New Beer Friday 6/27/25

Feel'n good about the choices you've made this week? You should be, it's not easy being you. A beer nerd like yourself deserves a fine ale or lager to close out the week. We've got a fine list of suds designed to make you strut or sway your way into the weekend.

What happens when whiskey, bitters and cider collide? The Beer Nerd's become "whiskey, cider and bitters nerds" on a special afterschool episode of Beer Nerd Radio. Sugarhouse Distilling's James Fowler and Rio Connelly of Scion Cider join Mikey and Steph in the Radio Pub starting at 2pm on 99.9fm KUAA. or stream us here at KUAAFM.org/ 

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Grid City - 5th Anniversary Dry Hopped Saison: Im curious to try a saison hopped w/ Saaz, Nectaron, Nelson & Galaxy. It’s somewhat phenolic, but I gotta say, these hops give this a whole other dimension. Some peach & citrus for sure, combined with clove & a hint of berries. Malty & dry toward the end. Saisons hadn’t been my thing lately, but there’s enough happening here to take my mind off the peppery yeast. 9.5% - Available now at Grid City.

Kiitos - Fonio Fusion: Fonio is a West African grain, that is full of Lychee-like flavors. This is 50/50 Fonio and Pilsner malt. Citra and Vera hops drive it, so it’s absolutely citrus forward. From there it’s all American IPA. It’s actually quite tasty. This folio grain is perfect for IPAs!

Home Range - Don't I Know You?: Missed this new Hazy IPA. 6.7% - Only available at Home Range.

Offset/New Image Brewing - Menzo: This West Coast "Lie" IPA features Simcoe, Simcoe Cryo, Hollingberry, Centennial, Crosby CGX and Nectaron. It's a blend of some classic WC IPA hops, but selected for a depth of nuanced flavors that go beyond just hitting the high notes that these hops are known for. This beer combines the aromas of fresh hop harvest with notes of grapefruit, alpine conifer, peach ring candy and subtle cannabis. It's everything you could ever want from an IPA but with a gentler 5.0% ABV. Available at Offset and New Image Brewing.

Also, Hobbled Dog Cidery opens this weekend.

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

Cheers!

Midsummer New Beer Friday 6/20/25

 

Happy Summer Solstice! Thank Thor that this is the longest day of the year, 'cause you're gunna need all that extra time to enjoy all of these wonderful beers that have come our way. Have an excellent weekend!

The Beer Nerds host another blind tasting in the Radio Pub. This Episode should be a lot of fun; because Mikey has decided to keep as much info from our guest tasters (Aaron Saxon and Mark Alston) as possible. The final reveal should be fun. Check us out today (Friday) at 2pm on 99.9FM KUAA or stream us at KUAAFM.org/ 

Offset - Life Before Insanity: This West Coast Simcoe IPA is a collaboration beer was made with Cellarmaker Brewing and New Image Brewing. The three breweries used every form of Simcoe they could get their hands on. T90, Cryo, Co2 extract, Dynaboost, Hyperboost, and whole leaf were layered in staggering quantities at every opportunity. The best part is the T90 and Cryo lots were the hand selected lots from Cellarmaker and New Image. This is a Simcoe dream. This reminds me of why I fell in love with hop all those years ago. Strawberry, melon and citrus like I’ve not tasted since before COVID. A brilliant single hop WCIPA! Mikey Likey!  6.8% - Available at Offset, found at the Bayou.

Offset - Thiols Terps and Love: This new version was brewed with Offset’s Kölsch yeast. This is an NZ bomb. Crazy amounts of NZ Cascade, Peacharine and fresh Nectaron hops. This is complex. The terps and thiols lead with stone fruit and cannabis. Citrus peel is next. Too many flavors for…a 6.0% IPA. The body and experience here is intense. This fun to drink and it tastes expensive. It’s a full throttle sensory experience. 6.0% - Available at Offset, found at the Bayou.

Home Range - Good News Saison: This HR's house saison. Brewed with their in-house Saison yeast culture and locally grown barley from Cache County along with rye and oats all from Utah. Then aged in an oak foeder for way too long, and naturally carbonated with local Slide Ridge honey. Look for big notes of lemon zest on the nose, with undertones of spices like nutmeg and white pepper. Flavors of lemon curd, sourdough bread, and again some light spice which finishes things nice and dry. 5.0% - Only at Home Range.

Heber Valley - The Grunge: Missed this new IPA featuring Strata hops. 6.5% - Available at Heber Brewing.

Bewilder - Weizenbock (Aged on Amburana Wood): The name reveals it all. Once you get it out of the can your met with something that has bread crust hues. That “sweet wheat” lager base still shine as it did in the original version; full of banana and clove. Now amplified layers of nutmeg & cinnamon pop-out from the Amburana wood staves. This is an entirely new beer, full of rack spices and deep complexity. Crazy wood flavor! 8.4%

Salt Lake Brewing - Go Easy: This super session IPA features Citra and Mosaic. What else could you ask for? This one dials in at a quaffable 2.9% strength a perfect table beer.  

Chappell - Craft Beer Sucks: Missed this new "pub ale". 7.0% - Only available at Chappell Brewing.

Scion - Piecycle: This new cider was made with Granny Smith apples, tart cherries, molasses, nutmeg, cinnamon and Star Anise. The color doesn’t scream, Granny Smith, apple. Once you get your nose into it, you can tell the color is from the spices added. This cider definitely has more of an autumn feel. Round and spicy. Might even do well mulled. Quite tasty. 6.3% - only at Scion.

This Saturday (6/21) in South Salt Lake, The Summer Shandy Fest is happening. This is a free to participate event, that is designed for bicycling, but you can make your way through it any way you want. Tour de Brewtah is putting this on and have partnered with all of the SSL breweries to develop their own spin on the Shandy, a classic, thirst quenching beer that incorporates fruit juice and is often served to cyclists out conquering the mountains of Europe during the summer. So, grab your friends, lube those chains and head out to any of the participating breweries to see what they've whipped up! You can get started as early as 11am. 

Roosters is also celebrating 30 years on Saturday 6/21. The party goes from Noon to 4 pm

with a patio party next to the 25th Street location. look for games, live music, small bites, community partners, giveaways and more.

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

Cheers!

New Beer Friday the 13th - 6/13/25

 

Friday the 13th may be considered to be unlucky, but New Beer Friday the 13th is lucky AF! 

Beer Nerd Radio has a conversation with Jack Rabbit Brewing today (Friday) at 2pm. Where did they come from? Where are they? What kind of beers will they have? All excellent questions. And we'll get into it all, a little later on 99.9fm KUAA.

Uinta - Mimosa Super Nova: This has a sour base. From there it's all orange. The main flavors are lactic tartness combined with citric acid. These flavors duke it out for the most part and make it quite drinkable if you're into citrus. 5.0% - Available at Uinta. 

Uinta - Sanchez's SnakePit: Mostly citrus & melon aroma - some berries too. Tastes more herbally up front. It’s well hopped for sure. The melon, citrus & berry come next, in that order. Tastes like there’s some NZ hops in there. Perty damn tasty. On the R&D handle. 5.0% - Available at Uinta. 

RoHa - Mustache Mercury: Somewhat herbal, vegital & citrusy. Some berry notes back it up with a near dankness. There’s a lot of hops in here and it just dials-in at DIPA strungth. 8.1% Available at RoHA.

Offset - German Saaz: Missed this new lager. 5.0% - Available at Offset Bier.

Fisher - Zumo's First Divorce: Missed this new pale ale featuring Zumo hops. 5.0% - Available on draft at Fisher.

Cheers!