Wren House Brewing Co.

Drew Pool and Bill Hammond opened Wren House Brewing Co. with brewer Preston Thoeny in 2015 in a historic 1930s home in the Green Gables neighborhood. Inside the taproom, which still very much looks like a house, it’s easy to make friends at the large wooden community table after ordering off the letterboard menu, which changes regularly. You can also expect to see takeout brought in from nearby restaurants along with a host of food trucks that pull up out front. Grab a beer from the bar, and get a good look at the trinkets and plastic dinosaurs along the ledge before heading outside to a patio table. The beer hall is known for its award-winning Spellbinder hazy IPA, fruit-filled Las Frescas series and staple Valley Beer lager. Wren House has expanded, with a production facility and patio in Prescott, a European-style beer hall in Ahwatukee and a cozy southwestern snug pouring cask ales in Paradise Valley, but we’re still partial to the original, albeit tiny, digs.