New Beer Friday 3/3/23

Happy New Beer Friday! There a lot of new stuff to choose from this week. From New Ogden Beer Co. suds to a new cidery. Have an Excellent weekend.

Beer Nerd Radio will have SaltFire Brewing in the studio today. Any questions? pleas leave them in our Beer Nerd Radio Instagram. It all starts today at 2pm.

Salt Flats - Save The Lake Pilsner: In an effort to help raise awareness, Salt Flats Beer and Spirits has developed its new Save The Lake Pilsner. Salt Flats will be contributing a portion of sales to those organizations that are at the forefront of the fight to save the Lake. This pils is like multi-grain bread with a medium herbal hop blast that has some lingering citrus peel; all from the Zeus and Motueka hops. 5.0% - Available at Salt Flats locations now. Soon everywhere

Ogden Beer - 1851 American Lager: Brewed with flacked corn and hopped with Motueka. Grainy crackers with biscuit. Hop are grassy & herbal with a tinge of citrus peel. Corn mingles with malt adding a bit of popcorn. Nice example of the style. 5.0% - Only at Ogden Beer Co.

Ogden Beer - Cultura Cerveza: Brewed with Golden Promise malt, corn and Hallertau Mittelfrüh. Similar to the 1851, but more grassy hops in the end. Lacks the clarity you’d expect from a Mexican lager but it just hit yhe taps today… it’ll drop out.

Ogden Beer - Lucid Fantasy: Sweet tropical hoppy, hint of stone-fruit, white wine grape, and mosaic-dank nose on this one! Taste follows with a well-balanced, tropical hoppy, orange-grapefruit citrus, and piney-dank bitter finish.  

Bewilder - Tangerine Wit: This comes out today. Check out beer Nerd radio at 2pm for analysis on this one. 5.0% - At Bewilder.

Proper - One Eye: This “Craft” Malt Liquor was created using no corn, only malt, and it’s not a lager. So why is it a malt liquor? I dunno, the can says so. Strangely enough, I’m kinda digg’n this. It’s kinda like a quadruple English Pale Ale. Not a Barleywine for sure, but it’s thinner, lighter & more trouble. Proceed with caution. 10.2%

Red Rock will be releasing a small batch of Secale today (Friday) at all Red Rock Brewpubs (not at the brewery).

 

For those who want a few bottles for the fridge, the process is this: 

Make a $5 donation and Red Rock will reserve 4-bottles in your name for one week.  You can then  purchase your bottles at the Beer Store beginning Saturday March 4^th.  No hurry…they will hold them for you for a week.  https://redrockbrewing.com/store/ $5.99 per bottle | 500mL | 8.5% ABV.

This batch is 100% first turn barrels.  Rye Whiskey and barrel flavors are prominent.

This is a very limited batch of beer. Sales will be limited to (4) bottles per person.

Your $5 donation will support lobbying efforts to change the Utah beer laws to allow for "heavy beer" (beer above 5% ABV), to be served on draft. Red Rock plans to make it a priority in the 2023/2024 legislative session.

Cider

Utah’s fourth production cidery releases inaugural small batch production on draft and in cans for to-go package sales, Tuesdays through Sundays, while supplies last. 

Today marks another milestone moment for the groundbreaking, award-winning cider bar in Salt Lake City’s Central 9th neighborhood. Scion Cider Bar, already earning local and national attention for the second-largest selection of imported craft and fine ciders in the country, is set to release its own house-made cider for the first time today. 

The long-awaited release of small batch ciders, made from locally grown apples and juice provided by Scion Cider co-owner and orchardist Jordan Riley, is the first foray into commercial cider production by Scion’s GM and head cider maker Rio Connelly since co-founding local craft beer houses by Proper Brewing Company and launching Epic Brewing in Utah prior. 

The products will be available on draft in 1-oz tasters, 5-oz glasses, 15-oz and 25-oz carafes; and will be available in 16oz cans for to-go package sales, while limited supplies last, starting at 4PM when Scion Cider Bar opens for regular business hours. Additional variations with creative and innovative flavor combinations made from the same base ciders will be released on draft in the coming weeks.

Product Lineup: 

SINGLE VARIETAL - VICE VERDE - 6.2% ABV, $5 /can. Granny Smith apples, Saison yeast. Dry, tart, fresh green, vibrant & bubbly.

FRUITED SERIES - ST. OLAFRICOT - 7.6% ABV, $6/can. Fuji, Honeycrisp, Granny Smith apples, apricot purée, English yeast. Balanced to semi-sweet, stone fruit, rich body.

IMPERIAL SERIES - WICKED STRONG, KED. - 10.7% ABV, $7.5/can. Fuji apples, Kveik yeast. Off-dry, strong, fresh apple, round.

Cheers!