New Beer Friday 9/26/25

Well, they started taking my ass up to heaven the other day during the Rapture, but I wouldn't leave without my Tylenol and... well, here I am. Oh well, I hear the beer up there sucks anyway – PLUS all the cool kids are down here drink'n up this week's New Beer Friday pints! I you see me buy me a welcome back to Earth/Birthday beer. 😉

Beer Nerd Radio always (mostly) keeps it local, so when we have the opportunity to highlight local events, we hop on 'em. Today's (Friday) show gets us into the 2025 Hoodah Festival. Not sure what the Hoodah is? and why is there a festival around it? Well, us too, damn it! Tune in to 99.9fm KUAA or stream us at KUAAfm.org/ - at 2pm! 

Also Happening This Weekend

The Templin Family Oktoberfest (9/27): The TF crew has spent the last couple of month lagering beers and prepping for one of the biggest single day Oktoberfests around. look for tradition food music, a sanctioned Stein Holding Competition and a special barrel tapping. 21+ only.

The First Annual Beer Scout Jamboree (9/27): This looks like too much damn fun. Takes place at Salt and Hops in Ogden.

Pinewood Derby (3-5pm) Still a few more race slots open! (car kits and rules still available at the store)

Derby Race Awards (6pm)

Reading of the Ogden Beer Scout Creed and Swearing-In of first Ogden Beer Scout Troop Ceremony (6:30 ish)

Beer Garden (3-9:30) with tasty Oktoberfest beers on tap from @talismanbrewingco and @ogdenbeercompany.

Best burgers in Ogden from Bad Humor Meat and Cheese (5 to 9pm.

Music by @paddytegliamusic (5 to 10pm)

Campfire Songs & Smores (Starting at 7pm)

Mountain West Cider's Fall Harvest Festival: This year's Fall Harvest Festival is extra special as MW is also celebrating their 10th ANNIVERSARY. This ALL AGES event is FREE and fun for the whole family (pups included)! You'll find all the details at Mountain West's socials.

Now on to New Beer Friday

Uinta - Bittersweet Motel: Herbal & citrusy aroma. Damn this is like a damn Time Machine. This tastes like all the OG WIPAs I remember. Lotsa orange peel some white grape with balancing pine. Not too boozy with a nice lingering bitterness. Hell yeah. 7.8% - Available now at Uinta.

Offset - Damp 02.25: Zesty! OMF, it’s perfume,Like adults prefer, with a hint of vanilla. Boom! Now it’s beer. A salad of tangerine & herbs with short berries & strawberries. This is almost obscene, the way it lures you in. Not a fan of being a fish, consider stupid me?

Park City - Exit 145: Missed this new Hazy IPA. 7.5% - Only at PC Brewing.

Park City - No to Dakota: Missed this session Hazy also. 5.0% - Only at PC Brewing.

Salt Lake Brewing - Prancing Pony: Wow, the damn beer engine in this place hasn’t been operating since before COVID. It’s back now, baby! First pulls look beautiful, toasty/malt nose. Great malty mild here. Sweet up front, toasty back. Flowery hops round it out. Fuck’n cask ales. Brilliant! 5.0% - Only at SL Brewing.

Salt Lake Brewing - Miss Congeniality: Not sure what the hops are here. Amarillo? Cascade? CTZ? Probably none of the above. Regardless, there’s a lil citrus with a pile of pine and a good dose of resiny bitterness backing it up. An enjoyable pale ale. 5.0% - Only at SL Brewing.

Proper - Apricaldera: The right amount of spicy and sweet. A chipotle aroma for sure. Tastes of apricots upfront, with chipotle backing it up. Mellow heat. This is quite nice. 5.0% - Available at Proper on Main Street.

Cheers!

New Beer Friday 9/19/25

Before we get started, this week's New Beer Friday leads with sad news our pals at Policy Kings are being forced to close their doors. They're not giving up easy, so please stop by give them support as they try to keep the doors open.

