Thursday is National IPA Day, an opportunity to celebrated one of craft beer’s rarest and least-discussed styles. [/sarcasm]
The Hungry Monk in Chandler will have 10 IPAs rated 95 or higher by RateBeer.com on tap (six-beer samplers for $10):
- Bells Two Hearted (1000)
- Ballast Point Sculpin (100)
- Alesmith IPA (100)
- Green Flash West Coast IPA (97)
- Odell IPA (98)
- Firestone Union Jack (99)
- Stone IPA (100)
- Deschutes Fresh Squeezed (98)
- Dogfish 90 Minute (100)
- Victory Dirt Wolf (99)
It’ll be a Grand Canyon firkin night, with four of the Williams brewery’s beers on tap, at 6 p.m. at Craft 64 in Old Town Scottsdale:
- Black Iron IPA (regular keg)
- Black Iron IPA dry-hopped with Citra (firkin)
- American Pilsner (regular keg)
- Chai Sunset Amber Ale (firkin)
At Sleepy Dog Brewery in Tempe, there’ll be a couple of specials
- $3 pints of Tail Chaser IPA
- $8 six-packs of Tail Chaser IPA
The Perch in Chandler is rolling out a dozen IPAs:
- Perch Rosemary IPA
- Perch Lemongrass DIPA
- SanTan KiloHop
- Bear Republic Mach 10
- Hess Solis #43
- Ballast Point Sculpin
- Ballast Point Grapefruit Sculpin
- Founders Devil Dancer
- Golden Road Wolf Among Weeds
- Firestone Walker Union Jack
- Firestone Walker Wookey Jack
- Stone Ruination 2.0
Boulders on Broadway in Tempe will have 16 IPAs on tap:
- New Belgium Ranger
- Mike Hess Grim Ave
- SanTan Negro Nitron
- SanTan MoonJuice
- Golden Road Heal the Bay
- Huss Grapefruit IPA
- Two Brothers Wobble
- Founders All Day
- Oskar Blues Juicy Wolf
- He’Brew She’Brew triple IPA
- Firestone Union Jack
- Four Peaks Hop Knot
- Sierra Nevada Hoptimum
- Stone Points Unknown
- Odell IPA
- Odell Tree Shaker
Boulders on Southern in Mesa will tap a half-dozen IPAs (and also will be celebrating National Root Beer Float Day with Abita and Smalltown Not Your Father’s Root Beer floats):
- Ballast Point Grapefruit Sculpin
- Bell’s Two Hearted
- Firestone Union Jack
- Odell IPA
- Marble IPA
- Deschutes Fresh Squeezed
SanTan Brewing in downtown Chandler is pulling out eight of its IPAs:
- HopShock IPA
- Nego Nitron nitrogenated black IPA
- Little D session IPA
- Big D overweight IPA
- MoonJuice galactic IPA
- KiloHop ludicrous IPA
- TequiloHop tequila barrel-aged IPA
- Lemon Bar white IPA
