In the past, pumpkin beers were rare — a seasonal sideshow, showing up only in the breweries daring enough to make them and enjoyed only by drinkers willing to take a chance on the oddities. Today, however, brews made with pumpkin have officially become mainstream, with nearly every brewery worth…
Ring the bell, it’s time for Last Call, where JK Grence, bartender at Shady’s, serves up booze advice and recipes. Got a burning question for your bartender? Leave it in the comments and it might be answered in a future column. After working for five years at the now-shuttered Trader…
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 married…
In this occasional series, Pavle Milic (co-owner of FnB, Baratin, Bodega and AZ Wine Merchants in Scottsdale) will spill about his current mission to learn how wine is made — literally from the Southern Arizona ground up. Today: the harvest. Momentary Suspension of Reality I have made the drive to…
Ring the bell, it’s time for Last Call, where JK Grence, bartender at Shady’s, serves up booze advice and recipes. Got a burning question for your bartender? Leave it in the comments and it might be answered in a future column. It’s happened to you. At least, I secretly hope…
Beer: Samuel Adams Thirteenth Hour Brewery: Boston Brewing Co. Style: Belgian-style stout ABV: 9 percent See also: Four Peaks Up ‘N’ Runnin’ See also: Odell DeConstruction I like to think I’m pretty advanced, from an evolutionary standpoint. I went to college; I can string sentences together fairly well; my thumbs…
One of my favorite parts of writing Last Call is getting to answer people’s burning questions about booze. I’m not kidding in the intro tag up there, I truly love getting to pull the curtain back on the alchemy of bartending. This week, I opened up the mailbag and read:…
Beer: DeConstruction Ale Brewery: Odell Brewing Co. Style: American Wild Ale ABV: 10.5 percent See also: Four Peaks Up ‘N’ Runnin’ See also: Schneider Aventinus Weizenbock Welcome back to Craft Beer 101, class. Hope you brought your thinking caps as well as your drinking glasses, because today’s lesson is quite…
Ring the bell, it’s time for Last Call, where JK Grence, bartender at Shady’s, serves up booze advice and recipes. Got a burning question for your bartender? Leave it in the comments and it might be answered in a future column. I pity the poor Cosmopolitan. At the turn of…
Ring the bell, it’s time for Last Call, where JK Grence, bartender at Shady’s, serves up booze advice and recipes. Got a burning question for your bartender? Leave it in the comments and it might be answered in a future column. See Also: Want Something With Beer? Have a Shandy…
Beer: Up ‘N’ Runnin’ Brewery: Four Peaks Brewing Co. Style: Mild Ale ABV: 4.8 percent See also: SanTan Count Hopula See also: Schneider Aventinus Weizenbock Mother Road. Mischief. Freak’n Brew. Arizona Wilderness. North Mountain. THAT Brewery. OHSO. Fate. Granite Mountain. Desert Eagle. Oh, and Four Peaks. Some of those names…
Ring the bell, it’s time for Last Call, where JK Grence, bartender at Shady’s, serves up booze advice and recipes. Got a burning question for your bartender? Leave it in the comments and it might be answered in a future column. See Also: Five More Drinks That Get Screwed Up…
Beer: Count Hopula Brewery: SanTan Brewing Co. Style: American Strong Ale ABV: 7.1 percent See also: SanTan Mr. Pineapple Beers that come out every year but don’t stick around for long — seasonals, we call them — are an important piece of any brewery’s portfolio. Drinkers will often eagerly anticipate…
See also: Local Bistro: Happy Hour Report Card See also: Kelly’s at SouthBridge: Happy Hour Report Card The Spot: Richardson’s, 6335 N. 16th Street, Phoenix, 602-287-8900, www.richardsonsnm.com. The Hours: Happy Hour: 2:30 p.m to 5:30 p.m. every day…
Ring the bell, it’s time for Last Call, in which Shady’s bartender JK Grence serves up booze advice and recipes. Got a burning question for your bartender? Leave it in the comments and it might be answered in a future column. See Also: Classic, Straight-Up Daiquiri Ask most bartenders what…
Beer: Aventinus Weizenbock Brewery: Schneider & Sohn Style: Weizenbock ABV: 8.2 percent See also: Dogfish Head Indian Brown Ale With new breweries popping up almost every day to create unique new brews, craft beer is currently experiencing a renaissance in America. All this excitement over beer may confuse citizens of…
Ring the bell, it’s time for Last Call, where JK Grence, bartender at Shady’s, serves up booze advice and recipes. Got a burning question for your bartender? Leave it in the comments and it might be answered in a future column. See Also: Five Safe Drinks in Any Bar See…
In this occasional series, Pavle Milic will spill about his current mission to learn how wine is made — literally from the Southern Arizona ground up. Today: preparing for the harvest. See also: Pavle Milic’s Quest to Make Wine: A Quixotic Exploit? See also: Pavle Prunes the Vines — and…
Beer: Sang Noir Brewery: Cascade Brewing Style: American WIld Ale ABV: 9.5 percent See also: Moa Imperial Stout See also: Dogfish Head Indian Brown Ale Whoever said “It’s about the journey, not the destination,” was A) Probably a dirty, baked-out hippie, and B) Full of it. The journey is filed…
I love elaborate cocktails. I’m also more than a bit of a stickler when it comes to classics being done right (but that’s another column). And, I’ve come to find that I enjoy a nice low- (or no-) class dive when I go out drinking. This leaves me in a…
Beer: Indian Brown Ale Brewery: Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Style: American Brown Ale ABV: 7.2 percent See also: Sierra Nevada/Dogfish Head Life & Limb See also: New Belgium/The Lost Abbey Brett Beer The Beer Judge Certification Program (the major authority that certifies and ranks judges for homebrew and commercial brewing…
Ring the bell, it’s time for Last Call, where JK Grence, bartender at Shady’s, serves up booze advice and recipes. Got a burning question for your bartender? Leave it in the comments and it might be answered in a future column. See Also: Trader Vic’s original Mai Tai, from yours…
