Let's start with Shades of Pale Brewing. Not often does this brewery make appearances on New Beer Friday. They make three beers and they do them very well. Now they're releasing beer number four, that some of you may have tried in early 2012.
Ready to Fly Amber Ale was originally brewed to help promote the documentary “Ready to Fly” and to help raise awareness and support for Women’s Ski jumping. I fell in love with the beer and begged for it to go in to full production. I guess it sometimes pays to be a pain in the ass. Ready to Fly will debut tomorrow at the Tour de Brewtah & will be poured at the Gallivan Center.
Starts with spicy malts, hints of graham cracker. The hops are piney with citrus notes beneath. it has a really nice balance. It's Amber Ale, not trying to be a Pale Ale. Very nice. Bottles should be hitting the SOP bottle shop within the next couple of weeks, draft will be available at various locations starting next week. Check the SOP website for details on where to find Ready to Fly.
Desert Edge Citra in Red: If your a fan of Citra hops this beer will make you squeal like a school girl at a Bieber sighting. The fruitiness from the malts pairs perfectly with the citrus bitterness in the hops. The result is a quenching full flavored red ale that's like fruit salad in a glass. Haas, I would be very happy to see this on the menu every day. @ Desert Edge, Beerhive.
The Hive Winery is releasing Stinger and Stinger Dry, Utah’s first hard ciders. Made entire with Utah grown apples custom pressed by Rowley’s Red Barn Cider in Santaguin and hand worked and aged in small batches. Stinger will be available to purchase tomorrow, Saturday May 4th at The Hive Winery. Currently this cider is only available at the Winery or at MacCool's Starting May 5th. Coming out in 22 oz bottles and carrying a 6.95% ABV.
Going Away: Squatters' Nitro Cream Ale will no longer be in their regular line-up. Look for rotating beer on their nitro tap handles.
Also, congrats go out to some of our local home brewers for placing in the first round of the National Homebrew Competition. Winners of this round qualify for entry into the NHC Final Round competition in June during the National Homebrewers Conference. Here are the local award winners. I hope I didn't miss anyone. Here's a link to all winners.
Category 2 : Pilsner
2nd Place: Travis Grimm of Sandy, UT - Zion Zymurgist Homebrew OPerative Society (ZZ HOPS)
3rd Place: Brian Coleman of Draper, UT
Category 14 : India Pale Ale (IPA)
2nd Place: Chris Detrick of Salt Lake City, UT with Shawn Margetts, Daniel Schulz - The Brewing Network
Category 22 : Smoke-Flavored and Wood-Aged Beer
2nd Place: Chris Detrick of Salt Lake City, UT - The Brewing Network
Category 1 : Light Lager
1st Place: Michael Johnson of Salt Lake City, UT Zion Zymurgist Homebrew OPerative Society (ZZ HOPS)
2nd Place: Michael Johnson of Salt Lake City, UT Zion Zymurgist Homebrew OPerative Society (ZZ HOPS)
Category 15 : German Wheat and Rye Beer
2nd Place: Michael Johnson of Salt Lake City, UT Zion Zymurgist Homebrew OPerative Society (ZZ HOPS)
3rd Place: Michael Johnson of Salt Lake City, UT Zion Zymurgist Homebrew OPerative Society (ZZ HOPS)
Category 8 : English Pale Ale
2nd Place: Tracy Johancsik of Murray, UT
Category 9 : Scottish and Irish Ale
2nd Place: Mike Mirabella of Salt Lake City, UT
Category 13 : Stout
1st | Chris Detrick of Salt Lake City, UT | The Brewing Network | |
2nd | Chris Detrick of Salt Lake City, UT | The Brewing Network |
In an added note: Chris Detrick's & Uinta's Pro/Am beer from last year's Great American Beer Festival is finally going into production soon. Cahoots Double Rye IPA will be part of the Uinta's Crooked Line & should hopefully be available sometime June.
Cheers!
7 comments:
Also, it looks like Bohemian has something new coming.
Congratulations to everyone that's done so well in the NHC. Can't wait to see how they turn out.
Yeah it's going to be a Heff.
I had the 2 new Ciders from the Hive Winery and Jay was kind enough to talk with Mike and I. The ciders are really nice additions to Utah. Hopefully people will continue to buy up all of them!
Thanks for that post Douglas. I think it's fantastic that we're getting some locally made ciders. Does anyone have a list of where we can get them?
The Hive Winery does a pretty good job on their facebook page with those things. I'd look there first.
From what I understand, you can only get it at the winery & MacCool's. I could be wrong...
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