New Beer Friday 12/19/25

It's the last New Beer Friday before Christmas and the beers before you will make your eyes pop and your tummies overjoyed. Happy Holidays Friends!

Beer Nerd Radio becomes cider nerd radio today with the return of Marcio Buffalo. Buffalo has some new badass ciders that aren't your typical fermented apple beverages. Curious? tune in today (Friday) at 2pm on 99.9fm KUAA. KUAAfm.org/ 

Bewilder/Wolfdog - Rabbit's Revenge: Made with Saaz & Super Saaz, this Czech Amber Lager has a nice combo of toasted/malt sweetness. Super clean with some slight esters from the yeast. The hops are balanced and grassy/herbal. This is a great Czech Amber Lager. 5.0% Available at Wolfdog and Bewilder.

RoHa - Brewers Select (Petal Power Jasmine IPA): Jasmin and flowery hops in nose. Taste is equally botanical. It’s hard to explain the flavors some citrus & slightly piney from the hops but the jasmine takes it in another direction. Some petal herbal-ness, hint of honey and grass. Very cool. Try this! 

Salt Lake Brewing - Cathedral: This Belgian-style Tripel has a peachy aroma with a hint of alcohol. Palate is drying with light candied sugar. The stonefruit profile is light with some berry notes. Hops add some grassy herbal flavors to the dry finish. This 8.0 percenter has a wallop. So consider yourself warned. Available at all Squatters/SL Brewing locations.

Saltfire - Oenobeer: This Oenobeer is a beer wine hybrid. This version features Corot Noir, Marechal Foch and St Croix grapes from Mt. Naomi Orchards. Light vine flavors. The flavor is grape-y, but not jammy. Not a sour, but vinous for sure. Not much beer here because the vine presence is so prominent. However, it very tasty and it's the reason I love craft beer so much. 5.0% - Available at Saltfire.

Kiitos - Nectaron: This limited brew only has Nectaron hops. Huge flavors of melon, papaya, and pineapple with notes of white grape and a touch of cannabis. Pillowy soft body and low in bitterness to make it exceptionally drinkable. If you love Nectaron, run don’t walk. 5.0% - Only available at both Kiitos locations.

Talisman - Wit the Howell?!: This Barrel Aged Honey Cream Ale brewed with locally grown and malted wheat, using Utah sourced raw honey both from Howell UT. Aged 6+months in bourbon barrels, the aroma is floral and vanilla with touch of bourbon, tangerine zest, and light coriander. Very soft mouthfeel, flavor has floral sweet notes of honey and the wit yeast leaves it notes of citrus and earthy spice to keep things from finishing too heavy. Finishes smooth with the honey and barrel age shining through lingering notes of Kentucky bourbon oak, honey, and creamy vanilla. 8.0% - Currently available at Talisman only and in 22oz bottles, more outlets announced soon.

Proper - Beersmas Christmas Ale: Dark cocoa and roasted malt aroma. Taste starts the same with cocoa roasty grains. The malt and spice profile is light, which gives it better drinkability than some spiced beers. Overall the flavors are nice and it finishes on the dry side. 5.0% - Available at all Proper locations.

Proper - Pistachio Christmas Ale: Hint of coffee aroma. This cream ale is light overall. Coffee and pistachio are pretty subtle. Some vanilla gives it some perceived sweetness, but it’s an overall dry cream ale. Somewhat thin, but the flavors there are fairly solid. 5.0% - Available at all Proper locations.

Uinta - Brian Head: Made for Utah's Brian Head Ski Resort. No notes on this one. 5.0% - Available at Brian Head Resort. 

Uinta - Give me the Beer: Toasty with a hint of honey? Seems like honey. Nice malt profile. Love that golden/copper color. Hops are straight up Nobel tasting. Solid drinking lager for sure. 5.0% - Only at Uinta.

Tomorrow is the big Winter Solstice party at Saltfire (12/20).This Dark Ale Festival features a selection of beers from multiple breweries. It goes from 6-10pm and tickets are required. If you'd like to get in on the fun we have a discount code for you. DARKBEER25 And here is the link for tickets.

 Cheers!

New Beer Friday 12/12/25

Krampus ain't taking any of your B.S. this year, if you want a happy New Beer Friday, you'd better pull it together my friends. 

Home Range Brewing is making the trek down from Logan to be with Steph and Mikey in the Radio Pub this afternoon. The boys in Cache Valley are spoiling the Beer Nerds up there and we'll give you more than a few reasons to get your asses on the road north. The conversation starts live at 2pm every Friday on 99.9fm KUAA. KUAAfm.org/ 

Bewilder - Lodge Lizard: This winter warmer was brewed w/fresh lemon peel, fresh orange peel, cinnamon, clove, ginger & peppercorn. Spiced aroma. Flavor matches up with cinnamon and ginger blended w/ a not too aggressive malty base. Definitely has a holiday vibe. 7.3%

RoHa - Holiday Ale: This British Mild ale features cinnamon, clove, nutmeg and allspice. “It’s a spicy meatball” it features cocoa, dark roasted malts & the above mentioned spice rack. Could use a lil malt sweetness or other to balance it out. Definitely has the holiday vibe.

