Uinta Brewing Company

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Uinta Brewing Company
Company typePrivate
Industry Alcoholic beverage
Founded1993
FounderWill Hamill
Headquarters
Salt Lake City, Utah
,
USA
Products Beer
Website www.uintabrewing.com

Uinta Brewing Company is a craft brewery founded in 1993 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. [1] The company produces a range of beers, naming them after Utah's cultural and natural icons. [1] [2] As of 2016, Uinta was the 39th-largest craft brewery in the country. [3] Uinta is the largest brewer in the state of Utah.

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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. [4] The company also began installing solar panels on the brewery roof in 2011. [2]

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. [5] 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, [6] and 77,000 barrels in 2014. [7]

As of March 2015, Uinta beers are sold in 32 states and Washington, D.C. [7] This number has declined however, as they have withdrawn from multiple states during the second half of the 2020s decade.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. [8] According to the Brewers Association, the lobbying arm for independent brewers, sales of craft beer fell 4% in 2024. [9]

Products

Year Round Brews

Seasonal Brews

Limited Small-Batch Brews

Brett (Brettanomyces) Brews

Retired Brews

Their Hop Nosh IPA was designated "world class" by Beer Advocate. [10]

References

  1. 1 2 "Our Story". Uinta Brewing Company. 13 April 2011. Retrieved 2 December 2011.
  2. 1 2 Murphy, Regina (2015-03-07). "Salt Lake City brews up hoppy goodness". The Emporia Gazette.
  3. ↑ "BREWERS ASSOCIATION RELEASES TOP 50 BREWERIES OF 2016". Brewers Association. 15 March 2017.
  4. ↑ Snyder, John (2002-01-15). "Utah Brewery Chooses 100% Wind Power". GreenBiz. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
  5. ↑ Furnari, Chris (2014-08-28). "Uinta Sells Partial Ownership to Private Equity Firm". Brewbound.
  6. ↑ Canada, Hillary & Rizzo, Lillian (2014-09-03). "Uinta Brewing Taps Riverside Co. to Help Sell Suds Beyond Salt Lake". The Wall Street Journal.
  7. 1 2 Eisenberg, David (2015-03-10). "Uinta Brewing Expands Distribution Throughout Midwest". Brewbound.
  8. ↑ "Sales fall among Utah's leading craft breweries". Axios. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
  9. ↑ "Craft breweries struggle as sales and appetites wane". SFexaminer. Retrieved 12 October 2025.
  10. ↑ "Hop Notch IPA - Uinta Brewing Company". BeerAdvocate.com. Retrieved 3 February 2015.

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