New Beer Friday 4/12/24

You can finally feel Spring in the air. The beer gods are shining down upon us and the feeling is damn good! Get out this weekend and literally soak it all up. Happy New Beer Friday!

Ogden Beer Fest is next week, and to help you get your festival legs (and liver) back in shape Beer Nerd Radio has OG Fest in studio to kick off beer fest season. Hit us up at 2pm today in 99.9fm KUAA. 

Offset - Feeling Single, Seeing Triple: Brewed in Collaboration with New Image Brewing, this beer boasts the biggest hop bill ever for an Offset beer. Brewed with HBC586, Nectaron, Citra and Strata. A light malt base of Pilsner malt and rice coupled with the most hops we've added to a beer to date! Clear, crisp, and hop saturated. 10.0%

Ogden Beer - Master of None: This American Pilsner is big with Adina hops and features berry, melon and herbal flavors. Some toasty malts as well - Dry finish. Quite excellent! Mikey Likey! 5.0% - Only at Ogden Beer.

Ogden Beer -  Whimsical Beer Name: This pale features Citra, Strata & Nelson in whirlpool & dry hop. Big citrus and berry notes with a medium non-lingering finish. Great pale. 5.0% - Only at Ogden Beer. 5.0% - Only at Ogden Beer.

Salt Lake Brewing - Treebreard: A good dose of citrus and berries up front with all piney hops backing it up. Damn delicious old school pale. 5.0% - Available at SL Brewing.

Offset - HBC 1019: This Single Hop Pale Ale features nothing but HBC1019 hops in the kettle, whirlpool, and Dry Hop. This beer explodes with tropical fruit, gummy peach rings, and Valencia orange, with hints of rum barrel, caramelized banana, and coconut. It's pretty mind blowing that you can create these flavors and aromas with a hop. There is zero dankness, resin, pine, or earthiness commonly found in hops. 5.0%

Kiitos - Limited India Pale Ale: It pops with tropical notes of mango, tangerine, and lychee with background hints of passionfruit and white grape. Just bitter enough to provide a snappy dry finish that melds with a touch of pilsner malt sweetness that invites drinkability. Brewed with over 3 and a half pounds of hops per barrel, this beer is sure to satisfy hop heads looking for a hop oil tongue coating experience. 7.0% - Available at Kiitos.

Policy Kings - Something In The Water: Missed this one. This new pale ale brewed with only Cascade hops and pale malt. Light bitterness with notes of pine and citrus. 5.0% - Only at Policy Kings. 5.0% - Only at Policy Kings.

Hopkins - Guava Goddess: Notes of fresh stone fruit, berries, and citrus flavors rounded with a smooth mouthfeel. Every year the Pink Boots Society chooses a fresh new hop blend; this year’s blend features Ahtanum, El Dorado, HBC 638, Idaho 7. The hops and guava blend gloriously for this “juicy IPA” style. A portion of proceeds are donated to Pink Boots to support women in the brewing industry. 5.0% - Only at Hopkins Brewing.

Lumberbeard - West Coast Is Awesome: Idaho 7, Citra and Strata hops come together to create an amazing IPA. Aromas of tangerine and apricot are followed by a fruity pebble dankness with a subtle bitterness in each sip. 7.0% - Found at The Bayou, Slackwater and Handlebar. 

Stormbreaker IPA: Solid. Full of Simcoe, Citra & Mosaic. Not a powerhouse of flavor, but it hits all the right notes. 6.4% - Only at Beer Bar. 

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

Cheers!

New Beer Friday 4/5/24

I gotta tell ya, I can't wait to get on my bike and do some summer brewery bike crawls! Until then we have this great selection of beers to get us in the mood.

Sadly the beer gods are not on our side today and we're going to have to take a mulligan on this week's Beer Nerd Radio. Steph and I apologize. 

TF - Lunar Gateway: This new IPA collaboration with FICE debuts today. 8.0% - Only at TF.

Offset - No Panic: This new WCIPA is crystal clear, dry, bitter, and incredibly drinkable. A simple malt bill of Pilsner and 2 Row creates a clean unobtrusive canvas for a blend of some amazingly terpy hops. Heavy additions of Mosaic, Centennial, NZ Cascade, and HBC 586 all throughout the boil, whirlpool, and multistage Dry Hop deliver a whirlwind of fruit forward flavors and aromas. Crisp bitterness and a snappy finish make this beer incredibly drinkable for 7.0% - Available at Offset now.

