Ginger spicey heavy ale. Served with ginger/cinnamon cookies. Whiskey barrel aged this year!
SanTan Winter Warmer
Category: Dark Beers
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 of good food trucks make the rounds here. They recently celebrated their 1 year anniversary…I …
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. Mulled spices…ginger, nutmeg and cinnamon with Granny Smith Apples.
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 a stout. Until now. They’ve added an Oatmeal Stout to their taps that is very …
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) as well as Madagascar vanilla. Collab with Magnanimous brewing. If you are looking for a …
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 November in Arizona. Brewed with maple syrup, vanilla beans and Arizona grown pecans. It now …
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 festivities off with some bagpipe tunes. I had made several previous visits to this brewery …
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 is more a tasting room and production facility, although they do have snacks and you …