The Adam & Dedra Show - Craft Beer. Food. Fun.

Adam & Dedra
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 We live for craft beer and food.We are Adam and Dedra! We're on a mission to find the best craft beer and the most ridiculously delicious food we can get our hands on. Based in Arizona, but powered by hops and road trips, we will go wherever the beer flows and the plates are full.Expect brewery and food reviews, beer-fueled banter, and probably a few questionable decisions (like that time Adam tried a 18.5% barrel aged stout on an empty stomach). Whether it's a tiny taproom in the desert or a big-name brewery in the Pacific Northwest, if it pours, we’re in.Come for the beer, stay for the fun, and leave with a craving for your next foodie stop. 

  1. 2d ago

    Oktoberfest in Munich: Giant Beers, Beer Tents & Train Chaos

    Episode 25 - Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany! Giant beers, traditional German food, massive beer tents, and a train system that nearly defeated us before we even got started. After a few weeks away from the microphones, we're back and ready to share some stories from our European adventure. This time, we're taking you to Munich for Oktoberfest, where we discovered that a liter of German beer is no joke, the beer tents are practically the size of warehouses, and apparently Germans love singing "Sweet Caroline" just as much as Americans do. But Oktoberfest wasn't our only stop. We explored Munich's famous English Garden on a bicycle tour, stopped for traditional German sausages, pretzels, and giant beers, and visited Schneider Weisse, where Adam tried the 12% Aventinus Eisbock. We also revisited one of Adam's longtime favorite beers, Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock. He's been a fan for nearly 20 years, but Dedra isn't quite as convinced. Things got even more interesting when a waiter invited Dedra to try a beer poured directly from a small barrel, leading to a slightly awkward but memorable encounter. Then there's the Oktoberfest experience itself. We found our way into the Paulaner tent, enjoyed traditional Oktoberfest beer, and somehow ended up sharing a table with another couple from Phoenix. Thousands of miles from home, and we still found Arizona people. Of course, no Adam & Dedra adventure would be complete without a few mishaps. This trip included a missed train stop, a painfully confusing train station, a hotel that rewarded us with free beer for skipping housekeeping, and an unexpectedly successful 3 AM trip to the airport. We're drinking Juicefulness, an 8.5% hazy double IPA collaboration from North Park Beer Co. and Everywhere Beer Co., as we relive the adventure. Pour yourself a beer and join us for the stories, laughs, and discoveries from our first Munich Oktoberfest. Craft Beer. Food. Fun. Cheers! Click here to send us a message! We’d love to hear from you!

  2. Sep 10

    Sleepy Whale Phoenix: Hazy IPAs, Smoked Wings & Craft Beer

    Episode 24 - Sleepy Whale’s Phoenix location gave us a new place to work through a ridiculous amount of craft beer without having to make the trek all the way across the Valley. We start this episode with a strawberry and rhubarb crumble Berliner-style Weisse from Energy City Brewing. At first, rhubarb seemed like the dominant flavor. Then the beer warmed up and Dedra decided it tasted like strawberry applesauce. Strangely enough, Adam couldn't completely disagree. Apparently alcoholic applesauce is a thing now. From there, we recap our visit to Sleepy Whale near Central and Camelback. Our afternoon started with four hazy IPAs from Everywhere, North Park Beer Co., Hop Butcher, and RAR Brewing, ranging from relatively easy-drinking to a 9.1% double New England hazy IPA. Because we were there with a group, those four beers quickly turned into tastings from all over the tap list. We also get into the food, especially some seriously meaty hickory-smoked dry-rub wings that had us questioning what kind of workout routine these chickens were following. The brisket sandwich was good, although Adam wanted a little more seasoning and smoke. Then came the can coolers. Adam found Juice and Stampede from Ten Barn Brewing, Dedra went straight for Drekker’s Mango Orange Banana BRAAAAAAAINS, and a shared bottle of Pure Project’s Campfire Classic became one of Adam’s favorite beers of the afternoon. Sleepy Whale combines a big draft lineup, hard-to-find cans, smoked food, and the kind of atmosphere that makes it very easy to stay longer than planned. Join us for another round of Craft Beer. Food. Fun., and send us the breweries, beers, and food spots you think we need to visit next. Click here to send us a message! We’d love to hear from you!

