We’ve talked about the Trappists before, but here’s a quick refresher: Also known as the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, the Trappists are a Roman Catholic sect that follows the Rule of St. Benedict. Among other axioms, the Rule requires monks to take three vows: A Vow of…
The origin of Oskar Blues, the name of Colorado’s canniest craft brewery, is shrouded in mystery. Some say the handle was inspired by a pair of hounds founder Dale Katechis and his brother, Chris, had growing up: Oskar and Blue. Some say Oskar Blue was a man Dale met while…
“LAYERS” Go ahead and shake off the shame of being called out for tracing drawings in your elementary school days. There are plenty of pros who use stencils to create works of art, and two of them just so happen to have pieces on display at MonOrchid’s Shade Gallery this…
Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of my mouth. It’s an ongoing mission: to drink strange new beers. To seek out new brews from every civilization. To boldly drink what no man has drunk before. With apologies to Shatner, I’m stealing that mission statement from the starship Enterprise…
In the beginning, beer was just called beer. There was dark beer and light beer; bitter beer and sweet beer; spiced beer and sour beer. Order a beer in Munich and you’d likely get a clear, golden lager; order one in Bruges and it would probably be red and acidic…
We’ve combed through all 250-plus beers available at this year’s AmeriCAN Canned Craft Beer Festival to find 13 must-try brews you’ll never see again — at least until next year.
L.A.’s Golden Road Brewing has come to Arizona with its lineup of canned brews, including the deliciously dank Wolf Among Weeds IPA.
The Arizona BBQ Festival is the biggest honky-tonk in the state. Or maybe it’s the biggest hoedown. Or is it a hootenanny? Call it what you want; it’s a party, complete with live country music, contests of Redneck ability — think arm-wrestling, toilet-seat horseshoes, pie-eating, watermelon seed-spitting, bobbing for pigs’…
We think The Lost Abbey’s Red Poppy is one of the best examples of a Flemish Red Ale brewed in America. Here’s why.
The Pinewood Derby is wasted on the young. Kids comprehend nothing of the physics behind a lightning-fast race car, hewn from nothing but your hands, your dreams and your adult-supervision-required power tools.This is why we need the Pinewood Classic. It’s a Pinewood Derby race just for grown-ups, which means tasty…
Green Flash Brewing Co.’s rare Silva Stout gets much of its character from extended aging in used bourbon barrels, which have special qualities of their own.
The stand-up comedy you see on TV is watered-down — network executives and stodgy suits from standards and practices chop out bits of the act to ensure no one is offended and everything is safe. Live at the Crescent Ballroom is the real thing: unfiltered, unpasteurized stand-up from some very…
Huss Brewing Co.’s spring seasonal was inspired by a dessert made with lemon and toasted coconut.
The Great American Barbecue and Beer Festival at Chandler Park. Wingstock at the Mesa Amphitheater. The Arizona BBQ Festival at Salt River Fields. The Scottsdale Culinary Festival. While these gatherings of gustatory delight are great, they have one thing in common: they’re a pain in the ass for Westsiders to…
Dubina Brewing Co. in Glendale produces beers that range from halfway decent to very, very bad.
The average American consumes about 12 chicken wings in one sitting; the world record for most chicken wings eaten in a sitting is 444 in just 30 minutes. If you find yourself somewhere in the middle of the two, get yourself to Wingstock. At Mesa’s yearly celebration of the beloved…
On Tuesday, Gov. Doug Ducey signed into law S.B. 1030, the Arizona Beer Bill proposed late last year that will allow brewers to produce more beer while retaining their retail locations.
The recently retired president of the Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company talks summer seasonals, brewery mergers and the changes he’s seen during his 40 years in the beer industry.
Spring training baseball is like Whose Line Is It Anyway? — the game is made up and the points don’t matter. But you’re not going to Scottsdale to see web gems anyway. You’re going because tickets are reasonably priced and sitting on the grass with a hot dog in one…
In the past several weeks, Stone Brewing Co. has announced the death of several of the brewery’s most beloved ales. Here, we remember the beers that were.
It wasn’t a lifelong dream or some twist of fate that thrust Bobby Lee into comedy — it was convenience. When the coffee shop where a young Lee was working closed in 1994, he simply went next door to apply for a job. That neighboring business just happened to be…
I can pour what the guys who handle marketing for Guinness call the “perfect pint.” I can take a cool, clean, dry, Guinness-branded glass and hold it under the tap at a 45-degree angle. I can pull the handle forward until it’s horizontal and fill the glass all the way…
