Heading to Phoenix for the KU bowl game. What are the best breweries/bars that you guys would recommend?

What do you like to drink and what part of town?

Beer bars:
Sleepy Whale
Beer Barn
The Wandering Tortoise

Breweries
Meh...but if you must then Wren House
The Shop (Tempe)

I'm also watching ticket prices and will probably go, Chase seems like a weird location fitting a football field in a domed stadium when there's a perfectly good college stadium that seats more available but my Guaranteed Rate mortgage was sold to Chase earlier this year so it make sense

I hadn't seen KU was here, so that's cool... Chase Field is an interesting choice to host a bowl game.

Wren House is a local favorite
Tombstone
Arizona Wilderness
Fate in Scottsdale/Tempe
OHSO has several locations around Scottsdale/Tempe/Gilbert... I don't think their regular stuff is anything special, but they make killer stouts.

Downtown-ish... Angel's Trumpet House, The Theodore, Wandering Tortoise, King's Beer & Wine (half bar with like 50 taps, half beer store). Ground Control is great, but it's out a ways from downtown. Rift Wine Bar and Tap in south Scottsdale is cool, but relatively small.

If you're here long enough for a Chiefs game, Rooster Tavern in Scottsdale is a cool Chiefs bar.

Putting more thought in effort into my previous post, I'd recommend the following breweries:

1a Wren House
1b Kitsune
2 Roses by the Stairs
3 Simple Machine
4 Arizona Wilderness (either location)
5 The Shop (their beers are okay but its a cool spot in an ideal location)

I like Tombstone's beers but their PHX location is kind of a turd

I also probably sell PHX breweries short but there's not a ton to be excited about...yet, we're getting there

This distribution footprint here is where its at though which is why I recommended the better beer bars. We get a bunch of stuff from San Diego, LA, Portland, Seattle, Denver, and Florida

Also if you're into mead, the Superstition downtown location is pretty cool

What about sours?

And yeah, granted I haven't been to many of the Arizona breweries, it's mostly because I don't see any killer lineups whenever I do a bit of research... love going to OHSO for a 15% stout or Fate just for the one stout they haven't released in two years (:cuss: ), but not sure I've seen a flight-worthy lineup anywhere for Arizona beers (but need to lookup a couple on your list).

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Honest answer is that Wren House and AZ Wilderness have decent sour/wild programs

The barely beer, dessert sours, you can find in abundance everywhere here

On a more positive note BL Darkstar November variants are around the city

DSN 3 - the Rittenhouse barrel is the most fire imo

https://i.imgur.com/r8rnTEm.jpg

Drool.

Plain old Darkstar November is already freaking great.

I need to hit up Craft Beer Quick Stop... if they're keeping untappd up to date, I could spend $500 there right now. LMAO Looks like they have at least a couple of those variants, too.

Bro imagine following this place on Facebook just to see what they got but being too far away to even YOLO on their prices

A lot of places like this also have sneaky good bourbon bottles though

AZ built different

https://i.imgur.com/sZLd4zy.jpg

Yeah, I've been pining over their FB page all this time like they were posting Tyreek highlights.

I haven't really looked for bourbon much around Phoenix, but will have to start.

Two excellent recommendations.

Bought two Fate glasses and a 4 pack of Candy Bar Stout to go. Had a nice lunch too.

Stout season!

Okay, it's 80°....

First time trying this one and it's right up there with Bananarchy... smells like a caramelized banana.

https://i.imgur.com/lXUHClP.jpg

TFTI

Sounds great