Phoenix’s 10 Best Breweries | Eater Phoenix

"Arizona Wilderness owners Jonathan Buford and Patrick Ware are well known for rocking out common beer styles, like IPAs and lagers. They also keg tons of modern classics, like milkshake IPAs and pastry stouts. Wilderness gains its far-and-wide good reputation, however, through its environmentally conscious ethos and studious, freewheeling embrace of foraging, spontaneous fermentation, innovative barrel-aging, and blended styles. At Wilderness, you can go wild. In the Woodnotes Cellar, brewers monitor creations like sweet potato saison aged in tequila barrels. Beer-wine hybrids and fermentations catalyzed in the wood barrels drop regularly in special releases. Brews flavored with foraged ingredients, like blackberries, tree bark, and desert herbs, are without local parallel. A second downtown Phoenix location boasts a misted outdoor area, and a new Miracle Mile outpost is under construction." - Chris Malloy