2013 Beehive Brewoff Results

Over the weekend we managed to make our way through 598 incredibly well crafted home brews for the 5th annual Beehive Brewoff. Every year the entrants technical prowess and creativity surpasses the last making the judges tasks more difficult and more enjoyable.

Here are some of the outstanding beers that were honored for 2013. Congrats to all!

Best of Show

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Chris Detrick Co-Brewer: Kyle Trammell	Jack Mormon Sour Monk	16E: Belgian Specialty Ale	The Brewing Network
2nd	Sean Landis	Twin Peaks Doppelbock	5C: Doppelbock	Lauter Day Brewers
3rd	Mike Hahn	Russian Imperial Stout With Spanish Cedar	22C: Wood-Aged Beer	zz hops

BOS - Cider

No entries are eligible.

BOS - Mead

No entries are eligible.

Table 1: (1402) 1 - Light Lager (14 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Conor Papineau	Cervesa	1B: Standard American Lager
2nd	Lawrence Ostroski	Rasenmaher	1A: Lite American Lager
3rd	Mike Horner	Helles	1D: Munich Helles

Table 2: (1502) 2 - Pilsner (15 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Travis Grimm	Wild American Pilsner	2C: Classic American Pilsner	ZZ HOPS
2nd	Mark Albrecht	Brohemian Pills	2B: Bohemian Pilsener	Lauter Day Brewers
3rd	Brad Cooley	Seditious	2A: German Pilsner (Pils)

Table 3: (1502) 3 - Euro Amber Lager (14 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Vince Stuart	Oktoberfest	3B: Oktoberfest/Marzen	Lauter Day Brewers
2nd	Bart Hansen	Loosen Der Leaderhosin	3A: Vienna Lager	O Town Hop Heads
3rd	Conor Papineau	Vienna Lager	3A: Vienna Lager

Table 4: (1402) 4 - Dark Lager (13 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Justin Kingsford	Der Teufel Dunkel	4B: Munich Dunkel
2nd	Travis Grimm	Grimmbrau Schwarzherz	4C: Schwarzbier	ZZ HOPS
3rd	Scott Hunt	Brazilian Black	4C: Schwarzbier

Table 5: (0701) 5 - Bock (6 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Sean Landis	Twin Peaks Doppelbock	5C: Doppelbock	Lauter Day Brewers
2nd	Scott Hunt	Telefunken U-47	5B: Traditional Bock
3rd	Mike Johnson	Traditional Bock	5B: Traditional Bock	ZZHOPS

Table 6: (1001) 6a,c - Cream Ale & Kolsch (9 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Eric Fredrickson Co-Brewer: Casey Hemmis	Kappa Kolsch	6C: Kolsch
2nd	Mike Mirabella	Cream Ale	6A: Cream Ale	Lauter Day Brewers
3rd	Vince Stuart	GP LITE	6A: Cream Ale	Lauter Day Brewers

Table 7: (1402) 6b - Blonde Ale (13 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Mike Horner	Blonde	6B: Blonde Ale
2nd	Trent Bangert	Blonde	6B: Blonde Ale	The Brewing network
3rd	Chris O’Bryant	Big Titty Blonde	6B: Blonde Ale

Table 8: (1201) 6d - American Wheat/Rye (12 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Dean Volungis	White Wheat	6D: American Wheat or Rye Beer
2nd	Branden McIntyre	American Wheat	6D: American Wheat or Rye Beer
3rd	Benjamin Jones Co-Brewer: Robert Willingham	Iron Wheat	6D: American Wheat or Rye Beer

Table 9: (0701) 7 - Amber Hybrid (7 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Zach Adams	Alt	7A: Northern German Altbier	The Brewing Network
2nd	Travis Grimm	Steamroller Lager	7B: California Common Beer	ZZ HOPS
3rd	Hoyt Brewster	The Altstadt	7C: Dusseldorf Altbier

Table 10: (1402) 8 - English Pale Ale (14 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Jared Young	YES (Young’s Extra Special)	8C: Extra Special/Strong Bitter (English Pale Ale)
2nd	Paul Deschamps	School Night	8A: Standard/Ordinary Bitter
3rd	Jared Young	Brigham’s Best	8B: Special/Best/Premium Bitter

Table 11: (2202) 9 - Scottish & Irish Ales (22 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Davo Mahaffey	Yummie Scotch Ale	9E: Strong Scotch Ale	ZZHOPS
2nd	Trevor Gowans	Bollocks Be The Irish Red	9D: Irish Red Ale
3rd	Andrew Ayers	Holy Haggis 80/-	9C: Scottish Export 80/-

Table 12: (3703) 10a - American Pale Ale (36 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Josh Turner	Pike’s Pale Ale	10A: American Pale Ale
2nd	Paul Gailey	Suck It, Valentine No. 2	10A: American Pale Ale	Lauter Day Brewers
3rd	Hoyt Brewster	Crosseyed & Painless	10A: American Pale Ale

Table 13: (1502) 10b - American Amber Ale (15 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Patrick Bourque Co-Brewer: Bryant Gordan	Pale Gone Amber	10B: American Amber Ale	N/A
2nd	Lennie Mahler	Amber Ale	10B: American Amber Ale
3rd	Lanny Derby	Up Weight	10B: American Amber Ale