  3. Sep 3

    PoNy’s Miches + Tap Savvy: The Perfect Beer & Ceviche Day

    Episode 23 - Fresh ceviche, fried mahi-mahi, French fries hidden inside a burrito and a tap list ranging from Mexican lager to a 14.2% barrel-aged stout. This week's adventure only required two stops. We started at PoNy’s Miches, where Dedra grabbed ceviche while Adam committed to a massive Cali-style Baja burrito with fried mahi-mahi. From there, we carried everything over to Tap Savvy in Litchfield Park, one of the West Valley taprooms we have been visiting for years. The food quickly turned into an accidental beer-pairing experiment. Dedra paired her ceviche with Cerveza Original De Tombstone, while Adam matched his fried fish burrito with Tombstone Brewing Company's Oregon Lots II Double IPA. Then things escalated. We talk about Churriosity from The Bruery, Birthday Suit from Goldwater Brewing, Bitter End. from Lake Pleasant Brewing, and the beer that became one of Adam's favorites of the afternoon: O.H.S.O.'s 14.2% Barrel-aged Te Quiero. We also explain why our original plan to buy absolutely no beer from Tap Savvy's cooler somehow ended with four cans coming home with us. Apparently once you have three beers in a four-can carrier, buying a fourth is no longer spending money. It is just fixing a balance problem. The beer we're sharing during the conversation is Pulp from RAR Brewing, a 6.2% beer loaded with the juicy orange character that immediately grabbed our attention. Add in Dedra's Captain Autism flannel, ceviche leftovers, Adam's broken-heel stories and the invention of the “beerometer,” and this supposedly simple afternoon gave us plenty to talk about. Follow The Adam & Dedra Show and send us your brewery, beer and food recommendations for future adventures. Craft Beer. Food. Fun. Cheers everyone!!! Click here to send us a message! We’d love to hear from you!

  4. Aug 27

    Phantom Fox, a 13-Hour Downtown Mesa Beer Crawl, and Burritoholics...? OK!

    Episode 22 - A birthday celebration, a willing designated driver and a loose plan to explore the east side of Phoenix somehow turned into a roughly 13-hour craft beer and food crawl, with Phantom Fox in Downtown Mesa becoming the featured brewery along the way. We start this episode with Sky Riot from Original 40, a double dry hopped West Coast IPA we picked up during our recent San Diego trip, then get into a day where we intentionally stopped trying to document every beer and simply enjoyed ourselves. That plan worked. Maybe a little too well. At Bone Haus Brewing, we revisit one of our favorite Arizona brewery atmospheres, try the Honor Flight and experience our first Mlíko-style Czech foam pour. Trevor’s brings pizza, a Beer Babes collaboration for Dedra and Saturated Solutions from North Park, a 10% hazy triple IPA that Adam decides is appropriate for an Arizona afternoon. Then Downtown Mesa takes over. We bounce between Chupacabra Taproom, Oro, Burrito Holics, Beer Research and Phantom Fox, all within an incredibly compact area. Along the way we meet the owner of Homeland Brewing, discover freshly fried chicharrones that nearly change Dedra’s life and eventually make our way to Phantom Fox. There, Ceviche, a double dry hopped cold IPA, immediately grabs Dedra’s attention while Adam orders Goose Suits. More importantly, we see how much Phantom Fox has progressed since our earlier visit. This episode is less about tasting notes and more about why we love doing this in the first place: good beer, good food, friends and conversations with people we meet along the way. Craft Beer. Food. Fun. Click here to send us a message! We’d love to hear from you!

  5. Aug 21

    The Theodore to Sana Sana: Our Downtown Phoenix Beer Crawl

    Episode 21 - Roosevelt Row in downtown Phoenix has become one of those places we can visit repeatedly without ever having exactly the same experience... and this trip brought some seriously good beer and an unexpected amount of Mexican food. We start at The Theodore, where Adam finds two 10% triple hazy IPAs worthy of a head-to-head comparison: one from Anchorage Brewing and Mis à Mort from Messorem. Meanwhile, Dedra works through two completely different Great Notion sours, starting with the light and refreshing Seedless before moving into Double Blueberry Marshmallow Shake territory. From there, we head over to Arizona Wilderness Brewing Co., where Adam's Gravity Is the Enemy Black Double IPA and Dedra's Meep Meep Hazy IPA create a Coyote-and-Roadrunner pairing that leads to an impression nobody requested. The final brewery stop is Sana Sana Cervecería, where Dedra finally gets the 10% Chamoyata she has been talking about since our previous visit. Adam tries The Fox and the Frog collaboration with Phantom Fox and Neighborhood Music 2.0, while Dedra follows the Chamoyata with a 90's Kid hazy. Then Taco Vibes pulls up. We talk carne asada, al pastor, a giant shared burrito, grilled jalapeños and a salsa bar good enough to temporarily stop both of us from talking... which may be the strongest restaurant endorsement we can give. Join us for another Arizona craft beer and food adventure filled with big IPAs, fruited sours, Phoenix heat, questionable impressions and another supposedly simple afternoon that turned into much more. Follow The Adam & Dedra Show and send us your brewery, beer and food recommendations. Craft Beer. Food. Fun. Cheers Everyone!!! Click here to send us a message! We’d love to hear from you!

