Arizona Wilderness Gilbert Brewpub
Restaurant · Gilbert ·
Farm-driven pub food & creative beers using local desert ingredients
Farm-driven pub food & creative beers using local desert ingredients
"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
"Hours: Daily, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. (midnight Friday and Saturday) At this wildly popular downtown brewery and beer garden, customers can build their own grass-fed beef burgers, but doing so means they miss out on some of the most wildly creative burger combos in town. Admittedly, the PB&J burger is nothing new, but it’s done especially well here, thanks to seriously spicy jalapeño jelly and homemade peanut butter sauce that doesn’t stick to the roof of your mouth. Combined with thick-cut bacon and white cheddar, this burger elevates a vaguely childish flavor combination. More creativity can be found in its monthly specials, however, and don’t forget the duck-fat fries. Best for: Grass-fed burgers and local beers on a year round patio." - McConnell Quinn
"A foraging-focused brewery that highlights local desert ingredients and creative farmhouse-style beers, representing the region’s wild flavors within Phoenix’s burgeoning craft-beer scene." - ByChris Malloy
"The downtown location of a beloved Arizona craft brewery where you’ll find a variety of high-quality beers inspired by Arizona’s natural environment. The tap list covers a range of styles from traditional lagers to IPAs to Berliner Weisse fermented in a foeder. Here, you can drink in the large outdoor beer garden where there’s a fire pit, music, and a restaurant serving burgers and other classics." - MATADOR_NETWORK
A pioneering, conservation-minded brewery born in Gilbert, known for Arizona-sourced ingredients and inventive beers. Covered by Phoenix New Times and celebrated by Craft Beer & Brewing via Axios Phoenix, it remains a lively local hangout with serious craft cred.