The Beer: Funkwerks Saison The Brewery: Funkwerks is a Belgian-inspired brewery located in Ft. Collins, Colorado. The brewery specializes in Belgian-style beers brewed by Head Brewer Gordon Schuck. The Stats: 6.8% ABV. This beer was a Great American Beer Festival Award Winner in both 2011 (Silver) and 2012 (Gold) in the…
Congrats, DC Ranch. You’re getting your own winery. Decantur — The Winery at DC Ranch will open its doors at 8221 N. Pima Road, Suite 100, inside Scottsdale’s DC Ranch Crossing, in January 2016. The winery is owned by Bill and Debra McDermott, who moved to Arizona in 2012 from…
Each week we venture to a new restaurant to check out what the spot has to offer during our favorite time of day — happy hour. Whether it’s affordable appetizers, delicious drinks, jaw-dropping deals, or none of the above, we’ll check out the situation and report back. The Spot: Urban…
There’s a reason that, in the young restaurant’s history, Okra is known best not for Southern Comfort, the divisive fruit and whiskey-flavored liqueur from New Orleans, but rather their own brand of southern comfort: a warm and hospitable staff turning out cold craft cocktails and cult staples of bible-belt cooking…
Need a little help picking out a gift for the wine lover in your life? Or is your holiday party docket so full you need a stash of hostess gifts on hand? Or maybe you’re just looking for the perfect bottle to accompany your family feast. Well, in any and…
The Brewery: A name like Beer Research Institute could conjure images of white coat laboratory technicians analyzing the inner most secrets of beer under high power microscopes. But in Mesa, the “B.R.I.” — as it is called by locals — should really just make you think of fresh, local beer…
The Spot: Tapacubo 225 East Apache Boulevard, Tempe 480-967-9431 www.tapacubotempe.com The Hours: Happy Hour is from 3 to 7 p.m. daily Perfect for: When you want to down drinks in a fun atmosphere that’s quieter than Tempe’s typical college haunts. Interior: Much like the Graduate Hotel in which it’s housed,…
The Beer: Hop-15 Imperial IPA The Brewery: Port Brewing Company, San Marcos, California The Stats: 10.0% ABV The Hop Story: Port Brewing does not list the IBU (International Bitterness Units) of this beer, probably because it would be too hard to determine. The brewery uses a total of 15 different…
Punch is upping its game, and just in time for the holidays. The communal offering can incorporate just about any combination of liquids and spices fit for human consumption, and today most Americans identify it with the holidays and family gatherings — big, decorative glass bowls, clove-spiked orange slices, cinnamon…
Each week we venture to a new restaurant to check out what the spot has to offer during our favorite time of day — happy hour. Whether it’s affordable appetizers, delicious drinks, jaw-dropping deals, or none of the above, we’ll check out the situation and report back. The Spot: Mother…
Every city has its iconic tourist draws. In Paris, you have to see the Eiffel Tower, and in Chicago, you have to eat Chicago-style pizza. These signature things define their region of origin — and it’s much the same way when talking about breweries. Most breweries have one defining beer…
“It was dirt floors six months ago. As abandoned as it gets,” says Brandon Casey, heading to the corner seat of what’s being billed as the first craft cocktail bar in Chandler, where he’d rest his elbow for a photograph. This is the best vantage point to see the new…
Each week we venture to a new restaurant to check out what the spot has to offer during our favorite time of day — happy hour. Whether it’s affordable appetizers, delicious drinks, jaw-dropping deals, or none of the above, we’ll check out the situation and report back. The Spot: Okra…
The Beer: McFate’s Irish Red The Brewery: Fate Brewing Company South ABV: 5.4% IBU: 18 Owner Steve McFate has developed quite a following at his original Fate brewpub founded in 2012 and located on East Shea Boulevard in Scottsdale. He developed so much of a following, in fact, that he’s…
Each week we venture to a new restaurant to check out what the spot has to offer during our favorite time of day — happy hour. Whether it’s affordable appetizers, delicious drinks, jaw-dropping deals, or none of the above, we’ll check out the situation and report back. The Spot: House…
What do you get when you round up nearly 50 local and national breweries in the middle of downtown Phoenix in November? You get New Times’ second annual NovemBEER Festival, that’s what. The event will take place on Saturday, November 21 at Arizona Center in downtown Phoenix and will offer beer,…
The Beer: The Maharaja (Release No. 26) The Brewery: Avery Brewing Company Location: Boulder, Colorado Style: Imperial India Pale Ale Stats: 10.2% ABV, 102 IBU The Maharaja is part of Avery Brewing Company’s Dictator Series, and according to the brewery’s website, “The Avery Dictators Series was born of an inexorable…
Something huge has landed in the Phoenix cocktail scene. In fact, it may be the biggest cocktail around. Part of it sat in the Beefeater Gin distillery in London for close to two months simply due to shipping complications. “I don’t think anyone else in America has these bathtubs,” says…
It takes guts to call your book a Bible, but Karen MacNeil’s nearly 1,000-page tome The Wine Bible is more than worthy. The second edition of The Wine Bible, released earlier this year, is an approachable and entertaining compendium of wine knowledge, spanning topics such as “How Is Wine Made” and detailing the…
Beer: Pumpking Brewery: Southern Tier Brewing Company Location: Lakewood, New York ABV: 8.6 percent Ever had pumpkin pie? How about pumpkin pie in a glass? Actually, that may actually be underselling it because this beer is superior to pumpkin pie — and it comes in a glass. More specifically, Pumpking is the…
On November 7th Counter Intuitive, the Old Town Scottsdale cocktail bar with a revolving theme, will say goodbye to sultry Havana nights and set their thematic sails to stir up “Big Trouble in Little China Towns.” The cocktail gang will be channeling the historic underground social drinking clubs of Chinese…
Each week we venture to a new restaurant to check out what the spot has to offer during our favorite time of day — happy hour. Whether it’s affordable appetizers, delicious drinks, jaw-dropping deals, or none of the above, we’ll check out the situation and report back. The Spot: Wildfish…
