Drink Like You Care
GILBERT BREWPUB
Inspired by our love of Arizona, we craft artisanal ales, lagers & locally-focused food fare while practicing low-impact, sustainable principles.
For Gilbert inquiries, call us at: (480) 497-2739
DTPHX BEER GARDEN
Downtown Phoenix Beer Garden serving our AZ Wilderness ales, lagers, & locally-focused food + cocktails while practicing low-impact, sustainable principals.
For DTPHX inquiries, call us at: (480) 462-1836
OUR STORY
- 2012
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- 2012
How a photograph became a beer
Our founder Jonathan didn’t know it at the time, but his love for craft beer and Arizona were soon to combine and change his life forever. As he pursued a career in landscape photography, his sole mission to showcase his love for Arizona in each photograph. One fateful day while hiking, Jonathan crossed a sign signifying “Entering a Wilderness Area”. It clicked and he couldn’t stop thinking about that sign as he sipped a delicious craft beer after his hike. Soon after, Jonathan harnessed his passion and then took his idea to paper. Then began the quest to start Arizona Wilderness Brewing Co.
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- 2014
Crafting a difference
We embraced the vast agricultural community of Arizona and adopted local first philosophies when creating our food and beer. We spread love state-wide and began our quest to find more ‘Arizona Grown’ items for our beer and our menu! Beyond that we formed partnerships with several charitable organizations such as the MS Society and the Eric Marsh Foundation to build a stronger community.
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- 2016
Onto The World Stage
As Craft Beer burgeoned, its popularity around the world began a meteoric rise. Invitation only beer fests became a regular place for us to tell our story of Arizona through every beer we shared. Along the way Patrick and Jonathan learned some valuable brewing techniques and a new, exciting culture to bring home to Arizona.
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- 2019
The DTPHX location takes root
The Urban Wilderness is born. We found the perfect site in the perfect neighborhood as a new home for AZ Wilderness. The adaptive reuse project put us at the heart of the Roosevelt Row Arts District and allowed us to build Arizona’s first ever bird friendly beer garden.
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- 2020
Navigating a Pandemic: Stay The Course
This was the toughest year to navigate to date. Given the difficulties, we took great action to be a light in the darkness. Keeping our team intact was the most important goal. We launched an online beer shop and wholesale distribution to keep our brewers brewing and were even able to add jobs during the pandemic. Supporting our partners in the farming community, continuing our sustainable practices, and charitable causes were all made possible by YOU, the community.
Articles
Sonoran Arcana: The Most Ambitious Beer Project in Arizona
Welcome to Sonoran Arcana, a column seeking to probe the margins of Arizona cuisine and define a more specific, novel cuisine that has emerged in America’s great Sonoran Desert, New Arizonan. Here, we will venture into the arid wilds and culinary unknown to spotlight…
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The World’s Best New Brewery is in a Strip Mall in Suburban Phoenix
The Arizona Wilderness Brewing Co. is tucked into a strip mall southeast of Phoenix on a stretch of Route 87 whose other prominent landmarks include a Sonic drive-in burger joint, a transmission shop, and a vast and forbidding self-storage center. It’s a tiny, nondescript operation
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How Arizona Wilderness DTPHX Became a Bird-Friendly Beer Garden
In the 19 or so months Arizona Wilderness DTPHX has been open on Roosevelt Row, the only birds its tight-knit staff had seen are pigeons, grackles, and the painted ones on an oft-Instagrammed mural across the street.
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Brewed with 100% Arizona-grown barley, locally malted at Sinagua Malt.
