• Address: 3850 E. 44th St.
• Year opened: 1996.
• Hours: 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 11 a.m.- 1 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Sundays.
• Happy hour: None.
• Number of beers on tap: Ten, including two guest taps and two to four seasonals.
• Best-selling beer: Nimbus Pale Ale.
• Cost of a pint: $3.70-$4.75.
• Signature menu item: Fried baloney sandwich.
• Best brewery feature: Nimbus routinely features live music, and the brewery's mash tuns and fermenters are in full view of the restaurant, which is cool.
• Worst brewery feature: No happy hour — what's up with that? Also, the live music is often extremely loud, making conversation almost impossible.
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• Beer to go: Half-gallon growlers cost $12, or $8 to refill a previously purchased Nimbus growler. Six-packs are also for sale. A full-size keg is $110 ($175 for Old Monkey Shine).
• Other places to get Nimbus beer: Most grocery stores, all Metro restaurants, Zona 78, Hacienda del Sol, Loews Ventana Canyon Resort, Jonathan's Cork, the Loft Cinema and more. "In Tucson alone we have over 600 accounts," owner Jim Counts says. "About 2,400 across the state, and some in California."
