New Beer Friday 5/22/26

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Beer Nerd Radio stumbles into the Wayback Machine this week and features a brilliant episode from the distant pass. Enjoy the dulcet tones of a young Steph and Mikey as they stagger through the landscape of interviews past. Check us out please at 2pm on 99.9fm KUAA or KUAAfm.org/ Miss an episode? stream our POD in our archive section. 

Hopkins - 2026 Pink Boots: The 2026 Pink Boots blend features Ekuanot, Centennial, HBC 638, and Mosaic. A good amount of tropical fruit, citrus, stone-fruit, and subtle floral or berry notes with a nice damn creamy mouthfeel. Definitely worth carving out some time for. 5.0% - Available at Hopkins.

Ogden Beer - German Pilsner: Missed this one. It features all Weyerman malt, spalt, Hersbruker and Hallertau Mittelfrüh hops. 5.0% - Available at Ogden Beer. 

Uinta - Flinders Sour Red: So I’m guessing a Flanders-ish Red kettle sour? Ummm… wow! This is closer to a Flanders Red than I thought. There’s some funk in here. Not sure if there’s a funky beer blended here but it’s not bad… cherry too. For a faux Flanders it’s kinda close. 5.0% - Available at Uinta.

Uinta - I.P.A. Little: Wow, very flavorful. Big citrus 🍋‍🟩 berries and some vague tropical flavors. It’s all backed by a more aggressive malt backbone. The whole package is based on Hop Nosh dialed down to 5% with Thora hops. Quite tasty in a session WCIPA kinda way. 5.0% - Available at Uinta.

Chappell - Udder Butter: This is a Creamsicle style sour ale that has no lactos in it. So look for a good amount of citrus tartness with notes of vanilla. 9.0% - Available now at Chappell. 

Cheers! 

New Beer Friday 5/15/26

Due to the popularity of New Beer Friday the team here at Utah Beer Gizmos, Doohickeys and Thingamajigs have decided that it's time build a new data-center to handle the extra load. We trust that our Ai overloads will be pleased and we humbly ask them to remember our efforts in the coming robot uprising.  

Beer Nerd Radio Welcomes in RoHa Brewing Project 2.0. Yup the new owners and head brewer are in the radio pub today. Co-owner Shawn Smith and Head Brewer Mathew "Valuepack" Veylupek will walk us through their history and what's coming next at the RoHa Brewing Project. Beer Nerd Radio fires up at 2pm on 99.9fm KUAA. KUAAfm.org/ 

Fisher - All The Haze That Matters: Such a great hop profile, those Dolcita hops really add some nice stonefruit to the Citra/Mosaic mix. Some strawberry & tangerine round it out. Earthy/tropical finish. Very much enjoying this. 5.0% - Available at Fisher.

These are some holdovers from last week's Great Beer Mashup. There may be more of the collaborations floating around, but these are the beers I know are still available.

Bewilder / Beer Nerd Radio / Solstice Malt / Roy Hops Farms - Jimmy Wheat: We made this collab with Solstice Malt, Roy Hop Farms, Beer Nerd Radio and of course Bewilder. This 100% wheat IPA features 2 types of ancient wheat, Amarillo hops  and a touch of rose hips. Big pineapple from the hops, creamy and bready. The rose is faint, but pops as it warms. A tasty damn White IPA! 5.0% - only at Bewilder.

Fisher / Hopkins -  Olivetti's Best: This Italian Pils has a wonderful herbal hop flavor. Some lemon & grass - but not lemongrass. Sweet/toasty crackers for the base. This quite damn delish! I wouldn’t mind it if this stuck around for a while. 👊💥🤤 Much praise to the Hopkins team on this collaboration. 🍻5.0% - Available at Fisher and Hopkins

Ogden Beer / Melvin - Rainforest Cafeteria: This West Coast Pils features Mosaic, Krush and Deep Cut Cascade hops. The Mosaic / Krush create a “soft tropical smoothie,” profile while the Deep Cut Cascade snaps it back with classic Cascade hop profile. It's a really smart blend if you want something that feels new-school but still crisp. 6.0% - Available at Ogden Beer

TF / Ogden Beer - NDA: This New Zealand Pils definitely has a shload of NZ hops. Melon and diesel aroma. These carry on to the palate. Earthy and chewy hops start with some herbal bite. The melon comes around with some soft strawberry and mango. Well hopped/chewy finish 5.0% - Available at TF and Ogden Beer

Offset / Slackwater - El Provo: This Mexican Lager the collaborators decided to do a cereal mash with some corn grits for this beer. This is a very simple beer but they wanted to give it a little more flavor than your standard industrialized version. A small late addition of some Crystal hops give it the faintest hint of lime as well. 5.0% - Available at all Slackwater locations.

