The label depicts this beer dumping with a guy in patriotic garb shooting beer from a barrel tap. Born 08/23/11. The neck label lets you know this beer won two medals, Gold from the World Beer Cup and Silver from the North American Brewers Association, not sure the years.
Grainy sweet corn aroma with a touch of citrus. Corn grain flavors start things off and meet an earthy, grassy hop bitterness. Some malty bread flavors meet orange citrus. Really nice balance leans lightly bitter. Great carbonation, light to medium body, refreshing, good flavors. Nice job. I liked it.
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I think these Utah brewers are impressive, for these beers to be as good as they are - at least with their draft beers, they work under a stifling 4% ABV constraint. They've had to coax more flavor from lower-ABV beers....I like that.
Yeah, Patrick. Very solid. I still have a few more from them. They sent me a full 12 pack.
You know what originally sparked my conversation with them was that 4% conversation. And I think that limiting factor is one of their coolest talking points. The low ABV ones are my favs so far.
As a New Yorker living in SLC for the past 7 years, I didn't Utah beer would amount to much upon my arrival. I was completely wrong. To address the ABV thing, beers brewed in Utah are exempt from the 4% thing. Epic Brewery in SLC actually brews only higher ABV beers.
Cool. Thanks for the comment. I've enjoyed a bunch of these that the brewery sent me.
As for the patriotic guy on the label... the brewery told me that he's the Head Brewer from Wasatch in Park City.
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