The Seventh Beer of Christmas 2022
Beer: Outer Darkness Brewer: Squatters Location: Salt Lake City, UT Website: https://www.squatters.com/ Style: Russian Imperial Stout ABV: 10.5% Cookies: Grasshoppers from Nabisco and Chocolate Chip from United Supermarkets
Showing posts with label Utah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Utah. Show all posts
Saturday, December 31, 2022
Tuesday, December 25, 2018
Blueberry Hefeweizen - Wasatch Brewery
The First Beer of Christmas 2018 is Blueberry Hefeweizen from Wasatch Brewery.
Summary
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Summary
- Appearance: lightly hazy, gold with a little green in the light
- Aroma: blueberries, sweet malt, honey, banana
- Flavor: Sweet, a little pepper and bananas, definitely blueberries
- Feel: Moderate carbonation, medium body to start and a little thin at the finish.
Stats
- Brewer: Wasatch Brewery
- Location: Park City, Utah
- Website: http://www.wasatchbeers.com/
- Fruit: Blueberry
- Style: Hefeweizen
- Alcohol Content: 4.0%
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Wasatch Brewery - The Devastator
The Tenth Beer of Christmas for 2016 is Wasatch Brewery's The Devastator:
Summary
Dangerously delicious, the Devastator is smooth brew that comes in at 8% ABV. Be careful!
Stats
Brewer: Wasatch Brewery
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Website: http://www.WasatchBeers.com/
Style: Doppelbock
Alcohol Content: 8.00% ABV
Summary
Dangerously delicious, the Devastator is smooth brew that comes in at 8% ABV. Be careful!
Stats
Brewer: Wasatch Brewery
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Website: http://www.WasatchBeers.com/
Style: Doppelbock
Alcohol Content: 8.00% ABV
Friday, December 30, 2016
Uinta Brewing - 23rd Anniversary Birthday Suit
The Sixth Beer of Christmas for 2016 is Uinta Brewing 23rd Anniversary Birthday Suit:
Summary
A soft, sour raspberry ale with a champagne-like finish. Those who are new to sours will like this. There's just a little bit of pucker and a whole lot of flavor.
Stats
Brewer: Uinta Brewing
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Website: http://www.UintaBrewing.com/
Style: Sour Ale
Alcohol Content: 6.50% ABV
Summary
A soft, sour raspberry ale with a champagne-like finish. Those who are new to sours will like this. There's just a little bit of pucker and a whole lot of flavor.
Stats
Brewer: Uinta Brewing
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Website: http://www.UintaBrewing.com/
Style: Sour Ale
Alcohol Content: 6.50% ABV
Thursday, December 31, 2015
Epic Brewing Co. - Brainless Raspberries
For the Seventh Beer of Christmas (New Year's Eve!,) I found a great replacement for that flute of champagne you're considering.
I have never been a fan of champagne. I know, some of you will think that's crazy but that's just me. On New Year's I will typically drink the obligatory flute of champagne, but I think tonight I'll simple fill that glass with another serving of Brainless Raspberries. It's a tart, sweet, and fruity bubblicious brew that would be at home in a pint glass or champagne flute.
The glass looked like a dark, fizzy glass of Cherry 7-Up as I pour out of the 12 ounce can. A loose cluster of large bubbles formed on the top of the beer, but quickly dissipated. In fact, it was gone by the time I finished taking my pictures. However, like champagne, it continued to bubble and fizz a bit as I drank to the bottom of the glass.
The predominant smell is, of course, raspberries. It reminds me a bit of a lightly sweetened compote: mostly tart but a bit of sweet. Yeast bread dough comes through, too.
Raspberries are the taste. It starts out sweet and finishes tart. There's also a big bubblegum flavor. It makes me think of Hubba Bubba from back when I was in high school and I chewed bubble gum all the time. The flavor rounds out with a bit of yeast, vanilla, and orange rind. I found it interesting that the flavor overrode and hid the high alcohol content. I barely noticed the 9.7% ABV.
The mouthfeel is interesting. This is when the champagne replacement hit me. After each drink, there was a refreshing wash of carbonation throughout my whole mouth leaving a lightly astringent sensation.
Fruit beers are a nice change of pace once in a while, but they'll never be my go-to beer. However, I could see myself going back to this one now and then to break up my typical porter/stout line-up.
Stats
Brewer: Epic Brewing Company
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Website: http://www.EpicBrewing.com/
Style: Fruit / Vegetable Beer
Alcohol Content: 9.70% ABV
Interesting Note: Founders David Cole and Peter Erickson started business together in 1992 as an aquaculture company. When Utah's beer laws became more relaxed in 2008, the pair started a craft brewery.
