Subject: Breweries

• More beer, and sooner

  March 7, 2008

• Bloomin' Beerfest 2008

  June 9, 2008

• Brew Review: The Carling iPint

  July 31, 2008

• Liberty Market Brightens Downtown Gilbert

  October 15, 2008

• 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.

  April 11, 1996

• Brewski & Such

  March 13, 1997

• Smoke and Beers

  Senator John McCain may have turned his back on tobacco, but alcohol still gets a free ride

  June 4, 1998

• Best Food in a Bar

  Long Wong's
  701 South Mill, Tempe
  480-966-3147

  September 21, 2000

• Best Brew Pub

  Four Peaks Brewing Company
  1340 East Eighth Street, Tempe
  480-303-9967

  September 21, 2000

• BEST BEER SELECTION

  Papago Brewing Company

  September 18, 2003

• BEST BREW-IT-YOURSELF SHOP

  What Ale's Ya?

  September 18, 2003

• BEST VENUE FOR NATIONAL ACTS

  Marquee Theatre

  September 30, 2004

• BEST LOCAL BEER

  Kiltlifter Scottish Ale

  September 30, 2004

• BEST BREW PUB

  Rio Salado Brewing Company

  September 30, 2004

• Brew Review: Great Arizona Beer Festival

  Jonathan McNamaraSee more shots in our Great Arizona Beer Festival slide show. Walking in to The Great Arizona Beer Festival on Saturday, we promised ourselves that we would not stumble out like blithering idiots. Well, you know what they say about best laid plans. So once again, the Brew Review team broke free from our office shackles and breathed in the sweet scene of freedom; this time at Tempe Beach Park. Awaiting us were brews lacking the potency of many of the ones we sampled at Mesa S

  March 9, 2009

• Happy Hour Deals at San Tan Brewing Company in Chandler

  Like many microbreweries, San Tan Brewing Company exclusively offers ales, as opposed to lagers (and yes, categorically, hefeweizens and stouts are members of the ale family). While this might turn some people off, it should be noted that ales typically offer a higher content of alcohol and they often complement bar food a la wine and cheese. San Tan's Hop Shock IPA rings in at a nearly 7% alcohol content and is emboldened by a hoppy tinge - and it fits nearly everything on the menu. Here,

  April 6, 2009

• Punch-Drunk Love

  Celebrating the golden wonder fluid in Mesa

  February 26, 2009

• Foam Remedy

  November 20, 2008

• No Beer Gut, No Glory

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

  October 23, 2008

• Tour de Phat

  Tempe is a chosen one for supercool touring fest

  October 9, 2008

• Amber Alert

  It’s beer guts versus beer nuts in Mesa

  February 14, 2008

• Post-Turkey Papago

  Libations and laziness

  November 29, 2007

• Chug Chug Chug

  Spin the wheels of fortune during beer fest

  October 11, 2007

• Flute Plan

  Jethro Tull is still flying high

  November 10, 2005

• Beer Wars

  April 16, 2009

• Minus the Bear

  "Prog-core enigma"

  September 2, 2004

• Drag Kings

  Speed freaks set the pace at FIR

  February 20, 2003

• A Serious Ale-ment

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

  January 17, 2002

• Haunted by Spirits

  John McCain derived his wealth from his marriage to Cindy Hensley McCain, whose father started his road to riches as a bootlegger. As a politician, the senator has remained beholden to the liquor industry and the family business

  February 17, 2000

• John McCain Breaks Up a Fight

  The senator says extreme fighting should be banned. You got a problem with that? Eddie Goldman does.

  February 12, 1998

• Brew Review: Stone Brewing's Smoked Porter...Floats?

  It turns out you can't please everyone. I think we can agree one a few things, thought. For example: I scream. You scream. We all scream for ice cream. We also scream and shout and salivate at the thought of great beer. What if I told you that I combined the two? At last week's Draft Magazine Craft Brewing Festival, the nice folks at Stone Brewing turned me on to an interesting idea: beer floats. True, Four Peaks has had Oatmeal Stout shakes on the menu for a while now, but a beer float is s

  June 26, 2009

• Brew Review: New Dogfish Head and Other Great Brews at The Draft Magazine Craft Brew Festival

  Jonathan McNamaraVolunteers pour Steamworks Brewing's delicious beers at the Draft Magazine Craft Brewing Festival Choosing the right horse requires a lot of luck and a certain willingness to watch your already mentally-spent earnings fail to materialize. That's why I took a different gamble at Turf Paradise Race Track this weekend and thought I'd try my luck with a bunch of micro brew enthusiasts instead of horse gamblers. Packed into Turf Paradise's club house on Saturday, June 20, 2009 were

  June 22, 2009

• This Weekend: Grand Opening of New Total Wine in Tempe

  It makes sense that the brand-new Total Wine store in Tempe is right next to IKEA. They're both the kind of places where you could lose yourself wandering the aisles, browsing an overwhelming variety of products, and imagining all the possibilities. In the case of Total Wine, you can end up visualizing a fully-stocked wine rack at home, or maybe a cocktail party. And just as the Swedish furniture store has plenty of cheap goodies to satisfy your shopaholic tendencies, Total Wine has plenty of c

  August 27, 2009

• Trans Phat

  October 8, 2009

• Brew Review: Left Hand Brewing Company's Milk Stout

  Jonathan McNamaraLeft Hand Brewing Company's Milk Stout​To be honest, I was dead set on reviewing Left Hand Brewing's Milk Stout today, but I'm so totally enthralled by the awesome Web site Left Hand has that I'm not sure I'll be able to move past it. It's a wonderfully complex site that incorporates video into a clean design that is absolutely smooth. Precisely like their Milk Stout incidentally. Tastes: Like drinking the smoothest, chocolate milkshake you've ever had through a silk str

  November 13, 2009