Thirsty Thursday returns this week with the perfect beer to satisfy your palate and keep you warm during the chilly holiday season…Grand Teton Brewing Company’s 2011 Coming Home Ale. From our favorite brewery in the land of potatoes and hops, this Tripel Belgian-Style Golden Ale is another great addition to Grand Teton’s Cellar Reserve Series [...]

What makes a beer great?  Hops, malts, and yeast all are invaluable contributors to the final equation. However, I know from drinking healthy quantities of Munich Helles style and even Olympia beer over the years that “it’s the water” which can distinguish a brewery from the masses.  And while many breweries claim to have that [...]

While Utah might be located in the middle of the “Mountain West” and hence perpetually isolated from most of America, living in the Beehive State actually affords me the opportunity to conveniently visit National Parks and other areas of interest that would otherwise be tedious to travel to.  So when I realized that I was [...]