New Beer Friday 4/25/25

A good old fashioned assault of craft beer goodness awaits your weekend! A great mix of IPAs with dark and light beers as well. Happy New Beer Friday.

The Beer Nerds get our Spirits on with a visit from Dented Brick Distillery. Harley Norwood and Brandon Webster will walk us through their portfolio of spirits and beverages. We get started at 2pm every Friday on 99.9FM KUAA - stream us at KUAAFM.org/

Offset - AUS Cascade: Featuring AUS Cascade in the kettle and first dry hop with a second equally as large dry hop of Galaxy. Lots of Passion Fruit, bright citrus, a little spice, and some piney/herbaceous notes in the flavor. 5.0% - Available at Offset Bier.

Offset - Guest Experience (Mixed Doubles): This West Coast Extra Pale Ale features Gooding Farms Amarillo & Centennial in the kettle and whirlpool and a shit load of whole leaf Crystal hops in the hopback. After fermentation it was dry-hopped it with more Centennial, Amarillo, and a new experimental public variety called HRC-003. Lots of bright citrus and stone fruit on the nose followed by some classic pine, resin, and herbaceous notes that keep it from being a total juice bomb. Clear, dry, and bitter. 6.0% - Available at Offset Bier.

2 Row - Trappist Belgian Single: Very light aroma, hint of clove. Very light, like a table beer. Some light phenolic yeast drives this for the most part. Not much in the way of malt profile. The way it should be for a Belgian Small or Table beer. 4.8% - Available at 2 Row.

Helper - Mindset: This Extra Pale Ale has lots of ripe citrus and tropical fruit in the nose with some crackers giving it a malt forward feel. Subtle orange blossom and a nice juiciness ensured that this would be easy to drink and quite relaxing with some stone fruit emerging in the back once this fully warmed up. The carbonation was spot-on as this never felt too heavy on the palate. The alcohol was light and it complemented the floral undertone well. 5.0% - Available at Helper Beer - look for it at select beer pubs around SLC.

Ogden Beer/Sprits of Coffee: This new coffee beer features a Vienna base with barrel-aged coffee from SLC's Spirits of Coffee. The aroma is moderate in strength featuring medium roast coffee beans, baking cocoa, and hints of sweet toasted malt. The taste is bittersweet roasted/toasted malt with complementary coffee. Minimal finishing bitterness. The mouthfeel is medium/light bodied with average carbonation and a mostly dry finish. Overall, excellent coffee lager. 5.0% - Available at Ogden Beer.

Top of Main - Hop on Hop: The aroma has a mix of sweet citrus and fruity aromas mixed with herbal and pine notes. The taste begins with a mix of bready flavor, combined with mixed with citrus and pine. As the taste moves on, the citrus fades, but the pine grows stronger and is joined by some flavors of a slightly more earthy and herbal hop flavor. With the bit of sweet that was present upfront fading, one is left with a more dry, but rather pleasantly hoppy flavor to linger on the tongue. 8.0% - Available at Top of Main, SL Brewing locations. 

Top of Main - Galactic Destroyer: This Imperial Stout has a dark, bittersweet chocolate and coffee aroma with char. molasses. anise and somewhat burnt sugar. A fair amount of earth too.

An earthy and bitter tastes hits up front, but nothing overwhelming. This becomes char, dark chocolate, and some coffee. Molasses and cocoa 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. 10.9% - Available at Top of Main, SL Brewing locations. 

Talisman - WHIPA: Missed this new White IPA. 5.0% - Available at Talisman and Slackwater.

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

Cheers!