Dinner at the Green Pig

One of the trends that I’m starting to notice in Salt Lake is that some bars and restaurants are paying local breweries to make house beers for them.   Iggies has a couple house beers and as I discovered last night, so does the Green Pig.

The Green Pig ) is a nice sports and music bar in down town Salt Lake (31 East 400 South).  It is one of the newer bars in Salt Lake started up by the former owners of Port O’ Call – a very popular bar in Salt Lake that was the victim of Eminent Domain with the construction of the new Federal courthouse.

In the interest of full disclosure – I don’t know the owners of The Green Pig but I do have friends that are in a funk bank, The Vision, and they perform at The Green Pig frequently.

I was there last night with friends and my wife enjoying the open jam – electric blues night.  Highly recommended.  I’m hoping to be back on Friday (August 3) when The Vision will be performing again.

Last night, I sampled the chips & salsa, the hot wings, a Reuben soup, and the Green Pig Pilsner.  The chips are traditional homemade tortilla chips (much thicker than something you would typically buy in a store) and were quite tasty.  The salsa, however, was mostly chopped tomatoes.  While the tomatoes were fresh and very good, it takes more than chopped tomatoes to make a salsa fresca.  My opinion, it could have used some cilantro, onions, and peppers.

Lets get started

As of today, I’ll be posting my thoughts on beers that I have made and their recipes.  I’ll also post my thoughts of craft beers that I have tried and clone recipes for them.  I am going to try to post to this blog on a weekly basis.

A little back story on myself, I’m a home brewer.  I’ve been brewing since 2004.  With few exceptions, I have only brewed recipes of my creation, or at least ones that I have modified to suite my tastes.  I typically brew out-of-style.  My brewing philosophy is,

Styles are very important in terms of history, marketing, and competitions.