Since 2011 we have been brewing, distilling and pouring in the neighborhoods we live in. Along the way this Arizona brewery has collected more than 70 national and international medals for award-winning beer and spirits, a shelf of Phoenix "Best Of" titles, and a reputation as the most dog-friendly brewery in the Valley. Here is the record, in the words of the people who wrote it down.
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Media & Recognition
O.H.S.O. Brewery + Distillery
40+
SPIRITS AWARDS
30+
BEER MEDALS
4
GOLDS, 2024 U.S. OPEN
#16
YELP DOG-FRIENDLY, U.S.
What the press says about our Phoenix brewery
Featured Press & Recognition
National outlets cover our beer. Local outlets cover everything else — the patios, the dogs, the six neighborhoods, the distillery in the back. These are the stories we point people to first.
Forbes
July 2024 – National
The Best IPAs of 2024, According to the U.S. Open Beer Championship
Forbes ran down the year's top IPAs straight from the U.S. Open results sheet — where our Fluff Daddy Milkshake IPA took gold, one of four golds O.H.S.O. brought home from the 2024 championship.
Read the ArticlePHOENIX Magazine
March 2025 – Feature
Liquid Arizona: Spirited Away
A deep dive into Arizona's distilling scene and the still room behind our Arcadia taproom, where our gin, vodka and whiskey programs are made in small batches.
Read the ArticleUSA TODAY 10 Best
2025 – Reader's Choice
Best Airport Bar in America – Runner-Up
Our Sky Harbor Terminal 4 taproom placed second nationally in USA TODAY's 10Best readers' poll — local craft beer for travellers, poured a few gates from their flight.
See the AwardPhoenix New Times
2024 – World Beer Cup
These 4 Valley craft beers were named among the best in the world
Sudoku, our herb and spice beer, took silver at the World Beer Cup — the largest beer competition on earth — putting an Arizona brewery on a global podium.
Read the ArticlePhoenix New Times
2025 – GABF
7 Arizona breweries win big at the 2025 Great American Beer Festival
The Valley's showing at the country's most competitive beer festival, with O.H.S.O. among the Arizona brewery names called to the stage.
Read the Article"Best Of" titles, voted by the Valley
Awards & Accolades
Editors' picks and readers' choice honors from Phoenix New Times and PHOENIX Magazine, going back more than a decade — brewery, distillery, beer garden, brunch and the patios in between.
PHOENIX Magazine Best of the Valley. Readers have voted O.H.S.O. Best Dog-Friendly Restaurant in 12 of the last 13 years, and we are back on the ballot for Best Distillery in 2026.
Award-winning beer and spirits, judged blind
Beer & Spirits Awards
Our brewers and distillers send their work to the same tables as everyone else — the World Beer Cup, the Great American Beer Festival, the U.S. Open, and the American Distilling Institute — and let the glass do the talking.
Beer Medals
Four golds at the 2024 U.S. Open Beer Championship — a single-year record for us — plus podium finishes at the World Beer Cup and GABF.
| GOLD |
Milkshake IPA – U.S. Open Beer Championship |
2024 |
| GOLD | SudokuHerb & Spice Beer – U.S. Open Beer Championship |
2024 |
| GOLD | 89AleAmerican Amber – U.S. Open Beer Championship |
2024 |
| GOLD | Knights of WindsorBarrel-Aged Scotch Ale – U.S. Open Beer Championship |
2024 |
| SILVER | SudokuHerb & Spice Beer – World Beer Cup |
2024 |
| GOLD | Kremlin CallingUK Styles – Arizona Craft Beer Awards |
2024 |
| SILVER | Bob's Your DunkelEuropean Dark Lager – World Beer Cup |
2022 |
| SILVER | SudokuHerb & Spice Beer – Great American Beer Festival |
2021 |
Spirits Medals
More than 40 awards for our gin, vodka, whiskey and bourbon — including seven from the American Distilling Institute, one of the most competitive craft spirits competitions in the world.
| SILVER | Red Dawn WhiskeyAmerican Distilling Institute – International Spirits |
2026 |
| GOLD | Sailor G's Navy Strength GinAmerican Distilling Institute – International Spirits |
2024 |
| SILVER | Rotary Maple WhiskeyAmerican Distilling Institute – International Spirits |
2024 |
| SILVER | Notary Straight BourbonAmerican Distilling Institute – International Spirits |
2023 |
| BRONZE | Arcadia Jalapeño VodkaAmerican Distilling Institute – International Spirits |
2023 |
| SILVER | #GinBerlin International Spirits Competition |
2017 |
| SILVER | Arcadia Grapefruit VodkaBerlin International Spirits Competition |
2017 |
| BRONZE | #VodkaBerlin International Spirits Competition |
2017 |
Ranked #16 in the country for dining with your dog
The dog-friendly brewery
Every O.H.S.O. patio has water bowls, shade and a dog menu. Yelp put us on its national top 100, and Phoenix readers have handed us the dog-friendly title year after year.
AZ CENTRAL – 2023
Pups welcome: 12 Arizona restaurants named among the best dog-friendly in the U.S.
Read the articlePHOENIX NEW TIMES – 2023
Best friends welcome: 6 Valley restaurants named among most dog-friendly in the U.S.
Read the ArticleARIZONA'S FAMILY – 2017
O.H.S.O. hosts the dog-friendliest Oktoberfest in the Valley
Watch the SegmentA neighborhood brewery, on the record
IN THE COMMUNITY
Suicide prevention brews, hand sanitizer for hospital workers, recycled water and spent grain sent back to Arizona farms. The work we are proudest of is rarely about beer.
| FOX 10 – 2023 | AZ breweries rename a beer "988" for suicide prevention awarenessA statewide collaboration we helped start in 2019 - every September, Arizona brewers pour the sasme beer and point drinkers to the 988 lifeline. |
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| LOCAL FIRST ARIZONA – 2025 | "Sonoran Sipper" – a beer brewed with Local First ArizonaA collaboration beer celebrating Arizona-owned business, built on local ingredients and released statewide. |
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| AXIOS PHOENIX – 2022 | Brewing local craft beer with recycled waterIn a desert state, water is the ingredient that matters most. We joined Scottsdale Water's advanced-treatment pilot to prove the point. |
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| ABC15 – 2020 | 100 gallons of hand sanitizer, distilled for Banner HealthWhen supply ran out in 2020, our distillery switched production and delivered to front-line hospital staff. |
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| PHOENIX NEW TIMES – 2024 | From glass to table: brewers and farmers reuse spent grainOur spent grain leaves the brewhouse and feeds Arizona livestock instead of landfill. |
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| AZ CENTRAL – 2020 | Remember Uncle Bunky? The Arizona man with a viral obituary now has a beerA beer named for a stranger the whole state fell in love with, poured in his memory. |
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From one nano-brewery in Arcadia to six Valley neighborhoods
GROWTH & BRAND STORIES
We opened in 2011 with a brew-your-own-beer system and a patio. Fourteen years later O.H.S.O. is one of the largest independent breweries in Arizona, with a distillery, an airport taproom and more on the way.
12 NEWS – 2023
O.H.S.O. on track to become the third-largest independant brewery in Arizona
Read the ArticlePHOENIX NEW TIMES – 2023
O.H.S.O. buys Helton Brewing Co., taking over the space and the recipes
Read the ArticleUS MANUFACTURING REPORT – 2024
Inside founder Jon Lane's growth model for O.H.S.O. Brewery + Distillery
Read the ArticleWHAT NOW PHOENIX – 2026
O.S.H.O. Brewery + Distillery to open at Verrado Marketplace
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