Uinta Brewing Company is a craft brewery founded in 1993 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The company produces a range of beers, naming them after Utah's cultural and natural icons. As of 2016, Uinta was the 39th-largest craft brewery in the country. Uinta is the largest brewer in the state of Utah.
History Uinta brewing company began brewing beer in the winter of 1993 in a renovated mechanics garage in Salt Lake City, Utah. Their flagship beer was Cutthroat Pale Ale, named after Utah's state fish. This was followed by King's Peak Porter, named after Utah's highest peak; Golden Spike Hefeweizen, named after the spike used to commemorate the completion of the transcontinental railroad, which was completed in Utah; and Dubhe, named after the Utah Centennial star.
In 2001, Uinta became the first Utah company to be 100% wind powered. The company also began installing solar panels on the brewery roof in 2011.
In 2024 and 2025 Uinta won gold medals in the American Cream Ale category at the Great American Beer Festival.
Financing and growth
In August 2014, Uinta announced that it sold a percentage of the company to New York-based private equity firm The Riverside Company for an undisclosed amount. Uinta CEO Will Hamill stated that the capital raised would be used to hire new employees, and expand beyond the Salt Lake City region.
Uinta had a period of accelerated growth in the 2010s. Uinta stated that it sold 60,000 barrels of beer in 2013, and 77,000 barrels in 2014.
As of March 2015, Uinta beers are sold in 32 states and Washington, D.C. This number has declined however, as they have withdrawn from multiple states during the second half of the 2020s decade.
Uinta saw its sales dip by 11% in 2024 compared to the previous year. This follows a trend of craft breweries struggling to keep sales up due to rising costs in the United States. According to the Brewers Association, the lobbying arm for independent brewers, sales of craft beer fell 4% in 2024.
Products
Year Round Brews
Cutthroat Pale Ale Pale Ale 5% ABV Hop Nosh IPA 7.3% ABV Hazy Nosh Hazy IPA 5% ABV Detour Double IPA 9.5% ABV Trop Nosh Tropical IPA 8% ABV 801 Pils Pilsner 5% ABV Baba Black Lager 4% ABV Wyld Juicy IPA 5% ABV Clear Daze Juicy IPA 6.6% ABV Lime Pilsner Flavored Pilsner 5% ABV Golden Spike Hefeweizen 5% ABV Trader Session IPA 5% ABV Pack It Out Session IPA 5% ABV Was Angeles American Lager 5% ABV
Seasonal Brews
Yard Sale Winter Lager 5% ABV Season Pass Vanilla Porter 5% ABV SUM'R Kolsch 5% ABV Mango Lime Pilsner Flavored Pilsner 5% ABV Chile Limon Flavored Pilsner 5% ABV Punk'n Pumpkin Ale 5% ABV
Limited Small-Batch Brews
Anniversary Barley Wine 10.4% ABV Dubhe Imperial Black IPA 9.2% ABV Monkshine Belgian Style Blonde Ale 6% ABV Fest Helles German Style Lager 5.7% ABV 801 Coffee Pilsner 4% ABV Cutthroat+ Winter Pale Ale 4% ABV Cockeyed Cooper Sum'r Birthday Suit
Brett (Brettanomyces) Brews
Funk'n Patch Pumpkin Ale 8% ABV Croggy Saison 6.8% ABV Sea Legs Baltic Porter 8.2% ABV Hopscursion IPA 6.5% ABV
Their Hop Nosh IPA was designated "world class" by Beer Advocate.
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