If you’re looking for some thorough backstory on exactly how and why I wound up on the doorstep of one of the finest breweries in America, check out the three-part post on my Midwest road trip (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). New Glarus Brewing Company deserves a post all its own and labeling […]
A Brewery Here, A Beer Bar There – Midwest Edition Part 3
Yes, I still have more to say about my recent road trip to the Midwest. If you missed out on the first two parts, then you’re shit outta luck. Just kiddin’. Click here for Part 1, and here for Part 2. Now, where were we? It wasn’t so much the “where”, but the “when” that […]
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 […]
Cedar City’s Policy Kings
Like many small, southern Utah towns, Cedar City may be living behind the times. The population of 29,000 has just two bars, but as of six months ago, they now also have a brewery. Policy Kings, owned and operated by husband and wife team, Deandre and Sara Ridgel, opened its taproom doors November 2, 2018. […]
Welcome to the Family, Hopkins Brewing Co.
Utah’s newest brewery, Hopkins Brewing Co., came out of nowhere to open its doors on the very last day of 2018. They quietly took over the former Sugarhouse location of Epic Brewing Company and launched with a whopping seven beers on tap. Not a bad start! Many local beer lovers did a double […]
Bayern Brewing: German Tradition from Montana, with Love
When I wrote about my recent adventure, Bikes and Beers in Washington, I deliberately left out one of my stops. Yes, it was Missoula, Montana (not Washington), but I also think the brewery I visited deserves its own post. Bayern Brewing isn’t a typical brewery – not at all. They hold tightly to their German heritage […]