New Beer Black Friday 11/29/24

I've been Ill'n and have not had the constitution to do proper beer "research" for this year's New Beer Black Friday. Hope I didn't miss anything. What I have found is brilliant and worth checking out on this Utah Pint Day! Yup, don't forget that it's actually a whole weekend of beer enjoyment, while getting out there and  supporting our favorite breweries and brewpubs, hope to see you out there!

...And Steph and I WILL be seeing you after today's jammed packed Beer Nerd Radio. Today Steph will give you all the Utah Pint Day info, along with an interview with this year's artist, Chuck Barrett. It will also be a mystery beer sensory show, find out if guest tasters (and Beer Nerd Radio Supporters) Alex Workman and Kent Haynes really know their beers. we start today (Black Friday) at 2pm on 99.9fm KUAA.

Offset - PNW Pils: This is the first in a series of traditional lagers brewed with ingredients grown a little closer to home. The malt is a German barley variety called Steffi, the hops are a blend of HBC1134 and American Noble Cascade. 1134 is bred to mimic the classic European noble varieties but with much better drought tolerance. American Noble Cascade maintains the essence of Cascade but in a very low alpha form.

RoHa - Kolsch:  This Kolsch is rich with grains and malts. Along with sweetness and mild hops. Between the look and smell this is one inviting brew. The taste is Bold with flavors. You first pick up on the sweet grains and malts. Then a mild hop bitterness at the end. There is alot going on in this Kolsch. There is nothing overpowering about this brew, it has a super nice balance to it. 5.0% - Only at RoHa.

Bell's - Christmas Ale: This traditional Scotch Ale is rich and malty with notes of caramel and dark fruits, Little to no hop profile the ends with a warm finish. Certain to make your Black Friday bright, or at least a bit more bearable. 7.5% - Found at Beerhive, Slackwater.

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

Cheers!

New Beer Friday 11/22/24

It's a tidy lil' New Beer Friday this week with a selection of beers that will prime your pre holiday getaway. 

Beer Nerd Radio visit's with Dendric Estate Cidery, Utah's newest cider producer. Brenden Coyle, former Head Distiller at High West Distillery, helms Summit County's newest adulting destination. Tune into 99.9fm KUAA at 2pm Today (Friday) or stream us at KUAAFM.org/

Talisman - Coffee Vanilla Porter: Look for a rich coffee forward base (provided by Daily Rise Coffee) that blends with cocoa notes from the porter base. The vanilla adds a soft roundness and implied sweetness. That creates an over delicious brew. 5.0% - Only at Talisman.

Wasatch & Squatters - Love Local Series (Back Abbey): This Belgian-Style Dubbel Ale has a deep red color. Aroma is clove with some copper a caramelized sugar. Taste is similar with creamy caramel and a good dose of spicy Belgo-yeast. Bubblegum and clove dominate upfront with caramel rounding it out. Hop profile is herbal and Balanced. 7.5% - This beer will debut at Squatters & Wasatch Taproom today, November 22nd starting at 3pm and lasting into the night. The Love Local beers are limited-releases, so once Back Abbey is gone it's gone forever. 

Bewilder - Atta Boy Ingy: Using a fancy yeast blend from Escarpment labs called Elysium. The beer is named for the Utah Hockey Club’s Goalie, Connor Ingram. Great citrus and peach aroma. Taste follows with some melon and grassy/herbal hops. The yeast is fruity, throwing out some strawberry I believe. A wee bit of hop burn, but that’ll fade in a couple days. A really tasty small batch. Go Ingy! 5.0% - Available today at Bewilder.

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

Cheers!

New Beer Friday 11/15/24

Need to escape your captive surrounding? This week's New Beer Friday will give you the beer freedom you crave. 

2 Row's Brian Coleman is back in the radio pub. What is 2Row 2.0 like now after it much anticipated exspandtion? Steph and Mikey will fill you all in, today at 2pm on 99.9FM KUAA. 

