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.
Beers by Four Peaks Brewing Company
5 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Four Peaks Brewing Company brew a broad range across 4 style families.
Across these 5 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
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.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Hop Knot IPA
Their beers place in the Top 14% 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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