New Beer Friday 8/26/22

Some of this week's beers may already be familiar to you. I took a little vacation last week, so some of these beers are just new to me. Don't worry though, there's plenty of spank'n new brews and a fresh Beer Nerd Radio show hits this afternoon at 2pm on KUAA.  

Level Crossing - Soulless Rex: This triple IPA is a beast in many ways. When it was cold it started off by being fairly tame with a big resinous hop profile and light alcohol (for a 10% beer). As I adjust it quickly became apparent that this was not the case as the massive hop bill quickly became a tornado resiny goodness. It's full of the usual culprits: Tropical, citrus and the like, but on steroids. malt sweetness for a beer this big is fairly tame as well, creating relatively high drinkability for a 100+ IBU ale. You need to check this one out. For sale starting today at Level Crossing.  

Bewilder - West Coast Phan Boi: I missed this one from last week. 7.0% 

Bewilder - City Weekly Beer Phest: I missed this one from last week. 7.7% 

2 Row - Face Melter: Another excellent citrus bomb from 2 Row. This is full of uncanny citrus flavors with added tropical notes. the hop utilization here is incredible along with the malt bill. Damn tasty for sure. 7.6% 

2 Row - Hops for Daze: Missed this one. Made with Galaxy, Citra and Mosaic hops. 6.7% - Available at 2 Row, Slackwater. 

RoHa - Extreme Mormon XPA: As taken from the Insta-famous page.  This is an old school style light pale ale, heavily hopped with old school hops. Expect piney, resinous aromas, nice bitter backing, and a smooth finish.  Light malts keep it refreshing. 5.0%

Desert Edge - La Playa Lager: Missed this New Mexican style lager. 5.0%

Kiitos - Pumpkin Amber: Missed this one. 5.0% 

Kiitos - Double IPA: This limited release beer has the freshest hops Kiitos could get. Chinook, Cascade and Centennial in the boil. Then dry hopped with Azzaca and Mosaic. This complex fruity beer is ready to get crushed, even at a whopping 9.0%. Only at Kiitos.

Offset - Laser Kiwi: This L IPA features Nectaron, Nelson and Riwaka hops. You'll get all that teeth licking hop oil, those killer hop burps, saturated hop flavor, and explosive aroma you’d associate with a 7% IPA but at a crazy drinkable 5% ABV. Intense when you want it but still shockingly light on the palate. 

Uinta - Imperial Baba: This is a bigger version of Uinta's Baba black lager. There are some nice chocolatey aromas along with whiskey. Taste-wise you get get a good amount of sweet whiskey that's full of caramel, vanilla and wood. The more roasted elements of the base beer take a bit of a back seat to cocoa and coffee flavors. This absolutely feels like a lager in the mouth and is not thick like and imperial stout. It has a bit of a whiskey finish. On sale starting today. 10.0% - Only at Uinta.

Uinta - Steam Is What we Have In Common: This is your classic Steam Beer. Full of deep toast and mild caramel sweetness. The hops are herbal and floral and compliment the malt well. The finish does have some lingering bitterness, which just adds to it's drinkability. 5.0% - Only at Uinta on draft.

Beer Zombies/Axe Brews - Vengeance: Made with enormous amounts of Galaxy and El Dorado hops. It hits you with juicy peach, pineapple whip, over ripe mango and a hint of dank resin to round out the backend. Exclusive to Beer Zombies. 8.0%

Beer Zombies/Tripping Animals Brewing - Zombie Psychonaut: Full of Amarillo, Cascade, Mosaic, Citra and Idaho hops. Look for piney, tropical, fruity, citrusy, earthy, and floral flavors. Light and crisp with a super hidden 8.5% 

Revision - Emerald Bay: Mosaic, Full of Motueka and Citra, the hops bring fruity hop notes of mango, lime and sweet orange with a hint of pine. 6.4% - Found at Bayou, Slackwater.

LumberBeard - Hop Choppin: Modern West Coast IPA that is dry hopped with Simcoe and Mosaic. This all pilsner malt beer has a huge aroma of peaches, honeydew melon and pine. Drinks like a pilsner with a light body and nice crisp clean finish, but flavor and aroma scream IPA. 6.80% - Found at Bayou, Slackwater.

