By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
By Jess Harter
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🍺 The 24th annual Arizona Strong Beer Festival, the state’s premier craft beer event, takes place Saturday at Salt River Fields in Scottsdale. The 21-and-over festival features more than 500 beers, ciders, and meads, and the brewers who create them.
🍺 Tempe-based Huss Brewing is partnering with Arizona State University to serve as the official craft beer for all Sun Devil Athletics for the 2025-2026 season. The brewery will introduce a new beer – Devil’s Halo Amber Ale – this
🍺 The Copper State Beer Festival, Mesa’s largest craft beverage and food festival, takes place from noon-5 p.m. Saturday at Riverview Park. Besides craft beers, the 21-and-over event features wines, ciders, hard kombucha, and other spirits. There also will be
🍺 Four Peaks Brewing in Tempe is launching exclusive ‘‘memberships’’ for its biggest fans. For $150 per year, Eighth Street Pub members will receive 25% off draft beer, quarterly to-go beer, members-only happy hours, and an exclusive merchandise item. For
In the summer of 2007, I got wind of a new brewery under construction in downtown Chandler. So one evening, after dark, I decided to do a quick drive-by to check out the site. Inside a former Valley National Bank
Shocking news this morning for Arizona’s food and drink community: Anthony Canecchia – the founder of SanTan Brewing & Distilling, Arizona’s largest craft brewery – passed away Saturday. He was 51. ‘‘We are deeply saddened to receive news of the
🍺 Skunked! For the first time in three decades, Arizona breweries failed to win a single medal at this year’s prestigious Great American Beer Festival in Denver. GABF, the world’s largest commercial beer competition, judged more than 9,200 beers from
🍺 Tucson’s Barrio Brewing was named brewery of the year and Pedal Pounder session IPA from Prescott’s LazyG Brewhouse won best in show at the third annual Arizona Craft Beer Awards. Barrio, Arizona’s oldest brewery, earned a gold medal for
🍺 Tempe-based Huss Brewing releases Mexican Wolf IPA, its latest collaboration with the Phoenix Zoo, today. The unfiltered IPA is available on draft and in cans but only at the zoo. It’s the third release in the brewery’s Conservation Series bringing
🍺 Handlebar Pub & Grill in Apache Junction will hold its fifth annual Beer Float Day from 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday. Floats will be available featuring beers from The Shop Beer Co., Toppling Goliath Brewing, Prairie Artisan Ales, and Belching
🍺 Tickets for the third annual AZ Craft Beer Awards Festival in Tempe on Saturday, Oct. 19, are now on sale. This year’s festival, sponsored by the Arizona Craft Brewers Guild and Phoenix Magazine, moves from the Great Lawn at State Farm Stadium
🍺 Tempe-based Huss Brewing is giving away $500 in beer to someone getting married in the next 12 months. If you’re 21 or over (and planning to get hitched), you can enter here to win the brewery’s Happily Ever After wedding package. The drawing
🍺 Uncle Bear’s Brewery in Gilbert will host a special tapping of ‘‘Kory’s Kolsch,’’ a beer brewed in honor of late Captain Kory Yule of the Scottsdale Fire Department, at 2 p.m. Saturday. The history: The 42-year-old Yule died in
🥇 Congrats to four Valley craft breweries that won medals Wednesday night at the World Beer Cup, known as the ‘‘Olympics of beer,’’ in Las Vegas. 12 West: Zona won the gold medal in Contemporary American Style Lager. OHSO: Sudoku
🍺 Pinnacle Brewing, the Valley’s newest craft brewery, has announced its grand opening to the public will be Friday, May 3, in north Scottsdale. The family-owned, 4,300-square-foot brewery is located at The Corner Center at Hayden Road and 82nd Street,
🍺 Pinnacle Brewing, a new family-run brewery under construction in north Scottsdale, has announced its grand-opening date: Friday, May 3. The 4,200-square-foot brewery is located at The Corner Center at Hayden Road and 82nd Street, just east of Scottsdale Airport.
🍺 Adam and Alicia Vath, owners of home brewing supply store What’s Ale’s Ya in Glendale, have launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund a taproom with an instructional brewery. What’s the plan? Eight years ago, the Vaths (pictured) approached
🍺 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
🍺 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
🍺 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
