Four Peaks Brewery is More Than Craft Beer

Four Peaks Crafts Beer and a Whole Lot More

Around here, we love beer. We live and breath craft beer. Our name is synonymous with Arizona and Arizona Craft Beer. While we have plenty of gifts for the Craft Beer Lover in your life available in-house and in our on-line store, giving the gift of Four Peaks doesn’t mean you have to wrap a six-pack of Kilt Lifter cans. A Gift Card is a one-size-fits-all option for everyone. Gifting a friend or family member Four Peaks will allow them to experience an Arizona tradition.

Here are three things the non-craft beer lover may appreciate about Four Peaks Brewery.

Pub Cuisine

Lunch Special, Mexican Beer Bread

The original Four Peaks in Tempe and Four Peaks Grill & Tap don’t offer bar food. Nope. Never have, never will. Arthur Craft oversees our culinary team and is a proud graduate of the Culinary Institute of America out of NY. Arthur brings decades of experience in the realm of good eats to the table.

Abe Froman pizza

In addition to favorites such as Green Chili Pork Poutine, the Popper Brewery Burger, Bahn Mi, and of course, hand tossed personal pizzas, both locations offer lunch and dinner specials daily; not to mention a daily delectable, house-made soup selection. I mean, these soups are unbelievable! A meal in itself!

 

Pumpkin Gorgonzola Soup and Double Pumpkin Porter

What more is that brunch is offered each Sunday too. Tucker’s Big Bloody Marys make special appearances in the summer months, but even a traditional Bloody Mary or a Mimosa hits the spot with the brunch menu.

Big Bloody Mary

 

Each craveable dish that is offered pairs well with our beer offerings but they also pair well with a cocktail or a glass of wine.

Yep, we offer a children’s menu too!

Daily specials can be delivered to your inbox daily, and you can check out the menu online.

A Full Bar and Craft Cocktails

Chilled Anejo, Four Peaks Cold Brew, The Ginger Hot Toddy

Speaking of cocktails, our Craft Cocktail program is gaining some much-appreciated attention as of late with flavors that compliment both the season as well as the specialty beers that are offered in-house. Each cocktail is carefully constructed to reflect the same passion that shines through in each of our crafted beers. Additionally, we strive to continue to #supportlocal by offering several local and crafted liquors including Roger Clyne’s Mexican Moonshine Tequilas, AZ Distilling “Commerce” Gin, and AZ48 Resort Vodka.

Arizona Pride

 

Bar Manager, Alison Atkinson, notes, “It was paramount to be able to source and offer the same quality of liquor to our guests that our guests expect from our beer. We’d be doing our guests a great injustice if we didn’t offer other spirits that were as unique to Arizona as our beer.”

Blackberry Manhattan

 

Recently added seasonal cocktails include The Ginger Hot Toddy, with Four Roses Single Barrel Bourbon, and Blackberry Manhattan, with Monkey Shoulder Scotch.

 

Dos Cabezas, AZ

 

 

In addition to our craft cocktails, we offer a full bar including a wine list that is for wine lovers. Look for our local offerings of wine to expand in the future too!

 

Guest Beers and Ciders

The next time you visit Four Peaks Grill & Tap in Scottsdale, check out the guest beer list. In addition to impressive bottled beers like Ballast Point Grapefruit Sculpin

or Victory at Sea, there is a rotating draft handle that has hosted such brews like Knee Deep Citra Extra Pale Ale, Black Market Holiday Triple Black IPA, and Golden Road Double IPA. We also like to keep a tap handle flowing with Woodchuck ciders for those who care for a gluten-free option or just aren’t in the mood for a beer that day.

To craft beer fans, Four Peaks Brewing Co offers delicious beers, seasonal favorites, weekly cask offerings and even experimental brews through the Single Tank Series. Beyond that, each visit to the pub or brewery offers everyone a different experience each time with an extensive traditional menu, daily specials, soups, craft cocktails, wine, and Arizona pride.

Follow Four Peaks on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Periscope or YouTube for announcements, photos, news and videos about what’s new at Four Peaks!

 

 

[Guest Blogger] Four Peaks Crafts Bitters For In-house Cocktails

(Erin Schultz is the first guest blogger on Marieatfourpeaks.com. A couple weeks back, we were sitting at a meeting, and she told me about this program. It was new. It was cool. And I haven’t heard of any other local breweries doing something like this. We arranged a Scope, but she provided me with this write-up that had to be shared as it is chalk full of information about an underappreciated bar ingredient. Enjoy! MMR)

Four Peaks Craft Bitters Program

A Brief History of Bitters

Bitters started around 1700’s in London as a hangover cure, mixed with canary wine. Many original uses for bitters were medicinal. By 1750, they started mixing the bitters with burnt brandy, which is the beginning of one of the first cocktails mixed with bitters.

