New Beer Friday 9/11/26

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And while your dreaming, think of what crazy beers could possibly await our guest guinea pigs on an all new Mystery Beer Show on Today's (Friday's) Beer Nerd Radio. Will Steph lose her shit over pumpkin beers? Will The New Utah Podcast crew storm-out in protest? Only time will tell! All of the bitching and tantrums begin at 2pm on 99.9fm KUAA. KUAAfm.org/

Offset Damp 26.01: Offset's (and likely Utah's) first fresh hop beer of the 2026 season has arrived! Brewed in collaboration with Carlsbad, CA's Burgeon Beer Company, this bright and crisp West Coast Pale Ale. The brew features a robust hop profile, utilizing Mosaic wet hops alongside kilned Amarillo and Centennial from Gooding Farms, complemented by Citra and Simcoe from TV Hops. Toward the end of fermentation, it was dry-hopped with Cryo Fresh Mosaic as well as additional Simcoe and Citra. Just before packaging, it received a final infusion of wet and freshly kilned Amarillo. The result is a pale ale with a flowery nose, mostly melon, some citrus. 👊💥OH MY! a rich but subtle punch of the tropics w/ melon, citrus & strawberry. Zero diesel - Zero flaws, no mess-no-fuss. This shit equals happiness 5.8% - Available now at Offset Bier, found at the Bayou.

Offset - Neon Ladies: This new West Coast Pils is a collaboration New Image Brewing in Wheatridge, CO. Neon Ladies explores the combo of Nectaron and Krush with the addition of Mosaic and Riwaka as well. it's amazing how the different supporting hops and the cold fermentation with lager yeast can change the expression. As compared to Offsets normal hop saturated 5.0% beers they targeted a drier and more bitter profile for this WC Pils which is important for the style. Clear/Crisp/ Dry/Bitter but incredibly aromatic. My Impressions? Oh my! Herbal/melon nose. Tastes slight diesel & melon, dry for sure. Dank orange peel with equally dank berries. It’s a lot for a 5.0% beer. “Overwhelming”? Yes. “Too much of a good thing”? Nope! Go git sum! - Available at Offset, found at The Bayou. 

Offset - Zion's Dank: Brewed in Collaboration with Cellarmaker Brewing, it features Tropical Fusion, Garston NZ Cascade, Mosaic, Southern Cross, Simcoe, Nelson Sauvin hops. It's tropical with berries. Strawberry, earthy herbal hops. Pile those with old citrus peel and cocktail cherries. This Pils malt base is crazy with an obscene amount of resin that’ll make the trendiest brewery, wince with envy. Brilliance from our PC friends.7.0% - Available at Offset, found at The Bayou. 

WolfDog - Teufel Hunden: (Devil Dog) This Kellerbier was brewed with Saaz and Hallertau Mittelfruh. Sweet grainy crackers. Great pils malt profile. Lotsa herbally hops with some vague earthy botanicals. Clean earthy finish. 5.0% - Available now at Wolfdog.

Bewilder - Say You, Saison (Barrel Aged): Bewilder took their new saison and gave it the barrel-aged treatment. The saison spent 2 months in toasted oak barrels. Peppery/clove yeast aroma with some oak. Taste starts w/ bubblegum and a hint of stone fruit. Toasty oak comes in next with slight woody/vanilla notes. Hops are still punchy and assertive with a nice herbal zap. Finishes drier than you think. 6.2% - Available now at Bewilder.

Bewilder - Peach Wheat: Nice 'n peachy. Great stonefruit flavors on the house’s great pillowy American wheat ale base. An excellent first beer of the day for any New Beer Friday enthusiast. 5.0% - Only at Bewilder.  

Chappell - Idiot Box: Citrus juice? Nope, but it sure smells juicy. This is wonderful, what a great hop combo. Columbus/Krush? Anyway, this is massively crushable. Citrusy and Fruity. Yum! 5.0% - Only at Chappell.

Desert Edge - Schnitzer’s Rye Cream Ale: Great rye profile. Head Brewer Jeffery Bunk def didn’t skimp on the rye. Spicy malts with a great German base creates a wonderfully earthy rye ale that satisfies and is sessionable. 5.0% - Available at Desert Edge.

Desert Edge - Ramblin’ Man: Brewed to honor former Desert Edge Head Brewer Matt Burdick who left us too damn soon! It features Krush, Citra, CTZ, Simcoe & Cascade. It strikes a perfect balance between intense, juicy tropical sweetness & a punchy, resinous, dank backbone. 5.0% - Available at Desert Edge.

Grid City - Passion-fruit Guava Nitro Cream Ale: Passion fruit pops in the nose. First swig is the same, passion-fruit dominates with guava taking a backseat. Solid nitro cream fruit ale. I could crush a couple of these silky delights all day. AND it’s real nitro, that that low gas Co2. 5.0% - Available at Grid City / Drunken Kitchen.

