Category: Craft Beer

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