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Spring has sprung – bringing with it volume beer drinking in the sun while you enjoy spring training, pool parties or other assorted grab-assery.
Liquid ArizonaBeer of the Month: Tombstone Brewing Company Chocolate Oatmeal Porter
Craig OuthierJanuary 6, 2025
We’ll make it our mission to imbibe a few cans of this highly quaffable porter from Cochise County’s finest brewer before winter escapes us.
Technically available all year long, this much-admired brown ale – truly a classic of Valley brewing
Craft BeerBeer of the Month: Double This is Growing Up from Roses by the Stairs Brewing
Craig OuthierSeptember 3, 2024
In two short years of operation, Roses by the Stairs Brewing has thrust to the forefront of the Valley beer-making peloton.
Craft BeerBeer of the Month: Tombstone Brewing Company Joosy Froot QDH DIPA
Craig OuthierJuly 3, 2024
A rare “quadruple hopped” hazy IPA, Joosy Froot explodes in all directions with Nectaron, Superdelic, Citra and Mosaic hops, delivering slight bitterness and lush tropicality with equal aplomb.
A fairly recent addition to the world beer stage, the Italian pilsner is trending tempo grande with U.S. craft brewers.
Flagstaff’s Dark Sky mixed up the hop card a bit, using a “unique Citra hop oil” in the whirlpool
Craft BeerBeer of the Month: Alewife’s Pumpkin Pie from Desert Monks Brewing Co.
Craig OuthierNovember 1, 2023
There’s very little argument that this perennial offering from rising Gilbert brewer Desert Monks is one of the finest versions in America.
Desert DigestFood & DrinkBeer of the Month: Arizona Wilderness Brewing Co. Double Picacho Pecan Pie
Craig OuthierNovember 11, 2021
Though the recipe, presumably, has changed somewhat since the days when brew master Jonathan Buford “threw a whole pecan pie in the beer while making it,” as he told The Arizona Republic back in 2013, this AZ Wilderness offering remains a seasonal standard in the Valley of the Sun. Brewed with maple syrup, vanilla beans and dairy extracts sourced right here in Arizona, it’s candy in a can, and perfectly suited to the irresponsible sucrose...
Desert DigestBeer of the Month: Goldwater Brewing Co. Admiral McClelland’s High Seas
Craig OuthierNovember 5, 2020
Celebrating five years of beermaking in the West’s Most Western Town, Goldwater brews itself a big ol’ figurative birthday cake in the guise of this zesty, high-gravity sipper. A West Coast-style IPA (read: more hops than the Savoy Ballroom), High Seas is the second edition of the family-owned brewery’s “all C” hops series, layering Calypso, Comet, Chinook and Citra hops within a faintly bready malt structure. A little dry, a little pineapple-y, a whole lot...
Desert DigestBeer of the Month: Top Secret Battle Monkey from The Beer Research Institute
Craig OuthierJuly 7, 2020
100 international bitterness units (IBUs) in a double IPA? That must translate into some face-melting hops bitterness, right? Magically, it does not with this superbly tuned hammer of a beer from Mesa-based The Beer Research Institute. Employing Citra and Denali hops for a citrus-pineapple punch, the brewers employ “zero-second,” after-boil late hopping to “avoid that overpowering bitterness,” according to manager Zack Forsythe. “It’s an amazingly balanced beer for how heavy it is.” Now available in...