Craft Beer

🍺 The third annual Copper State Beer Festival will feature ales from more than 70 breweries from 2-5 p.m. Saturday at Riverview Park in northwest Mesa.

Beside beers, there will be ciders, meads, seltzers, wines, and spirits. Other attractions: Two dozen food vendors, a marketplace, bands, and games.

Tickets are $55 for general admission (includes 20 samples), $60 for general admission plus (30 samples and early entry at 1 p.m.), and $70 for VIP (45 samples and early entry at noon).

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🍺 Arizona Wilderness Brewing, which was forced to close its Gilbert flagship location Thursday after a semi-truck struck the building, already has reopened.

An evacuation was ordered after the collision caused some pipes to burst, spraying water throughout the brewery, and compromised the structural integrity of the roof above the boiler.

Crews from the Mesa and Gilbert fire departments worked through the night to repair the water lines and construct temporary supports for the roof.

Permanent repairs are expected to take a few weeks, but the brewery is open for business.

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🍺 Arizona Wilderness Brewing was forced to close its Gilbert flagship location Thursday after a Hensley Beverage Company semi-trailer truck struck the building.

The accident occurred around 4 p.m., according to Wilderness marketing director Zach Fowle. Some pipes burst, but no injuries were reported.

The brewpub was closed due to concerns over the structural integrity of the roof, Fowle says. Engineers were on-site Thursday night trying to determine the extent of the damage.

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Pinnacle Brewing on schedule to open in north Scottsdale by April

By Jess Harter Wednesday, December 6, 2023

🍺 A update on Pinnacle Brewing, a new Scottsdale brewery that I first wrote about in March:

Owner Bob Wilson says the 4,300-square-foot brewery and taproom should be open by April at The Corner Center at Hayden Road and 82nd Street, just east of Scottsdale Airport.

Pinnacle will have a full kitchen and a covered patio, Wilson says.

Wilson’s son, Wyatt, will be the brewmaster. He has worked at Dust Bowl Brewing in Turlock, Calif., Monkless Belgian Ales in Bend, Ore., and Mash Lab Brewing in Windsor, Colo.

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🥇 Congrats to Phoenix-based Wren House Brewing, whose Spellbinder won the gold medal in the hazy IPA category at European Beer Star 2023 in Nuremberg, Germany.

A total of 2,356 beers competed in 74 style categories at this year’s EBS, one of the world’s most prestigious competitions.

It’s the third major award for Spellbinder, which also won gold medals at the 2020 Great American Beer Festival and the 2021 Brussels Beer Challenge.

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🍺💧 Eight Valley craft breweries will participate in the One Water Brewing Showcase, Arizona’s first festival dedicated to beers made with recycled water, today and Saturday at the Scottsdale Waterfront in Old Town Scottsdale.

The event, which starts at 6 p.m. each day at Soleri Bridge, is part of Canal Convergence, a 10-night public art event.

Breweries taking part (up to five each night):

  • Arizona Wilderness (pictured)
  • Desert Monks
  • Fate
  • Huss
  • North Mountain
  • OHSO
  • Walter Station
  • Wren House

Admission to Convergence and the Showcase is free; those 21 and over can purchase beer samples.

Scottsdale Water is the only permitted facility in Arizona to offer direct potable reuse. After recycled water is treated, it undergoes several more purifying processes until its quality exceeds that of bottled water.

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🍺🍷 A few tickets still are available for the Terroir Festival hosted by Arizona Wilderness Brewing from 2-6 p.m. Saturday at Agritopia urban farm in Gilbert.

Created by Firestone Walker Brewing in 2019, the unique event features 20 of the country’s top breweries who make a beer-wine hybrid beginning with the same beer base and co-fermenting it with grapes grown within 100 miles of their brewery and using naturally occurring yeast.

Each brewery, several of which have never been seen in Arizona, will be pouring their hybrid, plus one of their own beers, at the festival.

Tickets are $90 for general admission (which includes a sample of every wine/beer) and $110 for VIP.

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🍺 Hop Central Brewing and Taproom in Chandler has tapped a Kōkua Project beer from Dark Sky Brewing in Flagstaff to benefit those impacted by the Maui wildfires.

Kōkua, roughly translated, is the Hawaiian word for help.

In the project launched by Maui Brewing, breweries across the country, including at least 15 from Arizona, are making the same beer – a session IPA – and donating 100% of the proceeds.

Also look for a Kōkua beer from these Arizona breweries: Arizona Wilderness, Black Bridge, Four Peaks, Goldwater, Huss, Lumberyard, Moto Sonora, Mudshark, North Mountain, OHSO, Patent 139, Peoria Artisan, Roses by the Stairs, and Simple Machine.

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🥧🍺 Pecan Pie Brown Ale, one of Arizona’s most popular seasonal beers, drops today at Arizona Wilderness Brewing.

The beer, billed as ‘‘Thanksgiving dessert in a glass,’’ is brewed with locally grown pecans, milk sugar, vanilla beans, maple syrup – and whole pecan pies thrown right into the mash.

Wilderness also will release its seasonal Barrel-Aged Pecan Pie Brown Ale, which has been resting in bourbon barrels since last fall.

Both beers will be available in cans and on draft at the brewery’s flagship location in Gilbert and its beer garden in downtown Phoenix.

Don’t wait too long – they tend to sell out quickly.

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