For the professional brewer, making beer is a job; it’s part of everyday life. The homebrewer is likely a weekend warrior finding spare time to brew, but not any less passionate about the beer they make. These two worlds come together when a local brewery and homebrew club join forces to collaborate and create a […]
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 […]
Crafty Beer Girls Podcast Episode 1
Introducing the inaugural episode of our new podcast! We talk about how we got our start as Crafty Beer Girls, what it’s like living in Utah, and get psyched for the upcoming Utah Brewers Guild Collaboration Fest! Big thanks to Hoppers Grill and Brewing for hosting us, and Mike “the Janitor” Millen of Millen Around […]
Happy Bird-day, Andy!
One of the coolest Utah residents has got to be Andy N. Condor. He lives at the Tracy Aviary in Salt Lake City, and he’s turning 60 this year! That’s a respectable age for us humans, but did you know a bird could live that long? Andy is an Andean condor, and he’s expected to […]
Kveik – The Wonder Yeast!
For lovers of history and ancient beer styles, everything old becomes new again. Kveik is one of the latest examples of something that has been around for centuries hitting the mainstream. Kveik, however, is not a beer style. It’s a type of yeast. In fact, the word “kveik” (pronounced “kvike”) is a literal Norwegian translation […]
At the Edge of the World
For a century, the community known as Short Creek, has been home to the FLDS Church (Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints), a sect that broke away from the mainstream LDS church when it stopped practicing polygamy. This group of polygamists has lived in the Utah/Arizona border towns of Hildale and Colorado City […]