New Beer Friday brings forth a good deal of Oktoberfest beers along with other damn tasty and unique brews. On top of that there are many events planned this week, including: 

Bewilder Brewing's week-long Oktoberfest. 9/20 - 9/26

RoHa's Oktoberfest celebration tomorrow (9/20). 

The Tour De Brewtah's (Pints & Puts Route) 9/20.

Fisher Mansion Bash. 9/20 - 9/21

Community Craft Beer Fest (Logan). 9/20

Oktoberfest in Snowbird. Every Sat/Sun through 10/12

NOT Oktoberfest at Solitude. 9/20 - 9/21

FanX 9/20- 9/21

Outlaw Distilling hits the Radio Pub today on KUAA. Owner, Tyler Halstead with be chatting up Beer Nerd Radio as we debut live on the radio Outlaw's newest whiskey. What is it? We dunno, I guess we'll all find out together today (Friday) at 2pm on 99.9fm. Stream us at KUAAfm.org/

Check out the individual Socials for more details on the events above. Now on to the new beers.

RoHa - Brewers Select (Game Blouses): This is a Hazy IPA features Citra and Mosaic, Big citrus peel flavors here with some strawberry as well. It’s simple and effective. It’s well hopped with some resiny smack towards the finish. Excellent hop combo… always. 7.0% - Available today (Friday).

RoHa - FestBier: RoHa's take on a German style Fest Bier. Toasty crackers aroma with some caramel maltiness. Taste is similar. It’s a balances out with the malty and toasty grains. Some herbal hops at the end. 5.0% - Available Saturday, at RoHa's Oktoberfest. 

TF/Purpose Brewing - Tomatillo Sour: This Belgian Style Barrel-Aged Farmhouse lager is a collaboration between Templin Family and Peter Bouckaert of Purpose Brewing & Cellars. In August 2023 Bouckaert came to SLC to collaborate with the Templin's for yet another "limited-edition" barrel-aged sour. They went really far out this time with the recipe and Bouckaert even brought his own inoculated oak cask from Purpose Brewing to age in. 

Cool color, kinda golden bronze. Mouthwatering aroma; dusty dry like a Geueze with some minor balsamic character and those brettanomyces "horse blanket" notes. Mostly citrus up front unripe tropical fruits too. Oak is next with a hint of that tomatillo twang. As it warms you do get some of those Prickly Ash–peppercorn notes, lightly scratching the back of the throat. Not overly tart, Brilliant, just brilliant. 6.2% - Available now at TF or at Purpose Brewing. 

TF - Hoppy Invasion: This beer is from the award winning home brewer Zach Belles, This West Coast IPA features: Warrior CO2 hop extract (boil) Mosaic, Citra T-90, Citra, Citra Dyna-Boost  th en a dry-hopped with a lot of Mosaic-cryo and a Krush. This collab based on a recipe by Zach Belles is to be TF Pro Am entry at GABF. Big citrus all around. A massive amount of Citra here in many forms. Ironically, it’s the Mosaic-cryo and a Krush hops that explode here in a melon/citrus bomb! 7.5% - Available at TF starting today.

Offset - Damp 25.01: This Wet Hop "XPA" features Centennial, Organic Cascade, and Amarillo. Oh my f’n G! That aroma is fresh! So much floral and citrus notes. It tastes so fresh, but not overwhelming. This isn’t a slap of hops it’s more of a “ragu” if that makes any sense? It’s a simple salad of flavors, not gaudy or goche, just wet hop bliss. 6.0% Available at Offset - I found it at The Bayou.

Hopkins - Hopkins Pilsner: Hopkins' new flagship lager features Chinook and Cascade hop with Nova Lager yeast which adds a subtle fruit character. It's so nice & citrusy. The hop bill combined with that crazy fruity yeast, makes this super crushable. Oddly enough, it’s hopped enough to dry it out in the end. 5.0% Available at Hopkins.

