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Tap & Bottle Downtown
403 N 6th Ave
Ste 135
Tucson, Arizona, 85705-8359
United States
(520) 344-8999 | map
thetapandbottle.com
Monday - Thursday: 2pm - 11pm
Friday - Saturday: 12pm - 12am
Sunday: 12pm - 8pm
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Reviewed by MonDak_Joe1953 from Minnesota
4.65/5 rDev -1.1%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.75 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.75
4.65/5 rDev -1.1%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.75 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.75
Stopped by to get beer to go. Older building on the block with other small business neighbors. Street parking available. The beer coolers are located at the back of the room, with the front area for drinking on site customers. The store has a website with its beer listings, which makes it easy to compile a shopping list. Beers in the coolers are organized by style, with Arizona brewed beers having an identifier tag. Most beers are available as singles, with slightly higher pricing, but allows for getting more beers during the shopping visit. Staff was prompt to ring up my purchases, and helped by checking on a few beers that I could not find by sight. I would definitely stop by to shop when in the area.
Mar 07, 2023Reviewed by TheDang from Arizona
4.73/5 rDev +0.6%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 5 | service: 4.75 | selection: 4.5
4.73/5 rDev +0.6%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 5 | service: 4.75 | selection: 4.5
Awesome beer store that before Covid you'd be able to drink there. Staff has a high beer IQ and a good selection. What limits the selection is it physical space, it's smaller store than the north location, but they have pretty much everything or close to anything a beer knurd could want.
Feb 07, 2021Reviewed by jeffreydavis from Arizona
5/5 rDev +6.4%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 5
5/5 rDev +6.4%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 5
This place has been a blessing to the city of Tucson. And a large promoter of many of the local breweries. Wonderful owners and staff. The establishment can get very busy at times.
They are delivering during the quarantine and their service is excellent here as well.
Jul 18, 2020They are delivering during the quarantine and their service is excellent here as well.
Reviewed by WillieThreebiers from Connecticut
4.65/5 rDev -1.1%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.75 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.75
4.65/5 rDev -1.1%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.75 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.75
Awesome little downtown bottle shop/ bar. Long bar on right hand side seats 15, and a few communal tables and small sidewalk patio. Great selection of single 12s and pint. Great prices. Friendly service. I'll be back...
Feb 02, 2019Reviewed by highdesertdrinker from Arizona
4.76/5 rDev +1.3%
vibe: 4.75 | quality: 5 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.75
4.76/5 rDev +1.3%
vibe: 4.75 | quality: 5 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.75
My favorite craft bar, no TV's but cool music, and the owners are super congenial. It's an old warehouse near downtown that was refurbished, and they did a great job with it. The tap selection is varied and diverse, and usually covers all the bases. The can and bottle selection is robust with competitive prices, and you can find a surprise or two on occasion. It is a little hipsterish at times, but Its easy to find like minded beer geeks to shoot the breeze while you sip your beer., and the hipsters don't bite or cause problems. A must go-to bar if you're passing through the Old Pueblo.
Apr 25, 2018Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont
4.42/5 rDev -6%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.25 | service: 4.25 | selection: 4.75
4.42/5 rDev -6%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.25 | service: 4.25 | selection: 4.75
An absolutely phenomenal place that uses mostly correct beer glassware along with a bunch of high end breweries' beers to some breweries that I didn't recognize as I was only in Arizona for a visit at that time. Very clean with a nice semi-rustic sort of feel to the place. Should be a beer destination to the beer geek going to Arizona and able to spend some time in the Tucson area.
Jun 29, 2017Reviewed by andrewh995 from Arizona
5/5 rDev +6.4%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 5
5/5 rDev +6.4%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 5
Very clean, good music, and great atmosphere. The beer is all before best buy dates. Service is probably the best I've had in any brewery/bottle shop/bar. Selection is insane. 20 beers on tap, a casked beer, wine selection, which all continually rotate. Hundreds of bottled/canned beers. Great tap takeover events. Crowler/growler friendly. Food trucks. Pretty much everything you could ask for. Please check it out if you're around.
Apr 25, 2017Rated by Sammy from Canada (ON)
3.93/5 rDev -16.4%
vibe: 3.5 | quality: 3.75 | service: 4.25 | selection: 4
3.93/5 rDev -16.4%
vibe: 3.5 | quality: 3.75 | service: 4.25 | selection: 4
Better tap list than the web displayed. Excellent service. A recommended stop. Local and national.
