New Beer Friday 11/03/23

Yeah, I dunno what's happening with this week's meme either. To help scrub this image from your brains, I suggest sampling one or all of this week's new beers. Offset's new line-up is crazily diverse and worth checking out. 

Beer Nerd Radio has the BOOCH! This week we welcome Hannah and Kate from Hann's Kombucha. You've probably heard a lot about booch lately and we'll answer all of your questions today at 2pm on 99.9fm KUAA. 

Offset - Drawn to the Dark (Coffee Milk Stout): This is the third release Offset's Drawn To The Dark series of beers.This milk stout base has over 2lbs per barrel of Columbia Finca Betania, Caturra washed process whole beans from Idle Hands Roasting Co. The stout is intensely coffee forward with enough residual sweetness to balance out the roast character and provide incredibly soft and smooth drinking experience. 6.0% - Available at Offset.

Offset - O N E  M O R E: This rendition features wet Zeus and Comet in the hop back. After fermentation, High Oil Cascade, Simcoe, and a touch of Columbus was added to the dry hop. This harkens back to the hop profiles found in the mid 2000s and is Offset's fourth Fresh Hop beer this season. It's bright with citrus zest, beautiful floral notes with hints of pine and resin blend wonderfully with a touch of malt character. 5.0% - Available at Offset.

Offset - Rauchbier Marzen: The malt bill here features 70% beechwood smoked Pilsner malt in this Marzen. It pours a deep burnt orange color with a small off-white head. The aroma is burnt caramel and vanilla with nice smoke. Boy is it smoky when you taste it! It's rich and the caramel from the nose is now toffee with some spiciness from the smoke. It lingers for a bit and there's a mild bitterness throughout. It's all so rich and well balanced, comforting and warming.The mouthfeel is velvety with little carbonation. 4.8% - Available at Offset.

TF - Moguls and Snorkels: This new West Coast Lager was brewed for TF's 5th anniversary party. It features mosaic, Strata and Cryo-Strata hops. Loaded with peach, tangerine and strawberry flavors. There’s an herbal bump too that keeps this lager finishing slightly dry. Mikey Likey. 6.0% - Only at TF.

Strap Tank - Pumpkin Spice-Chai Sour: Missed this lactose sour ale. 5.0% - Available at Strap Tank in Springville.

Salt Lake Brewing - Batch 66: This new pale ale features Mosaic and Citra hops. This aromas has pithy grapefruit, lemon, biscuity malt, orange zest, and lime. This has a really nice juicy hop character to it, while finishing dry and bitter in a nice way. There’s just a touch of malt character, but it props everything else up. This is quite good – it’s hard to get a pale ale to feel so full flavored while also finishing light and easy, and this beer bridges that well. 5.0% - Available at Salt Lake Brewing. 

Salt Lake Brewing - Grandma's Cookies: This amber ale base features all the oats and spices that you'd expect in an oatmeal cookie. The spices are subtle and the base isn't too malty either which dive it's drinkability up. No hint of raisins. Overall: it's good but I miss the raisin part. 5.0% - Available at Salt Lake Brewing. 

Squatters - Imperial Juicy: This new DIPA features Mango, pineapple and guava predominately on the nose. Taste is mango and guava up front, some melon, pineapple and citrus thru the middle, finish is pretty assertive on the bitterness. This is tasty for sure, but it has a soda-pop feel in the co2. 7.8% - Available at Wasatch/Squatters, Salt Lake brewing Co.

Revision - Nocturnal Visions: A rare non-IPA from Revision! This traditional German-Style Black Lager presents notes of chocolate and a hint of roastiness. But don't let the color fool you, this beer has an enjoyable malt profile with a crisp lager finish. 4.7% - Found at The Ice Haüs

Revision - Riipen' And Revvin': A collaboration with Riip Beer Co., This Strata, Simcoe and Mosaic blasts out notes of sweet mango and diggity pine in this deceptively crushable West Coast-style Double IPA. 8.5% - Found at The Ice Haüs 

Bombastic - Bukwus Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout: Missed this big-ass Imperial stout aged on Bourbon barrels. 16.0% - Found at The Ice Haüs 

Equilibrium - Four Fours: This DIPA features Idaho7, Citra, and Citra Incognito in the whirlpool - then dry-hopped with Citra, Strata, Galaxy, and Zappa. Dense haze  with aromas of tropical mango, orange tang and assorted berry. Hoppy saturated flavors of dank mango orange juice smoothie, papaya chunks, and green nerds candy are balanced by a hoppy bite and melon in the finish. 8.5% - Found at Slackwater. 

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

Cheers!