Table 14: (1602) 10c - American Brown Ale (16 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Clay Turnbow	Baseline Brown	10C: American Brown Ale	Lauter Day Brewers
2nd	Cort Sessions	Grand Jury	10C: American Brown Ale
3rd	Terry Seyler	Buddy’s Brown Ale	10C: American Brown Ale

Table 15: (1301) 11 - English Brown Ale (13 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Lanny Derby	On The Button	11A: Mild
2nd	Trevor Gowans Co-Brewer: Josh Gowans	MR F	11C: Northern English Brown Ale
3rd	Robert Rys	Yallery Brown	11A: Mild	KC Nanobrews

Table 16: (0801) 12 - Porter (8 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Davo Mahaffey	Davo’s Baltic Porter	12C: Baltic Porter	ZZHOPS
2nd	Trent Bangert	Passy McPassed Out Porter	12B: Robust Porter	The Brewing network
3rd	Danny Kunimura	East Kent Porter	12A: Brown Porter	No Affiliation

Table 17: (2202) 13 - Stout (19 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Joe Aruscavage	Kief’s Extra Stout	13D: Foreign Extra Stout	ZZhops
2nd	Chris Detrick	Jack Mormon Stout	13B: Sweet Stout	The Brewing Network
3rd	Bonnie Barlow	Matrimony MilK Stout	13B: Sweet Stout

Table 18: (1202) 13f - Imperial Stout (11 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Dallas Barlow	Dirty Hippie Celebration Ale	13F: Imperial Stout
2nd	Chris Detrick	Jack Mormon Imperial Stout	13F: Imperial Stout	The Brewing Network
3rd	Jordan Smith Co-Brewer: Steve Kirk	Winter Solstice	13F: Imperial Stout

Table 19: (3604) 14 - India Pale Ale (36 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Chris Detrick Co-Brewer: Shawn Margetts, Daniel Schulz, Greg Robinson	Jack Mormon Double 69 IPA	14B: American IPA	The Brewing Network
2nd	Mike Hahn	English IPA	14A: English IPA	zz hops
3rd	Mick Cummard	Big Rock IPA	14B: American IPA

Table 21: (2202) 15 - German Wheat and Rye (22 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Scott Hunt	Banana Hammock	15A: Weizen/Weissbier
2nd	Mike Johnson	Weizenbock	15C: Weizenbock	ZZHOPS
3rd	Wes Bowen Co-Brewer: Ro Erb	Hefeweizen	15A: Weizen/Weissbier

Table 22: (0901) 16A- Witbier (9 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Scott Hunt Co-Brewer: Mick Cummard	Manneken Pis	16A: Witbier
2nd	Marc Kiesel	Lemongrass Belgian	16A: Witbier	class bravo brewing
3rd	Zachary Crawford	Get Wit It!	16A: Witbier	none

Table 23: (2002) 16c,d - Saison and Biere De Garde (18 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Ray Madsen	Saison D’ Madsen	16C: Saison
2nd	Patrick Bourque Co-Brewer: Bryant Gordan	Summer Is Coming...	16C: Saison	N/A
3rd	Zach Barrows	Miel Ble Saison	16C: Saison

Table 24: (2002) 16e - Belgian Specialty (19 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Chris Detrick Co-Brewer: Kyle Trammell	Jack Mormon Sour Monk	16E: Belgian Specialty Ale	The Brewing Network
2nd	Bryan Gordon	BG’s Grisette	16E: Belgian Specialty Ale	O-Town Hop Heads
3rd	Jeff Nicholson	Monks Cut Patersbier	16E: Belgian Specialty Ale	ZZHOPS

Table 25: (2202) 17 - Sour Ales (22 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Dallas Barlow	May Love Never Sour (Wedding Berliner Weisse)	17A: Berliner Weisse
2nd	Josh Van Jura	Oud Bruin	17C: Flanders Brown Ale/Oud Bruin	ZZ Hops
3rd	Wes Bowen	Oud Pank	17F: Fruit Lambic

Table 26: (3303) 18 - Belgian Strong Ale (32 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Patrick Bourque Co-Brewer: Bryant Gordan	Belgian Strong Ale	18D: Belgian Golden Strong Ale	N/A
2nd	Robert Frazier	Belgian Dark	18E: Belgian Dark Strong Ale
3rd	Ray Madsen	Two Monks Belgian Dubbel	18B: Belgian Dubbel

Table 27: (1402) 19 - Strong Ale (14 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Clifton Winter	A Mad God	19A: Old Ale
2nd	Bob Trewartha	Hairy Belly Bob’s	19C: American Barleywine
3rd	Kirk Hofeling	Fireside Contemplation	19C: American Barleywine

Table 28: (3003) 20 - Fruit Beer (28 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Rob Rutledge	Wisconsin Belgian Red	20A: Fruit Beer	ZZ Hops
2nd	Robert Rys	Jubilee	20A: Fruit Beer	KC Nanobrews
3rd	Michael Pezely Co-Brewer: Tim Cantwell	Haole Coconut Brown Ale	20A: Fruit Beer	Lauter Day Brewers

Table 29: (4004) 21 - Spice/herb/vegetable beer (38 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	DJ Benway	CPPA #2	21A: Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer
2nd	Scott Hunt Co-Brewer: Mick Cummard	Schism Juniper Rye Ale	21A: Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer
3rd	Trevor Gowans	Roasted Poblano Cream Ale	21A: Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer

