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Mother Bunch Brewing in downtown Phoenix closes after 5 years in business

Mother Bunch Brewing, which opened in 2014 on the southeast corner of Seventh Street and Garfield in downtown Phoenix, has closed.

Owner Julie Meeker made the announcement on Facebook:

It is with deep sadness, but also with deep gratitude, that I must announce the closing of Mother Bunch Brewing. I’ve taken stock and looked at this from every angle over the last few months and I had to come to the hardest decision in my life. I want to personally thank all of our great staff and especially all of the wonderful and amazing people I have had the chance to meet over the last five years. I will never regret this opportunity to share my love of craft beer and spread the story of women in brewing.

The brewery took its name from a character in a 17th-century jest book called ‘‘Pasquil’s Jests Mixed with Mother Bunches Merriments.’’