4 New 4 You

There has been a bustle of activity with the breweries in the valley. There are 4 new brews for you to enjoy this holiday season, so get out and support your local brewery and try their new seasonals.

The Bohemian Brewery:
Bohemian's Schwenkelweiss Black Wheat - Just like it sounds. A dark wheat beer, but with a twist. This beer uses nitro for carbonation rather than the standard bubbly.

Red Rock Brewery:
Paardebloem - A blond ale using dandelions instead of hops as a bittering agent. This is a very limited run; 150 bottles.

Squatters Brewery:
Outer Darkness - A very high octane beer at over 10% abv. This is a Imperial Stout that can survive for a long time, so buy a couple and save one for next year.

Hoppers:
Donovan's Irish Breakfast Stout - I heard about this one through UtahBeer. "It combines an Oatmeal Stout with a Sweet 'Milk' Stout that contains unfermentable lactose milk sugars, then they added several pounds Millcreek Guatemalan coffee." I'm excited for this one. Breakfast anyone?

Drink Well!

I have often heard rumors of studies done that show the health benefits of drinking a glass of wine every day, or that there are no ill effects to drinking beer moderately. Evidently there are hundreds of large scale studies that show having 1-3 standard sized drinks of alcohol per day (depending on your size and assuming you have no adverse reaction to alcohol) can be very beneficial to you in a variety of areas in health and wellness.

Wanna reduce your risk of Hypertension; drink a beer. Wanna increase your chances of avoiding Alzheimer’s; drink a beer. Don’t like strokes, heart attacks, and wanna live longer; you guessed it, drink a beer.

I know this will sound outrageous and irresponsible to some people, but don't take my word for it. Here is a link to a site that has citations to 100+ studies showing this to be true.

http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/alcoholandhealth.html

Salud!

27% alcohol means 100% tease!

Boston Brew Company, maker of Sam Adams has produced yet another beer that we in Utah cannot enjoy. A “traditionally” brewed beer based on grain fermentation, this new beer is called Utopias. Aged for 15 years in oak barrels much like a distilled liquor this new heavy beer will sell for $150 per bottle, but is banned in 13 states including Utah. Not surprisingly, some states are taking steps to modify law to allow high alcohol beers, as a trend seems to be growing in this market for breweries.

So, if you find yourself on the east coast some time and want to try a beer that I’m sure you won’t soon forget, try Utopias… and let me know how it is.