Table 30: (2202) 22 - Smoke and Wood Aged Beer (22 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Mike Hahn	Russian Imperial Stout With Spanish Cedar	22C: Wood-Aged Beer	zz hops
2nd	Steve Mott	Bourbon Barrel Oatmeal Stout	22C: Wood-Aged Beer	none
3rd	O-Town Hop Heads Co-Brewer: B. Gordon, C. Fonnesbeck, T. Shivers, R. Ellis, B. Parsons, P. Winslow, G. Bevenger, E. Byrd	RIS Barrel Project	22C: Wood-Aged Beer	O-Town Hop Heads

Table 31: (2703) 23 - Specialty Beer (24 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Michael Pezely Co-Brewer: Tim Cantwell	Tropic Thunder (Wild Ale)	23A: Specialty Beer	Lauter Day Brewers
2nd	Josh Van Jura	Rye’d Divide	23A: Specialty Beer	ZZ Hops
3rd	Patrick Bourque Co-Brewer: Bryant Gordan	Go-Go Gose!	23A: Specialty Beer	N/A

Table 32: (1802) 24, 25, 26 Meads (18 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Karl Hansen	Cheery Mead	25C: Other Fruit Melomel
2nd	Bryce Schulzke	Lady Of The Holy Trinity	24C: Sweet Mead
3rd	Bryce Schulzke	1st Braggoteer	26B: Braggot

Table 33: (1502) 27, 28 - Ciders (13 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Chaz Smith	Elder. Cider	28B: Fruit Cider
2nd	Alun Thomas Co-Brewer: Craig Teerlink	Scrumpers Natural	27B: English Cider
3rd	Lennie Mahler	Dry Cider	28C: Applewine

Table 34: (0801) 16B - Belgian Pale Ale (8 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Hans Groberg	Gewoon Pale	16B: Belgian Pale Ale
2nd	DJ Benway	Brightown Belgian	16B: Belgian Pale Ale
3rd	Jeremy Llewellyn	Belgian Pale Ale	16B: Belgian Pale Ale	Lauter day Brewers

Table 40: (1902) 14c - Imperial IPA (19 entries)

Place	Brewer(s)	Entry Name	Style	Club
1st	Dallas Barlow	Cold Hop Water "With A Smack Of Hops"	14C: Imperial IPA
2nd	Mike Horner	Pliny Ala Mike	14C: Imperial IPA
3rd	Dennis Brown	Plenty Good Beer	14C: Imperial IPA	O-Town Hopheads

 Cheers!

New Beer Friday 8/2/13

Yes! A special New Beer Friday with a beer style never before brewed by a local brewery.

Avenues Proper Oatmeal Red: This red ale is brewed with 15% oats and served on nitro for a creamy mouthfeel, some Northwest hops for a balanced bitterness and three kinds of crystal malt for a sweet finish.

Avenues Proper Gose the Gozerian: This is the first Gose-style beer to be made in Utah. Gose have a low hop bitterness and a complementary tart dryness that accompany the use of ground coriander seeds and a sharpness from the addition of salt. Like Berliner Weisse beers, a Gose will sometimes be laced with various flavored and colored syrups. This one has no added fruit flavors. Tastes of bread, lemon, honey, coriander and has a salty mineral finish.

Samuel Adams Double Agent IPL: Smell is of malt, grapefruit juice, citrus fruit, and citrus zest. Taste is much the same with malty and citrus zest flavors on the finish. There is a medium amount of hop bitterness on the palate with each sip. This beer has a good level of carbonation with a crisp mouthfeel. Overall, this is a pretty good beer with some nice hoppy aromas and flavors.

Full Sail Limited Edition Lager: Nose is spicy hops and light malts with a hint of alcohol showing. Medium body and very smooth. Flavors are caramel, citrus hops, and are in good balance. Nice bitter finish. Very nice to drink.

Judging begins tomorrow morning for the 5th Annual Beehive Brewoff. 598 beers were entered into the competition this year. Be sure to show up a the Bayou this Sunday at 5pm for the award ceremony.

Cheers!

IPA Day: 2013

Happy IPA Day! Today you are invited to celebrate the history, art and science of craft beer; raising a glass to the men and women who bring your favorite IPAs to your glass. From craft beer newbies to long-time craft beer veterans, anyone and everyone can join in the worldwide toast to one of craft beer's most beloved styles, the ever-iconic India Pale Ale. All you really need to participate is an IPA in hand!

I'm not aware of any specific organized events going on today in Utah, just grab a mixed 6-pack or a growler of your favorite IPA and invite friends over to celebrate. Here are some great locally made suggestions.

Avenues Proper Publik House Hopspital IPA
Epic Hopulent
Epic Brainless IPA
Epic Spiral Jetty
Squatters IPA
Squatters Hop Rising
Uinta Trader
Uinta Hop Notch
Uinta Detour
Moab Johnny's IPA
Moab Hopped Rye
Wasatch Ghost Rider
RedRock Elephino
RedRock IPA Junior
Zion Canyon Hop Valley IPA

A reminder for our Southern Utah beer lovers; The Festival of Flavors, Brain Head’s annual beer festival will be held August 2-4, 2013. The festival will span over two locations on the mountain: Cedar Breaks Lodge and Brian Head Resort. Each location will have a different theme for food and provide entertainment and appropriate settings for every member of the family. Cedar Breaks Lodge will feature a beer garden while Brian Head Resort will be open with its daily activities along with the Brian Head Free Fall, rock climbing wall and mechanical bull.

