The Utah Beer Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Join thousands of your peers in raising a (five-ounce sample) glass to “Utah’s largest beer event.” It’s set for Aug. 17-18 at the Utah State Fairpark in Salt Lake City. This year’s festival will feature 60 or so breweries — including eight first-timers — pouring 200+…
For many, craft beer is personal. It’s not a one-style-satisfies-all proposition. For Dusty and Joann Williams, the husband-and-wife co-owners of Talisman Brewing Company, they understand that and are careful not to paint their patrons with a broad brush. “I think what we do best at Talisman is feeling out our customers,” says Dusty, Talisman’s head…
Utah-based Pie & Beer Day is back for another helping, this time with more than 25 breweries and 7,000 slices of pie. NEW: 2020 Pie & Beer Day The so-called “counterculture response” to Pioneer Day takes place each July 24. It’s the same day as the state holiday that commemorates the Mormon pioneers’ arrival into…
It takes guts to open a bar on New Year’s Eve, historically one of the busiest drinking nights of the year. But for Chad Hopkins, co-owner and brewer at Hopkins Brewing Co., the timing — and location — couldn’t be better. “It’s really good to be back in Sugar House,” says Hopkins, who grew up…