COVID-19 UPDATES:
Our Beer-To-Go Dock is open Monday-Friday from 3-7pm, Saturdays 1-7pm, and Sundays 12-6pm for walk up or drive in service on our dock (154 w Utopia)
Limited seating available in our taproom 5-9 Thursday - Saturday. First come first serve!
Refined Rebellion
Shades brews flavorful, award-winning craft beers in the heart of Salt Lake City. Not the conventional setting to establish a brewery, but we don’t do conventional. Our brews are unorthodox in both ingredients and experience. Our flavors are revolutionary, not the next tap down.
Unorthodox
We prefer to set the course rather than follow it. We brew because we love making great beer — delicious beer that makes drinkers realize that yeast settles but they shouldn’t have to. Our beers give customers what they didn’t know they were missing. Unexpected, disruptive, or as we like to say a refined rebellion against the repetitious, routine brew.
Beers
insatiable sessions, light & smooth, bold & strong
Shades Brewing offers a robust portfolio of spectacular beers. Our line up of bold and strong beers is balanced by distinctive light and session-able sours. No matter what we brew we aim for balanced and distinct flavors that are totally delicious. At the Shades Taproom and Beer To Go Dock you will find unforgettable beers exclusively available on site. You can also find Shades Brews at local Grocery stores, the Utah liquor store, local bars, and restaurants. For details on our beers press the “learn more” button below.
LIGHT. LOW CALORIE. LOW CARB.
F.I.T. Brewery by Shades creates delicious beers at 97 calories and 5g carbs. The sample packs contain the three headliner beers of this brand: the Blonde Ale, the Brut IPA, and the Light Lager, with some new headliners set to join in 2021. F.I.T. beers are designed to pair with your adventures.
PER 12 FL. OZ. -- AVERAGE ANALYSIS
Calories...…….97
Carbohydrates...…….5.6 grams
Protein..……..<1 grams
Fat……....0.0 grams
LIVLI HARD SELTZER
Livli is the latest Shades Brewing creation. These distinctive seltzers are brewed with real fruit, resulting in light and natural flavor. High quality ingredients give each seltzer a smooth, balanced finished.
KVEIK GOLDEN SOUR LIMITED EDITION RELEASES
In preparation for the launch of our sour program, our Brew Master was able to secure a special strain of Kveik yeast. Kveik is an ancient Norwegian yeast that’s centuries old and performs very well in sour beers. In the lab we were able to isolate the best cells and cared for them in our yeast propagation tanks. The yeast performed phenomenally. Loving to create and innovate, the idea was to brew a unique limited edition release every month. We got started and have created some amazing sours such as our Pink Tart, Peach Cobbler, and Strawberry Shortcake. After winning a Gold Medal at the Great American Festival for our classic Kveik 1 Golden Sour Ale, we received so many requests to bring the beer back that we decided it to incorporate it into our regular line up. Pina Colada Golden Sour was submitted to the International Beer Awards and took a Gold. Again, we have agreed to make this beer a regular release. Our Kveik series sours typically come in at 6.2% abv and are totally delicious. Keep and eye on our blog or social media for upcoming releases. You won’t want to miss them.
hogshead reserve limited edition barrel-aged beers
We have an expanding barrel aging program. Here we use distilled spirit and winery barrels to create unique one of kind beer. We call this line Hogshead Reserve. We thought the name was perfect for barrel aged beers produced at the old High Grade Meats building. Hogshead is the old world term used as a unit of measure for a wooden barrel. The brewery currently occupies what used to be a meat processing plant whose signage included a hog cartoon character.