SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA
Ranch-styled cowboy steakhouse PINNACLE PEAK, with its sawdust floors, home-style dining hall, ceiling-hung neckties, and business card-decorated walls drew hearty meat eaters, January ’05. But its pedestrain lighter-bodied brews were plain and ill defined.
Sedately diacetyl Blonde, bitter-hopped grapefruit-lemon-smitten Pale, mellow lemony-spiced Amber, dull-spiced gourd-charmed Pumpkin, and unassumingly citrus-y Hefeweizen paled next to excellent coffee-deep black chocolate-aided licorice-prune-accented Porter.