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It’s not that I’ve been neglecting you, it’s just that I’ve been on vacation and we all know how important a little time off can be. But now it’s back to reality and Utah’s beer microverse. Over my vacation I spend some time in Denver at the Great American Beer Festival, where two Utah breweries managed to bring home gold medals from the competition. Winners were chosen out of 7,923 competition entries from 2,217 breweries in 50 states plus Washington, D.C. (a 15 percent and 24 percent increase respectively from the 7,301 entries and 1,783 breweries in 2016). The competition took place in six sessions over a period of three days and was judged by 276 beer experts from 13 countries, including the U.S. In addition to commercial brewery entries, the judging panel also evaluated 118 Pro-Am entries. Red Rock and Squatters both earned gold in this; the mother of all competitions. Red Rock’s Zwickelbier: Basically Zwickles are unfiltered lagers. The Zwickel is that spigot that comes off the brig … |
Source: Utah Beer
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