  6. Aug 13

    A Plethora of Beer From Ballast Point to Stone: Our San Diego Beer Road Trip

    Episode 20 - A  search for breakfast and coffee in San Diego somehow became an entire day of breweries, sandwiches, strong IPAs, and one very important bottle pickup. We start in Little Italy, where Dedra finds a parking spot directly in front of Ballast Point and immediately decides coffee can wait. Adam orders Watermelon Dorado Double IPA, Dedra switches her plans to a Michelada, and chips and guacamole officially become breakfast. From there, we finally get the food we originally came for at Mona Lisa, where a Deluxe Sub piled with mortadella, salami, ham, provolone, and all the fixings gives us enough fuel to head north. Next is Stone in Escondido for Fear.Movie.Lions, hazy IPAs, garlic fries, pretzel bites, and one of our favorite parts of visiting breweries: sitting at the bar and getting to know the people pouring the beer. We keep moving toward Temecula, with a stop at Solaris in Murrieta to pick up a bottle of We Were Never the Same, a 2026 rye wine and stout blend made in collaboration with Horace. Dinner finishes the trip at Tacos & Beer, where a loaded molcajete and birria tacos make sure we're definitely not leaving Southern California hungry. We're also drinking Blended with Lumber Number Seven from Timber Ales, a 13.4% barrel-blended imperial stout with coffee and vanilla that has Dedra reconsidering her relationship with stouts—while also learning that 13.4% beers probably shouldn't be consumed like Miller Lite. Join us for the final leg of our San Diego adventure. Craft Beer. Food. Fun. Cheers Everyone!! Click here to send us a message! We’d love to hear from you!

  7. Aug 6

    North Park Beer Co, The Original 40, and the Best Sandwich We’ve Ever Had

    Episode 19 - A one-hour post-festival nap, a first visit to San Diego’s North Park neighborhood, and the best sandwich Adam says he has ever eaten... this night escalated quickly. We begin with Tamarack Track, a 7.5% black IPA from the Samuel Adams taproom in Boston. It was Dedra’s first experience with the style, and the dark appearance had her expecting something much heavier. Instead, we found a surprisingly easy-drinking beer with coffee, roasted malt, and caramel-like sweetness. From there, we relive our late-night San Diego brewery run. At North Park Beer Co., Adam went straight for a 10% triple dry-hopped hazy triple IPA before following it with Hot Fu. Dedra took advantage of a rare chance to order Pliny the Elder on draft and then moved to Art Squared. The food stop became the biggest surprise. Fatboy’s Deli & Spirits served us a Hot Italian with salami, capicola, mortadella, and sourdough that was so good we stopped using complete sentences. There were chips and a pickle involved too, but honestly, the sandwich erased most of the supporting details. We also talk about arriving at Mike Hess Brewing before the posted closing time but after last call, then walking to Original 40 Brewing Company, where bartender Joey made room for one more round. Adam ordered Most Necessary, Dedra chose Juice Maze, and several barrel-aged cans somehow followed us home. Join us for a conversation about North Park craft beer, memorable food, the power of a good bartender, and why our new restaurant rating system may need to be measured in grunts. Follow The Adam & Dedra Show and send us your brewery and food recommendations. Craft Beer. Food. Fun. Cheers Everyone!! Click here to send us a message! We’d love to hear from you!

  8. Jul 30

    Salty Toast Beer Fest: San Diego Pours, Filipino Food & Our Usual Chaos

    Episode 18 - The Salty Toast Beer Fest brought us back to Broadway Pier in San Diego for an afternoon filled with waterfront views, breweries from across North America, Filipino food, and absolutely no realistic chance of remembering every beer name. We opened the episode with Drekker Brewing Company’s Slang Du Jour – Bumbleberry Cobbler Sour à la Mode. Packed with blueberry, strawberry, blackberry, granola, cinnamon, and vanilla bean, it was thick, sweet, and much closer to liquid dessert than a traditional face-puckering sour. At Salty Toast, we started with a familiar Arizona brewery: Starfire Brewing. Their Baptized in Bloody Water sour still reminded Dedra of a pink Starburst, even if Adam remained unclear about whether Starburst flavors are officially flavors or simply colors. We also tried beer from RAR Brewing, Beer Zombies, Solaris, Pinnacle Brewing Company, Villains Brewing, Tripping Animals, Green Cheek, Mother Earth, Fall Brewing, Harland, and several others. Our surprise favorite came from Messorem, a Montreal brewery pouring a hazy triple IPA that stood out even in a festival loaded with excellent choices. The meal from SD Sisig was just as memorable. We ordered Lechon Kawali with fried pork belly, garlic rice, a fried egg, cucumber, and several sauces, plus six pork lumpia with sweet chili sauce. The food was so satisfying that returning to the beer tents required a short recovery walk. We also discuss hidden barrel-aged bottles, Dedra’s unfinished smoothie-sour challenge, the soccer fans who relocated nearly every available chair, familiar Arizona beer-community faces, and why sampling bourbon on a pier seemed like an unnecessary test of balance. Cheers everyone!! Click here to send us a message! We’d love to hear from you!

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 We live for craft beer and food.We are Adam and Dedra! We're on a mission to find the best craft beer and the most ridiculously delicious food we can get our hands on. Based in Arizona, but powered by hops and road trips, we will go wherever the beer flows and the plates are full.Expect brewery and food reviews, beer-fueled banter, and probably a few questionable decisions (like that time Adam tried a 18.5% barrel aged stout on an empty stomach). Whether it's a tiny taproom in the desert or a big-name brewery in the Pacific Northwest, if it pours, we’re in.Come for the beer, stay for the fun, and leave with a craving for your next foodie stop. 

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