LumberBeard - Cool Enough: This Cold-Style IPA brewed with Idaho 7, Mosaic and El Dorado hops. Clear, crisp and crushable with flavors of honeydew, kiwi and lime. 6.70% - Found at Bayou, Slackwater.

LumberBeard - Batch 1 IPA: Missed this IPA made with Sabro, El Dorado and Citra hops. 6.30% - Found at Bayou, Slackwater.

Great Basin Wild Horse: This has strongly-roasted malts, and caramel malts with ample Noble-Hop additions to achieve a nutty, sweet brew with a crisp finish. 5.20% - Found at Bayou, Slackwater.

Great Basin Deathwish: This brew has a delicate malt base that gives way to an avalanche of citrus, floral, and piney hop flavor and aroma with a crisp and clean finish. 6.66% - Found at Bayou.

Cascade Brewing Vernal Equinox: a blend of sour blond and wheat ales aged in foeders for 10 months with plums and a blend of black teas to accentuate the delicate fruit flavors. 5.20%. - Found at Bayou.

Cascade Brewing Staying Hoptimistic: Missed this Sour golden ale aged in oak barrels and foeders for 10 months before dry hopping with Strata hops. 5.80% - Found at Bayou.

Kensington Street Festival:

Saturday 8/27 from 1-8 pm, Kensington Ave in front of RoHa Brewing Project will be closed from State st. to Main St.

There will be live music from local musicians all day, live mural art going up on the patio wall, chalk artists working their magic on the walls as well. Local artists will be set up selling their crafts, along with local food trucks. A rock climbing wall, and community information booths round out the fun.   

Family friendly event.

Cheers!

New Beer Friday 8/12/22

There's a ton of fun beers out there this week. I had a blast tasting what I was able to get to. I think you'll have an equally enjoyable time as well. Happy New Beer Friday.

On Beer Nerd Radio today we're chatting with Chris Detrick from Level Crossing. We'll talk Wheat Wines, Philly Sour yeast and a horde of other topics. If you have any questions for us to read on air, leave them on our Instagram Utah Beer Blog. 2pm on KUAA 99.9 FM.

Epic/Melvin - Cross Country Chemists: This collaboration with Melvin Brewing has a Dankity-Dank-Dank aroma, it's Terpene city, baby! It tastes slightly less chewy than the nose lets-on, but not by much. This is nug-a-licious if you like those alternative hopping technique IPAs you're gunna love this. Big citrus and cannabis dominate throughout. 6.5% - Available at Epic starting today.

UTOG - Plug Ugly: Missed this new ale brewed as a collaborative beer with Ogden City Fire Department. 5.0% - Avaiable at UTOG. 

Offset - American Pale Ale: The previous version of this beer featured Centenial and Cascade hops. This new version takes those and combines them Chinook and Cryo-Columbus hops. It bursts with all sorts of classic citrus character. Lemon, pithy grapefruit, and orange peel take center stage. Notes of Pine and that classic resinous PNW hop character tie everything all together. 5.0% - Available at Offset Bier.

Red Rock - Perzikboom: Perzikboom is a draft version of Paardebloem. Both are brewed with peaches, dandelion greens, toasted pilsner malts, and grains of paradise. Whiff of saison yeast, rains of paradise for sure. Less phenolic in the taste. Lotsa peach with floral hops. Stays clean though mid palate with hints of citrus. The rains of paradise starts to kick in towards the end. It does remind me of Paardebloem. 5.0% - only at Red Rock locations.

Hopkins - Irish Red: This malt-driven ale features a beautiful blend of caramel and raisin notes on the nose, along with on the palate. A light red appearance with very light herbal hop bitterness, complimenting a smooth and sweet finish. 5.0% - Only at Hopkins.

Hopkins - Pine Mountain Pale (AKA Just the (Spruce) Tips): This IPA is brewed with fresh spring spruce tips plucked from Chad’s neighbor’s giant spruce tree and piney hops to accent the flavors. Aroma is piney, as expected. Flavor is piney, earthy, and resinous with a nice firm bitterness on the finish where the spruce flavor is layered in. 5.0% - Only at Hopkins.

