New Beer Friday 5/7/21

Welcome to Friday. Not one new IPA out this week. These are truly the end of days. Happy New beer Friday! 

As promised we have an update to nest week's American Craft Beer Week Calendar. Here's a link in case you missed it. 

UTOG - Raptor Ale: This a collaborative beer made with the Ogden Raptors baseball team. This is an American Red Ale with sweet fruity malts and citrus forward hops. 5.0% Available now at UTOG

UTOG/Strap Tank - Dark Mexican Lager: Made to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, this lager feature light roast with sweet crackery grains along with a medium amount of grassy bitterness. 5.0% - Available at UTOG and Strap Tank.

Red Rock - Blackberry Sorta Sour: I love it when a beer gives you all of its goods in the name. This is a kettle soured ale with a good dose of blackberry flavor. As the name denotes the sourness is light, I'd probably call it tart rather than sour. A nice berry forward tart ale for sure. 5.0% Available at All Red Rock locations and I believe Harmons grocery stores.

Saltfire - Anthropophagy: This was made in collaboration with the prog rock band Aura Surreal to promote their new album Anthropophagy. This is a baltic porter that has a good amount of roast and cocoa notes. A medium amount of sweetness goes a long way in the beer's drinkability versus the sweetness you'll find in imperial stouts. the 9.6% alcohol is fairly well hidden. Only at Saltfire.

Shades - Taco Tuesday: I've seen a lot of eye rolls in regards to this beer and most of comes from the name. This is basically a michelada (cocktail) beer. It's comes across as a nice Bloody Mary beer with medium to light spiciness in a lightly tart b are beer. If you like micheladas, you probably like this. 6.5% - Available at Shades and the Ice Haus.  

Fisher - Plant Based Haze: Did you know that beer is plant based? Apparently right-wing pundant Larry Kudlow is worried that President Biden's climate plan will force Americans to drink 'plant based beer'. So if you're not a fan of "plant based beer", I'd stay away from this one. It has nice citrus and tropical qualities  with a low amount of bitterness and all the haze you crave. 5.0% - Available at Fisher. 

Grid City - Tanzania Mbeya Iyenga Coffee Vanilla Honey Cream Nitro Ale: New from Grid City's Nitro Maestro, Jeremy Gross we have this coffee forward. honey cream ale. A creamy smooth ale with the perfect touch of coffee flavor. Balance is the earmark of this brew: yeasty biscuit, a snappy hit of hops, bathed in the nuttiness of straight-up coffee with a hint of sugar and cream. Wish there was a bit more nose but that's a minor quibble. Another winner from a Grid City. 4.8% - Only on Nitro ate Grid City.  

Here are this week's Small Batch Beers from Hopkins Brewing.

Cheers!