New Beer Friday 10/22/21

You'll see your world in a whole new way after sampling the massive amount of tasty suds that your favorite beer spots have to offer this weekend.

Level Crossing - Rising Hope: This fruited IPA supports children's cancer charities and is part of a nation collaboration.  Passion fruit hits off the top with the mango coming in next. Malt profile is nice but mostly hidden behind the fruit. Orange juice rounds it out with a good dose of bitterness for balance. The finish is long & lingering. 6.5% - Available at Level Crossing.

 Level Crossing - Idaho 7 Wet Hop: This will debut Saturday. 5.0% - Only at Level Crossing. 

Grid City - Ghost Pepper Mango Azacca Whole Flower Dry-Hopped Nitro Pale Ale: Peppers & mango up front. The heat is real, the ghost peppers are not at full strength but there’s definetly  some fuego involved. They’re offering to cut it with nitro pale if you’re not into the whole heat thing, there’s a nice pale beneath with nice citrus and mango qualities. Tasty stuff. 5.0% - Only at Grid City.

Wasatch - Brave Noise: This beer was made to support safe spaces and inclusive environments by requesting breweries be transparent with their policies and commit to long-term work. Nice citrus qualities with notes of pineapple and melon. Crazy drinkability. 5.0% - Available at All Wasatch locations.

Epic - Big Bad Baptist (Double Jam): This version of BBB features Raspberry, blackberry, and coffee.  Sweet blackberry that stands out and jives well with the base chocolate and the whiskey/vanilla sweetness. Sweet caramel and vanilla linger in the end with a slight booziness. There is also a hint of raspberry in the finish. 11.1% 

RoHa - Bodhi Brett Beer: The first beer in RoHa's 'Point Break' Brett Beer Series honors Bodhi 'Bodhisattva', dreamy surf hunk and the head of the Ex-Presidents gang. Funk & horse blanket. Nice berry fruitiness (no fruit added). A really tasty combo of funk, malt & age. Sadly I’m drinking the last one, must have been quite popular. The next in the series should be our soon. 5.0%. 

Fisher - Stream Access Ale: This special Hazy Pale Ale was brewed with the Utah Stream Access Coalition and gives a nod to the unclear rules and regulations surrounding public access to Utah rivers. Dry-hopped exclusively with Citra, this hazy is slightly lighter in color than recent iterations, but is perfectly hazy. Low to no bitterness, the beer pops with ample fruity, citrus aromas. A portion of proceeds from the entire 10 barrel batch of beer will be donated to the USAC. 5.0% - Only at Fisher.

Fisher - Uranium Maiden American Honey Wheat: This beer was made to coincide, and celebrate Kate Mcleod's this new album of the same name. The beer itself is ultra refreshing. Low on bitterness, the smooth graininess from the wheat is apparent, while a slight acidity is is present, courtesy of high carbonation playing off the mild astringency left over from the fermented honey. A very nice beer for the few warm days ahead, 5.0% - only at Fisher.

Hopkins - Friendly Introduction Pale Ale #16: Hopkins' house pale ale is brewed with locally grown and malted Solstice Mild Malt, then dry-hopped with Citra, Mosaic, Centennial, Chinook, and Cascade. Tropical, citrus and stone fruit aromas and flavors are the highlight of this pale ale while allowing a delicate malty backbone with minimal bitterness and a dry finish. 5.0% - Only available at Hopkins

Hopkins - Deseret Dunkel: Not “dessert” not “desert”; say “deh·zr·et”. This is Hopkins' version of a Munich Dunkel. The aroma is malty and bready, while the flavor profile is rich and complex; displaying notes of toasted bread, chocolate, and graham cracker, with a minimal bitterness. A delicious dark lager without the roasty character of a stout or a porter. 5.0% - Only available at Hopkins

Hopkins - Campfire Smoked Lager: This is Hopkins' version of a German Rauchbier. Local cherry-wood smoked malt from Solstice Malt adds a distinct smokiness with some light crystal and aromatic malts to give it a nice malty backbone but a nice crisp finish. 5.0% - Only available at Hopkins

Bewilder - Mouth Hugs: Missed this one. 5.0% - Only available at Bewilder 

Offset Bier - Stivot: This is a modern hop forward lager made with Motueka and Centennial hops. Intense with hop flavors of lemon and lime, subtle bready flavors from the German Pilsner base and a dry, crisp, snappy finish. Lagered for 5 weeks. Think the Sprite soda version of a beer. 5.0% - Only available at Offset Bier.

