Bewilder Brewing is one of Salt Lake’s newest breweries, but owners Ross Metzger and Cody McKendrick have been part of the brewing community for years. The childhood friends opened Salt City Brew Supply in 2011 to serve local homebrewers, and they have played a big role in cultivating Utah’s brewing culture ever since. Opening their […]
Utah Brewers Guild Collaboration Festival
When Utah’s brewing community comes together, magic happens. The first ever Utah Brewers Guild Collaboration Festival was a veritable love fest between brewers and their many fans. Good vibrations were shared by all as the fruits of 24 breweries’ collaboration labors flowed from the taps and into the glasses of smiling imbibers. Fourteen brand new […]
Behind the Scenes at Bohemian Brewery
Bohemian isn’t like other breweries. Their focus is on Central European lagers brought to the US by Czech immigrants, Joe and Helen Petras, who love the beer styles they grew up with in their homeland. Furnished with a unique yeast strain from a now-closed brewery in the Czech Republic, the Petras family founded Bohemian Brewery […]
Oktoberfest Like A Utahn
Sometimes the best way to celebrate local culture is to hoist a brew in honor of a foreign culture. No, I’m not talking about Americans celebrating Cinco de Mayo. Please put down the Coronas. Take that sombrero off your cabeza. I’m afraid you’re a few beer holidays too late… I’m talking about the many ways […]
The Brewer’s Keychain
Keychain bottle openers have long been used as tools of marketing and, more importantly, bottle opening. They dangle on your keyring, clinking against your keys and reminding you there’s no cap that can stand between you and a cold beer. These keychains are given away like candy at beer festivals, and it’s not uncommon to […]
A Brewery Here, A Beer Bar There – Arizona Edition
If it were up to me, this is what I would do. I would travel to places, drink their best, see their best, make friends with their best, and write all about it here. The world of beer has enough stories to tell using that formula to write volumes, but a chapter or two will […]