Perhaps nothing makes brewers beam more than when one of their beer babies—and a lager at that—becomes a commercial success. For Jeff Bunk, director of operations for Proper Brewing Co., that’s the story of Whispers of the Primordial Sea. He’d had his recipe for the smoked Helles with pineapple tucked…
It’s not a stretch to say yeast, perhaps more than any other ingredient, helped Shades Brewing to make its mark. Specifically, the South Salt Lake brewery utilized a strain of kveik—an ancient Norwegian farmhouse brewing yeast—to cement its place in craft beer. First featured in a Shades beer in mid-2018, kveik is now…
Picture it: Salt Lake City, September 1989. The lights of Utah’s Broadway just got a whole lot brighter. On Sept. 5 of that year, Squatters Craft Beers opened its doors at 147 W. Broadway to become the capital city’s first brewpub. More than three decades later, the pub that ignited…
Joey Cardaccio, service manager at Slackwater Sandy, joins Utah Beer News for another episode of our 3 Beers with Joey video series. Each month, Cardaccio will chat with us about three new or noteworthy beers worth checking out. Here are the three beers selected for December 2021: War on Xmas…
