First off: let's congratulate Silver Reef Brewing and the Templin Family Brewery for bringing home three Gold and a Bronze medal. In the Wood and Barrel-Aged Beer Silver Reef Brewing Co. BRONZE for Smokin' Barrel. Silver Reef also won a GOLD for Mas Fuego in the Smoke Beer category. Templin Family Brewing won two GOLD medals: one for Guava Coconut Berliner in the Field Beer Category and the big news is that TF's Squirrel - Juicy IPA repeats with back to back gold medals in the Juicy or Hazy Strong Pale Ale category. For those that thought it w ..read more

New beer and new hockey! It's a good time to be an Utah beer nerd. If you're not already going to the sold out Ogden Beer Fest, RoHa is celebrating their 7th anniversary Saturday. They have two new beers -that are worth checking out. It's also a 420 Saturday and there will be a few dank and weedy beers out there as well. Speaking of dank and weedy, Beer Nerd Radio is doing a deep dive on West Coast IPAs. We've done a Double WC show, but this is a straight-up IPA event. Steph and Mikey are happy to have back guest tasters Libby Taylor and Teri Munn for the blind tasting. hit us up at 2pm on 9 ..read more

You can finally feel Spring in the air. The beer gods are shining down upon us and the feeling is damn good! Get out this weekend and literally soak it all up. Happy New Beer Friday! Ogden Beer Fest is next week, and to help you get your festival legs (and liver) back in shape Beer Nerd Radio has OG Fest in studio to kick off beer fest season. Hit us up at 2pm today in 99.9fm KUAA.  Offset - Feeling Single, Seeing Triple: Brewed in Collaboration with New Image Brewing, this beer boasts the biggest hop bill ever for an Offset beer. Brewed with HBC586, Nectaron, Citra and Strat ..read more

I gotta tell ya, I can't wait to get on my bike and do some summer brewery bike crawls! Until then we have this great selection of beers to get us in the mood. Sadly the beer gods are not on our side today and we're going to have to take a mulligan on this week's Beer Nerd Radio. Steph and I apologize.  TF - Lunar Gateway: This new IPA collaboration with FICE debuts today. 8.0% - Only at TF. Offset - No Panic: This new WCIPA is crystal clear, dry, bitter, and incredibly drinkable. A simple malt bill of Pilsner and 2 Row creates a clean unobtrusive canvas for a blend of some amazi ..read more

This weekend we have not one, but two breweries celebrating 5 years in business. UTOG celebrated yesterday and Level Crossing has an all day bash tomorrow (Saturday). Both breweries are offering special beers to celebrate.  Beer Nerd Radio welcomes Andrew Valdez From M and M Distributing and Greg Hoffman from Black Sheep Bar stop by later this afternoon for our Purveyor's Show. We'll get into the larger scope of beers from outside of the Utah market. we get it started at 2pm every Friday on 99.9FM KUAA. UTOG - Happy Hour: Missed this American Light Lager. 5.0% - Available at UTOG Level C ..read more

First off: Congrats to Red Rock Brewing Company for 30 damn years of excellent beers. It's one of the state's most awarded breweries and we're so lucky to still have them around. To celebrate they've brewed a special Rum Barrel-aged Baltic Porter. There's a wide array of other new beers  as well, Happy New New Beer Friday. Today's Beer Nerd Radio features a deep dive on Barrel-aged beers. Six different beer styles in six different barrels. Our Guinea pigs... errr guest annalists, Elle Alva and Craig Folkman will need to have their constitutions in order. The chaos begins at 2pm on 99.9F ..read more

Why does Saint Patrick get a whole beer drinking holiday and Saint Arnold, the Patron Saint of Beer and Brewers gets nada, zero, zip, bupkis? We should start a movement... by "we" I mean "you". I've got enough beer stuff on my plate. Anyway, you're going to find a shload of Irish themed beers and styles this weekend - on top of all the other new stuff. Beer Nerd radio welcomes back Tanner Lenart, Utah's Liquor Lawyer. She'll walk us through all of the new changes (good and bad) that are coming our way soon. The best beer hour of you week starts at 2pm, Fridays on 99.9FM KUAA.  ..read more

Happy International Women's Day and New Beer Friday. Over the next month or so you will start seeing breweries releasing their individual beer based around the 2024 Pink Boots hop blend. Pink Boots aims to raise awareness of women, LGBTQ and non- binary working in the adult beverage industry. Pink Boots also brings opportunities for women interested in the fermentation and distilling industry to network with one another. This year's blend consists of Ahtanum, El Dorado, HBC 638 and Idaho 7 – it seems to be much more fruity and round that last year's more herbal p ..read more

Can you tell that I'm looking forward to Dune Part 2 This weekend? Anyway, welcome to the first New Beer Friday of March 2024. There are some excellent options for you to enjoy this weekend - regardless your activity. Stay dry this weekend!  Beer Nerd Radio is back with a new brewery collaboration episode. We get it started every Friday at 2pm on 99.9FM KUAA Uinta - Trop Nosh: Re-formulated with L3 and dry hopped with Sabro, Bru-1 and El Dorado. Wow, west coast leaning for sure. Sweet citrus up front that bleeds into peach, coconut and melon. Firm bitterness for sure, but it doesn ..read more

We have botanical beers, lagers, IPAs and barrel-aged. It gunna be a great weekend. Sad to say there will be no Beer Nerd Radio today. We'll be back next week. RoHa - Red Snake Hoppy Red: toasty aroma. Hops are similar, with mostly pine, herbal and floral notes. They build on a solid malt base that is anchored in the mid-2000s full of C-hops and some new citrus. Old School - meets new. 5.0% - Only at RoHa.   Deep Dive Series - Rose Hip And Raspberry Hefeweizen: The Rose Hips rule in this wheat beer for sure. This is a very botanical beer. The raspberry takes a back ..read more