Pfeifferhorn Lager / Epic Brewing Company

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Pfeifferhorn Lager

Epic Brewing Company / Salt Lake City, UT

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First of all, let's get something straight.  The year of beer was last year, complete with a set of unbreakable rules (different beer every day, no Coors Light, etc.).  Any blog postings this year will be haphazard, at random, whatever and whenever I feel like it.  Get it? Got it. Good.

Now then, on to the beer.  In Utah, beer under 4% alcohol can be sold at grocery stores, and beer over 4% (heavy beer) must be sold at the state liquor store.  As a point of reference,  most of your macro-brews sold in other states are actually above 4% ABV: 

Budweiser = 5.0% abv

    MGD = 5.0% abv

      Miller Lite = 4.2% abv

        Coors Banquet = 5.0% abv

          Coors Light = 4.2% abv

But in Utah, all of these wonderful beers are 3.2% ABV.  Even some of the craft beers that will show up in this Beer Run are 4% or lower.

Epic Brewing is one of the newer craft breweries in Utah, but already has pretty wide distribution - you can get many of their beers here in Virginia.  The beers I've seen around here are usually from their "Exponential" series - big beers, imperials, saisons, sours.

The Pfeifferhorn Lager is  from Epic's Classic Series.  This was recommended to me by the lady working at the liquor store.  It's a very good lager (5.3% alcohol),  with a crisp, spicy finish - a bit more character than you'd generally expect from a lager.