New Beer Friday 10/11/24

More fresh hop beers debut in this week's New Beer Friday; along with a wide variety of ales and lagers that'll appeal to any palate.  

This weekend is the SLC Pink Party (A bar crawl for the cure). What is it and what's it all about? Drew Reynolds from Grid City Beer Works visits the radio pub this afternoon at 2pm to give us all of the details and how to participate. Listen at 99.9fm or stream us at KUAAFM.org/

Offset - DAMP 24.03: This wet hop IPA is 3 of 5 in the DAMP Series. It features Centennial, Pink and HBC1019 and was fermented with Kolsch yeast. Oh my! The citrus here is witchcraft. Hard to believe that this damn beer has no juice in it. Definitely some berries and stone fruit too (and some hop burn). But holy shit; stuff like this puts Utah on the world map. 2-3 days this’ll be perfect. 6.0% 

Level Crossing - Rising Hope (Juicy White Peach IPA): LC's annual IPA that's dedicated to raising money money for pediatric cancer research is back. Aroma of mostly peach. It's simple but so on point. Flavor starts out with grapefruit, fades into white peach, and then ends on a very nice malty herbal note. This is an enjoyable pale ale. Feel is creamy and huge. It just develops in your mouth, it doesn't thin out, and it doesn't back down. I love the added peach and it doesn't add much sweetness or overwhelm the style with fruitiness. It compliments the IPA very well. 5.0% - Available at both Level Crossing locations.

RoHa - Out of the Park: This new Hazy Pale Ale features Zappa, Comet, Idaho seven and Pomona yeast. It's mostly citrus driven with some herbal bite. Malts are on the toasty side. The yeast adds hints of strawberry. 5.0% - Available at RoHa.

Fisher - Fresh Hop IPA: It's back with all of its fresh Idaho 7 goodness. Smells of hops, citrus, and pine. Tastes of fresh hops, orange zest, black tea, pine, and a light malt base. Medium in both body and carbonation. Overall a very nice single hops IPA. 6.5%

Hopkins - Locals Only: Hopkins' annual harvest beer featuring 100% local Utah ingredients is back. The grain is grown locally and then malted by Solstice Malt and the hops (Cascade, Chinook) were harvested fresh from around the Salt Lake Valley. 5.0%

Shades - Black Cloud: This "Black Lager" has a faint aromas of burnt grain and noble hops. Sharp roasted grain and moderate noble hops flavors and bitterness. This is a clean-drinking lager with some roasted and smokey notes. 5.0%

Uinta - Dumb Ass Dunkel: Aroma is largely dominated by caramel with light hints hops, touches of dark chocolate and some toasty malt in the taste. dominant caramel and roasted malts really hit the spot and the overall profile seemed to be quite well rounded with a creamy smooth finish that was lightly dried out by lingering and tight hop notes. 5.0% - Only at Uinta. 

Uinta - New Zealand Abbey Lager: Taste is bright and grainy, like the flavor of a fresh wheat  along with some light berry flavors. The fruity aspect of it grows. Nice crisp beer that is easy to drink. 5.0% - Only at Uinta. 

Drekker - Eager Eyes: This IPA is a mix of Nectaron Cryo, Nelson Cryo, HBC 586, and Citra hops. Look for a peach, yuzu, passionfruit and mango dreamsicle flavors. 6.6% - Found at Slackwater.

Drekker - Slang Du Jour (Key Lime Pie): This beer was brewed with tons of Lime, Banana, Pear, Vanilla Soft Serve Ice Cream, Cinnamon, Lactose and Granola to taste just like pie in a glass. 6.6% - Found at Slackwater.

Drekker - Broken Rudder: Look for smooth caramel flavor and toasted malt notes. Brewed with over 15lbs of honey per batch. It has a hint of sweetness with a crisp, clean and dry finish. 5.0% - Found at Slackwater.

WeldWerks - Three Dimensions: This Hazy Double India Pale Ale was made with El Dorado, Idaho 7, Mosaic 702, Motueka and Rakau SubZero Hop Kief hops. 8.4% - Found at Slackwater.

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

Cheers!

New Beer Friday 10/04/24

There's quite the variety this week. New Beer Friday has something for every taste. look 'em over and let us know what you think.

In the Radio Pub today, Beer Nerd Radio is proud to welcome in Thieves Guild Cidery Utah's newest cider house that will be opening in the coming weeks. Hit us up at 2pm as we get to know our new neighbors. that's on 99.9FM KUAA.

Epic - Hip Check: This Imperial lager will keep you warm during the inaugural season of the “Utah Hockey Club”. It harkens to classic big lagers associated with the big NHL powerhouse towns. This 7.5% lager is full of honey-like flavors, toasty malt and sharp grassy hops. No hip checks please while off the ice please!🏒⛸️

Grid City - Vienna: All Vienna malts and Nobel hops. Perfect amount of light caramel with grass and herb hops. Simple and incredibly delicious. Mikey Likey! 5.0% - Only available at Grid City

Wasatch - Lights Out: Roasty aroma with some orange zest. Taste is more dark chocolate with citrus & pine rounding it out. Textbook Cascadian Pale. Would have liked a bit more citrus to give it that Holiday chocolate/orange stick vibe. 🤷 5.0% - Available at Wasatch/Squatters.

