New Beer Friday 7/28/23

 

We're talking spirits today on Beer Nerd Radio. James Fowler founder of Sugarhouse Distillery joins us this afternoon. James makes some of the best locally made whiskeys. This should be a brilliant conversation. It starts at 2pm on 99.9FM KUAA.  

Offset - Silver Dagger: This New World Lager features Riwaka and Saphir hops. The result is a really nice light, low bitterness, lager with just a hint of modern hop character. Riwaka brings that exotic floral and lime with Saphir adding a bit of spicy lemon zest. 

Fisher - Drown in Sound: The smell has the pine and hops combined powerfully up front with a strong sense of malts trying to come through. The taste has a wonderful combination of pine, hops and malts with a bit of a floral/citrus aspect coming out as the beer warms. The palate is light with nothing harsh on the tongue - just an all around good feel, solid. Overall, great beer that I would come back to. 5.0% - Only at Fisher.

Ogden Beer - Panther Fang: Cherry, Pineapple and Passion Fruit create a great fruit salad of flavors on a medium tart base sour beer. Damn Tasty. 5.0% - only at Ogden Beer.

SL Brewing - Tropical Thunder: This new session IPA features Zeus, cascade, Mosaic hops. Pours a hazy light straw color with good head and lacing. Smell is citrus ,lemon/lime spritzers with baked bread . Taste is light citrus with melon and grapefruit. Medium carbonation, and full flavored for the ABV,well done. 5.0% - Only at SL Brewing. 

TF/Meanwhile - Cowboy Goth: This collaboration lager with Austin Texas' Meanwhile Brewing is hopped with Saphir Mandarin Bavaria & Hallertau Mittenfru - lagered for 7 weeks. Definitely getting the prominent tangerine note others have mentioned as well as a light note of bitter citrus pith. I also get fresh cut grass and a nice light spiciness. The malt bill plays a supporting role exhibiting just the right amount of bready-sweetness to balance the spicy bitterness coming from the hops. 5.5%

Bewilder - Smoked Peach Cobbler: Mostly peach aroma with some light smoke. It’s on nitro too, that’s a plus. Tastes similar to the nose. Mostly peach with light smoke. Vanilla rounds it adding to the creaminess from the nitrogen. Quite nice. 5.0%

Bewilder - Habanero Mango Gose: Look for a tart and mildly salty ale with a bit of Habanero for a little heat and mango puree. 5.0% - Available at Bewilder.

Kloster Ettal - Helles: Missed this. 7.2% - Found at the Bayou 

Kloster Ettal - Dunkel: Missed this. 5.0% - Found at the Bayou  

Kloster Ettal - Curator: Missed this. 7.0% - Found at the Bayou 

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

Cheers!

New Beer Friday 7/21/23

Well this is awkward. Actually this week's meme is awkward, not New Beer Friday. NBF has a diverse selection of beers this week. Enjoy 'em right into your Pie and Beer Day Holiday.

This week on Beer Nerd Radio, we celebrate one damn year of ruining your Friday afternoons with my long-winded bullshit and Steph's exuberant giggles. Today we welcome back Marcio Buffalo of Mountain West Cider and we will get into yeast! No that's beer nerdy shit! It all starts at 2pm on 99.9FM KUAA. 

Grid City - (Sentence Series) Blueberry, Coffee, Bourbon Vanilla Infused Nitro Honey Cream Ale: The aptly name series has a new addition this week Aroma pops with coffee. Flavor however: starts with big berry tartness and gradually transitions into the rich coffee from the nose. It's a great blend, though the vanilla gets a little lost on it all. 5.0%

TF - 2023 Grisette: Fermented with Pinot noir grapes, strawberries, Bulgarian rose petals - aged in Zinfandel barrels. The aroma is very vinious and oaky plenty of buttery oak to go around. The sweet Zin barrels combined with the Pinot grapes create a nice sangria of wine flavors. The beer provides the fruitier aspects giving this light beer a complex beer/wine hybrid flavor. Some nice grape must tannins in the finish. TF is presenting this in a clear 750ml bottle. 5.7% - Available at TF starting today.

Bewilder - Chick Flip: This Pink Boots beer features the 6th annual blend of hops that feature Loral, Ekuanot, and HBC 586 cones. On the tongue, this has a lot of chewy oat-like malt combined with dank and grassy hoppiness, melding notes of light tropical fruit cocktail with some bright citrus and herbal elements. Pineapple-like intensity combines with lime, tangerine, passion fruit and mango. Kind of a chalky mid-palate that gets a bit indefinite here and there, but I really like the complex hop elements up front and in the finish. 5.0% - Available at Bewilder starting today.

