Wasn't a huge fan of Lil Helper, but Phantasmagoria is the tits.

Had a hot date with the current wife on Saturday. Went and tried some flights of beers along with a local sour.

#24 Founders Rubaeus Nitro was unbelievable. An amazing creamy mouth feel with a great finish the surprisingly wasn't too sweet. Fantastic stuff they make there at Founders.

The Southwestern style Gose was very interesting. Not my favorite but very unique with strong cinnamon and nutmeg.

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Was that at Helio? Sorry we missed you, we hit 4 or 5 different breweries the day before. My favorite PHX breweries from this trip were:

Papago in Scottsdale. Their brews are decent, but they had really good guest taps (Epic Big Bad Baptist) and you can consume their guest bottles onsite or take them to-go. Really cool place that differs from a lot of the really polished looking brewery/bars around PHX.

Wren House (near Helio Basin) in PHX. It's an old house that's been converted to a 10 barrel setup with taproom. Really cool DIY vibe going there. They're putting out some really good hoppy beers.

This was at Ground Control by us. I prefer to drink and drive only a short distance when I can. :D

Yea we've been to Papago quite a bit. Definitely a vibe that's more to our liking and not super fancy/nice. Haven't been there in a while but we had friends who lived close so we could walk down there.

Haven't been that far east to try those places yet but if I get a reason to go out there, we will stop by.

Did you ever try Saddle Mountain Brewery over by the Indians park? I had a smoked pastrami sandwich that was to die for from there a few weeks back.

Anybody had the Lagunitas Citrusinensis Pale Ale?

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I haven't been to Saddle Mountain, but I think its great more breweries are popping up on the west side. We caught a KC game in Peoria and stopped into Peoria Artisan. The beers were nothing mind blowing, but it was a really cool spot with indoor/outdoor seating and a mister system on the patio. Its kind in the middle of nowhere though.

Anyone drink this stuff? I love it, and I'm not particularly a beer drinker.

I can't pronounce, so I just call it Vitus.



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Help a non-beer expert out. So we had that Founders Rubaeus Nitro listed above and loved it.

Looked it up at total wine and found the beer but it doesn't say Nitro. Will this not be the same thing as we had if we buy it?

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It'll be the same beer, but on CO2, not nitro.

It's just a difference in how it's served. Nitro can provide a creamier, smoother mouthfeel. Same beer, same flavor, just a difference in mouthfeel than CO2.

All the stephaners are amazeballs. Try the Dunkel and Kristall

They got the YEAST!

I had it last year. I apparently liked it, as I gave it 4.25 on untappd. Slightly sour/citrusy pale ale. Lagunitas just really makes a bunch of solid beers.

I know we have at least one other Mikerphone Brewing fan here. His new taproom opened last week in the NW burbs of Chicago. Yesterday he released Super Special Sauce, double dry dropped with mosaic. Easily worth the traffic to get to the burbs.

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My gosh. You've got some sort of nerve, posting that while I'm on my beer break.

I was totally thinking of you which is why I didn't mention that I was able to grab 2 bottles of it.

LMAO