Ogden Beer - Northern Pale Ale: Jacquie made this new pale ale with Northeast Juicy Yeast. It a strain that that by produces tropical esters and supports haze. It creates a smooth, full mouthfeel, and can produce intense hop aroma without the harsh bitterness of traditional IPAs. 5.0% - on now at Ogden Beer.

Saltfire - Spiced Peach Sour: Not sure if this is the actual name of this beer. No notes on this one. 5.0% - Releases today at Saltfire.

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

Cheers!

New Beer Friday 12/5/25

 

Are you stuck in a rut, with any ol' cheap hooch? This New Beer Friday will bring you back from the brink! This week's tasty new beers are guaranteed to keep you off the terlet floor... well, most of you. Note: The raccoon ain't dead, just passed out drunk from his liquor store escapades.

Did you know there's a new Utah based distillery? Holistic Spirits will be our bartenders in the radio pub today (Friday). We'll get into what they're all about and what famous person is part of the crew. Hit us up at 2pm on 99.9fm KUAA or stream us, KUAAfm.org/ 

RoHa - Pre-Prohibition Lager: This American lager style was revived in the 1990s and is characterized by a fuller body and more pronounced flavor than modern light lagers. Great malt profile. All that toasty malt with a medium/light amount sweetness. Hops are somewhat aggressive as well. Leaving some grassy herbal zap on the tongue. Tasty “PrePro” lager. 5.0% - Available now at RoHa.

Bewilder - Dos Hazy Boi (Southern Hemisphere): This Superdelic, Galaxy, Riwaka & Motueka hopped DIPA is goddamn Brilliant treat for your mouth! Melon, berries, citrus blast up front. THEN ample malt sweetness & more resinous hops create a dank salad of gnarly DIPA. 8.1% - Available at Bewilder today.

Talisman - Sour Encounter (Pomegranate): Missed this sour pomegranate ale. 5.0% - on draft now at Talisman.

Talisman - Foggy Goggles: This hazy session IPA features mango and passionfruit with tangerine and orange backing it up. A pillowy mouthful backs it all up. 5.0% - on draft now at Talisman.

TF - Skiers' Delight: Slight adjunct aroma. Some apple peel will crisp citrus, nudging towards the lemon/lime side. Clean overall. Very bright & light. As you’d expect from an Apré beer.

If you're a fan of Beer Zombies' beers they are still sending them into the market. You can only find them at the former Beer Zombies pub now called Happy Taps or at SnowmoBAR. SnowmoBAR has a relationship/partnership with Beer Zombies and may become the go to place for these beers in the future. 

Beer Zombies - Hazes of Death II: This double Hazy IPA is so nice! Big citrus & malt. It’s a lot to take in. The malt & alcohol are punching it out. But the hops are equally brutal. I’d say this was a meek IPA, less the massive hop punch. Pursue this beer. It’s worth your time today. 8.0% Found at Happy Taps and SnowmoBAR.

Beer Zombies/Tin Bridge - Lorna Shore: A collaboration for Lorna Shore, an American deathcore band from New Jersey. This double dry-hopped IPA is citrus driven for shore (see what i did there). The hops are full of tangerine & grapefruit. Some nice stonefruit too, but this is mostly citrus. Definitely gunna seek out this NJ band to see what’s behind this damn IPA. 7.5% Found at Happy Taps and SnowmoBAR.

Beer Zombies - Duck Hunter: This version features Ekuanot and Citra hops. On the edge of old. A good amount of citrus & herbal hops. Oddly boozy for 7.2%. Maybe it’s a sign of things to come. It’s fine.

Beer Zombies - Blood Orange Boomstick: Missed this This Blonde Ale  5.5% Found at Happy Taps and SnowmoBAR.

Beer Zombies - Dole Hwhip Lemonade: Missed this one. 4.3% Found at Happy Taps and SnowmoBAR.

Beer Zombies - Mulligan: This West Coast Pils has a great malt profile that pushes off a blast of herbal and citrus.  4.6% Found at Happy Taps and SnowmoBAR.

Beer Zombies - Los Guerreos: This Mexican-style lager has Lime essence with a hint of salt to start it off. Clean overall. The lagered base is solid. It’s quite tasty. If offered a lime? Say, no. Try it first without, if it doesn’t jive then ask for one, but I don’t think it’s necessary. Nice beer. 5.0% Found at Happy Taps and SnowmoBAR.

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

Cheers!