burgers and Brewskis

Cafe: Dave's Electric Pub

​It's no secret that we're fond of a good beer and even less hush-hush that we love a good local beer. If it were possible to equip our faucet with a direct tap line to a barrel of Four Peak's Kiltlifter, we'd have stopped coming in to work a long time ago. Then we hear from this week's Cafe c ... More >>

Brew Review: Nut Before Christmas Brown Ale at Sun Up Brewing

Jonathan McNamaraUwe Boer with a big ol' mug of Nut Before Christmas Brown Ale.​Yesterday, Brewmaster Uwe Boer opened a door in to his home-brewing past by tapping a new seasonal at Sun Up Brewing. Named by a Sun Up staffer, The Nut Before Christmas Brown Ale is an English Brown ale that uses ... More >>

New in Tempe: Sleepy Dog Saloon & Brewery

​Just in time for the weekend, there's a brand-new microbrewery to quench your thirst in Tempe.Sleepy Dog Saloon & Brewery, located at 1920 E. University, is set to open Saturday, November 21. Owner Rob Sizemore's original brews include Puppy Pale (pale ale), Irish Setter (Irish red), Hou ... More >>

Draft Magazine's The Big Pour...Or At Least What We Remember From It

Jonathan McNamaraDelicious Fat Tire. See more shots in our Big Pour slide show. ​What do you do when faced with multiple beers from multiple breweries? That's right, drink 'em all! That's precisely what we (attempted) to do at Draft Magazine's The Big Pour last weekend. The beer festival too ... More >>

Coming Soon to Tempe: Sleepy Dog Saloon & Brewery

​You never know where your passions might lead you. For beer aficionado Rob Sizemore, an obsession with suds turned into to a homebrewing hobby, which eventually led to proper training with the American Brewers Guild. Now he's working on opening his own microbrewery in Tempe, Sleepy Dog Sal ... More >>

Brew Review: Sierra Nevada Summerfest

When you're looking for a new beer to try it seems like everyone under the sun has a bottle they'd like to uncap and shove in your mouth. Answers to the question "what beer should I drink," are endless. That's why we prefer recommendations secure in their justification. Take Sierra Nevvada Summerfes ... More >>

Brew Review: Reaper Ale's Deathly Pale Ale

wikimedia commons "Deathly pale" is not a phrase that appears in everyday conversation very often. In fact the only example I can think of occurred the last time I visited a beach. It was uttered from some nearby ladies as my physique built on my Irish heritage approached the surf. It stung to hear, ... More >>

Funky Brewster

Wanna be a professional beer drinker when you grow up? Here’s how.

Brew Review: Shiner Bohemian Black Lager

I won't lie, Arizona. We've had some great times drinking beer. Who could forget our first trip to Four Peaks? Or the Mesa Strong Beer Festival just a few months ago? We've had fun and that's what makes this so hard to say: my beer gut belongs to another state. That's right, Arizona. I, like many ... More >>

Because Every Beer Festival Needs Music

Not only do The Crown Kings love beer, but they love playing beer festivalsFor those of you who have been keeping tabs on the Arizona Brewer's Guild recent run of beer festivals, you know, full well, that the 21st Annual Great Arizona Beer Festival is this Saturday and Sunday at Tempe Beach Park fro ... More >>

Zack de la Rocha, Mesa Strong Beer Festival and Myst's 5 Year Anniversary Over the Weekend

Zack de la Rocha Leads an Army Against Joe Arpaio's Racist Rule: My conservative estimate is that today 3,000 to 4,000 people braved 90 degree weather to march from Steele Indian School Park to the Sandra Day O'Connor Federal Courthouse in downtown Phoenix to protest Sheriff Joe Arpaio's immigratio ... More >>

2 Tone Lizard Kings: Try Not To Like Them After Two Beers

2 Tone Lizard Kings provide entertainment at Saturday's Strong Beer Festival in Mesa.Like a lot of people, I really, really need to be in the mood to listen to third wave ska. And by "in the mood" I mean I need to be in high school again. Still, I kinda dig Tempe's 2 Tone Lizard Kings. Sure, the tim ... More >>

Punch-Drunk Love

Celebrating the golden wonder fluid in Mesa

Tomorrow: Beer and Booksigning at Four Peaks

No Beer Gut, No Glory

From piss-quality to fancy, author has guzzled it all

Brew Review: Dead Guy Ale

Chandler Oktoberfest

Brew Review: Gordon Biersch's Sommer Gold

Bloomin' Beerfest 2008

Beer Nuts

Sample specialty brews at Scottsdale Stadium

BEST BEER SELECTION

Papago Brewing Company

Kings of Beer

A new suds squad seeks to build a roster in Phoenix

A Serious Ale-ment

Strong Beer & Ale Festival isn't for the weak of heart

Second Helpings

Foam Booths

Green Around the Grills

Brewski & Such

At Lager-Heads

Harvey McElhannon sells Diamondback Beer, and was the first to file for that trademark. Now Jerry Colangelo and Major League Baseball want him eighty-sixed.

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