Category: Craft Beer

Blasted Barley Beer Company in downtown Tempe will host a Keg, Cask, and Barrel Aged Party starting at 3 p.m. today. The event will feature three versions of Blasted Bear’s British Brown, a collaboration with Uncle Bear’s Brewery in Ahwatukee:

The Hungry Monk in Chandler hosts a Summer, Sliders & Smutty promo from 5-9 p.m. Thursday featuring a half-dozen creative sliders from beer chef Gidi and beers from New Hampshire’s Smuttynose Brewing:

Four Peaks Brewing in Tempe has expanded its Eighth Street brew pub, opening a gift shop/studio and enlarged waiting area on its east side. The 2,000-square-foot addition, the last portion of the century-old creamery property that wasn’t part of Four Peaks, now serves as the entrance to the

Minor equipment repairs have forced JC’s Steakhouse in Gilbert to postpone its monthly dinner, scheduled for this Wednesday, for one week. The dinner, featuring four dishes from chef Dennis Petty paired with five beers from California’s Hangar 24, will be held next Wednesday at

The Arizona Craft Brewers Guild – which organizes the Valley’s two premier beer events, the Arizona Strong Beer Festival in February and Real, Wild & Woody in July, is launching another: A Brewers Ball on Friday, Nov. 18, at the

Sun Up Brewing in Phoenix is celebrating its 15th anniversary with an all-day party Sunday. From 11 a.m.-10 p.m., the festivities, dubbed ‘‘Cheers to 15 Years,’’ will include: Special and rare beer tappings Free appetizer samples Prizes giveaways every hour

You have less than two weeks to wait until Four Peaks Brewing in Tempe releases Pumpkin Porter. The brewery announced its best-selling seasonal will be available Thursday, Sept. 1, at all Four Peaks brewpubs. It will hit store shelves across the

Boulevard Brewing from Kansas City, Mo., is the featured brewery for this month’s Third Thursday tap takeover at Flanny’s Bar & Grill in south Tempe. Beers on tap from 6-10 p.m. tonight will include three of Boulevard’s seven ‘‘core’’ beers: 80 Acre

The Hungry Monk in Chandler will feature summer seasonals from AB InBev’s High End portfolio from 5-8 p.m. tonight, including: Goose Island Gillian barrel-aged wild ale Four Peaks White Ale (Belgian-inspired witbier) Breckenridge Mango Mosaic pale ale 10 Barrel Piña pineapple

Want to win $100 just by taking a photo? Sun Up Brewing in Phoenix is launching a two-week photo contest today. Just take a photo that includes Sun Up’s facility or logo (on a can, growler, glass, etc.) and put it on Twitter, Facebook, or

Saturday is National Root Beer Float Day, and The Brass Tap is teaming up with fellow Mesa Riverview business iCream Cafe to celebrate. From 3-7 p.m., The Brass Tap will be making root beer floats with five different hard (alcoholic) root beers:

Tempe’s Four Peaks in August’s ‘‘brewery of the month’’ at The Brass Tap, and the craft beer bar at Mesa Riverview will be offering $4 pints of White Ale, Kilt Lifter, Hop Knot, and Peach Ale all month. Tonight at

New Belgium Brewing continues its 25th anniversary tour of the Valley with a mini tap takeover from 5-7 p.m. today at The Brass Tap at Mesa Riverview. Featured on tap will be the six beers in the Colorado brewery’s recently released ‘‘Collabeeration’’

The Brass Tap at Mesa Riverview will host a Can Release Party for Uncle’s Bear’s Brewery at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Earlier this month, the Ahwatukee brewery began canning two of its beers – Mandarin Wheat and Ocean Beach West Coast Style IPA – thanks

The Casual Pint, a Tennessee-based chain of craft beer bar-and-market hybrids, will open its first Arizona location next month on the southwest corner of Alma School and Queen Creek in south Chandler. The store will have 30 craft beers on tap, and

If you haven’t got your tickets yet for Real, Wild & Woody – one of Arizona’s premier beer festivals – you’re in luck. There still are some remaining for the third annual event, which will take place 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday

Want to learn more about cask beers? OHSO in Arcadia will host a special ‘‘Ask the Cask Manager’’ event at 5 p.m. Friday with Sierra Nevada cask manager Zak Driscoll. Also taking part will be OHSO’s Josh Goodstein and Scott

New Belgium brewer Chris McCombs is in the Valley today for some tappings of the Fort Collins, Colo., brewery’s ‘‘Collabeeration’’ ales. New Belgium celebrated its 25th anniversary last month by releasing five collaboration beers that ‘‘reinterpreted’’ its flagship Fat Tire amber ale: Fat Funk Ale