Admission – $15, Drink Tickets – $1

Friday, August 2, 2013

• 7pm – 1-am
  Beer Tasting Competition, Live Entertainment

Saturday, August 3, 2013

• 1pm – 7pm
  Live Entertainment, Beer Gardens, Lunch, Food Vendors
• 7pm – 1am
• Live Entertainment

• Sunday, August 4, 2013

• 8am – 10am
  Pancake Hangover Breakfast

Pie & Beer Day 2013

If your ancestors or family came to Utah by car, train or plane instead of by a hand cart and they did not forgo their cultural tradition in regards to fermented grain, grape, apple or honey; I have just one thing to say to you my friends, Happy Pie & Beer Day!

I hope to have a piece of Bourbon Pecan Pie paired with a relatively young Anniversary Barleywine. What's in your arsenal today?

And if you haven't already, check out SLUG Magazines Pie & Beer Day Issue, with tons of content from yours truly other great local writers.

Cheers!

Pictured above: Wasatch's own Greg Schirf with best use of a pioneer hand cart ever!

Utah Brewers Guild Dinner

The Utah Brewers Guild & Meditrina are hosting a special beer dinner at Meditrina on July 28th. Ten of our local Guild breweries will be pouring 2 oz tasters of each beer listed below paired with a specially designed six course menu for the first 60 guests. The cost is $60.

Here's the menu:

Course 1: Mesclun Green Salad, heirloom tomato, biscuit croutons, herb vinaigrette

Epic Hop Syndrome
Wasatch Summerbrau
Hoppers Pils

Course 2: Steamed Mussels, orange peel, caramelized fennel, Weiss wurst, lemon

Bohemian Hefeweizen
Epic Wit
Desert Edge Bavarian Weiss

Course 3: Vegetable Beignet, Spicy Remoulade

Desert Edge Mild
Bonneville Amber
Bohemian Viennese Lager

Course 4: Moroccan Spiced Rack of Lamb, felafel, citrus curry sauce

Wasatch Ghost Rider
Red Rock Elephino
Uinta Cahoots

Course 5: Braised Short rib slider, Jewish green tomato, nelson ricks cheddar

Bonneville Pale
Roosters NinerBock
Uinta Baba

Course 6: Chocolate Decadence, Raspberry Coulis

Shades of Pale Porter
Red Rock Drioma

Tickets are available through Meditrina. Interested customers should contact the restaurant directly and make a reservation. Their phone number is: 801.485.2055

This is the first of many Utah Brewers Guild events. The more support they get from all us, the better our craft beer community will become.

Cheers!

5th Annual Evanston Brew Fest

Just a quick reminder that the Evanston Brew Fest is happening this Saturday July 20, 2013. There will be 20+ breweries pouring on average of three to four beers, including Lagunitas, Deschutes & Goose Island.

The Festival goes from 1pm - 5pm with after party events going well into the evening.
Cost: $25 in advance
$30 at the gate
Online ticket purchasing information listed here.

This is a great small festival, it's proximity to the Wasatch Front and it's non-Utah bullshit makes for easy beer drinking Saturday. For other info check out the festivals Facebook page. Hope to see you there!

Cheers!

New Beer Friday 7/12/13

It's been another slow week, but don't despair; this week's New Beer Friday will make up for it all. This massive list of new beer options will have you feeling like everything is going to be alright!

Desert Edge Bavweisse Bavarian Weisbeir: The lightest offering of the week is wheat beer full of  banana and clove. Haven't had a chance to stop in have one of these yet. This is a brand new offering from Desert Edge. @ Desert Edge

Firestone Walker §ucaba (Abacus): The nose is very complex, full of whiskey oak, fig, molasses and tobacco. The taste follows with a nice rich palate of chocolate covered cherries, fig and vanilla. It ends with a hint of pine, moist caramel cake and bit of toffee. A stunning English style barleywine. @ Beerhive & Liquor Stores.

Firestone Walker Parabola: This Russian Imperial Stout is semi-sweet with malt, chocolate, black roast, delicate bourbon whiskey, vanilla, butterscotch and licorice. It finishes with espresso coffee and whiskey.
Incredibly complex.

Boulevard Grainstorm Black Rye IPA: The nose is citrusy and slightly metalic. Rye and roasted coffee round it out. The taste starts with citrus and roasted coffee. Semisweet chocolate and spicy rye come next with a piney hop finish. Not bad. But if your going to go with a "black rye IPA" I'd have to go recomend a  Wookey Jack. @ Bayou, Beerhive & Liquor Stores.

Deschutes/Great Lakes Class of  '88 Imperial Smoked Porter: The nose has roasted malts, big smoke and cocoa powder. The taste starts with chocolate, coffee and molasess. The smoke comes next but is much less pronounced than it is in the nose. The smoke blends nicely with the roast, neither one overpowering the other. Finishes fairly dry. An exceptionally nice, medium bodied smoked porter.@ Bayou, Beerhive & Liquor Stores.