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| Epic Brewing Brainless Raspberries |
The glass looked like a dark, fizzy glass of Cherry 7-Up as I pour out of the 12 ounce can. A loose cluster of large bubbles formed on the top of the beer, but quickly dissipated. In fact, it was gone by the time I finished taking my pictures. However, like champagne, it continued to bubble and fizz a bit as I drank to the bottom of the glass.
The predominant smell is, of course, raspberries. It reminds me a bit of a lightly sweetened compote: mostly tart but a bit of sweet. Yeast bread dough comes through, too.
Raspberries are the taste. It starts out sweet and finishes tart. There's also a big bubblegum flavor. It makes me think of Hubba Bubba from back when I was in high school and I chewed bubble gum all the time. The flavor rounds out with a bit of yeast, vanilla, and orange rind. I found it interesting that the flavor overrode and hid the high alcohol content. I barely noticed the 9.7% ABV.
The mouthfeel is interesting. This is when the champagne replacement hit me. After each drink, there was a refreshing wash of carbonation throughout my whole mouth leaving a lightly astringent sensation.
Fruit beers are a nice change of pace once in a while, but they'll never be my go-to beer. However, I could see myself going back to this one now and then to break up my typical porter/stout line-up.
Stats
Brewer: Epic Brewing Company
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Website: http://www.EpicBrewing.com/
Style: Fruit / Vegetable Beer
Alcohol Content: 9.70% ABV
Interesting Note: Founders David Cole and Peter Erickson started business together in 1992 as an aquaculture company. When Utah's beer laws became more relaxed in 2008, the pair started a craft brewery.
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Wasatch Brewery - Ghostrider White IPA
For the Tenth Beer of Christmas, I can't decide if I want to sing the song or deny someone permission to buzz the tower because the pattern is full. Probably the song. Especially the Johnny Cash version.
In the post announcing the Twelve Beers for 2014, I mislabeled this one as coming from the Utah Brewers Cooperative. Now that I've done my research, I've uncovered an interesting story about brewing in Utah. I'll detail that in the interesting notes below. For now, let's get to drinking ...
Pouring up a hazy, straw color, this beer has what I can best describe as a ghostly appearance. Bazinga! Quite notable is the large, pure white head on this beer. It was almost two fingers of froth and left chunky lacing all around the glass as I drank. I mean, so chunky that I put my finger down in the glass and was wiping up the lacing like it was icing left in the bowl after frosting a cake. And it was just as tasty.
The aroma is a mildly floral with spicy notes and a bit of grapefruit. It seems milder than most IPAs.
From the aroma, I was thinking the flavor might be more subdued like a pale ale. Instead, though, I'd call it a softened IPA. It doesn't kick you in the face and scream, "I'm an IPA, damnit!" like some IPAs do. Instead, it whispers it, almost seductively. The hops come through at first drink along with the spiciness of coriander. This light bodied beer finishes crisp and clean with a light bittering from the hops and some citrus.
I'm generally a "one and done" IPA drinker. I like them well enough, but don't want to drink many because when I do I often feel the need to use a toothbrush to scrub my tongue clean. This one, though, is very sessionable. I just finished my second and will be heading to the refrigerator for a third after I finish this blog post.
Stats
Brewer: Wasatch Brewery
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Website: http://www.utahbeers.com
Style: India Pale Ale
Alcohol Content: 6.00% ABV
Interesting Note: Watasch Brewery opened it's doors in 1986 as the very first brewery in Utah. Two years later, founder Greg Schirf proposed a bill to the Utah Legislature and helped brewpubs become legal in the state. Then, of course, he opened the first one. A year after that, Squatters Pub Brewery (owned by completely different people) opened in Salt Lake City and then expanded into a full production brewery five years later. For the several years, the two breweries cruised along, boiling up wort and serving great beers. Then they discovered that despite growing demands for craft beer, the two breweries were not performing as well as they'd hoped. In an effort to cut expenses, the two came together to brew under one roof, the Utah Brewers Cooperative. The two companies seem (from what I can find) to still operate as independent entities, but they work together to minimize costs during brewing.
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| Wasatch Brewery Ghostrider White IPA |
Pouring up a hazy, straw color, this beer has what I can best describe as a ghostly appearance. Bazinga! Quite notable is the large, pure white head on this beer. It was almost two fingers of froth and left chunky lacing all around the glass as I drank. I mean, so chunky that I put my finger down in the glass and was wiping up the lacing like it was icing left in the bowl after frosting a cake. And it was just as tasty.
The aroma is a mildly floral with spicy notes and a bit of grapefruit. It seems milder than most IPAs.
From the aroma, I was thinking the flavor might be more subdued like a pale ale. Instead, though, I'd call it a softened IPA. It doesn't kick you in the face and scream, "I'm an IPA, damnit!" like some IPAs do. Instead, it whispers it, almost seductively. The hops come through at first drink along with the spiciness of coriander. This light bodied beer finishes crisp and clean with a light bittering from the hops and some citrus.
