Category: Craft Beer

Several craft beer bars are celebrating “Christmas in July” on Saturday: At SanTan Brewing in downtown Chandler, they’ll be tapping kegs of their winter seasonals Winter Warmer (served with ginger snap cookies) and Sex Panther double chocolate porter. There’ll be Christmas music

The second annual Real, Wild & Woody, one of Arizona’s top beer festivals, took place Saturday at the Phoenix Convention Center. Fifty-five breweries poured cask (real) beers, Brettanomyces yeast (wild) beers, and barrel-aged (woody) beers for approximately 2,000 attendees. Volunteer Bret

It’s been nearly six years since Four Peaks Brewing added a beer to its year-round “core” lineup. That streak will end next month with the launch of White Ale, a Belgian-inspired witbier. White Ale will replace Hefeweizen, which still will be brewed

1. The second annual Real, Wild & Woody beer festival takes place 2-6 p.m. Saturday at the Phoenix Convention Center South Building (map). 2. The 21-and-over fest was created to highlight cask (real) beers, Brett (wild) beers, and barrel-aged (woody) beers. See

Arizona Beer and Cider Company, the Phoenix-based distributor launched last October by Two Brothers founders Jim and Jason Ebel, has purchased Pitcher of Nectar Distributing. Tempe-based Pitcher of Nectar, or POND, was founded in 2007 by Tony Piccini (pictured), who announced last month

There’s a new craft beer festival coming to downtown Tempe on Saturday, Nov. 7, and the city is asking for help: What do you think the name of the festival should be? Help us name this festival by choosing from

The ground-breaking Delaware brewery is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Friday’s tap list will include: Chateau Jiahu: A re-creation of a 9,000-year-old fermented beverage of rice, honey and fruit discovered in China. Aprihop: A massively hopped IPA. Dogfish’s most popular seasonal. Festina Peche: A Berliner

The Valley’s newest brewery, which renamed itself this week after having trademark issues with its original moniker, is located on 24th Street about halfway between McDowell and Thomas (map). It’s a three-building complex – a 1922 house-turned-taproom, a brewhouse, and a refrigerated storage building –

Technically, this year’s summer solstice doesn’t occur until 9:38 a.m. Sunday, but why wait to celebrate? Boulders’ recently opened Mesa location (map) will have more than 50 beers on tap, including: Lost Abbey Serpent Stout Ska Hibernal Vinefera Stout SanTan

Huss Brewing, which will celebrate its two-year anniversary in August, will showcase a dozen beers at Flanny’s monthly Third Thursday tap takeover. Leading the way will be Scottsdale Blonde, the Huss flagship Kölsch, which will be joined by a recent coffee-steeped version, Koffee Kölsch. The

It’s the last of six small kegs that made their way from Founders to Arizona this year. Earlier: Canadian Breakfast Stout coming to AZ The full list of beers from the Michigan brewery that will be on tap at Boulders:

If you missed the Party in the Pines on Saturday, don’t worry. This weekend offers another high-country beer-tasting festival: Made in the Shade. Nearly 50 breweries, including about 20 from Arizona, will be pouring samples from 1-5 p.m. Saturday at the Pepsi Amphitheater

The festival, which features barrel-aged ales and specialty casks, debuted last summer at Tempe Center for the Performing Arts. It will run 2-6 p.m. The larger downtown Phoenix venue will: Give attendees more elbow room. Allow as many as 70 breweries

These are some of the rare barrel-aged and sour beers that will be on tap by noon today: Hangar 24 Hammerhead 2014 Hangar 24 Hammerhead 2015 The Bruery Smoking Wood Full Sail Black Gold 2013 Black Diamond Peak XV 2013 Black

1. The fifth annual festival takes place on the grounds of the Scottsdale Civic Center Mall (see map). Gates open at noon for VIP ticket holders and 1 p.m. for general admission. The 21-and-over event ends at 6 p.m. 2. AmeriCan

This weekend’s winners from the competition portion of the Ameri-Can Canned Craft Beer Festival have been announced: American Pale Ale: 1. Fist City, Revolution; 2. Pride of Texas, Rahr & Sons; 3. Osiris, Sun King. English Pale Ale:  1. Snow King, Snake River; 2. 8th Street, Four Peaks; 3. Lumberyard

Nearly six months ago, I broke the news Mill Avenue nightlife entrepreneur Julian Wright was going to open a brewpub called Pedal Haus in downtown Tempe this fall. Now we know who will be brewing the beer: Derek “Doc” Osborne. Earlier: Julian

For millenia, beer has been associated with bread. Mill some grain, add some water, pitch some yeast, and you’ve got the basic recipe for beer. Or bread. In fact, beer sometimes is referred to as “liquid bread.” So it only seems appropriate a cluster