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Friday, January 23, 2026

New Beer Friday 1/23/26

 


If these inversion days are making you sad, New Beer Friday is the perfect tonic to blow the blues away. These fine new beers will make impervious to the thick air. 

Andrea Latimer of Utah's own Bitters Lab sets up shop in the Beer Nerd's Radio Pub. Bitters aren't just a cocktail thing, they encompass a wide scope of culinary uses. We'll get into all the flavors and uses at 2p today (Friday) on 99.9fm KUAA. KUAAfm.org/ 


If you missed this bit of news this week: The RoHa Brewing Project has new owners. Shawn, Steele and Jeni Smith of Draper, Utah recently acquitted the SLC brewery and have officially taken control of the daily operations. As of today, there are no plans to change the name. And as luck would have it, a brilliant new IPA is out today. Congrats to the Smiths for their new craft beer  passion project and welcome to Utah's Craft Beer Scene.


Epic - Tropical Chasing Ghost: Debuts today. No notes tune into Beer Nerd Radio for live reactions. 


RoHa - Salt Lake Whalefishers: This new IPA features a hop bill of Cascade, Citra, Simcoe. It has a pithy citrus nose. Taste follows with more citrus and pith with a hint of pine and strawberry. Hints of lemon peel toward the end with a lightly bitter finish. Other that that light hop bitterness, it’s basically a textbook NEIPA. 7.4% - Available today at RoHa. 


2 Row - Munich Dunkel: Smells quite dry. Once on the tongue it's much maltier. Flavor-wise it's dominated by notes of bread, nuts, and perhaps a touch of chocolate. An enjoyable lager. 6.6% - Available at 2 Row.


Park City - The Last Dance Lager: Brewed for the last Sundance Film Festival in Utah. 5.0% - Only at PC Brewing.


Fisher - Purple Mountains: American Wheat Ale with Loganberry and Grapefruit. This beer defiantly has a murky purple appearance.They definatly didn’t skimp on the fruit here. Tons of Loganberry (never had loganberry). So, not sure where the berry starts and where the grapefruit ends. Enjoyable. 5.0% - Available at Fisher.


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

Cheers!

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