Strap Tank - El Session Clasica: This session IPA is described as being full of vibrant citrus-berry-piney notes that won't tire your taste buds. It's a classic craft beer with a twist - a testament to our commitment to quality within boundaries. 5.0% 

Strap Tank - Cucumber Pilsner: Look for the sweetness of melon with the crispness of cucumber for a truly unique pilsner experience. 5.0%

Wasatch - Ruby Rapture Red IPA: Nice Red IPA. Malt with bright berry notes. A little citrus rears its head midway, with pine rounding it out. Wish more brewerirs would do Red IPAs especially in autumn. Found at Wasatch/Squatters SLC. 

Squatters - Strawberry & Cream Oat Pale Ale: This debuts today. No notes on this one. Please note: this is Not Salt Lake Brewing Company's beer (formerly squatters). This is Wasatch/Squatters. 5.0% Available at Wasatch/Squatters SLC. 

Chappell - Strawberry Rhubarb Gose: Missed this one. 5.0% - Available at Chappell Brewing.

Silver Reef - Koval Pilsner: Missed this one. 5.0% Found at Silver Reef, Slackwater.

Silver Reef - Pie And Beer Day Blueberry Blonde: Missed this one. Thanks for making a Pie and Beer Day brew! 5.0% Found at Silver Reef, Slackwater.

Vernal - The Boys Berries: Missed this White Stout. 5.0% 

Mountain West - Tropical Crush: Passionfruit dominates this new cider from MW Hard Cider. Nice dry/tart character that's low in tannins and big on tropical fruits. Very tasty. 6.8% - Available today at Mountain West Cider.

Cheers!

New Beer Friday 7/14/23

Today episode of Beer Nerd Radio shine a light on Utah's own Simplicity Canned Cocktails. We'll explore this hot, new segment of the adult beverage business With Co-owners Chris And Rebecca Weed. It all starts at 2pm on 99.9fm KUAA. 

Fisher - The Crest Express: The Fisher gang partnered up with Level Nine Sports to create this new American Pale Ale. The hop profile in this pale ale generates big flavor with assertive bitterness, adding significant citrus zest and cantaloupe fruit character. Lemongrass and herbal tea. Bitterness round it out. Nice pale ale. 5.0% - Available at Fisher.

Fisher - The Unbearable Lightness of Beer: The aroma is malty, with caramel and toasted bread, plus some piney hops. The taste is the same. Sweet malt honey-like flavors, some toasty bread, and some tangerine flavors. There is some grassy bitterness in the finish. 5.0%. Available at Fisher.

2 Row - Flashback: This new double IPA features Centennial, Amarillo and Simcoe hops. A classic hazy appearance. Mostly fruity smell that was a nice prelude to the similar flavor. Can't put my finger on the tropical fruit but the nondescript fruity flavor was nicely balanced by the mix of hops that added the faintest bit of bitterness. Overall: I'm very happy with this DIPA, especially if you are looking for variations from the common "citrus" dominant hazy IPA profile. 8.0% - Available at 2 Row.

Salt Lake Brewing - Kafka Black Lager: Loads of dark cocoa with light malt sweetness and light floral hops. A little more Saaz spiciness would round this tasty lager out. 5.0% - Only at SL Brewing.

Equilibrium - Temporal Loops: Made with apricots and peaches this Sour IPA has great stone fruit aromas with flavors of peach, apricot jam, light pear, and orange. There's a touch of hoppy bite that melds with its tart finish. 7.0% - Found at The Bayou and Slackwater.

Equilibrium - Juice Mission: This has assorted citrus flavors, pineapple and papaya with some melon. A touch of grapefruit zest rounds it out. Alcohol is well hidden. 8.5% - Found at The Bayou and Slackwater.

Lumberbeard - Something, Something, Hazy: Missed this Hazy IPA brewed with El Dorado and Vic Secret hops. 7.0% - Found at The Bayou and Slackwater.

Some of you have been asking for NA Beers, here's a few new Brewdogs that just hit the market. These were found at Salt and Hops.

Brewdog - Punk AF:

Brewdog - Nanny State:

Brewdog - Hazy AF:

Brewdog - Elvis AF:

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

Cheers!

New Beer Friday 7/7/23

That damn Nelly Olesen makes me so mad! I think I need a beer... Luckily decaliters of new suds await us this weekend and most of them begin with IP and end in A. 

Did you know there's a local purveyor of seasoned barrels? Northeast Barrel Company joins Steph and I on today's Beer Nerd Radio. Admittedly, my barrel knowledge is not what it should be so I think this will be a very informative hour. It all starts at 2pm on 99.9FM KUAA.

