Discussions about the Valley’s craft beer scene – especially questions about possible over-saturation – inevitably seem to lead to comparisons to San Diego.
That’s not surprising. With roughly four million residents, Maricopa County is the fourth-largest in the U.S. With more than three million, San Diego County is the fifth-largest.
But while San Diego has only 75 percent of Maricopa’s population, it supports twice as many breweries – approximately 100 to 50.
Find out more about San Diego craft beer when three of the city’s top breweries – Stone Brewing, Modern Times, and Pizza Port – are featured in this month’s tap takeover at 6 tonight at Flanny’s Bar & Grill in Tempe.
Here are tonight’s tap lists (Stone separated Arrogant Bastard into its own product line in 2015):
Stone Brewing
- Stone Ripper
- Stone Tangerine Express IPA
- Stone Ruination 2.0 Double IPA
- Stone Mocha IPA
- Stone Ghost Hammer IPA
- Stone Enjoy By 9.4.17 Unfiltered IPA
- Stone 21st Anniversary Hail To The Hop Thief Double IPA
- Drew Curtis/Wil Wheaton/Greg Koch/Stone Farking Wheaton w00t Stout
Arrogant Brewing
- Who You Callin’ Wussie Pilsner
Modern Times
- Fruitlands
- Blazing World
- Lomaland
- Fortunate Islands
- Orderville
- Rowing Needles
- Oneida
- Funky Universal Friend
- Black House (nitro)
Pizza Port
- Grandview Golden Ale
- Chronic Amber Ale
- Ponto S.I.P.A.
- Pickleweed Point IPA
- Swami’s IPA
- Kook Double IPA