Wasatch - Spice of Life: Cinnamon/potpourri aroma. It’s not a cinnamon bomb. The cream ale base actually work quite well with the cinnamon. I want to hate it, but I can’t. I’m generally not a fan of spiced beers but they managed to make this fairly tasty. Props for great execution. 5.0% - Available at Wasatch/Squatters.

Squatters - Lord of Bavaria: Great Märzen. Full of that great caramelly malt character. It’s not sweet, but it is well balanced as the style should be. Love the over profile. I could drink more than 1 liter of this if it twer available here. 🍺 5.0% - Available at Wasatch/Squatters.

Fisher - Fields of Deseret: Such a beautiful evening for such a tasty beer. Jimmy Weed at Solstice Malt provided the grain & honey for this dreamy ale. Light Caramel/honey sweetness combines with a hint of citrus & more emphasized grass to create a refreshing & crushable Kottbusser. 5.0% - Available at Fisher.

Stone - 28th Anniversary Hazy Double IPA: Missed this one. 8.5% - Found at Slackwater

Stone - Enjoy By 10.31.24: Missed this one. 9.4%  - Found at Slackwater

Falling Knife - Interstellar Yacht Club: Missed this one. 8.2% - Found at Slackwater

Drekker - Saved By the Buoyancy: Missed this one. 4.8% - Found at Handlebar.

Cheers!

New Beer Friday 9/27/24

Tall Timber Session IPA: This “Northwest session IPA” features Willamette, Chinook, Cascade hops. Lotsa dry grapefruit peel, pine and floral qualities. Like ‘em old school? This will satisfy. 5.0% - Only at Hopkins.

Hopkins - Mission Improvable: his collab with Lauter Day Brewers is nice & crisp. Great malt profile with hops that blur between citrus & herbal hops. Tasty stuff. 5.0% - Only at Hopkins.

Kiitos/Strap Tank - Sweet Revenge: This collaboration Pours a light amber color with inch thick white head that dissipated quickly. Aroma is malty. The taste is malty up front, bread notes, followed by a herbal hoppy finish. Mouthfeel is crisp, medium bodied, easy drinkability. 5.0% - Available now at Strap Tank and Kiitos.

Salt Flats - Yet unnamed Stratta wet hop red ale: This beer is so new it doesn't have a name yet. It available on draft starting today. Look for fresh Strata hop as hop back and dry hopped with Strata and Zappa. Both give an incredible strawberry, blackberry, pineapple tropical aromas with a hint of pine and mint. 5.0% - Available at Salt Flats.

Chappell - Harvest: This Citrus wet hop has a nice malt profile that definitely more pale ale driven. The hops give off fresh tangerine with a hint of lime. Great pale ale. 5.0% - Only at Chappell.

Saltfire - Oktoberfest: This new Festbier has sweet biscuit dough with a touch of lemon and one of honey. There is very light scent of cut grass in the background. Taste follows the nose but with the lemon/herbal hop note somewhat more pronounced. There is also a slightly zesty bitterness. Things dry a bit towards the end. Tasty stuff. 5.0% - Available at SaltFire.

2 Row - Hop Twah: Missed this Triple IPA. 10.2% - Available at 2 Row, Slackwater.

Heber Valley - Dunkleweiss: Missed this one. No ABV listed. Available starting Saturday for HV Brewing's Oktoberfest Celebration.

Heber Valley - Bavarian Munich Helles: Missed this one. No ABV listed. Available starting Saturday for HV Brewing's Oktoberfest Celebration.

Heber Valley - Märzen: Missed this one. No ABV listed. Available starting Saturday for HV Brewing's Oktoberfest Celebration.

Uinta - Fourth & 20: This Fresh hop IPA features… you guessed it, Strata! This one feature a malt bill with some 2 Row malt along with pils malt. Malty & weedy aroma with some citrus. Taste follows with less weed, but tropical fruit, tangerine and herbal hop flavors round it out. 6.7% - Available at Uinta today.

Nightmare on Haze Street: Nice tropical aroma. Tastes peachy with honeydew melon and grapefruit peel. Some herbal hops toward the end with some medium lingering bitterness. Hint of cardboard. 8.6%  - Only at Beer zombies.

Beer Zombies/Seven Islands- Zombie Beast: This’n has Citra, HBC586 & HBC630 hops. It’s got a citrus thing happening straight-away. Less tropical with some peach, hints of berries. Low bitterness, but there is a zest quality. Perty tasty. Doesn’t look like it’s is on the menu yet. Ask for it. 8.0%  - Only at Beer zombies.

Beer zombies/ Mason - Crowns, Hammers and Zombies: Looks like this is the last one at Beer Zombies SLC. Sorry. Citra, HBC586 & El Dorado hops. Driest DIPA yet on the Tuesday Beer Zombie tour. Mostly citrus peel here, some subtle peachy malts, but for the most part, this is citrus driven. Love this place. 8.5% - Only at Beer zombies.

Beer Zombies/Hop Butcher - Zombie Hopsicle: Last beer on the Tuesday Zombie Tour Features Citra, Strata, HBC630 & Nelson with guava & strawberry. This Hop Butcher Collab doesn’t mention lactose, but has a nice sweetness that is 💵 w/ this hop salad. Sooo drinkable & appealing for a fruited IPA. 7.5%  - Only at Beer zombies.

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

Cheers!