Desert Terroir: How Arizona Ingredients Are Shaping Craft Beer with Prickly Pear, Saguaro, and Sonoran Desert Botanicals
Arizona's craft brewers are forging a distinctive regional identity by brewing with the desert itself. From saguaro cactus fruit to mesquite pods and chiltepin chilis, the botanically diverse Sonoran Desert is yielding beers that taste unmistakably of place — a movement led by Arizona Wilderness Brewing and embraced across the state's most innovative breweries.