Offset - NZH-104: More diesel. That’s the best description I/we beer describers can give to some of these NZ hops. Melon too! Along with some nectarine & orange. I really love these hops, but they can cause some hop fatigue for dainty boys like me. The being said. Tasty stuff. 5.0% - Available at the source, found at the Bayou.

Uinta - White Bronco: This Juicy IPA has a nice mango and pineapple thing happening with these hops. Super fruity & juicy with zero bitterness. Quite nice. On the R&D tap. 5.0% - Available at the source..

Strap Tank - The Walrus: This is a traditional English Mild Ale. Look for a copper color with subtle orange hues and a creamy white/foamy head. It has a slightly heavier than medium body, but drinks super light. The taste, and aroma is nutty, bready, and biscuit forward with a subtle fruity component derived from the English yeast used. It's crushable and warming to the soul. 5.0% - Available at Strap Tank, Lehi.

Bewilder - Belgian Pale Ale: From the award winning recipe by home brewer, Dwight Howard. Generally I’m not a big fan of this style. Often too phenolic and yeast spicy. This is pretty nice. Low peppery/clove notes with an overall dry body. Well executed, it’s like they made it just for me.  - Found at the source on draft. 

Bewilder - Lichtenhainer: From the award winning recipe by home brewer, Dwight Howard. Hint of smoke in the nose, barely noticeable. Taste starts with a very light lemony tartness that is clean with toasty grains. Finishes light & dry. F’n high drinkability. Would have destroyed a keg or two of this last summer. Still might. 5.0% - Found at the source on draft

RoHa - Dog Tags (Fourth Tour): Great hop blend this year. This IPA is features a great citrus profile that dominates the entire beer. Some floral qualities too, but this whole package is citrus driven, which jives in most IPA palates. Right?

Hopkins - Patch Work, Pale Ale with Veterans Hop Blend: Hopkins' rotating and ever-evolving pale ale features locally-grown and malted Solstice Malt’s pale and wheat. This version features Chinook and Veteran hop blend. Look for tropical fruit and pine aroma and flavor from this hop profile. 5.0% - Available at the source. 

Saltfire - Mt Naomi - Cab Franc Pilsner: Hint of vine fruit in the nose. This is vine forward for sure, but it’s not sweet. The pils base is lite as expected, and it works well with the Cab Franc varietal. It’s not sweet, though if it was a bit drier this would be a crusher. 5.0% - Found at the source on draft. 

SL Brewing - My Wiiiiives Nitro ESB: Say it the name like Borat would and the name will make more sense. Great malt profile: Caramel with bit of toast. Hops are mostly floral with a hint of pine. The nitro lets this Marris Otter ESB sing. No carbonic bitterness makes this sweet without being cloying. 5.0% - Found at the source on draft. 

Red Rock - Dilly Dally: Big melon & peach hop profile starts it off. The malt profile is straight up west coast DIPA. Some citrus peel and light diesel round it out. Not getting much Mosaic, but overall it’s damn tasty. It’s a West Coast-ish DIPA. 7.9% - Found at all Red Rock locations

Heber Valley - Volution V6: The 6th iteration of this two-hop hazy focuses on Simcoe & Centennial hops. Made with American 2-Row, white wheat, and flaked oats. Tangerine, pine, and "dank" flavors and aromas. Full mouth feel. Hazy appearance. 6.8% - Found at the source in 16 ounce cans. 

TF - Kölsch: TF's first ever Kölsch (believe it or not) debuts today at Noon. 5.0% - Only at TF.

TF - Black Lime Sumac Sour: Debuts today at Noon. 5.0% - Only at TF.

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

Cheers!

New Beer Friday 11/7/24

Exasperated? Maybe Ecstatic? No matter your mood a lil' New Beer Friday goes a long way. Today's selection is stout heavy, so bring you big boy and girl pants.

Beer Nerd Radio welcomes Uinta's Grand Poobah, Noah Brown and Vice Poobah, Jeremy Worrell tot he Radio Pub. We'll get into Uinta's new direction with guest host Del Vance, in for the vacationing Steph B. It begins at 2pm today (Friday) on 99.9fm KUAA.  

