Craig Outhier

1 month ago | phoenixmag.com | Craig Outhier |Matthew Johnson |Madison Rutherford

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1 month ago | phoenixmag.com | Craig Outhier

Belgian Pale Ale/5.9% ABV/20 IBUSpring has sprung – bringing with it volume beer drinking in the sun while you enjoy spring training, pool parties or other assorted grab-assery. A nice, crushable, sub-6-percent brew seems in order, but not a mass-produced lager, heavens no. Our recommendation: this unique offering from Tempe upstarts Catalyst, which is based on pilsner malts but brewed with a top-fermenting Belgian ale yeast, resulting in a smooth but earthy and vaguely aromatic all-day sipper.

1 month ago | phoenixmag.com | Craig Outhier

Opened: December 2024Don’t look now, but the Loma Linda Historic District near Osborn Road and 24th Street has a nice little dining scene cooking. First Glai Baan, then the larder & the delta and now, just around the corner, this winsome “aperitivo bar” from Valentina Huerta and chef Gian Franco Brugaletta, shifting gears after coffee-driven Nomada Provisions, which they formerly operated in the café-like space.

1 month ago | phoenixmag.com | Craig Outhier

Stop No. 1: QuartzWe’ll start at one of the Valley’s true drinking treasures – this Van Buren-adjacent cocktail lounge, where head mixologist Max Berlin ingeniously integrates savory flavors with traditional cocktail ingredients. Drink Rec: Crowned with “cereal milk foam” and sprinkled with Fruity Pebbles, the Bamm Bamm Beryl reads like a sugar-bomb, but it’s nuanced and pleasantly dry, a deluxe daisy with layers of banana and rhubarb. 341 W.

1 month ago | phoenixmag.com | Craig Outhier

We’ll never forget a certain spring morning in 2016 here at PHOENIX magazine. Arriving at the office for work, we were delighted to find an alluringly large cardboard box sitting in the mail room. And inside the box: eight polished bottles of flavored vodka, the first edition of O.H.S.O. Brewery’s incipient Arcadia vodka series. It was a bold, exciting step for O.H.S.O., then known chiefly for its craft beer and awesome dog-friendly patio.