Bewilder - Orange Creamsicle: Well, I hope you like orange, because this

has so much orange purée it leaves pulp all over the sides of the glass. It's also lactose free. All of the perceived sweetness comes from vanilla bean. This is a true beermossa. 5.0% - Small batch only at Bewilder.

Bewilder - Cold Drip ESB: I don't know what the coffee blend is in this, but it's damn wonderful. It doesn't overpower the base beer and still allows the cocoa to come though. 5.0% - Only at Bewilder

Desert Edge - You are What You Is: Missed this IPA that features Zappa hops. 5.0% - Available at Desert Edge.

Desert Edge - Orange Sienna Sour: Missed this sour beer that Celebrates 50 years at "The Pub". 

Lone Pine - Holy Donut (Dark Chocolate Toasted Coconut): Missed this barrel-aged Stout. Found at Slackwater

Cheers!

In space, no one can hear you scream for beer. Luckily we're not in space today. Happy New Beer Friday.

Today at 2pm on on Beer Nerd Radio, we'll be chatting with Ian Fuller. Ian is the new Director of Brewing Operations at Uinta Brewing. We'll talk about his history, time at Melvin Brewing and where he and Uinta are headed in the future. Listen to KUAA here. 

Level Crossing - Barrel Aged Wheatwine VII XXV XVII: This is last year's wheatwine that has spend the 365-ish days aging in Malbec and Grenache barrels that had previously held High West Whiskey. The barrel adds a ton of color making it look more like its barleywine cousin. This one is quite complex. There's a mellow wheat malt sweetness in the nose with long vinous tones that are quite pleasant. Flavor is similar with the addition of oaky vanilla. The wood adds an extra layer that's plays off the malt and provides slightest notes of whiskey. As it warms I picked-up a hint of grape tannins in the finish. Very nice Stuff! 10.5% - Available starting today at Level Crossing. 

Shades - Slurry (Strawberry/Blueberry): This was poured via Shades' "slushy machine". It looks like blue slush with a slight lemon/berry aroma. Tastes tart with nice berry flavors. Not much else to say. This is defiantly a heat buster of a beer. 5.0% - Available at Shades.

Shades - Slurry (Strawberry Lemonade): This was poured via Shades' "slushy machine".  I liked this one a little less. You already get a lemony flavor from the base sour beer, adding more lemon flavor just increases the pucker factor and hides the strawberry. 5.0% - Available at Shades.

Grid City - Yuzu Wild Rice Lager: I had this two ways: one "milky" pour the other "crisp". I liked the crip better. this lager is defiantly citrus forward. The yuzu adds a lemony/orange juiciness that works quite well with this dry Japanese style lager. The wild rice begins to show as it warms, but since this goes down so fast you'll probably never get there. 5.0% - Only available at Grid City on the Lukr tap.

Talisman - Mama Jo's Margarita Gose: Missed this one. 5.0% - Available today at Talisman 3pm.

Offset - El Dorado: Missed this single hop IPA. Found at The Bayou and Beerhive.

Modern Times - Hello Grapefruit: Missed this IPA. 5.0% - Found at Slackwater. 

DESTIHL - Deadhead IPA Series (Steal Your Haze): Missed this NEIPA. 7.0% - Found at Slackwater.

Illuminated Brew Works - Double dipped Orange Sunshine: This Double Dry-Hopped Double IPA version of Orange Sunshine has the same Orange and Lemon Zest & the Same Hops with a boost from Citra. Marshmallow Flavoring was added. There are no added sweeteners or Lactose. The Marshmallow may fool you into thinking otherwise. 8.0% - Found at Slackwater.

Elysian - Full Contact: Missed this Imperial Hazy IPA. 8.8% - Found at DABS (DABC).

Oskar Blues - Mutant X IPA: Missed this IPA. 7.0% - Found at DABS.

Grand Teton - Teton Range Juicy IPA: Missed this. 6.5% - Found at DABS.

Sierra Nevada - Liquid Happiness: Missed this IPA. 7.0% - Found at DABS.

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

Cider

Farmhouse Cider - Brunch Cinnamon and Maple: Missed this. 6.7% - Found at Scion Cider Bar.

Cheers!