Kona Big Wave Golden Ale: Big Wave is light golden ale with a subtle fruitiness and delicate hop aroma. A smooth, easy drinking refreshing ale. The lightly roasted honey malt contributes to the golden hue of this beer and also gives a slight sweetness that is balanced out by our special blend of hops. @Beerhive

Sierra Nevada Barrel Aged Big Foot: The taste starts sweet with molasses, vanilla, and nice drying pine follows. Bitter oak and some invited whiskey heat on the finish. Toffee and pine linger. There is a lot going on and all of the flavors work well together. @Beerhive

Boulevard Love Child No. 3: Oak barrels were used to age the majority of beer used for Love Child No. 3—with beer aged from 16 months to nearly six years. Another portion of the beer spent 11 months in stainless tanks, souring on Lactobacillus. While very tart, the sourness is short-lived and the beer finishes dry with a trace of oak. @Beerhive

Boulevard Terra Incognita: Hints of dark fruits including plum and fig. Finishes with a earthy/slightly dirty characteristic. Complexity of the beer is apparent as it warms with a subtle tartness at the finish that's very pleasing. @Beerhive

Rogue Farms Roguenbier Rye: Smoked malt dominates this tasty beer. It's sad because it takes over the rye and all but mutes it. it's a good rauchbier, but a lousy rye beer. @Beerhive

Squatters Wheat Peat: Haven't tried this one yet, you?

Widmer Hopside Down India Pale Lager: Part of Widmer's Rotator Series. Starts out as malty and assertively hopped. Quite richly flavored for a lager. Slightly sweet with a strong hop presence. Tastes almost savory bitterness is a little on the high side of medium. Mild caramel and an earthy slightly cedar flavored. If you like the RedRock/Pelican beer Cohoperation, you'll like this. @Beerhive


Fresh Cask Friday @ Hoppers  It's Hoppy Valley Pale - An American style pale ale, some caramel malt, all Cascade late hopping and even more cascade leaf dry hop in the cask. Has a nice citrus and soft malt flavor.

For today's Firkin Friday at the Bayou, Uinta Brewing will be pouring their Trader session IPA. It's been dry-hopped with whole leaf Amarillo hops in the cask. Amarillos impart a spicy orange and other citrus characters. They are also known to give a beer a bit of floral profile, too. Tapping is around 3pm.

Returning Champs

Squatters Bumper Crop: The 4% version of this lavender ale is now on Squatters' seasonal taps around town.

Epic's Big Bad Baptist: It's good to be a local. There's a very limited, brewery cold case only, release of Big Bad Baptist. Batch #12 was brewed last October the 28th and was bottled on July 6th. It weighs in at 10.8% ABV.

Whew! Did I miss anything? Please share if I did!

Cheers!

The Annex By Epic Brewing

Just when you thought the Salt Lake area had enough breweries/brewpubs comes word that that the next great thing is just around the corner. 

The Annex By Epic Brewing is a brand new brewpub by well... Epic, that's setting up shop in the "Sugarhood". It will have it's own brew house separate from the main brewery downtown. It will be occupying a space in the old Granite Furniture building and will hopefully be operating by this Fall.

Look for gastrobub type cuisine and new beers (high and low alcohol)  from Epic's newest venture.

Epic has been very busy as of late, their new Denver brewery is online and the breweries Taphouse/Pub will be under construction soon. Congrats Epic's!

Cheers!

Photo: Anna Erikson

Uinta's ALS Wheat Ale

There's one more new beer today that just slipped in under the wire. This one is a special beer from Uinta made in support of ALS Therapy Development Institute. Ales for ALS™ is a unique craft brewery-based fundraising initiative created to accelerate drug development for ALS patients today. As part of the program, participant brewers received a special blend of experimental hops donated by B.T. Loftus Ranches and Hopunion. With these hops, Uinta chose to brew a unique, Session Wheat IPA.

Uinta's ALS Wheat Ale combines the flavors and body of a wheat ale with the hop characteristics of an IPA.  Citrusy with subtle notes of pepper and white grape this wheat-IPA was brewed with forty percent malted wheat and dry hopped with the proprietary Ales for ALS™  experimental hop blend.

The limited amount (only 20 bbls were brewed) of Uinta's Ales for ALS brew can be found on draught in Uinta's Brewhouse Pub, Uinta's Beer Garden at Granary Row (Between 300 and 400 W, 700 S, Salt Lake City), and at select locations where Uinta beers are distributed.   A percentage of all proceeds will be donated to ALS Therapy Development Institute in support of developing effective treatment for Lou Gehrig's disease.

More information on the Ales for ALS™ campaign can be found at www.alesforals.com.

Cheers!

New Beer/Firkin Friday 7/5/13

You can tell it's hot outside because all of our New Beer Friday beers are designed to quench!

Boulevard 80-Acre: The nose is full of lemon rind, grapefruit, and orange. The tastes is fresh with citrus, lemon, grapefruit and grape, moderately bitter, Not much for malt character, a hint of wheat. Finishes dry with faint pine. Definitely not your typical wheat beer. @ Liquor Stores

Zion Canyon 360 Ale: Don't have much info on this one. All I  know is that it's a light citrusy session ale. Anyone tried it yet? @ Zion Canyon Brewing

Zion North Rim Hefeweizen: Again, not much info, I'm thinking it's a wheat beer? Please help if you've had it! @ Zion Canyon Brewing

Budweiser 3.5: Apparently this version of Bud was made for the Swedish market, starting a few years ago.  It comes in at a whopping 3.5% ABV. Makes the local stuff (4%) look like malt liquor. I guess they figured, why not sell it in Utah & Oklahoma? they won't know the difference. @ Grocery/Convenience Stores

For Firkin Friday at the Bayou, RedRock 'be represent'n with an old school pale ale, infused with juniper, bitter orange peel, and if that doesn't peak your interest, it's dry hopped with simcoe hops. Yum!
tapping's are usually at 3pm.

Hoppy Beerday, Bryan!