Fisher/Slackwater - Slacklager: Aroma of a Saaz along with a lemony thing I almost always get from this lager yeast when it's used right. A touch of sweeter malt is present in the flavor, not quite bready or anything, but it appears something deeper than a pils type barley is at work in here. Subtle floral honey and spicy noble hop notes. It's simple but it's good, off dry in the end. 4.0%

Bewilder - Hoppy Kölsch: Made with a new Gambrinus IPA malt & hopped with Huell Melon hops; this Kölsch looks the part and has a nice honeydew aroma with some peach and orange in the background. It’s aggressively hopped for sure. Big melon flavors with more of the peach and citrus from the aroma. It’s not hugely bitter but the brewers didn’t skimp on the hops either. Fairly dry finish. Mikey Likey! Try it along side with Bewilder's traditional Kölsch, also back today. 5.0% - Debuts at Bewilder today.

Salt Lake Brewing - Black Sunshine: Textbook to style. Medium to light roast with a nice citrus/pine hop combo. Plenty of cocoa mixed with citrus. It’s not quite that holiday orange/chocolate combo, it’s too close to an IPA, but damn it drinks like 2011! 5.0% - Available at SL Brewing.

Uinta- Blonde Stout: Missed this small batch beer. 5.0% - Available at Uinta.

Revision - Second Wind: Brewed with HBC 586, Mosaic and Cashmere hops, this fluffy and bright-tasting hazy DIPA is described as having hop notes of mango, stonefruit and a touch of lime. Found at The Bayou, Slackwater, The Ice Haüs. 

Here are this weeks Small Batch Beers from Hopkins Brewing.

Cheers!

New Beer Friday 3/29/24

This weekend we have not one, but two breweries celebrating 5 years in business. UTOG celebrated yesterday and Level Crossing has an all day bash tomorrow (Saturday). Both breweries are offering special beers to celebrate. 

Beer Nerd Radio welcomes Andrew Valdez From M and M Distributing and Greg Hoffman from Black Sheep Bar stop by later this afternoon for our Purveyor's Show. We'll get into the larger scope of beers from outside of the Utah market. we get it started at 2pm every Friday on 99.9FM KUAA.

UTOG - Happy Hour: Missed this American Light Lager. 5.0% - Available at UTOG

Level Crossing - Helles: Missed this lager, It debuts tomorrow. 5.0% - Only at Level Crossing.

Policy Kings - Palm Tavern Pale: Named after the iconic black owned blues tavern during the Policy Kings and into the millennium. It's brewed with El Dorado and Huell Melon Hops. Perfecting balanced bitterness with notes of stone fruit.

Epic - Utah Margarita: Like Margaritas? Then this will be right up your zip code. Big tart lime rules this beer with a small amount of salt backing it up. Moderate CO2 spritzes it up. It's simple and effect. This will be the perfect pool beer in a few months. Available at Epic starting today. Coming soon to Maverik and grocery stores. 

Shades - Citrus Circus: As with the above mentioned Epic beer, this follows suit with tangerine, orange and grapefruit. It's a citrus lovers dream with added tartness from the beer's Kviek yeast base. No Lactose and quite delicious. 6.5% - Available at both Shades locations.  

Top Of Main - Vienna: Caramel malt aroma. Taste follows with more caramel and some vanilla. There's a minor zap of herbal hops for balance and a slight nuttiness. Nice lager. 5.0% - Available at Top of Main and SL Brewing.

Kiitos - Milkshake Pale: No milk sugars here - made with pomegranate, plum, raspberry, Honey Malt & Lemon Drop hops. The Honey Malt/Lemon Drop combo drive the “milkshake” part of this pale ale. There's a salad of fruit flavors here with citrus from the hops. A nice, guilt free pale ale that will make the non-lactose lovers happy. 5.0% - Available at Kiitos starting today.  

Uinta - Blonde Stout: Missed this one. 5.0% - Only available at Uinta.

Beer Zombies - Hazy Birthday To Me: That foam will last for days. Mostly peach and grapefruit with a good dose of bitterness. There's a nice creaminess to coats the mouth, adding a hint of vanilla. Doesn't taste like there's any lactose here. You like your hazy with some hops? You'll love this. 8.7% - Only at Beer Zombies.

Stone - Enjoy By 4/20/24: Citrus and melon aroma. Notes of peach and orange start it off with resiny pine rounding out the backend. Somewhat dank Finish. 9.4%

Urban Artifact from Ohio, debuted in the market this week with the following beers.

Urban Artifact - Pickle: Vegetable Gose 4.3%

Urban Artifact - Capy Snacks: Fruit Beer 5.0% 

Urban Artifact - Nitro Peaches And Cream: Fruit Beer 7.1% 

Urban Artifact - Rangle: Fruit Beer 8.0% 

Urban Artifact - Astronaut Food: Strawberry Fruit Beer 15.0% 

Urban Artifact - Teak: Sour - Fruited 7.2% 

Urban Artifact - Gadget: Sour - Fruited 8.0%

Cheers!