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Pickle Back: The Other Green Drink

​This St. Patrick's Day, you'll likely see a lot of green beer flowing. Thing is, unless the brewer's done something horribly wrong, beer isn't meant to be green. Also, the fizzy yellow stuff they're adding food coloring to is for wusses. March 17 is a day for celebrating the Irish...
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When the Sun Goes Down, Valley Nightlife Lights Up

There are plenty of things to love about Phoenix after the sun goes down, like world-class DJs dropping crackalackin' cuts in abundance, swank music venues springing up outta nowhere, and time-saving gems like those zazzy golf carts in Scottsdale. Here are a few of my favorites. The Lounge and Patio...
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Is “Artisan” Food Made for the Masses Still “Artisan”?

If a hard freeze in April hadn't annihilated northern Michigan's tart-cherry crop, a little boy in Beijing might be pouring Herkner's Original Cherry Topping over his mung-bean ice cream right now. But the fickle weather forced Lynda Herkner, 74, and her sisters to delay plans to export their siren-red dessert...
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Hot Scotchy, the Brewer’s Cocktail

​An arcane and mysterious sect, brewers like to perform a number of rituals during the making of beer: the pre-mash dance and battle cry, the sacramental blessing of the hops, the ceremonial loogie into the day's first boil. (ED NOTE: These are all made up. We hope.) But perhaps no...
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Mario Rana’s Rio

Last week we met Mario Rana, part owner and bar manager at Cuoco Pazzo. Today he shares with us the recipe for the Rio, a drink he named after himself. "It's what everyone called me in high school," Rana says. "They couldn't say my name right, so I just told...
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Samuel Adams Harvest Pumpkin Ale

​Beer: Samuel Adams Harvest Pumpkin AleBrewery: Boston Beer Company Style: Pumpkin beerABV: 5.7 percent Well, Pumpkin Month is at an end. It's been four weeks filled with pumpkin pie spiciness and every shade of orange here at Craft Beer of the Week, and the mob of pumpkin brews that crowded...
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Tap That

To quote humorist Dave Barry, “Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer.” Granted, the wheel was also a pretty good invention. But the wheel doesn’t go nearly as well with a pizza. Get your fill of the world’s most awesome beverage during NovemBEER at Casey...
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St. Patrick’s Day Guide 2012

If you happen to be a musician of a Celtic bent, then this is likely the most wonderful time of the year. Saint Patrick's Day is right around the corner, which means you're probably gonna be busy performing at green-beer-fueled celebrations all over town. And if you happen to be...
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Your Valley guide to Cinco de Mayo

Bar owners have been busy lately ordering plenty of cerveza, testing out their blenders, and adorning the walls of their joints with colorful decorations. Such preparations are necessary, considering that Cinco de Mayo (a.k.a. one of the biggest drinking holidays of the year) is just around the corner. Countless fiestas...
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O.H.S.O. Eatery and Nano Brewery Opens in Arcadia

O.H.S.O. Eatery and Nano Brewery, the new restaurant and small-batch brewery from first-time restaurant owners Jon Lane and Pat Walsh, opens today in Arcadia in the former home of the Black Forest Mill German Restaurant at 4900 East Indian School Road. The newly renovated restaurant will feature American comfort food...
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St. Patrick’s Day Guide 2012

If you happen to be a musician of a Celtic bent, then this is likely the most wonderful time of the year. Saint Patrick's Day is right around the corner, which means you're probably gonna be busy performing at green-beer-fueled celebrations all over town. And if you happen to be...
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Trophy’s Steakhouse Hosts Ballast Point Beer Dinner

What happens when some of San Diego's premier craft beers are paired with the (RAWR!) wildness of the Midwest? Only twenty people get to find out. At 6:30 p.m. on Friday, October 28, Trophy's, the "hunter's steakhouse" in Queen Creek owned by big-game hunter Kevin Dettler, will be pairing meat,...
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Seven Favorite Spots to Catch a Movie in Phoenix

​Like us, you may be in mourning for the closing of The Royale in Mesa after only six months, but that doesn't mean there aren't still a number of local venues for viewing independent and art-house films at decent prices (like, say, free). Sure, you'll sometimes have to compromise on seating...
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Bare Wires at Yucca Tap Room, 2/27/12

Bare Wires Yucca Tap Room Monday, February 27 It was hard not to feel just a little bad for the earnest strummers in Yucca's neighboring craft bar when Manhands, the first of four loud bands took the stage last night. I can imagine that at least a little of the...
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Weird Is the New Cool Rebounds From Tragedy

To paraphrase the common axiom: In show business, it's not who you know, it's who knows you. Phoenix-based hip-hop crew Weird Is the New Cool counts Phoenix Suns point guard Steve Nash, radio DJs Johnjay and Rich, and MTV favorite Gym Class Heroes among its admirers, achieving recognition for its...
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32 Shea: Coziness, Comfort, Coffee, and Killer Cocktails

32 Shea is the kind of restaurant where you could easily spend hours — the temperature is perfect, the seating comfortable, and its small size means the occupation of a few tables or barstools creates an intimate scene almost immediately. One might even feel, upon opening the door to its...
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Sam Adams Infinium

​Beer: Sam Adams InfiniumBrewery: Boston Brewing Co. Style: Biere de ChampagneABV: 10.3 percent Boston Brewing Co. comes under a lot of fire from the beer community. It's to be expected as the largest craft brewery providing for a fickle community of geeks -- people will get upset and write you...