Cheers!

SLUG Magazine's Pie & Beer Issue

For the last six years SLUG Magazine has devoted one issue a year to Utah's craft beer drinking scene. I have had the privilege to be asked to contribute every year, now I'm the Mag's official "beer know-it-all".

This year we've dedicated our beer issue to the unofficial, counter culture holiday known as Pie & Beer Day (get it? sounds like Pioneer Day). We've covered the state bring you all that Utah's beer scene has to offer in one handy-dandy lil' publication.

Look for stories on Utah's ladies of craft beer, new local breweries, beer reviews, glassware tips and of course beer & pie pairings!

SLUG Magazine is a free monthly publication that can be found at most bars, restaurants and reading stands in the SLC area. Please check it out!

Cheers!

Tap That Tuesday

Are Fridays too firkin far away? Do you need your cask conditioned fix now in stead of at the ass end week? Well have I got news for you!

RedRock Brewing is embracing the new cask revolution like a Hipster embraces irony. The boys & girls in the brewhouse are getting ready to enhance some of your favorite RR beers and it all begins today.

Starting at 4pm in the downtown brewpub, RedRock will be offering their Amber Ale, ala-firkin aged with oak spirals. The oak should impart a toasty & spicy character to the ale that should work well with ales caramel malt profile.

If you love the cask, support places like RedRock that are offering them or they may go, bu-bye.

Cheers!

Another "Can" Do Attitude

If you had any doubts, cans are the thing right now. Every local brewery that has embraced them has found success with the once shunned containers. Bohemian Brewing started with 'em, Moab Brewing came next, with Uinta close behind; now the Utah Brewers Cooperative is entering the game (again) with their own canning line.

The Wasatch/Squatters brands are no stranger to cans, it wasn't too long ago that you may remember seeing some of their canned products on grocery store shelves around the state. They may have been slightly ahead of the curve and people were likely hesitant to trust their craft brands to packaging that had a bad rep. Those canned beers were not packaged in Utah, these will be.

It looks like the new cans will have a new look and they'll be starting with two Squatters brands, Full Suspension Pale Ale and Hop Rising. What do you guys think of the new trend and what beers/breweries would you like to see in cans? 

Cheers!

New Beer/Firkin Friday 6/28/13

Two new beers from The Avenues Proper Restaurant & Publik House today!

The Hopspital IPA, brewed with three different hops, it's a deep orange color with a slight haze from the dry-hopping stage. With a fruity, floral aroma, a pronounced hop bitterness and a dry finish, this will be a hop-lovers favorite!

The Benches Brown is a rich, malt-forward beer with notes of raisin, toasted bread and brown sugar. It's sweet notes are cut by its high level of carbonation for a very drinkable ale!

Also available at Avenues Proper Ro-Rye & Slainte Dry Irish Stout (on nitro)

For today's Firkin Friday at the Bayou, They're going a little off schedule and will be serving up Wasatch's Vanilla Oak Porter. Look for pleasant vanilla paired with chocolate and oaky notes. Tapping is at 3:00 pm. 

Cheers! 

New Belgium Finally Coming to Utah

I've been a bit of a beast in regards to New Belgium's shunning of Utah. It always seemed a bit odd that there was this huge Utah shaped hole in their western distribution map. Now after eight years of pissing and moaning, Fort Collins has given in and added the Utah market to their list of customers.

Some of you could give a shit, I personally think an expanded market is a good thing. Fat Tire is a popular entry level craft brand that locals will gobble - up and will hopefully introduce the average beer drinker to explore more local craft brews.

If you click on the image above you'll notice that New Belgium has produced a special label for the Utah market, the red banner above reads, "Sharing beers & boarders with the Beehive State". I'm sure Fat Tire is just the beginning of a long love affair with we locals and New Belgium Brewing.

If I sound like I'm an NB cheerleader, read some of my older rants on NB's subbing of Utah. I defiantly didn't pull any punches & I'm sure there are a few people in Fort Collins that think I'm quite a dick. I'll own that, I'm just happy we're all on the same page now.

I would be remiss if I didn't acknowledge RedRock Brewing. Their relationship with NB over the years was integral part in getting the wheels greased.

By the way, thanks to everyone who made it out to the Big Ass Summer Solstice Beer Pow-wow. What a great time! I'll throw some photos up on the Utah Beer Facebook Page in the coming days.

Cheers!

Captain's Log: Suplimental

There were a lot of late arrivals for this week's New Beer Friday. Here are some of the tardy beers.

Ro-Rye from Avenues Proper is a light amber, slightly sweet rye made with three different types of rye malt.

Fresh Squeezed from Deschutes is an IPA gets its flavor from a heavy helping of citra and mosaic hops. @ Beerhive

The following are all new arrivals to the Bayou.
Cantillon Rose
Drie Gueze
Cantillon Lou Pepe kriek
Mikkeller Big Worse
Mikkeller 1000 IBU
Mikkeller Sleepover Coffee IPA
Mikkeller Chipotal Porter 
Jolly Pumpkin Madrugada Obscura
Ov-Ral Wild Yeast IPA
To Øl Mochaccino Messiah

Cheers!

New Beer Friday 6/21/13

Today is the longest day of the year! That means there will be pleanty of time to embrace all that New Beer Friday has to offer!

