Level Crossing Brewing occupies a rare spot in Utah craft beer history. It opened on March 30, 2019, and survived the struggle that accompanies any new business during its first year. “It’s been, for all of us, a pretty big challenge,” says Level Crossing Founder Mark Medura. “The first year of just getting open, even…
A recession and a hops shortage didn’t dissuade a trio of beer-loving visionaries from opening a brewery in the heart of craft beer country. Upslope Brewing Company sold its first beers in 2008 in Boulder, Colo. It’s now Colorado’s fourth-largest independent craft brewery in a state that boasts more than 400. Upslope distributes to a…
Pat Winslow dreamed of this day. For years, the career railroad conductor and longtime homebrewer imagined opening his own brewery. From the Kickstarter campaign in 2017 to the more recent partnership with Lotus Craft, Ogden River Brewing is now much more than a dream. It’s Utah’s newest brewery. And it opened in late-October 2020 in…
Any business, let alone a brewery in Utah, doesn’t survive for more than three decades without striking a balance between consistency and innovation. And for Wasatch Brewery, which opened its doors in Park City in 1986, it’s spent 34 years doing exactly that. Many of Utah’s iconic craft beers — Polygamy Porter, Apricot Hefeweizen, Evolution…