Offset / Level Crossing - Wet and Damp: For Cold & Damp: For this collab the team used a brand new variety that doesn't have a name or number and only 70lbs of it even exist. It was then dry hopped with Cryo Fresh Frozen Mosaic & Krush as well as some Nelson Fresh Pressed Hop Juice from NZ. The end result is a crisp and somewhat clear 5% IPA that exudes fresh hop character. There's a nice blend of dank, herbaceous aromas and bright tropical and citrus notes. Available at Offset now. This should be on draft at Level Crossing's West Temple location this afternoon. Call before you make the trip, to be sure.

There are more collaboration beers out there, these are just some that I came across during my "research". 

Cheers!

New Beer Friday 5/8/26

 

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Beer Nerd Radio focus it's attention this week to the importance of Brewers Guilds. Andrew Bauman, President of Arizona's Brewers Guild will be one of our guests along with Dean Pierose and of course our own Utah Brewers Guild's "Mother of Beers" Steph Fonati. Mikey and Steph get it all rolling at 2pm today (Friday) on 99.9fm KUAA. 

Saltfire - Jamie's Huckleberry: Huckleberries courtesy Jamie Aslett. Nice berry profile. Not crazy sweet with berries, just subtle enough to get the point across. Malt is subtle and complimentary, not overly sweet as well. Super crushable. 5.0% - Only at Saltfire.

Level Crossing - Blood Orange Half-Wit: Blood Orange Half-Wit has fresh blood orange and grapefruit aromas with hints of sweet orange and black peppercorn. It has a silky mouthfeel coming from the wheat with flavors of fresh orange, lemon and floral Belgian yeast. Blood Orange Half-Wit has low hop bitterness with higher carbonation creating a smooth and refreshing wheat beer at 3.4% Cheers!

Here's a preview of Saturday's Great Beer Mashup collaborations.

Vernal / 2Row: Kokopelli Kolsch 
Prodigy / Level Crossing: Jam Sesh (Belgian)
RoHa / Park City: Free Bird Kolsch
Park City / Tastemasters: Revurse Radler
Epic / Helper: Nijuuso (No Style Named)
Second Summit / Slackwater: Slackwater Lemon Lime Cider
Ogden Beer Co / Melvin Brewing: Rainforest Cafeteria (West Coast Pils)
Second Summit / HK Brewing: Guava Apple Mint Cider & Guava Apple Mint Kombucha
TF / Ogden Beer Co: NDA (New Zealand Pils)
Grid City / Utah Beer Media: Dusseldork Sticke Altbier
Fisher / Hopkins: Olivetti's Best (Italian Pils)
Silver Reef / Blue Jay Brewing: Terra 2835 Lager (NZ style lite lager)
Offset / Level Crossing: Wet & Damp (Wet hop WC L IPA)
Home Range / Kiitos - MisSpelt Sayson (100% spelt Saison) *This one may not make it to the fest because the beer is being stubborn. 
Red Rock / Straptank: New Zealand Sunshine (NZ Pale Ale)
Straptank / Tastemasters: Komboocha (Kombucha blonde)
Uinta / Silver Reef: Sorry About Your Garage Door (Amber Rice Lager)
Uinta / Shades: Joint Custody (Berlinner Weisse)
Proper / Salt Flats: Drop Top Lemon Hop (Light bodied summer ale)
Wolfdog / Legends: Legend of the Woof (Sour)
Wolfdog / Matt Bailey, Lauter Day Home Brewers: Haka (NZ Pils)
Bewilder / Roy Hop Farms / Solstice Malt / Beer Nerd Radio: Jimmy Wheat (All Wheat IPA)
Heber Valley / Tastemasters: The Pearl Diver (Saison)
Roosters / Talisman: Berry Keller (Kellerbier)
Talisman / Wolfdog: Save the Fkn Bees (Smoked Honey Kolsch)
Wolfdog / Talisman: A Beer Named Mutt (Honey Kolsch)
Mtn West / Epic: Chill Now, Burn Later (Cider)
Rabbit's Foot / Bewilder: Light as Hare (Ultra Light American Lager)
Moab / Pure Synergy: *this one will be a surprise because I don't have any info 

Cheers!