Like the aged beers they hope to make, Toasted Barrel Brewery has taken some time to emerge from the dark corners of Utah’s yet-to-be-realized brewing potential. After more than a year of hard work obtaining permits and getting the brewery up and running, business partners Sage Dawson and Lynn Litchfield finally opened the doors to […]
Get Along with the Saison
With its light body, spicy, subtle citrus flavors, and dry finish, the Belgian-style saison is perfect for summer consumption. Though not as approachable as a simple light lager, the complexity it has to offer makes the saison worth falling in love with. Saison is the French word for season. The beer – which comes from […]
Brettanomyces Misconceptions
The wild and unknown are often misunderstood, surrounded by myths and assumptions mistakenly accepted as fact and spread thinly on the unknowing by the ill-informed know-it-alls seeking praise and glory for knowing “cool facts”. You know nothing, Jon Snow. But instead of leaving you out in the cold (as nice as it might seem right […]
The Beasties Within Your Glass
Considering the decades of televised beer marketing and the relatively recent increase of beer nerd wackos that can’t wait to corner you and tell you about that time they stood in line for a quadruple-sour-barrel-aged-double-doggy-dry-hopped-beer for three days, you have probably picked up the ability to rattle off the names of the four main ingredients […]
This Dampfbier Is Really Steaming Up the Place!
What the suds is Dampfbier?! Relax; it’s not as bizarre as it sounds. Dampfbier (damp-f-beer) translates literally to “steam beer” in German. Here in the American West, we are quite familiar, or at least our ancestors were, with steam beer. You may be acquainted with San Francisco’s Anchor Steam as the classic version of this […]
Ales vs. Lagers
True or false? If a beer is dark in color, it must be an ale. The correct answer is absolutely false! Color is not an indicator of ale or lager beer, as both types have light and dark examples. I have heard three different people in the past two weeks state with a fair amount […]