The Proper Beast

HOLY BRATWURST!
I found this place at the Gilbert Farmers market. We bought a packet of their beer brats, and they are AMAZING!!! I literally put down my brat to come and type this review. So moist and flavorful!

Found The Proper Beast at the Phoenix Public Market on a Saturday morning while my wife and I were out checking out everything the Market has to offer for the first time.
One word. Awesome. They had freshly baked ballpark size pretzels with stuff baked into them available for purchase at the market. I don’t remember what was in them, and I don’t see them on the website, but they were awesome. It’s like a must have now when I go to the market! I advise you, if you enjoy a big fat pretzel, go to the Market, find The Proper Beast booth and buy one of these delicious pretzels. You won’t regret that decision.
Subsequently, I’ve now had both the Beer Dip and the Chorizo Dip. The Beer dip has become one of those little staples I feel like I just need to have at home at all times now. It’s addictive.
Have also enjoyed the Italian Heat Ciabatta Bread. It’s not often I can just stand there with a loaf of bread and enjoy taking bites out of it, but this stuff is THAT good.
I just can’t speak highly enough of their product, glad to have stumbled upon The Proper Beast!

The Proper Beast may just be my new favorite thing in Phoenix… proper. To me behind every great review is a great story that lies behind a great local business. This is it. Recently I happened up the beast in all of his glory at the Phoenix Public Market on a chilly fall Saturday morning. What caught my eye was the adorable signage, to be honest, as I scoured all the local delights with my piping hot coffee in hand. Its a pig dressed up in a top hat and bow tie! My husband was lured in by the samples of warm bratwursts and beer dip. We ended up buying a couple of the dips that day: the Beer dip and the Chorizo dip for a football Sunday outing we were attending; testing the Italian Heat Ciabatta Bread that was used for a stuffing sample that day, and I was blown away by the taste and regretted not buying some that day. As I LOVE a great homemade bread! This ciabatta is not too hot in taste, but it does have just enough of an intriguing kick to it; It’s a sourdough bread thats infused with The Proper Beasts Italian Heat Sausage and parmesan cheese. My husband had to get a warm pretzel to walk around the market with. We vowed to be back. Everyone who tasted the dips was blown away and asked where we got them from. The cheesy goodness with bites of sausage is too good to pass up! A few weeks later we went back for more of the dips as now we were having guests in town for the holiday celebrations. I got to speak with the owner more that day and in talking he spoke of how he makes a Italian Heat Bread Pudding from his Italian Heat Ciabatta! Sold. I was buying that bread. He said he would get it to me closer to the holiday and even email me his recipe, which he did. The day before Christmas Eve he met up with my husband and brought the loaves of bread we needed, and more dip!
The sausages that he makes are locally produced by him with no fillers, no weird antibiotics, MSG, and all natural casings. The Blinks, a breakfast type sausage is made with a apple rum sauce, but has no added sugar; Knock your socks off amazing! I have been so impressed with everything that we have purchased from The Proper Beast and his follow– through customer service and the all natural ingredients in his foods, that I did a little homework on Brian Hines, the owner of this great local find.
Brian was in the corporate world and found himself laid off. He enjoyed cooking and decided on doing what had not been done yet in the Phoenix area. Enter The Proper Beast. Brian got started at the grassroots level and by taking his meats that are made with local Arizona products like Kilt Lifter Ale in his brats or Arizona Angel wine in the Italian Sausage, to local markets such as the Phoenix Public Market, Scottsdale Old Town Market, Ahwatukee Farmers, Queen Creek and the Gilbert Farmers Market. My tip to you: Get to a local market near you and sample some of this goodness. or at least check out the proper, well suited pig in a suit!