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Book Reviews – June 2009
Beer-related book reviews including Drinky Crow’s Makkies Treasury, The Gourmet’s Guide to Cooking With Beer, and Tasting Beer. … read more
Product Reviews – June 2009
Reviews of beer-related products, including a beer blaster, hangover pills, PBR apparel and sexy beer bongs. … read more
The Advantages of Being the Little Guy: Desert Edge’s Chris...
If you enter the Desert Edge Brewery at The Pub in Trolley Square from 500 East, you’ll see through a pair of double doors the untidy and cramped array of fermenters and tuns which is the playground of Head Brewer, Chris Haas. … read more
UBC: High Point in the High Country
In order to facilitate their domination of the local beer market, the owners of Squatters and Wasatch Breweries joined forces in 2000. … read more
Drink and Be (Relatively) Merry
Dane Newman, suffering from hardcore mouthwash-related ulcers, reports this brief rundown of watering holes and beer repositories. … read more
The Bayou: Beer and Fries Please
When the good people over at SLUG asked me to write about The Bayou for the annual Beer Issue, I got a little distracted for a moment, drifting off into the land of “Beervana” with little mugs, goblets and glasses of amber and chocolate liquid dancing around my head. Mmmmm, I love beer. … read more
Bohemian Brewery: Bobby Jackson
Bobby Jackson made his way to Salt Lake City from Vermont in September of 2007. Since then, the 23-year-old has been making a name for himself as the youngest head brewer in the state. … read more
Dear Dickheads – June 2009
LETTER TO THE COMMISSIONER OF THE CHUMP POLICE ( a response to last month’s letter from Dave Amador). … read more
Through Broken Glass and Crushed Throats: The Derby Girls Go...
The first battle between the Derby Girls of Salt Lake (Salt City Shakers) and the Ogden’s Junction City Roller Dolls (Junction City Trainwrecks) went off with almost no hitches––if you exclude a deadly fishbowl and a near miss on a throat crushing. WTF? … read more
Pastry Cat: A Tasty Alternative to Bicycle Races
Alley scat, pussy cat, alley kitten… no, these aren’t possible names for the next MTV produced “reality” band. In fact, they’re quite the opposite: former SLC bicycle race titles. Generally known as alley cats, these aren’t your every day Race for the Cure-type bike events. … read more