Category: Craft Beer

No one can accuse Arizona Wilderness of resting on its laurels, even when those include being named the best new brewery in the world. Last week I caught up with co-founder Jonathan Buford, who filled me in on the many,

Bad Water Brewing in Scottsdale will host the first annual Brewers Bowl beer festival – featuring at least 15 Arizona breweries, live music, and food trucks – on Saturday, Jan. 31. Participating breweries so far include Bad Water, Beer Research Institute, College

When website Beer Advocate recently asked its users to pick the world’s best 250 beers, Alpine Beer Company landed eight of its ales on the list. It was a remarkable feat for the tiny Alpine, Calif., brewery, which only produced about

SanTan Brewing in downtown Chandler has tapped the third release in its new From the Vault series – The Mad Czar Russian Imperial Stout. The 9.9% ABV (alcohol by volume) ale is available in pints at the brewpub. Four-packs of

The five-course dinner will feature the California brewery’s new year-round beer, Nooner Pilsner, and its new spring seasonal, Hoppy Lager. Sierra Nevada beer dinner menu: Course 1: Shrimp fritters with micro greens and a Nooner Pilsner red pepper lemon sauce. Paired

SanTan Brewing in Chandler has just announced a couple of must-attend events during next month’s Arizona Beer Week (Feb. 12-21). The first is the first-ever Brewers Roundtable at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 18, featuring some of Arizona’s best-known brewers. Jon Buford

Overwhelming demand is forcing the recently opened Beer Research Institute in Mesa to change its policy on growlers. The brewery, which launched in November, is having trouble keeping enough of its own beers on its 15 taps. As a result,

Borderlands Brewing will be the featured brewery of the monthly tap takeover 6-10 p.m. Thursday at Flanny’s in Tempe. The three-year-old Tucson brewery will bring 14 beers, including its popular Noche Dolce vanilla porter, Prickly Pear Wheat, and Horchata Cream