I'm generally a "one and done" IPA drinker. I like them well enough, but don't want to drink many because when I do I often feel the need to use a toothbrush to scrub my tongue clean. This one, though, is very sessionable. I just finished my second and will be heading to the refrigerator for a third after I finish this blog post.
Stats
Brewer: Wasatch Brewery
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Website: http://www.utahbeers.com
Style: India Pale Ale
Alcohol Content: 6.00% ABV
Interesting Note: Watasch Brewery opened it's doors in 1986 as the very first brewery in Utah. Two years later, founder Greg Schirf proposed a bill to the Utah Legislature and helped brewpubs become legal in the state. Then, of course, he opened the first one. A year after that, Squatters Pub Brewery (owned by completely different people) opened in Salt Lake City and then expanded into a full production brewery five years later. For the several years, the two breweries cruised along, boiling up wort and serving great beers. Then they discovered that despite growing demands for craft beer, the two breweries were not performing as well as they'd hoped. In an effort to cut expenses, the two came together to brew under one roof, the Utah Brewers Cooperative. The two companies seem (from what I can find) to still operate as independent entities, but they work together to minimize costs during brewing.
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Uinta Brewing Company- Wyld Extra Pale Ale
For the Fourth Beer of Christmas, we're trying something a little bit wyld, wyld, wyld!
Prior to this year, I hadn't paid any attention to Utah breweries. It wasn't intentional, they just weren't on my radar. Maybe they were just crowded out by the abundant supplies of Colorado, California, Oregon, and Texas (the latter not being so much "abundant" as it is "abundant here in Texas.") Somehow, though, I managed to pick up two brews from Utah for this year's Twelve Beers. I haven't gotten to the second one yet -- that will happen on Day 10 -- but just from the first sips of this one, I'm glad Utah has brewers!
A hazy & pale honey-colored brew, Uinta (pronounced "you-in-tah") Wyld creates a nice 1-finger of foam on top which thins to a wisp of a head that stays with the beer all the way to the bottom of the glass. There is little to no lacing on the glass, although the bubbles cling to the side after each drink before slowly sliding back onto the beer.
Mixing equal parts floral shop and grapefruit, the aroma is light but prevalent. Even though it's definitely a hoppy brew, it's not overwhelming like some of the powerhouse IPAs. However, just opening the can and pouring the glass filled the room with a light, pleasant scent.
While grapefruit is in the aroma, the citrus in the taste seems to be more from limes or lemons. The nice citrus zing at the beginning of the drink is followed by a nice bittering from the hops on the back of the tongue. It's light, almost watery, and crisp with a fine carbonation.
For the IPA drinkers, it's a light weight and session-able drink. For the non-IPA drinkers, it might be a half step. However, my wife doesn't like IPAs and didn't even want to try a drink after smelling the brew. As for me, it was good. And since Lisa won't drink it, I get to have the rest of the six-pack!
Stats
Brewer: Uinta Brewing Company
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Website: http://www.uintabrewing.com
Style: American Pale Ale
Alcohol Content: 4.00% ABV
Interesting Note: Uinta took its name from the Uinta Mountains located in northeastern Utah. This subrange of the Rocky Mountains is notable for being the highest east-west running mountain range in the contiguous United States. The word Uinta is derived from the Ute Indians who used to inhabit the area.
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| Uinta Brewing Company Wyld Extra Pale Ale |
A hazy & pale honey-colored brew, Uinta (pronounced "you-in-tah") Wyld creates a nice 1-finger of foam on top which thins to a wisp of a head that stays with the beer all the way to the bottom of the glass. There is little to no lacing on the glass, although the bubbles cling to the side after each drink before slowly sliding back onto the beer.
Mixing equal parts floral shop and grapefruit, the aroma is light but prevalent. Even though it's definitely a hoppy brew, it's not overwhelming like some of the powerhouse IPAs. However, just opening the can and pouring the glass filled the room with a light, pleasant scent.
While grapefruit is in the aroma, the citrus in the taste seems to be more from limes or lemons. The nice citrus zing at the beginning of the drink is followed by a nice bittering from the hops on the back of the tongue. It's light, almost watery, and crisp with a fine carbonation.
For the IPA drinkers, it's a light weight and session-able drink. For the non-IPA drinkers, it might be a half step. However, my wife doesn't like IPAs and didn't even want to try a drink after smelling the brew. As for me, it was good. And since Lisa won't drink it, I get to have the rest of the six-pack!
Stats
Brewer: Uinta Brewing Company
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Website: http://www.uintabrewing.com
Style: American Pale Ale
Alcohol Content: 4.00% ABV
Interesting Note: Uinta took its name from the Uinta Mountains located in northeastern Utah. This subrange of the Rocky Mountains is notable for being the highest east-west running mountain range in the contiguous United States. The word Uinta is derived from the Ute Indians who used to inhabit the area.
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