It's been another slow week, but don't despair; this week's New Beer Friday will make up for it all. This massive list of new beer options will have you feeling like everything is going to be alright!
Desert Edge Bavweisse Bavarian Weisbeir: The lightest offering of the week is wheat beer full of banana and clove. Haven't had a chance to stop in have one of these yet. This is a brand new offering from Desert Edge. @ Desert Edge
Firestone Walker §ucaba (Abacus): The nose is very complex, full of whiskey oak, fig, molasses and tobacco. The
taste follows with a nice rich palate of chocolate
covered cherries, fig and vanilla. It ends with a hint of pine, moist caramel cake and bit of toffee. A stunning English style barleywine. @ Beerhive & Liquor Stores.
Firestone Walker Parabola: This Russian Imperial Stout is semi-sweet with malt, chocolate, black roast, delicate
bourbon whiskey, vanilla, butterscotch and licorice. It finishes with espresso coffee and whiskey.
Incredibly complex.
Boulevard Grainstorm Black Rye IPA: The nose is citrusy and slightly metalic. Rye and roasted coffee round it out. The taste starts with citrus and roasted coffee. Semisweet chocolate and spicy rye come next with a piney hop finish. Not bad. But if your going to go with a "black rye IPA" I'd have to go recomend a Wookey Jack. @ Bayou, Beerhive & Liquor Stores.
Deschutes/Great Lakes Class of '88 Imperial Smoked Porter: The nose has roasted malts, big smoke and cocoa powder. The taste
starts with chocolate, coffee and molasess. The smoke comes next but is much less pronounced than it is in the nose. The smoke blends nicely with the roast, neither one overpowering the other. Finishes fairly dry. An exceptionally nice, medium bodied smoked porter.@ Bayou, Beerhive & Liquor Stores.
Kona Big Wave Golden Ale: Big Wave is light golden ale with a subtle fruitiness and delicate hop
aroma. A smooth, easy drinking refreshing ale. The lightly roasted honey
malt contributes to the golden hue of this beer and also gives a slight
sweetness that is balanced out by our special blend of hops. @Beerhive
Sierra Nevada Barrel Aged Big Foot: The taste starts sweet with molasses, vanilla,
and nice drying pine follows. Bitter oak and some invited
whiskey heat on the finish. Toffee and pine linger. There is a lot going on and all of the flavors work well
together. @Beerhive
Boulevard Love Child No. 3: Oak barrels were used to age the majority of beer used for Love Child
No. 3—with beer aged from 16 months to nearly six years. Another portion
of the beer spent 11 months in stainless tanks, souring on
Lactobacillus. While very tart, the sourness is short-lived and the beer
finishes dry with a trace of oak. @Beerhive
Boulevard Terra Incognita: Hints of dark fruits including plum and fig. Finishes with a
earthy/slightly dirty characteristic. Complexity of the beer is apparent
as it warms with a subtle tartness at the finish that's very pleasing. @Beerhive
Rogue Farms Roguenbier Rye: Smoked malt dominates this tasty beer. It's sad because it takes over the rye and all but mutes it. it's a good rauchbier, but a lousy rye beer. @Beerhive
Squatters Wheat Peat: Haven't tried this one yet, you?
Widmer Hopside Down India Pale Lager: Part of Widmer's Rotator Series. Starts out as malty and assertively hopped. Quite richly flavored for a
lager. Slightly sweet with a strong hop presence. Tastes almost savory
bitterness is a little on the high side of medium. Mild caramel and an
earthy slightly cedar flavored. If you like the RedRock/Pelican beer Cohoperation, you'll like this. @Beerhive
Fresh Cask Friday @ Hoppers It's
Hoppy Valley Pale - An American style pale ale, some caramel malt, all
Cascade late hopping and even more cascade leaf dry hop in the cask. Has
a nice citrus and soft malt flavor.
For today's
Firkin Friday at the
Bayou,
Uinta Brewing will be pouring their
Trader session IPA. It's been dry-hopped with whole leaf Amarillo hops in the cask. Amarillos impart a spicy orange and other citrus characters. They are also known to give a beer a bit of floral profile, too. Tapping is around 3pm.
Returning Champs
Squatters Bumper Crop: The 4% version of this lavender ale is now on Squatters' seasonal taps around town.
Epic's Big Bad Baptist: It's good to be a local. There's a very limited, brewery cold case only, release of Big Bad Baptist.
Batch #12 was brewed last
October the 28th and was bottled on July 6th. It weighs in at 10.8% ABV.
Whew! Did I miss anything? Please share if I did!
Cheers!
There's one more new beer today that just slipped in under the wire. This one is a special beer from Uinta made in support of ALS Therapy Development Institute. Ales for ALS™ is a unique craft brewery-based
fundraising initiative created to accelerate drug development for ALS patients
today. As part of the
program, participant brewers received a special blend of experimental hops donated
by B.T.
Loftus Ranches and Hopunion. With these hops, Uinta
chose to brew a unique, Session Wheat IPA.
Are Fridays too firkin far away? Do you need your cask conditioned fix
now in stead of at the ass end week? Well have I got news for you!
The Wasatch/Squatters brands are no stranger to cans, it wasn't too long ago that you may remember seeing some of their canned products on grocery store shelves around the state. They may have been slightly ahead of the curve and people were likely hesitant to trust their craft brands to packaging that had a bad rep. Those canned beers were not packaged in Utah, these will be.