The Beerhive continues to get more great Pelican beers in from the Oregon coast, the newest seasoanal offering  to come in this week is Surfer's Summer Ale. It pours a nice straw color with a nose of  toasty malts, floral-spicy hops and light earthy pears. The taste continues from there with malt sweetness, crisp but light floral bitterness, citrus zest and light pine. Finishes with notes of dry mint and a lingering of florals.

For Firkin Friday at the Bayou, Unsacred Brewing will be providing the cask. They will be tapping a special edition of Rimando's Wit made with blood orange. Tapping time will be 3:00 pm.

Haven't heard from Poplar Street Pub on their Firkin offering yet. 

Looking forward to seeing you all at the Big Ass Summer Solstice Beer Pow-wow tomorrow!

Cheers!

Attack of the Firkins & No Spaten For You!

 
It looks like Friday is the day for cask conditioned beers along the Wasatch front. Hoppers started it, the Bayou embraced it now the Poplar Street Pub is providing firkin casks for their patrons. The owners of Poplar Street Pub have set up an agreement with Squatters & Wasatch to provide some of their cask conditioned beers from 3-7pm . Every Friday. We will try to get you the specifics on what is being tapped asap.

Also in local beer news, the state is experiencing a Spatten drought. Mark Alston from the Bayou has been looking into why the chain of supply has dried up, here's what he came up with'

"Nobody knows who is distributing Spaten right now. I have talked to the old U.S. Importer, many Utah distributors and a purchaser at the state. It has simply gone into limbo. The state wants to get it but can't. That is weird enough but I also learned that Utah has a crazy law that if the beer importer dropped the Utah distributor then the beer cannot be sold in state for at least a year before another distributor can sell the beer. So, we might be out of Spaten for a while".

Until Spatten returns, there are plenty of great German imports to satisfy including:
Ayinger
Warsteiner
Pinkus
Stiegl
Becks
St. Pauli Girl
Kostritzer
Celebrator
Aventinus

Prost!

Home Brew Prep Class!

The Grace Lutheran Oktoberfest Bier Brauen (the second AHA home brew contest in the state) is coming up the weekend of September 20th in Sandy, but  it's never too early to start working on that signature brew that's going to wow the judges.

Now it's your chance to see exactly what we judges will be looking for. Grace Lutheran is partnering with Epic Brewing and Salt City Brew Supply in offering a FREE class at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 27th.  Learn how to make, differentiate, serve, store and enjoy your home brew. The class will be taught by Epic Brewery's head Cellarman, Aaron Selya, who can get you ready to compete or just show off your newly acquired skills.

The hour long class will be held at Salt City Brew Supply, 750 E. Ft. Union Blvd in Midvale. Call or drop by Salt City Brew to sign up.  First come, first serve.  (801) 849-0955.

Cheers!

Firkin Friday for 6/14/13

There's a fresh Kolschbier available today at Hoppers. The filtered and lagered version of the cask that Hoppers was pouring on cask in Idaho at the Mountain Brewers Fest. The same beer has been tweaked for the Bayou's Firkin Friday. It's described as a Weiss Kolsch.

It's an unfiltered Kolsch-style often just called weiss or white due to its hazy  appearance. Made with ale malt and a very small amount of Munich and wheat malt. Cool fermented in the high 50's F. Hopped with German Magnum for bittering, German Tettnanger late kettle - hopped, and dry hopped with Hallertau Mittlefruh. Cask re-fermented and conditioned. Only available today. Mark usually taps the firkin mid-afternoon, I'd call ahead.

Also Today, Uinta's Cahoots Double Rye IPA is now for sale (no really) at the brewery & Beerhive.

Cheers!

Snowbird's Fifth Annual Brewfest

It's Father's Day along the Wasatch Front, that mean it's Beerfest time! Snowbird's Fifth Annual Brewfest returns to Little Cottonwood Canyon this weekend, bringing with it the best local breweries and some of their best suds. The Brewfest runs June 15 - June 16, from 11 am - 7 pm on the Plaza Deck. Take the old man out for a craft beer or if you happen to be the "old man" like me, make your loved ones take you!

Participating breweries include:

• Red Rock
• Roosters
• Uinta
• Wasatch
• Squatters
• Epic
• Unsacred
• Moab
• Bohemian

Cheers!

A Late New Beer Friday!

This just in... Roosters has a new high point beer for you today. Honey Wheat is a golden colored ale brewed with 40% wheat malt for a crisp, balanced flavor. Lightly hopped with a touch of pure clover honey. 6% ALC/VOL - 16oz bottle. 

Now available to enjoy at. both Roosters location and the Union Grill. Available for take out from the Layton location. Coming to Liquor Stores soon!

Cheers!

First Firkin Friday

Today the Bayou begins what is hopfully a long tradition, Firkin Friday. The idea is simple, local breweries provide a unique beer creation for the public via firkin barrels.

Today's debut is from Desert Edge Brewing. Head Brewer Chris Haas has taken his Latter Day Stout & aged it with ash wood and birch wood wich should impart a nice licorice flavor. It should be tapped sometime this afternoon at the Bayou. See you there.

Cheers!

Re-release of Epic's Mosaic Hopulent

One of our favorite local IPA's has been re-released and is available now for a limited time. Epic's special edition Hopulent made with Mosaic hops was a huge hit when it first hit the scene a few months ago, the single hop beer was an immediate hit, flying of the shelves. Look for "Mosiac" printed in the field at the lower right.

