Greenwood Brewing sits at the corner of 5th Street and Roosevelt in the heart of the Roosevelt Row Arts District, a woman-owned brewery that has climbed fast since opening in downtown Phoenix. It took the 2025 Arizona Travel Award for Statewide Brewery of the Year, the kind of honour that usually goes to older names.
Who would love it: drinkers who want range, a food menu, and a downtown room with a point of view. Who would skip it: anyone after a quiet corner, since the taproom runs busy across Roosevelt Row event nights.
The space is bright and modern, with a long bar, communal seating, and a patio that ties into the gallery-walk foot traffic on First Fridays. Visit Phoenix files Greenwood among the district's anchor stops, and the brewery has stacked more than ten medals from the Arizona Craft Brewers Awards to back the local billing.
Order wide. The house lineup runs from Inbloom Blueberry Wheat and a light lager to the Warrior Hazy IPA and Purpose Pilsner, with Herstory IPA and rotating goses filling out the board. The naming carries the brewery's woman-owned identity through the menu, and a flight is the cleanest way to cover the spread.
The crowd is a downtown mix of after-work groups, gallery-goers, and beer regulars, busiest on First Fridays and weekend nights. The patio reads the street best. Greenwood is the central pin on a Roosevelt Row route drawn from our Phoenix guide.
Regulars treat it as the Roosevelt Row living room. Reviews single out the bright space, the food menu, and the breadth of the lineup, while the woman-owned story and the medal count give it a local following that turns out for First Fridays. The naming carries that identity through the board, from Herstory IPA to Purpose Pilsner.
Best time to go is a First Friday evening, when the art walk feeds the patio, or a quieter weeknight if you want to read the full lineup. It suits an after-work group, a gallery night, or a beer drinker who wants range in one stop. Anyone after a calm corner should pick a slower hour.
See it on our best craft beer in Phoenix guide and weigh it on the craft beer pillar. Come for the breadth, stay for a brewery that earned its year.
Sources: Greenwood Brewing official site, greenwoodbrews.com (2026); Visit Phoenix listing; Arizona Foothills Magazine; Untappd; Google Maps reviews. Profile by James Harlow, barsforKings.