Jan 14, 2016Reviewed by Miller138 from Arizona
5/5 rDev +6.4%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 5
5/5 rDev +6.4%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 5
Aside from amazing selection, both on draught and in bottle, the owners are about the most gracious in the world! Very knowledgeable as is there staff. I can't say enough great things about this place
Dec 08, 2015Reviewed by ddugan from Arizona
4.57/5 rDev -2.8%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.75
4.57/5 rDev -2.8%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.75
Awesome little place downtown. Always has an good selection on tap. They also have a very good selection of bottles/cans. This is the place I usually go to for growler fills. Staff is very friendly and knowledgable. No food here but there is usually a food truck outside. Would recommend.
Nov 18, 2015Reviewed by Dr_Fox from Utah
4.8/5 rDev +2.1%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 5 | service: 4.75 | selection: 4.75
4.8/5 rDev +2.1%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 5 | service: 4.75 | selection: 4.75
Great place to get awesome beer. No food, which is a negative, but there are tons of beer options, and it's top notch. Taps even include some relatively tough things to find. Blushing monk and Bigfoot Barleywine were 2 of the taps when I visited. Definitely recommended for anyone in Tucson.
May 15, 2015Reviewed by Irrenarzt from New Mexico
4.75/5 rDev +1.1%
4.75/5 rDev +1.1%
I'm a big fan of Tap and Bottle. Rebecca and her husband run a great spot, and are literally some of the coolest people you will meet. The only downside is the hipster concentration runs a bit thick there. If you can avoid dealing with them, then you are in for a treat.
Go here for the best rotating beer selection in town.
Sep 29, 2014Go here for the best rotating beer selection in town.
Reviewed by LoriS17 from Arizona
5/5 rDev +6.4%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 5
5/5 rDev +6.4%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 5
This is my favorite beer place in Tucson. 20 taps + 1 cask and there's always something interesting. The bottle shop is extremely well-curated. The space is beautiful and nice to hang out in for a while. They have fun events. No food, but there is usually a food truck, and when there isn't you can order food in from nearby places.
Jun 23, 2014Reviewed by RockAZ from Arizona
5/5 rDev +6.4%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 5
5/5 rDev +6.4%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 5
Food trucks that rotate among about 12 different crews, have been a regular here at least three nights a week and often different trucks come in the day on Friday and Saturday. Having said that, this place has one of the best bottle selections of any bar in the States backed up by 20 interesting taps. Surprising how much wine they have as well, 6 are usually on tap but they may have as many as 60 wines from all ranges ready to pour. Great staff, really know beer, and they have a lot fun with the promos which are almost every 3rd day. Great to meet and greet the brewers, not just the contract promo people.
All in all, my favorite place to meet friends.
Jun 16, 2014All in all, my favorite place to meet friends.
Reviewed by mewanderinghome from Arizona
4.24/5 rDev -9.8%
vibe: 4.75 | quality: 4.25 | service: 4 | selection: 4.25
4.24/5 rDev -9.8%
vibe: 4.75 | quality: 4.25 | service: 4 | selection: 4.25
In short, the 2nd best place to have a brew in Tucson, right behind 1702. It's got a really nice, more polished atmosphere than 1702 (if a bit less homey), good service, an awesome bottle shop, and consistently good choices on their 20 rotating taps. The only thing that rates 2nd really is the fact that 1702 has twice as many taps...and has firmly rooted itself into the hearts of Tucson beer drinkers for all the right reasons. If Tap & Bottle continues down the same path, it will only grow from its already enormous popularity.
PS No food here, so eat first..because you may want to stay a while.
Apr 06, 2014PS No food here, so eat first..because you may want to stay a while.
Reviewed by ONovoMexicano from New Mexico
4.43/5 rDev -5.7%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4 | selection: 4.75
4.43/5 rDev -5.7%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4 | selection: 4.75
I loved this place in so many ways.
Loved:
- the high ceilings
-the well-lit space
- the spaciousness
- the bottle shop/bar concept, which New Mexico so desperately needs (Tap and Bottle owners, if you're listening, open one of these in Albuquerque. I'd quit my job to work for a place this great.)