Shades - Hazy Brah (Tall Pines): Brewed with Spruce tips, juniper, pine cones, fir tips and dry hopped with Simcoe. If you like piney IPAs you'll be in heaven with this one. The juniper adds a nice balancing fruitiness that is subtle snappy. I'm loving this so much! 7.0% - At Shades.

Beer Zombies - Evil Haze: A big DDH hazy DIPA with Citra, Mosaic & Galaxy that's absolutely stuffed full of hoppy, hazy deliciousness! Fresh pineapple, ripe mango & juicy peaches blend together with a blueberry lemonade back end that comes cutting through the can!  9.666% - Only available at Beer Zombies 

Beer Zombies - The Hoppy Horror Picture Show: A DDH Hazy Double IPA, oozing with Ekuanot! Citra! Amarillo! They went all big citrus on this one, grapefruit, lime, lemon and loads of juicy orange. With a hint of floral sweetness and ripe peaches rounding out the back end. 9.1% - Only available at Beer Zombies 

Mason Ale Works/Booze Brother's Brewing - Bothers of the Freemason: This beer contains nothing but Citra. The two breweries tracked down every different variation of the Citra hop they could find to create this citrus bomb. Containing Cryo Citra, Incognito Citra, and regular T90 Citra hop pellets, this beer is much more complex than your standard single hop beer. 9.0% - Only available at Slackwater

Mason Ale Works - Dankenstein's Monster: Just in time for the spooky season, this monstrous unfiltered double IPA packed is packed to the brim with classic and dank hops. We pieced together this monster with Cascade, CTZ, Chinook, Centennial, and Simcoe giving you big citrus. big pine, and all the dankness you could ask for. 10.0% - Only available at Slackwater

Mason Ale Works - Bride of Dankenstein: This Classic west coast single IPA is the significant other, or bride so to speak, to Danknestein's monster. Mason sewn together a bouquet of Citra, Idaho 7, Cascade, Cashmere, Strata, and Amarillo to create a beer that is lighter and more fruit forward than her more monstrous other half. - 7.0% - Only available at Slackwater

Mason Ale Works - Jambi: Their flagship IPA features flavors of aggressive Pine and Citrus. Classic hop notes from a blend of Amarillo, Cascade, Simcoe and Mosaic 7.2% - Only available at Slackwater

Mason Ale Works - Sword of Surtr: A giant pastry stout named after a fire giant. See what they did there? Much like Surtr, the fire giant prophesied to destroy Asgard during Valhalla, this giant of a stout is sure to destroy your taste buds with big Coffee, Oreo, Vanilla, and Chocolate notes. 13.0% - Only available at Slackwater.

Great Northern Brewing - Going to the Sun: 5.0% - Only at Uinta Brewing in 12 ounce cans, Soon to grocery stores.

Great Northern Brewing - Huckleberry Lager: 5.0% - Only at Uinta Brewing in 12 ounce cans and draft. Soon to grocery stores.

Lagunitas - Hazy Wonder IPA: Missed this one. 6.0% Found at the Bayou.

Lagunitas - StereoHopic #2: Missed this one. 7.2% Found at the Bayou.

Revision - Boogie Bus: Missed this one. 6.0% Found at the Bayou.

Revision - Soul Gangster: Missed this one. 6.5% Found at the Bayou.

Revision - Invitation to Party: Missed this one. 8.5%. Found at the Bayou.

Prairie Ales-  Christmas Bomb!: Missed this one. 13.0% Found at the Bayou.

Prairie Ales - Seasick Crocodile: Missed this one. 6.3% Found at the Bayou.

Cascade - Northwest Flanders: Missed this one. 7.1% Found at the Bayou.

Cascade - Pineapple Dragon: Missed this one. 7.2% Found at the Bayou.

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

Cheers!