Park City - Kickturn: This Double IPA features Mosaic, Stratta, Cashmere and Chinook hops. Pours a hazy pale yellow with soapy head. Aroma is juicy. fruity and slightly tart. Notes of citrus, jamsine, mango and some floral hints. Taste is fruity, juicy and a bit sweet. Notes of jasmine, mango, citrus, peach, melon and some floral hints. Soft bitterness, and very easy to drink. Mouthfeel is medium, soft and pillowy with good carbonation. Overall, a terrific and extremely drinkable DIPA. 8.1% 

Epic - Small Batch Series IPA: The first beer in Epic’s new line of Small Batch IPAs starts of with a spicy, citrus & melon West Coast Style DIPA that has has an almost American Red Ale fruitiness that is approachable and dangerous at the same time. The yeast and malt create a great bed for the yeast to work on. As previously mentioned the hops add citrus and melon, but it’s the melange of the four that really makes this fruit salad pop. Bitterness is there, but it’s medium/low; enough for balance - which increases overall drinkability. A great first entry for this new series. 9.7% 

Helper - Circle Back: This West Coast IPA has mild to medium aromas of fresh wet orange pulped orange peel. It's deep and resinous with a sharp pine & flower aroma underneath the resin. Flavor follows the nose with orange and grapefruit that mostly that has support from pineapple and apricot. Heavy and malty upfront. Some Caramel and Crystal malts come through the middle. As the malt fades it allows some citrus nectar resin to come forth that is reminiscent of fresh and concentrated orange peel. Bitter, but also sweet and heavy. 7.1% - Only at Helper Beer.

TF - Blueberry Pancakes: You’d think the blueberry part of this big-ass pastry stout would get completely lost in the roasted malt, cocoa, maple and high west whiskey barrels, but it does make a strong appearance. In fact, it’s one of the more prominent flavors. This summer stout is full bodied and full of presence. Did I want this beer on a 90° July day? Probably not. I’m I glad I had it? Absolutely. 12.0% - Available at TF starting today.

TF - Dark Czech: Pours out a clear mahogany color with two fingers of frothy latte-colored head. Smells a bit like a cross between pumpernickel, challah, and banana bread with a touch of chocolate and a Saaz hop sting. Dark rustic yeasty bread is also dominant on the palate. Basically, it plays out exactly like how you'd expect an imaginary cross between a Czech pils and a dark Dunkel to be. Bread, yeast, Saaz spice, in a solid clean crisp combo. 5.0% - Only on Draft at TF.

Great Divide - Strawberry Rhubarb: Straw with a pinkish hint in color, with a large fluffy head. Smells of sweetened strawberry. Taste includes strawberry but the rhubarb levels out the sweetness and gives it a hint of sour. Flavor is good, well balanced. 6.2% - Found at Slackwater.

Left Hand - Key Lime Pie Nitro: Nitro, canned. Give it a hard pour. Lovely waterfall rising in the glass. Nicely fluffy nitro head. Key lime sourness is followed by vanilla and graham crackers. Tasty stuff! 7.3% - Found at Slackwater.

Prairie - Pineapple Whip Treat: Yellow straw in color with a hazy complexion. Aroma of pineapple, vanilla, and marshmallow. It taste the same with more pineapple, lactose and marshmallow. The mouth is light and smooth. 4.6% - Found at Slackwater.

Lumberbeard - Flavor Nuggets V11: Seems like we just got V10! ....and we did. Oh well, V11 is brewed with Azacca, Galaxy and Bru-1 hops. Look for notes of pineapple and mango. 6.8% - Found at Slackwater. 

Lumberbeard - Couples Skate: Bright hazy gold with an off-white head. Mosaic and a moderate dose of tropical fruit; blueberry, orange, green melon, lemon & lime, minor strawberry, present pale malt sweetness, smooth and fruity.  A tasty double NEIPA with a good malty base and plenty of tropical hops. If you like Mosaic you should dig this. 8.2% - Found at Slackwater.

Lumberbeard - Kiwi Krispy: A good dose of Nelson in this Pils. Some of the more herbal qualities of the Motueka shine, but for the most part this is a Nelson Savin Pils. So nice!!! 5.2% - Found at Handlebar.

Revision - Super Secret Stache: Great citrus peel flavors are tasty and a little bitter. Some pineapple and peach as well. Tasty. 8.1% - Found at Handlebar.

Revision - Snarf Snarf: Aroma orange, pine, grapefruit rind, and lactose? One of the sweeter tasting IPAs from Revision. Notes of orange and grapefruit persist, but its not just that rind, it’s actually a sweeter variety of grapefruit compared to the pithy rind like grapefruit notes. Has enough bitterness to keep the mouth feel from being cloying. 8.0% - Found at Slackwater. 

Cheers!