by Heidi Grieser Between 1300 East, 1700 East, 2100 South, and 2400 South, Brigham Young selected 80 acres to be the site of the Utah Territorial Prison in 1853. At the time, the facility was 6 miles from the center of the city, but when the prison was moved to Point of the Mountain in 1951, the city decided to use the site to create Sugar House Park, Highland High School, … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2011
April Issue of Utah Stories. Find it all over Salt Lake or Buy it now!
The April issue of Utah Stories will be distributed today! (March 31,2011). By Friday morning it will be available all over downtown Salt Lake City and Sugar House. This issue includes articles of some of the most unique and inspiring Utah artists. Including sculptor Kreg Harrison, illustrator Travis Bone and street artist/graffiti artist Guts. Also read about why a New York … [Read more...]
Epic Brewery
An Epic rise to glory in beer. Epic has become the rising super-star in Utah craft brew industry. Taking on a business model to produce a very low volume and huge variety of high point beers in small batches, they are the craftiest of the craft brewers in Utah and they have realized astounding success. It started when Peter Erickson and David Cole sold their brine … [Read more...]
Uinta Brewery
Uinta enters small batch craft market even as they go big. Will Hamill’s ruddy face and cheerful demeanor give him the appearance that he just got off the slopes from a great powder day at Snowbird. Will started Uinta Brewing Company in 1993 as Utah’s second full fledged brewery. The first that wasn’t a brewpub. Uinta’s first beer was called Cutthroat, after our state fish. … [Read more...]
Wasatch Brewery Co.
Fighting for Freedom, Liberty and Beer: Meet the Man Who Made the Brew Pub Possible in Utah. Before 1986 is was illegal for a brewery to sell its own product. This was a law enacted before prohibition to prevent monopolies whereby brewery owners could snub out competition by buying all the bars and serving only their own beer. With this law being obviously outdated, not a … [Read more...]
SQUATTERS
Three brew pubs, a continuous winning streak for great beers, not to mention very happy brewers. In 2008 Squatters introduced “a serious ass-kicking” in hop rising. A 9% alcohol beer that was the first of a series of high point beers that later hit the market. Hop Rising featured the photo of a farmer with giant hop spiked by a pitchfork. That farmer was Squatter’s brewer … [Read more...]
How Beer Saved Utah
by Richard Markosian How Utah’s Microbreweries make Utah a better place to live: how their products are making a healthier population, and how, thanks to beer, downtown Salt Lake City was saved from organized crime. Before assuming from the tagline, that this article is propaganda designed only to promote debauchery and drunkenness, consider a few basic points. If beer … [Read more...]
A History of Beer in Utah
by Richard Markosian Utah was once the beer capital of the Western United States. Utah and its rich history of the beer industry providing jobs, education and quality products dates back to the 1880s. Utah's Rich History in Beer Part II in a two part series on How Beer Saved Utah. “Very few people realize that Utah was once home to some of biggest and best … [Read more...]
Westgate Resorts Class Action Lawsuit
Nevada court might finally deliver timeshare ripoff victims the justice they deserve. It has been amazing that such a blatantly dishonest company as Westgate Resorts has been able to continue lying to customers and selling timeshare rip-off scams for as long as they have. It actually appears that Westgate might finally get what they deserve. A class action lawsuit has … [Read more...]
Battle Between Pawn Shops & Antique Dealers?
By Heidi Grieser & Richard Markosian Antique dealers are accusing pawn shop owners of trying to put them out of business. According to these dealers the pawn shop owners are lobbying for amendments to the 2006 Pawnshop and Secondhand Merchandise Transaction Information Act to no longer allow antique dealers exemption from the law. The 2006 law created a state-wide … [Read more...]