-the impeccable selection
I'll deviate from my bullets to really comment on the selection. It was superb. There's a cask option, which is always a nice touch and it was cool that it was a beer, Jalapeno Cherry Bomb IPA from Dragoon, that not even the brewery had on tap when I was there the day before. The rest of the tap selection was a good mix of styles and local (Huss, Four Peaks, etc.) and national craft options. They even had a gose! Yep, goses aren't easy to find, but Tap and Bottle had a great representation of this German style courtesy of Destihl. I recommend it if it's on tap.
Then there's the obscene bottle selection. Woosa! So many bottles to choose from. The selection here was better than Plaza Liquors! The beers were arranged by style and had many of the heavy-hitters of craft, Firestone Walker, Dogfish Head, Mikkeller, Tool, Sierra Nevada, Oskar Blues, and I could go on and on. The bartender was even so kind as to hip me to a great price on a Uinta beer, which I was able to get for $10 cheaper than it normally should cost. Gracias.
The pourers were also some friendly folks that seemed to know their beers and appreciate them. Also, the prices of pours were very reasonable, ranging from around $4-9.
If I lived in Tucson, I'd be in here everyday probably. I'll have to wait a few decades until I can make my millions and/or find investors to help make my dream of something similar happen in Albuquerque.
Mar 18, 2014Loved:
- the high ceilings
-the well-lit space
- the spaciousness
- the bottle shop/bar concept, which New Mexico so desperately needs (Tap and Bottle owners, if you're listening, open one of these in Albuquerque. I'd quit my job to work for a place this great.)
-the impeccable selection
I'll deviate from my bullets to really comment on the selection. It was superb. There's a cask option, which is always a nice touch and it was cool that it was a beer, Jalapeno Cherry Bomb IPA from Dragoon, that not even the brewery had on tap when I was there the day before. The rest of the tap selection was a good mix of styles and local (Huss, Four Peaks, etc.) and national craft options. They even had a gose! Yep, goses aren't easy to find, but Tap and Bottle had a great representation of this German style courtesy of Destihl. I recommend it if it's on tap.
Then there's the obscene bottle selection. Woosa! So many bottles to choose from. The selection here was better than Plaza Liquors! The beers were arranged by style and had many of the heavy-hitters of craft, Firestone Walker, Dogfish Head, Mikkeller, Tool, Sierra Nevada, Oskar Blues, and I could go on and on. The bartender was even so kind as to hip me to a great price on a Uinta beer, which I was able to get for $10 cheaper than it normally should cost. Gracias.
The pourers were also some friendly folks that seemed to know their beers and appreciate them. Also, the prices of pours were very reasonable, ranging from around $4-9.
If I lived in Tucson, I'd be in here everyday probably. I'll have to wait a few decades until I can make my millions and/or find investors to help make my dream of something similar happen in Albuquerque.
Reviewed by kjloewe from Arizona
4.83/5 rDev +2.8%
vibe: 4.75 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 4.5
4.83/5 rDev +2.8%
vibe: 4.75 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 4.5
Awesome owners..
Very eclectic selection of beers and Wine's on tap. They also have a approachable selection of bottled beers/wines for sale and on-premise drinking.
They even called me at home to let me know when they were tapping a recent arrival keg of Dogfish Head World Wide Stout ! (they volunteered to call me when it was going to be ready).
No kitchen..however, No Loss.. The local Tucson fleet of food trucks are incredible. With a constant rotation, there is something new to eat and drink at T&B all the time ! Stay away from the franchise beer places in Tucson..(World of Beer, BJ'S, Old Chicago, ect).. This is the place to be !!
Jan 31, 2014Very eclectic selection of beers and Wine's on tap. They also have a approachable selection of bottled beers/wines for sale and on-premise drinking.
They even called me at home to let me know when they were tapping a recent arrival keg of Dogfish Head World Wide Stout ! (they volunteered to call me when it was going to be ready).
No kitchen..however, No Loss.. The local Tucson fleet of food trucks are incredible. With a constant rotation, there is something new to eat and drink at T&B all the time ! Stay away from the franchise beer places in Tucson..(World of Beer, BJ'S, Old Chicago, ect).. This is the place to be !!
Tap & Bottle Downtown in Tucson, AZ
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