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Four Peaks Brewing Company

🌍 United States · Regional · ★ Award winning · Known for a full range of styles
Award winningKnown for a full range of styles

Founded in 1996 by Andy Ingram, Jim Scussel and Randy Schultz in a historic 1892 Borden Milk Co. Creamery building on 8th Street in Tempe — listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Four Peaks quickly became Arizona's most beloved craft brewery, anchored by flagship Kilt Lifter Scottish-Style Ale. With 24 combined GABF and World Beer Cup medals including gold for Hop Knot IPA and SunBru Kölsch at the 2012 World Beer Cup and silver for Kilt Lifter at the 2013 GABF, Four Peaks defined Southwest craft brewing. Acquired by AB InBev in 2015 but retaining its Arizona identity.

5Beers
4Styles
5.4%Avg ABV
1996Founded
Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg
60%
catalogue avg 45%

Beers by Four Peaks Brewing Company

5 beers
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8th Street Ale
English Bitter · 4.8%
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Arizona Peach Ale
Fruit Beer · 4.5%
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Hop Knot IPA
Hop Knot IPA
West Coast IPA · 6.7%
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Kilt Lifter
Scottish Ale · 6%
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SunBru Kölsch
Kölsch · 5.1%
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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Drawn from all 5 beers in the catalogue.

Brewery signature · based on 5 beers
Signature
What keeps showing up across their beers.
crisp
4 of 5 beers
cleanevery beer
5 of 5 beers
hoppyevery beer
5 of 5 beers
malty
3 of 5 beers

Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one. 2 of them come through every single beer.

Portfolio range
How broad they brew.
Broad5 beers · 4 style families
Pale Ale 2Fruit Beer 1IPA 1Strong 1

Their signature has to hold across very different styles — which makes the notes that do recur more telling, not less.

What sets them apart
Each beer measured against others of its own style, then averaged across the range. Compared with the wider catalogue across breweries making similar styles.
typical for similar stylesFour Peaks Brewing Company
in no beersin every beer
hoppy
in all 5 of their beers · typical similar styles brewery: 3 in 5
Notably more hoppy than typical.
clean
in all 5 of their beers · typical similar styles brewery: 3 in 5
Notably more clean than typical.
sweet
in none of their beers · typical similar styles brewery: 2 in 5
Absent — the field expects it.
Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 30%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
4 / 5
beers above the median
#176
best ranked beer
SunBru Kölsch

Their beers place in the Top 30% of the catalogue on average, across 5 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.

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About Four Peaks Brewing Company

Founded in 1996 by Andy Ingram, Jim Scussel and Randy Schultz in a historic 1892 Borden Milk Co. Creamery building on 8th Street in Tempe — listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Four Peaks quickly became Arizona's most beloved craft brewery, anchored by flagship Kilt Lifter Scottish-Style Ale. With 24 combined GABF and World Beer Cup medals including gold for Hop Knot IPA and SunBru Kölsch at the 2012 World Beer Cup and silver for Kilt Lifter at the 2013 GABF, Four Peaks defined Southwest craft brewing. Acquired by AB InBev in 2015 but retaining its Arizona identity.

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