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

Cheers!

New Beer Friday 9/12/25

 

Beer Nerd Radio is about to get its rum on! This week Vintage Spirits' own Jessen Doxey will be in the radio pub to give us the lowdown on their rums and whiskeys. We're streaming at KUAAFM.org/ or at 99.9fm. See you at 2pm! 

Kiitos - Pumpkin Vanilla Latte: Absent since 2020. This is a new reinvigorate version. To be honest, I forgot what this beer was. Expecting a vanilla cream ale, I found allspice, medium roast coffee AND vanilla. Suddenly yer stupid boy figured it out. I’m funny, but not too bright. 5.0% - Available on Nitro for a limited time at Kiitos. Co2 draft and cans available today. 

Salt Flats - Dunkelweien: Super toasty but malty aroma. Tastes the same, however the yeast is in full play now. Lotsa cocoa & char with a slight bit of clove a medium amount of banana. The cocoa & char keeps it from becoming too sweet and it all seems to balance out.

Uinta - Fuggle Around & Find Out: Never had a Steamer on nitro before. Great malt profile, medium sweetness with some nice toasty grains. Flowery hops finish it off. The nitro really accentuates the malts.

2Row - Oktoberfest: Missed this one. Stay close my socials for details. 5.0% - only on draft at 2 Row. 

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

Cheers!

New Beer Friday 9/2/25

We've changed our logo. Adios to that F'n, beer swill'n Bee! Our new logo's vivid color profile and energetic imagery will soon have you flocking to my microscopic corner of the interwebs! You're welcome. If you can see past the brilliants of this meme, there are some seriously delish suds popping up around the state. Please check them out.

Beer Nerds rejoice! Our crack team of beer tasting tongues will be gathering on 99.9FM KUAA at 2pm today [Friday] as we pick apart this batch of mystery beers. We do all the hard work so you don't have to! Join Allen Handy, Jeremy Mathews and of course Steph and Mikey later today in the radio pub. Oh, by the way. We apologize for ghosting y'all last week. Mikey's day job took up way too much time last Friday and we'll get our pals from Flanker re-scheduled. 

RoHa - Lederhosen: This American Pale Ale Light, toasty aroma. Taste starts the same with more toast and a light caramel profile. Some light cocoa toward the end with a finish that’s herbal & leafy. 5.0% - Available at RoHa, Oktoberfest [Snowbird]. 

Desert Edge - Haze Threebus: This new TRIPA has a wildly intense tropical fruit aroma....grapefruit, mango, orange, and more. The taste is balanced, with intense juicy hop flavors. Lots of orange and grapefruit peel flavor. The body is full and the finish is clean. Excellent. 10.5% - Available at Desert Edge.

Saltfire - Deep Dive Series [Fest Bier]: Toasty up front. Then the sweeter malt pop in it’s not a caramel sweetness, but more English scone. Then the hops kick in. All traditional, mostly Saaz profile. Kinda in that territory between Helles & Märzen. Super crushable. 5.0% - available at Saltfire.

TF - French Pilsner: This collaboration with Haas Hop Farm and PFriem Family Brewers was made with Aramis hops. Big grassy and herbal aroma. Mostly classic Nobel hops up front then it breaks off into a tiny amount of lemon zest & berry. From there It’s all herbal and a hint of white pepper in the finish. A very nice job hop bill in this pils. Mikey Likey. 5.0% - Available at TF.

Uinta - Clever Girl: Just a hint of spicy yeast in the nose. The beer is t overly sour which means you can still get some of the witbier hiding in the background never thought of a sour wit. Not bad. 5.0% on Uinta's R&D Tap.

Fisher - Hop Back Pale Ale: This new ale features dried whole cone Simcoe hop flowers.This process makes for a super floral nose and a nice light fruit palate and dry finish. Coming soon: The "fresh hop" version of this Simcoe pale ale will be on its way soon. 5.0% - Available at Fisher.

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

Cheers!