Authors: Mike Riedel
Review: Pumpkin Ale
This new Pumpkin Ale from Tooele’s own Bonneville Brewery pours a nice-looking ruby/amber color with a familiar nose of allspice and clove. The taste starts with rich caramel malt, nutmeg and a slight dose of cinnamon. … read more
Review: Jacked B Nimble
Jacked B Nimble pours an ebony color with ruby highlights, and the nose reveals nutmeg, clove, cinnamon and some boozy whiskey notes. The taste starts with the basic pumpkin pie spices along with some vanilla/bourbon notes. … read more
Review: Pumpkinhead
Pumpkinhead pours a semi-cloudy, pale-orange color. The nose has strong notes of spices of nutmeg, cinnamon, clove and brown sugar. The taste is a lot like the nose, with notes of pumpkin and spices of nutmeg, cinnamon, clove, allspice and brown sugar. … read more
Review: Fermentation Without Representation
Fermentation Without Representation pours an extremely dark-brown color with a small, tan head. The nose is huge with pumpkin, squash, ginger, cinnamon, chocolate, roasted malt, clove and caramel. The taste is just as big, with chocolate, roasted malt, pumpkin, caramel, cinnamon, ginger, light coffee, clove and spices. … read more
Review: Grapefruit Sculpin
This IPA pours a nice, nearly clear, golden-orange color with two healthy fingers of off-white head that lingers nearly to the last drop. … read more
Review: Dangereux American Farmhouse Ale
Dangereux American Farmhouse Ale pours hazy golden straw in color with a big, fluffy head that is full of staying power. … read more
Review: Contrail White
Brewery/Brand: Uinta Brewing Co.
ABV: 4.0%
Serving Style: 12-oz. can, draft … read more
We May Live In A Desert But We’re Not Dry
American cheese. It’s far from the best example of what America’s dairy producers are capable of crafting, but because some corporate hack decided to call it “American cheese” we as a nation got stuck with this lousy faux cheese—representing to the rest of the world our collective “cheesiness.” … read more
The Brews of Four+
James Smith of Four+ Brewing agreed to meet with us to talk about brewing in Utah and some of the stuff they’re brewing up for this summer. … read more
New Utah Breweries
Years of combined planning have given rise to two new breweries in Utah days apart, proving that even in a downward economy people in Utah still thirst for great beer. Epic Brewing Company located in downtown Salt Lake City received their final license on March 26 and went into production on that day. Shades of Pale Brewing Co. in Park City acquired their permits exactly two weeks later on April 9, 2010 and began making pilot batches of beer that day. … read more
Utah’s Beer Missionaries
For most of my adult life, I’ve been a beer guy. Growing up in Utah, I never really knew about the differences between “Utah beer” and “regular beer.” Let’s face it, if you’ve had any youthful experiences with beer in Utah, you’ve likely heard the terms “piss,” “water” and “near beer,” especially from those outside of the Zion Curtain. So why would anyone outside of Utah want to try any of this pissy, watery beer? The answer is simple: Utah beer is none of those things. … read more
