Category: Craft Beer

Oro Brewing, a a small craft brewery and taproom in downtown Mesa, won three gold medals and was named Brewery of the Year at the inaugural Arizona Craft Beer Awards & Festival. Other notable winners: Monsoon IPA from PHX Beer

Freely Taproom & Kitchen in south Tempe and all four Valley locations of OHSO Brewery will host Pumpkin Days this week. Today: Freely will have at least nine pumpkin beers on tap, along with fall treats and pumpkin carving at

The first-ever Arizona Craft Beer Awards & Festival, presented by the Arizona Craft Brewers Guild and Phoenix Magazine, will take place Friday and Saturday. The awards: Gold, silver, and bronze medals will be awarded in 14 style groups at 6:30

Three Valley craft breweries – Oro, Wren House (pictured), and Saddle Mountain – won medals Saturday night at the 2022 Great American Beer Festival, the world’s largest commercial beer competition, in Denver. 🥇 Oro in downtown Mesa, which won a silver

Tempe-based Huss Brewing has expanded its craft beer roster with a pair of new IPAs – Double Nix and Juicy Juicy Hazy IPA. Double Nix (8.2% ABV, 43 IBUs), named for Phoenix’s sometimes nickname, is a New England-style double IPA

Chandler-based SanTan Brewery & Distilling will release the newest edition of its award-winning Jacob Waltz Arizona Bourbon at a special event (info) at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at its production facility’s SanTan Gardens. The limited small-batch release comes in the middle

Pedal Haus Brewery has hired Zach Hunter as its new culinary director, and his first move has been to launch a new brunch menu at the brewery’s downtown Phoenix location. The resume: A graduate of the Arizona Culinary Institute, Hunter

OHSO Brewery in downtown Gilbert has tapped its seasonal 988, an IPA to raise awareness of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Sept. 4-10 is National Suicide Prevention Week. The history: OHSO debuted the beer, formerly called 1-800-273-TALK, five years ago and