Although started in Europe, cocktail bitters gained more popularity in colonial America. The word cocktail describes a stimulating liquor composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters.

Bitters themselves are aromatic flavoring agents made from roots, bark, fruit peels, seeds, spices, herbs, flowers, and botanicals in high-proof alcohol. Tasted by alone bitters may often taste bitter or bittersweet, but bitters is not a particular flavor profile and has a wide variety of flavors. Therefore, bitters have become a more like a spice cabinet for bartenders.

Craft Cocktails Come to Four Peaks Brewery

Two years ago, with the help of Jason Asher from Young’s Market Company, Four Peaks started its new cocktail program enveloping the idea of making craft cocktails that bring the brewery into a cocktail glass. We loved the idea of marrying beer and liquor, as they go through a similar process. The mix of beer with cocktails has been around since the early nineteenth century, but until the last decade or so, beer didn’t get the recognition it deserved in what it could provide to a cocktail.

Going through multiple Four Peaks specific craft cocktails that include many different varieties of simple syrups, shrubs, tinctures, based off of our beer. I thought why not bring the profiles of our beer into yet another bar spice, bitters.

A Sirius Start

I started with one of my favorite beers, Four Peaks Sirius Black Russian Imperial Stout. I spent a few hours with one of our head brewers, Melissa Osbourne, talking about the process of making Sirius Black, and the flavor profiles included. This particular strong beer is bourbon barrel aged and has notes of coffee, licorice, orange, and vanilla. How great of a beer to start with?

I worked with Melissa and Andy Ingram, one of our owners, to dial these bitters in to reflect the correct notes that they want to come out in the beer, and voila!

Standing today, we have Sirius Black Russian Imperial Stout bitters, Hopsquatch Barley Wine bitters, Double Pumpkin Strong Porter bitters, Odelay Mexican Chocolate Brown Ale bitters, and more to come.

A Product of Patience and Passion

So, I am not a professional at making bitters, and had a lot of reading and research to guide me. I currently do bitters the old and long way. I have done my bitters in a sous-vide, and although quicker and successful, it tends to lack the depth that natural infusion creates. Each bitters version takes a month to make and produces a large mason jar of product.

I start with the profile ingredients and a high proof alcohol of any kind, I pair the alcohol to go with the beer profile. Some, ingredients I use from the brewery, and I will dry citrus peels or peppers to use. I let that sit for two weeks and shake it every day.

At two weeks, I strain the liquid and separate the solids and liquids. I take the solids and add 1 cup of water, and then boil/simmer this for 10 minutes. I let this sit in a jar or one week, so now I have two jars that are sitting for a week that I shake every day.

One week later, I strain the solid containers for any liquid, throw out any solids remaining, and combine the two jars. I fine strain these, cheesecloth/coffee filter/or centrifuge, and then add two tablespoons of beer infused simple syrup. I let this sit for a week, shaking it every day. One week later, I fine strain or centrifuge again, to get any remaining remnants leftover.

And, there we have it, Four Peaks Bitters Program.

A Glimpse Into the Future

We have just started this, and it is growing and becoming more refined. We are using these bitters in upcoming cocktails, and they are available to mix with anything we would like to serve. Each new seasonal beer lends to new bitters. In the long run, our beer has found yet another way to find a solid spot in the bar and shine.

For craft cocktail announcements, beer release dates and keeping up-to-date on all things related to Four Peaks Brewery, follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Periscope and Twitter!

Four Peaks Brewery Showcases New Bottling Line

Four Peaks Offers Sneak Peek of New Bottling Line at Wilson St. Location

A couple weeks ago, many viewers were able to join in on a Periscope broadcast, or scope, to get the very first look at the much-anticipated new bottling line at Four Peaks’ production facility on Wilson Street in Tempe, AZ.

During the scope, viewers were treated to a tour of the bottling line by an installer of the bottling line. Four Peaks was able to extract this portion of the scope and, with a little technological magic, was able to add subtitles to the highlights of the tour.

This brief tour includes identification of carbonator, valve manifold, triblock, rinser, double pre-evacuation and crowner with a short explanation of how each works.

With the introduction of this new bottling line, not only will production of current bottled beer increase, new bottled selections such as Hop Knot, Raj and other seasonal beers could be bottled. Additionally, look forward to seeing 12 packs of current bottled beer selections, Kilt Lifter and 8th Street Pale Ale, and distributed through Hensley Beverage Company and hits retails shelves in December.

For up-to-date announcements of new bottle releases, follow Four Peaks Brewing Company on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Periscope.