Ginger spicey heavy ale. Served with ginger/cinnamon cookies. Whiskey barrel aged this year!
SanTan Winter Warmer
Desert Monks Brewery
Becoming a new favorite. Variety of styles. Great place to hang out and drink and chat with friends. Trivia night on Tuesdays. They don’t have a kitchen but a number …
Arizona Wilderness Biere de Wassail
Along with SanTan Brewing’s Winter Warmer, this is one of my favorite local Christmas season beers. It’s a mixture of Belgian Bier de Garde style meets Old English wassail ale. …
Lochiel Oatmeal Stout
Mesa’s Lochiel Brewery has an excellent lineup of Scottish and British Isles style beers: some strong Scotttish ales, a great porter and a stellar ESB… but they have been missing …
Arizona Wilderness GooGooGaGa Stout
Named after the famous GooGoo Cluster chocolate peanut candy from Nashville TN, this high octane (12% abv!) stout is brewed with, of course, peanuts and chocolate (Zak’s Nicaragua cacao nibs) …
Arizona Wilderness Picacho Pecan Pie Brown Ale
Yeah, I know. It’s a brown ale, not a stout. But it’s so rich and sweet and smooth that it may as well be. One of my favorite things about …
It’s that most wonderful time of the beer!
Well, it’s the winter holiday season and craft brewers are tapping their holiday seasonals. We’ve tried two of our favorites here, San Tan Brewery’s Winter Warmer and Arizona Wilderness Brewery’s …
Beer Tasting Lunch at Lochiel Brewery for AZScots
On September 16 Lochiel Brewing in Mesa hosted a beer tasting event for the Arizona Caledonian Society. Several members of the Mesa Caledonian Pipe Band showed up to start the …
Flanny’s Third Thursday Tap Takeover- September
Flanny’s a craft beer bar in Tempe held their monthly Third Thursday Tap Takeover on 9/21 focusing on Arizona breweries, mostly from Westside Phoenix or Flagstaff. I didn’t get to …
Lochiel, A Scottish Style Brewery in Mesa, AZ
Lochiel Brewery, Mesa, AZ This Scottish style brewery in Mesa, Arizona is run by Ian Cameron. Ian’s family hails from Lochiel, hence the name. Not a brew pub restaurant, Lochiel …