The nose is sharp with citrus zest and big, bold pine. The taste is fruit salad. With orange, lemon, and grapefruit - all fresh and in your face. Some floral hops flesh things out, until the unassuming caramel malt supporting act kicks in. Me thinks it's the best version of this beer. @EPIC

Cheers!

The Bayou Presents Firkin Fridays

Friday is good day for beer here in the SLC, we started New Beer Friday a few years back to give people a lil' sump in' extra to help find their weekend groove . Next came Fresh Cask Friday at Hoppers Brewpub. Secret Agent & Brewmaster, Donovan Steele has been putting together special versions of his beers on his casks for nearly a year, now we have a third entry to brighten your Fridays.

Firkin Fridays are being put on by the Bayou in order to promote our great local craft beer scene. The object of Firkin Fridays is to offer locally made beers with something unique added to them during the casking. Hops, spices, wood, chilies, etc...

Since this is a single night offering, the participating breweries are encouraged to go as crazy as they want in the cask. This will reduce the odds of repetition and promote the   crazy that exists in all brewers.

Firkin Fridays will begin on June 7, 2013. Here is the tentative schedule. Odds are the specifics of the firkins will not be made available 'til days before tapping.

Desert Edge 6/7/2013
Hoppers Brewing 6/14/2013
Epic Brewing 6/21/2013
Red Rock Brewing 6/28/2013
Wasatch Brewing 7/5/2013
Uinta Brewing 7/12/2013
Squatters Brewing 7/19/2013

The Bayou has also obtained a brand spank'n new Randalizer 3.0 Hop Infuser. This little unit is designed to filter dreft beer through hops or other mediums such as fruits or spices to enhance the flavor profile of a specific beer. Exsperiments are happening right now and as soon as the next "Randal Night" occurs we'll let you know.

Cheers!

Utah's 2013 Mountain Brewers Festival Winners

Sorry, this post is late. I'm still recovering from the weekend and apparently

I'm not the only one. Utah's Girls & Boys in brewing did quite well, Dave 
Watsonat Bonneville debuted at the festival with two medals. Please go out 
and try all of the medal winners and thank them for making you tongues happy.

Bonneville Brewing Co.

Silver Goldenrod Ale - Light Ale

Bronze Bee Wild Honey Wheat Ale - Honey Beer

Epic Brewing Co.

Silver Double Skull Doppelbock lager - Doppelbock

Bronze Mid Mountain Mild Ale - English-Style Mild Ale

Bronze Big Bad Baptist Imperial Stout - Coffee Beers

Moab Brewing Co.
Bronze Black Raven Stout - Dry Stout

Bronze Desert Select Scotch - Scotch Ale (Wee Heavy)

Silver Rocket Bike Lager - California Common

Silver Desert Select Hopped Rye  - Rye Beer

Redrock Brewing Co. 
Silver Redrock Amber ale - American-Style Amber Ale

Bronze Redrock Nut Brown Ale - American-Style Brown Ale

Bronze Redrock Reve - Tripel

Gold Redrock Bamberg Rauch Bier - German-Style Rauchbier

Uinta Brewing Co.

Gold Dubhe - Cascadian Style Dark Ale

Bronze Anniversary Barley Wine - American-Style Barley Wine

Utah Brewers Cooperative

Gold Wasatch White Label - Belgian-Style Wit (White)

Silver Squatters Hell's Keep - Belgian-Style Pale(Golden) Strong Ale

Wasatch Brewpub

Silver Fiesta Lager - Cream Ale

Gold Jalapeno Cream Ale - Chili Beer

Here are all of this years winners.

Cheers! 

Photo: Beerhive Staff

New Beer Friday 5/31/13

Where up in Idaho Falls this week judging the beer competition part of the Mountain Brewers Festival. I fyou've got nothing going on this weekend, you really need to get your asses up here, there will be a lot going on. If you can't there are some new beers for you, maybe you can have your own little beerfest?

 

 Uinta Brewing has finally released their long awaited Pro/Am collaboration beer Cahoots Double Rye IPA, brewed in with decorated local homebrewer, Chris Detrick.

In the summer of 2012, Uinta head brewer Kevin Ely in cahoots with (see what they did there?) Chris Detrick, began the research and development process for Uinta's first Cahoots.  Together, Detrick and Uinta developed a Double Rye IPA, a bigger, bolder, hoppier version of Detrick's award winning Rye IPA recipe.

Two types of malted rye and loads of malted barley combine with CTZ and Chinook hop varieties to create this subtly spicy and distinctly hoppy beer.  Bold and rich, Cahoots Double Rye IPA is bottle conditioned and has an ABV of 9.4%.  Scheduled to hit select shelves in early June, Cahoots is a limited release beer, only 120bbls were produced. For sale only at the brewery for now, if your attending the Mountain Brewers Festival tomorrow you will also find it there.

Epic's Escape to Colorado IPA: This a brand new IPA that was designed to be for sale for the Colorado market when their new brewery opens up there. I don't know much about it, I do know it was made with some Mosaic hops. No idea what the plans is as far as Utah sales are, however Mountain Brewers Fest attendees will be able to try it, as it be poured up here.

Samuel Adams Chainbreaker White IPA: Citrus and fresh hops in the nose, light notes of spice and funk. Crackery malts on the tongue, citrus and piney hops, acidic wheat profile, and spicy yeast. Good for the style. Light-medium body and easily drinkable. @DABC

Don't forget there's also the new Avenues Proper beers are out.  The Proper Beer, Patersbier & Slaintè Stout.

Cheers!