On the way back from our epic road trip we stopped to spend the night in Salt Lake City. While there, we checked out Red Rock Brewing Co, 254 South 200 West, Salt Lake City, Utah. I can tell they're trying to be like Rock Bottom Brewery in Colorado.
$7.50 for a sampler of six. They had eight beers on tap, but in Utah you can only get six 4 oz samples at once thanks to their goofy alcohol laws that are still recovering from prohibition.
Here's what I tried:
Hefeweizen -- lemon slice, lemon yellow color, light taste, fruity, short linger, refreshing taste
IPA Junior -- very light for an IPA, light hop taste, good for someone like Kiki who doesn't like most IPA's
Amber Ale -- copper color, creamy, malty
Bitter Ale -- also copper color, lots of body, not really that bitter
Munich Dunkel -- Kiki likes (coffee like bitterness without the coffee flavor); dark copper color
Oatmeal Stout -- creamy on the front, bitter on the back
Red Rock's website tells me that its Nut Brown won the silver medal at the 2011 Great American Beer Festival so now I wish I would have tried it.
All in all I would say Red Rock's beer was so so. Nothing to brag about, but not horrible either. Salt Lake City has a surprisingly cool downtown, and if you're in the area you might as well stop by.
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