Talisman - Oktoberfest: Missed the 2026 version of this lager. 5.0% - Available now at Talisman.

UTOG ALS Cold IPA: The Ales for ALS™ 2026 Hop Blend (Crop Year 2025) features Simcoe®, Citra®, Ekuanot®, and Columbus! Our blend was selected for its citrus and floral notes, and delivers berry, tropical, woody, and stone fruit character.  5.0% - Available now at UTOG 

UTOG - Power Play Pilsner: Hockey season is about to start so we are ready for it. Bright, crackery, grassy flavors. There are notes of biscuit, cracked wheat, lemon zest, light apple, and a zesty white pepper finish. 5.0% - Available now at UTOG 

Returning Favorites 

Ogden Beer - Prost Malone: Another great Märzen! Jacquie, created a great malty lager full of caramel and a hint of vanilla. Love this. 5.0%

Red Rock Quite Frankly: This West Coast Pilsner is a crushable Pils brewed with a modern hop lineup of Mosaic, Citra, and Motueka hops. You'll experience a whisper of lime zest, ripe stone fruit, and berry. 5.0% - Available at red Rock and Harmon's

Offset Divi Divi: Only brewed once a year, Divi Divi is the double IPA version of Offset's tropical 5.0% LIPA Divi.The last batch of Divi was an eye opener. Offset used some very expressive yeast and it featured a new hop called Ramosa. Almost twice the hops go into Divi Divi as Divi and they use some concentrated versions as well. Offset was fortunate to get one of very few vials of Liquid Lupulin Ramosa for this batch and wow does it shine. Piles of Krush, Krush Cryo, Nectaron, Ramosa, and Ramosa Liquid Lupulin have created an incredibly saturated tropical fruit bomb of a beer. Possibly the "juiciest" beer offset has made to date. My impressons? Sooo… it’s perfect. All the fruit groups are represented, yet impersonated by a genius selected/amount of hops. I’m proud to live in the geographical zone where this was made. Bloody brilliant & proud to be a Utah Beer Nerd. 🫡👊💥🍻 Thanks Offset! 8.0% - Available at Offset, found at The Bayou. 

Beer Events 

Offset Bier's 5th Anniversary Party: Join Offset Bier this Friday, June 12th, for their 5th Anniversary Party. The Offset crew will be pouring all three collab beers as well as th enewest batch of Divi Divi. Multiple one-off fresh hop kegs made just for the party as well as a new batch of seltzer, wine options, and assorted NA Bevs! 

Food lineup is stacked with delicious vittles from
@souprcheesy @kwaithaikitchen @redbicyclebread @thepretzelconnection @five_seeds @solfoodslc @theoysterguyslc
Gates Open at 3:00
DJ set starts 3:30/4:00ish
Live Music from 5-7ish

Cheers!

New Beer Friday 9/4/26

We here at Utah Beer Maps, Diagrams and Placards encourage you to use our new Map App called "Pour Decisions" (yes, the irony is not lost on us). Our app will guide you to all of our New Beer Friday offerings. Best used with your bike or favorite ride share. (to be clear, that was satire, we don't have an app, maybe we should?)

Talisman Brewing's Smoke-Tember Fest is the topic of discussion on Beer Nerd Radio today (Friday). Many breweries will be participating with smoked and non-smoked beer and barbecue of course! Steph and Mikey crank-up the the Radio Pub's transmitter at 2pm, exclusively on 99.9fm KUAA. KUAAfm.org/

Epic - Mango IPA: This new IPA is different than the one from 2018. That DIPA was also not sold in Utah because it was only available on draft at Epic's Denver brewery. This version features all citra hops and 1Ibs of Mango per gallon. Mango is the star for sure, but the Citra hops crank the citrus profile here. This is G'damn tasty and Fresh AF. The previous version also had lactose added. No lactose in here. 8.2% - Available now Epic.

Offset / Cellar Maker - Zion's Dank: This West Coast IPA is a collaboration with Cellar Maker Brewing out of central Cali. This is the first of four collabs brewed to celebrate Offset's 5th Anniversary. This features Tropical Fusion, a highly sought-after, proprietary hop blend produced by Freestyle Hops in New Zealand. It delivers an insane amount of Tropical fruit character. Not just sweet fruit but that interesting funky almost overripe tropical fruit notes. They then combined that with more Nelson, Southern Cross, NZ Cascade, and lots of Mosaic. Pale pilsner malt base and clean American ale fermentation lays that very blank canvas for pure hop saturation. 7.0% - Available now at Offset Bier. 

