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| - When on vacation in Phoenix, after a good long hike, the next thing on the list is (or should be) beer!
After lunch on Monday, my cousin asked Siri if there were breweries nearby, and she directed us here. We ordered two flights so we could try all eight of their draft beers and it was loads of fun (and convenient as my cousin likes hoppier beers and I do not). The beer was delicious and the environment is laid-back. Definitely a fun, but low-key, place to hit in Phoenix.
A big problem was that our bartender lined up the beers in the wrong order in our first flight (the one he said was watermelon ale was definitely an IPA, of which there were two on that flight)--we thought he just had the four reversed, but after comparing the beer colors with other customers and the descriptions in the menu, we realized that, no, they were all sorts of scrambled. (In the end, I still wouldn't have felt comfortable buying any beer to go because I still wasn't sure which I liked best of those four). The biggest surprise was the watermelon wheat ale--I notoriously hate all watermelon flavored things (but can tolerate actual watermelon a few times a summer) but this ale only had the most subtle of watermelon flavor. It wasn't super fruity or sweet at all.
The yummiest, I thought, was the Ironwood Imperial Porter (on the second flight). It has high IBUs for my taste (60), but somehow I really enjoyed it. Perhaps it's offset by the chocolate malt. (Mmmm . . . chocolate).
I should have brought a growler home in my checked luggage!
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