Wasatch Brewery

Client Brewer in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States 🇺🇸
Owned by Monster Brewing Company

Established in 1986

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Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Description
As of 5/24/25 Wasatch Brewery beers will no longer be brewed in Utah. They will be brewed in the Monster Brewing network.

“Where’s the beer? Where are the breweries?” Those were among the first thoughts Greg Schirf had after moving to Utah from Milwaukee in the early 80’s. Incredibly, drinking and brewing were all but forbidden. Greg took matters into his own hands and did what any self-respecting midwesterner would do: He started a brewery. Wasatch was the very first brewery in Utah – and one of the first craft brewers in all of the U.S. – brewing award-winning brews since 1986.

In 1988, Greg Schirf proposed another bill to the Utah Legislature making brewpubs legal in Utah and opened the first brewpub at the top of historic Main Street in the resort town of Park City. Wasatch continues to misbehave, turning out naughty beer after naughty beer year after year.

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6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Pours bright mahogany into a stem glass. Off white head recedes leaving no lacing to coat surface. Plum and chocolate aromas. Soft with chocolate-covered pit fruit front to back. Thin lasting dusty finish.
Tried on 30 May 2013 at 17:27

8/10
Tried on 21 May 2013 at 22:06

8/10
Tried on 21 May 2013 at 22:05

5.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 6
Bottle. Pours with a nearly black hued body and a medium size somewhat lasting off-white head. Aromas are of bready, toasty, and nutty malts, some dark fruit, tobacco, dry chocolate. Bland. Flavors are ashy, chocolate, watery, roasty, nutty, grainy, a bit astringent, medium malty, lightly raisiny. Bland, watery, a bit messy. Lively carbonation, thin body as expected for a 4% by law beer.
Tried from Bottle on 25 Apr 2013 at 21:17

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle pours a cloudy yellow gold with small white head that diminishes quickly. Medium mouthfeel with bitter hop and grapefruit flavor with nice lingering bitter finish. A very good IPA
Tried from Bottle on 25 Apr 2013 at 19:09

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
12oz bottle pours with a pale opaque gold body that supports a thin near white head of foam. The modest aroma offers up a mix of lemon like citrus hops, sweet banana and a touch of grainy malts. The taste is similar with a light sort of citrusy hop note along side of some sweetness and a mild banana like esteriness. To midway a thin ribbon resiny hops of surfaces along with a slight increase in mostly citrus based hop bitterness.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Apr 2013 at 18:39

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 6.5
On tap at Iggy’s, labeled as "Iggy’s Bluesberry Hefeweizen", but this is Wasatch Blueberry Hefe
Appearance: Cloudy golden with a medium sized white head and spotty lacing
Aroma: Mild blueberry and wheat
Taste: Blueberry, grainy, wheat with a mildly sweet finish
Mild but would be a decent summer beer
Tried from Draft on 19 Apr 2013 at 23:04

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Growler. Pours a deep mahogany hue with a medium tan head. A sweet nutty nose, caramel. A light sweet flavor, some light roast, nuts, smooth chocolate and light smoke. Decent. Very thin.
Tried from Growler on 15 Mar 2013 at 21:12

5.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
Looks like a glass of flat cola. Pours a dark, tea-color, with little to no head. Aroma dominated by malts. Flavor a combination of some fruity notes (raisin), with perhaps some chocolate and some coffee. Rather sweet underneath. A bit on the light side in mouthfeel. Again, kind of a disappointment (my 2nd beer from Wasatch).
Tried on 03 Mar 2013 at 12:57

4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 6 Overall 4
Maybe I got hold of a bad bottle, but this was pretty awful. Pours a hazy, cloudy light gold with minimal head. Citrus aromas. Flavor is a bit like a Belgian witbier crossed with window cleaner. I don’t see or taste anything to warrant this being called an IPA.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Mar 2013 at 11:01