UTOG - Pushy Pumpkin: Missed this new Pumpkin ale. 5.0% - Available

Heber Valley - Choice: While technically not new this NZ IPA never really got a lot of play it's first time around. Hopefully this time around it will get some attention.Featuring Motueka and Nelson Sauvin hops, the HV Brewers threw in a healthy dose of Nectaron to round it out this hazy IPA. Pillowy mouthfeel. Flavors and aromas of ripe mango, Cara Cara orange, papaya, pineapple and stone fruit. 7.1% - Available at Heber Valley Brewing.

RoHa - Red Dragon: Mostly vanilla aroma. Vanilla is still prominent in first swig. Cinnamon? That’s just a background player. This doesn’t have a holiday vibe. It’s totally different due to the subtle use of spice. Never had such a “chill” use of cinnamon. 5.0% - Available now at RoHa.

RoHa- Schnappsidee Pilsner: This German-style pils is all original. Great cracker and biscuit malt profile. Hops are Nobel and herbal. It's clean and delish. 5.0% - Available now at Roha.

Uinta - Nitro Cream Ale: Who loves a Nitro Pub Ale? This guy. Who loves Honey Malt? Yup, same douche-bag. This is wonderful. Just sweet enough without being annoying. Nitro makes it silky, without being heavy. Hops are floral and well balanced. It takes a sec to pour, so be patient. 5.0% - Available on Nitro now at Uinta.

Uinta - Band Meeting: This New Zealand IPA starts off with a faint melon nose. Carries on into the first swig. Nice hop profile. Mostly melon with some slight citrus and berry. Not super bitter, but firm for sure. Dry herbally finish. Available now at Uinta.

Uinta - Corn Fixation: Corny aroma. Drinks really light. Lotsa pilsner malt and corn. Hops are on the light side. Kinda like a Mexican Cerveza without the hop zip. Still feels like a craft beer, with more body than say a Coors Light. 4.8% Available now at Uinta. 

Desert Edge - Schnitzer's Rye: This rye combines two styles, a classic American Cream Ale and a traditional rye forward German Ale. The aroma is herbacious with just a subtle hint of rye and fresh baked bread. With a malt forward, dry yet subtle sweetness from the rye. Homey and delightful. 5.0% - Available at Desert Edge now.

Cheers!

New Beer Friday 8/28/26

We here at Utah Beer Croon'n, Warbling and Moaning are proud to be backing up the incomparable Sten Carlsson on his debut album Extrasaltat! To keep our vocals at peak bravado we coat our throats in New Beer Friday suds. This week's offerings are the best yet! Please enjoy. 

In the Radio Pub, Steph and Mikey will be coating their vocal cords with heavenly flavors from Proverbial Spirits in this week's Beer Nerd Radio. Co-owner and flavor magician Steven Currie joins us to walk through the Park City distilleries line up spirits and canned cocktails. 2pm is when we get started on 99.9fm KUAA. KUAAfm.org/ 

Offset - Vert: This is part of Offset's new year round line up. Vert is a West Coast Double IPA is built on a base of classic American hop varieties that deliver flavors of grapefruit, pine, and resin that are easily identifiable and comfortably familiar. Then two newer hop varieties that add more modern flavors of stone fruit, exotic citrus and candied tropical fruit. It's a really unique beer with flavors you'll recognize and ones you've probably never experienced before. 8.0% - Avaiable now in cans at Offset Bier. Soon to hit SLackwater the Bayou and other great beer pubs.

Epic - Sake Barrel Aged Apricot Blonde: Somewhat oaky aroma. Tastes of stonefruit right off. Kinda reminds me of the brainless barrel, aged peach. The apricot isn’t super intense, but it does overwhelm the sake a bit. Very tasty & complex at 5% Would absolutely recommend for Brainless fans. Available now.

Epic - No Big Dill: New pickle beer in SLC! This is just spiced enough. Dill weed drives it, but does have that nice savory component. I would recommend with a couple tobacco dashes or even a lime squeeze if you don’t want the heat. Damn delish!!! 5.0% - Available now.

Uinta - Bla Bla: Not to be confused with Uinta's Baba Black Lager, this toasty pils malt up front. Some minor malt sweetness backing up. The berry is very subtle, really only rearing its head in the finish. Don’t know if I’ll drink a ton of this. But if I was designing this beer, this is how I’da made it. 5.0% - on now at Uinta. 🫡

Also, We Say goodbye to Kiitos Brewing tomorrow 8/29. A victim of greed and exploding real-estate prices, this great brewery was done before it's time. While Kiitos' Sugar House pub will still be a round for a minute You won't see any new Kiitos beer anytime soon. Contract brewing may be an option or a new brewery down the road, who knows, but it's another sad day for Utah Beer Nerds. Kiitos (Thanks you) to Kiitos!

Cheers!