Desert Edge - Conspiracy: This new Imperial Stout has earthy and bitter hit up front, but nothing overwhelming. This becomes char, dark chocolate, and some coffee. Molasses and anise follow. The earthy notes return towards the end. The sip finishes bittersweet and this lingers into and through the aftertaste which is very much unsweetened chocolate. 9.6% - Available at Desert Edge.

Uinta - East Bench: Missed this new whiskey barrel-aged stout is part of Uinta's Barrel & Blend Series and was aged in barrels for six months. Look for a robustly rich profile with hints of vanilla and notes of dark forest cake. It features a seasonally appropriate 13.0% abv and mouthfeel that leaves nothing to the imagination. Available at Uinta starting today.

Ogden Beer - West Coast Is Best: This session WCIPA features a mixture of fruity, piney and green hop aromas. The taste is similar to the aroma. On the finish there's a medium amount of bitterness with an equal amount of hoppy and malt flavors in the aftertaste. 5.0% - Available at Ogden Beer.

Epic - Milk Stout: A Milk Stout for those that hate “milk stouts”. This heavily roasted stout has a dose of milk sugars to keep this from becoming overly ashy. It’s still on the dry-side for a milk stout, but sweet stouts aren’t my thing. A dry Espresso finish tops it off. 5.0% 

Salt Lake Brewing - Lambert’s Holiday Nut Brown Ale: Toasty and bready - mostly bread crust. Medium to light caramel. Much more English-style than American (less hoppy). a somewhat nutty finish. 5.0% - Available at SL Brewing.

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

Cheers!

New Beer Friday 11/1/24

You'd never know that there was a chill in the air, looking at this week's New Beer Friday goodies - though I think they'll do a good job keeping you warm. 

Chad Hopkins of Hopkins Brewing stops by the Radio Pub today at KUAA. We'll catch up and chat about the Sugar House craft beer scene. We get started at 2pm every Friday on 99.9FM. Don't forget to stream us at KUAAFM.ORG/

TF - Zoigl Series (West Coast Style India Pale Ale): This new collaboration with New Zealand Hops Limited features experimental hop NZ-104. DANK chewy and weedy aroma of pine, melon and citrus peel. First swig is same. Less dank in the mouth, but melon hits first showing its NZ lineage. Citrus and pine duke it out from there adding diesel “dankness”. Lite body for a WCIPA delish 6.7% - Available at TF Brewing at Noon Friday.

Offset - Bin Chicken: This "Aussie Mid Ale" is in the neighborhood of an English Ordinary Bitter. It was hopped entirely with Anchovy hops. Look for a light auburn, dark gold color with a nice malt complexity. Undertones of caramelized sugar blend with the light citrus and raspberry seed character from the Anchovy. Super crushable with just enough flavor and aroma to remind you it's well made. Available today at Offset. 3.8%

Level Crossing - Nuovo Testamento: This Italian-style pilsner features Saphir, Saaz and Hallertau Blanc. Great color and clarity! Grassy, earthy aroma. Tastes well hopped. Lotsa herbal hops grass and a little bit of citrus peel. There’s a slight hoppy vegital bite in the finish. Tastes more bitter than 20 IBUs.5.0% 

Fisher/Strap Tank - Fish Tank: This collaboration is a Munich Dunkel 5.0% - Available at Strap Tank in Lehi and at Fisher starting today. 

Drekker - Brain Squeeze: This Raspberry/Peach Sour - Smoothie beer was brewed with hundreds of pounds of raspberry and peach, lactose sugar, vanilla bean and sea salt. 5.2% - Found at Slackwater.

Lumberbeard/Harland - Barley Oasis: This Pilsner was brewed with Citra DynaBoost, Motueka and Mosaic hops.

Lumberbeard - Flavor Nuggets V15: This NEIPA features Azacca, Citra and El Dorado hops. 6.8% - Found at Handel Bar, Slackwater.

Revision - Blanket Gremlin: This NEIPA features Citra, Strata, and Motueka hops. Look for a smooth-bodied with ripe tangerine, lime rind, and freshly cut melon. 6.5% - Found at Handle Bar, Slackwater.

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

Cheers!