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Friday, October 09, 2026

New Beer Friday 10/09/26

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It's Big Bad Baptist Day at Epic Brewing this Friday and Saturday and Beer Nerd Radio has the preview as Co-owner, Dave Cole, Head Brewer, Clay Turnbow and Gus Erickson, Taproom and Sales Manager hit the radio pub to get us all dialed in on the new variants and Saturday celebration. 2pm is the time on 99.9fm KUAA. KUAAfm.org/

The Epic Big Bad Variants are back! As these are currently being packaged, the ABVs are still in flux. All of these are Available today (Friday) with a special release party Saturday. See Epic's Socials for details. 

Epic - Big Bad Baptist (Big Bad Baptista): 10-Year Anniversary — featuring vanilla, cinnamon, cacao and in house-roasted Mexican coffee  

Epic - Big Bad Baptist (Godfather Part II): A continuation of the Godfather-inspired series from 2025, highlighting the complexity of our whiskey barrels without any adjuncts.

Epic - Big Bad Baptist (Beehive): Featuring local Utah honey and cacao nibs.

Epic - Big Bad Baptist (Big Easy): Aged in rye whiskey barrels and inspired by the Sazerac cocktail 

Epic - Big Bad Baptist (Irish): Featuring vanilla bean and coffee flavors.

Epic - Big Bad Baptist (Scottish): Featuring coffee, cacao nibs and peat-smoked barley.  

Home Range - White Pine: This new West Coast Pilsner has a light gold hue with a nice fluffy head. Punchy notes of citrus and pine. Finishing with clean and crisp bitterness. Refreshing yet full of lovely hop character! 5.0% - On Draft and To-Go in Cans only at Home Range.

Home Range - Moreish: This  new English pale Ale is exclusively on Home Range's Beer Engine. A classic English Pale Ale. Nice and thirst quenching with notes of herbal tea, bergamot, and toffee. Perfect for this lovely fall weather we are having! After your first pint, you'll certainly want more. "one of the finest pints of real ale we've made"! - Chris Cisneros Kidd, Co-owner/Head Brewer.

Red Rock - Outer Frequencies: This new Double IPA features Citra, Eclipse and Vic Secret hops. No notes on this one yet. 8.0% - For the next week or so, this will only be available at Red Rock's Beer Store. I guess the hop bill is quite intense and could use a week to lose some of its "hop burn".  

Offset - DAMP 26.05: Oh baby! Number 5 is a West Coast Pils. It features A Wet Hop bill of  Citra and Mosaic.A Cryo Fresh Hop of Krush. A Dry Hop of Manalita and Simcoe. This the first time Offset has added some NZ hops to a wet hop beer. Notes of dank red berries, peach skin, exotic tropical fruit, and resin. Crushable and dry like a pils but with the hop aroma and flavor of your favorite West Coast IPA. 5.0% - Available at Offset Bier. Offset has one last DAMP coming out next week plus an exciting "Celebration Style" fresh hop version of Gooding Farms still to come!

Park City - Smile & Wave: The new Hazy IPA was dry hopped with El Dorado T90, Citra T90, Bru-1, and LupoMax. This is soft and pillowy with basically no bitterness. Mellow flavors of pineapple, tropical fruit and a touch of pine. 5.0% - Only available at PC Brewing.

Helper - Habanada Peach Tart: made with Helper's proprietary "Habanada" peppers grown by SLC local, Elliott Musgrove @sIctopcrops with added peaches this tart has hot pepper on the nose, pure fruits reminiscent of the Habanero but with NO heat. Finish is quenching and perfectly tart, delicious. 5.0% - Available at Helper of Course. Found at Beer Bar, Slackwater (Sandy) and Taverna Pizza.

Returning Favorites

Level Crossing Soulless Rex: LV-xing's Triple IPA now features a Nectaron, El Dorado and Simcoe hops. Also, it now dials in at 11.0% - Available at both Level Crossing locations starting today.  

Silver Reef - Pumpkin Spice Girls Mafia: Warm spice, Smooth finish. 5.0% - Available at Silver Reef. 

Cheers!  

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