Utah Beer News is nine months old. We officially launched during American Craft Beer Week 2018 (though we’d published a few posts prior to that). In that time, we’ve written 100 articles and have published 14 podcast episodes. We’ve shared content across Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. We’ve had the opportunity to…
Updated Feb. 8 with additional comments after SB132 passed a Senate committee hearing. It could be last call for Utah’s longstanding 3.2% beer law if a bill brought before the state legislature passes. The measure (SB132), sponsored by Jerry Stevenson, R-Layton, would allow for Utah’s grocery and convenience stores to sell beer…
Uinta Brewing late Friday issued a voluntary recall for nearly a dozen brands of its packaged beers. Testing detected a foreign yeast within certain brands that could “cause a package integrity issue over time and under certain storage conditions,” Uinta wrote in a news release. In-house and third-party analysis confirmed the…
We’re coming up on three weeks since the start of the partial government shutdown. It’s affecting hundreds of thousands of federal workers, closing parks and museums, and impacting airport security. But it could also cause headaches for brewers — and other alcohol producers — who rely on federal involvement for…
