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Visual Aid: Best New Bars and Craft Drinks of 2020 in Greater Phoenix

Charles Barth
The Hedonist from Reap & Sow Coffee Bar inside The Rebel Lounge.
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Charles Barth
The Rebel Lounge is now also Reap & Sow, a coffee house and bar.
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Charles Barth
The White Beast (Reap & Sow's White Russian cocktail).
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Charles Barth
The lounge serves craft cocktails during all business hours.
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Courtesy of Greenwood Brewing
Greenwood Brewing owner Megan Greenwood opened her brewery and beer garden on Roosevelt Row this year.
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Natasha Yee
Greenwood Brewery on Roosevelt Row.
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Natasha Yee
Freshly painted taps and bright florals at Greenwood Brewery.
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Natasha Yee
Patios abound at Greenwood.
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Natasha Yee
Check out the week's offerings on the new beer board.
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Lauren Cusimano
The lounge area at Rift Wine + Tap, a new wine bar and bottle shop in south Scottsdale.
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Lauren Cusimano
Inside Rift Wine + Tap.
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Lauren Cusimano
Rift is where we scored a four-pack of Goldwater Brewing Co.'s CoRn — American Adjunct Lager.
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Lauren Cusimano
A pour of CoRn — American Adjunct Lager.
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Chris Malloy
Jeff and Jen Herbert, owners of Superstition Meadery, opened Superstition Downtown this fall.
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Chris Malloy
Five meads that just medaled at the Mazer Cup in Denver at Superstition Downtown.
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Chris Malloy
Superstition's bar will has two dozen taps of mead and cider.
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Chris Malloy
Mead fermenting in onsite demijohns at Superstition Downtown.
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Chris Malloy
A glass of barrel-aged melomel, meaning mead made with fruit, by Superstition Meadery.
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Chris Malloy
Forbidden Fruit takes on a russet, coppery color in the sun.
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Lauren Cusimano
The Sidebar space is now Highball, a sleek new cocktail lounge.
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Lauren Cusimano
Shoutout to the ice cubes with the H on them.
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Lauren Cusimano
The minty, coconutty, incredible Shogun Powder cocktail at Highball.
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Lauren Cusimano
Inside the dim lounge at Highball.
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Chris Malloy
One of Arizona Sake's 2020 bottles was infused with the herb known as Navajo Tea.
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Chris Malloy
Sallow lengths of Navajo Tea, also called greenthread, lean in the bottle.
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Chris Malloy
Big Marble packs bubbles and a pleasant, intense ginger zing.
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Chris Malloy
A rum-heavy Dark and Stormy made with Big Marble ginger beer.
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Chris Malloy
You can make a ginger beer ice cream float after one trip to Sweet Republic.
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Chris Malloy
Randall D. Ordovich Clarkson and Justin Slusher, founders of Absinthe Minded.
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Chris Malloy
Absinthe Minded Gold. The distillers use opaque bottles to block sunlight, preventing browning.
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Chris Malloy
Demonstrating absinthe's looshing with the guys from Absinthe Minded.
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Chris Malloy
About to gin up a gin drink using this Arizona-made spirit.
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Tombstone Brewing Company
In 2020, east Phoenix got a little more tough with the second location of Tombstone Brewing Company.
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Juan Hodgers
Tyler Goolie and Hilda Cardenas plan to open The Wayward on Grand Avenue in late October.
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Lauren Cusimano
The patio at The Wayward on Grand Avenue.
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Lauren Cusimano
Inside The Wayward on Grand Avenue.
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Benjamin Leatherman
Hanging out (pre-COVID) at one of Roosevelt Row's newest bars — Killer Whale Sex Club.
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Visual Aid: Best New Bars and Craft Drinks of 2020 in Greater Phoenix
Despite you-know-what, many new breweries, bottle shops, and cocktail lounges descended upon the Valley this year.
But in the barstool-traded lore of drinking culture, this year will go down as a supreme outlier. People have been drinking more at home, killing time and enjoying the sheltered life with tasty beverages.
Here's a slideshow of all the best new bars and breweries, as well as recently released Arizona spirits and craft drinks, that 2020 had to offer.
Despite you-know-what, many new breweries, bottle shops, and cocktail lounges descended upon the Valley this year.
But in the barstool-traded lore of drinking culture, this year will go down as a supreme outlier. People have been drinking more at home, killing time and enjoying the sheltered life with tasty beverages.
Here's a slideshow of all the best new bars and breweries, as well as recently released Arizona spirits and craft drinks, that 2020 had to offer.
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