Monday 9th of May 2011 06:27:54 PM

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One of the better places to grab a beer in Salt Lake. Also, the food is really good, if a little pricey. I had several of their beers while I was there, and I can say that I was a pretty big fan. I had their double IPA (which due to archaic Utah beer laws, had to be served in a bottle), and whatever my friends were having, and all of the beers were good. If I were ever in Salt Lake again, this is probably where I'd go for dinner and a brew. Red Rock Brewing Co. does it right.

Friday 18th of September 2009 02:23:26 AM

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Brewery is located in downtown Salt Lake City. Parking is located on the street nearby but it is walkable from most hotels. The brewpub has outside seating as well as a good sized bar.

Overall, the menu is pretty diverse. Lots of good choices. The beer menu was also extensive, although, they offered 10 options, but only listed 10 on the wall and didn't provide the names of all of them, so we were drinking in russian roulette. Overall, the beer was very average, one beer tasted quite a bit like peanbut butter, not sure which it was from the list. IPA was also good, but none of the beers really stood out as outstanding.

Overall for lunch with a 10 beer sampler, it was well over $50, which is a bit expensive.

Sunday 23rd of August 2009 03:10:49 PM

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This is a fairly large restaurant with lots of table and booth seating. There is a long bar located on the side by the kitchen area and the brewery is visible through windows in the one of the dining areas at the back. We were seated toward the front, near the covered deck on the street. The menu includes a selection of pizza, pasta and several upscale entrees. Our visit was in the Spring and there were only 7 house brews on tap plus a couple sodas. I had an Oatmeal Stout and a Nut Brown Ale along with our dinner. We parked on the street but there are several public lots nearby.

Monday 3rd of August 2009 07:40:27 PM

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Large Building with brick walls and open ceilings with track lights. Very long wood bar and wood fired pizza oven and large rotisserrie oven. I did not as usual get a sampler. I had the pilsner which was crisp with some moderate malt backed by medium hop bitterness, has a gold color and is crystal clear. Lingering hop flavor! Food menu has lots of variety, steaks to pasta, seafood to sandwiches, lots of appetizers, salads, and wood fired pizza. Homemade daily soup and 4 specials on the board. Also homemade Root Beer and Cream Soda. Also serve espresso, latte, etc. I had a suasage wrap sandwich which was good, the fries were the large dinner type. Then I had the Organic Pale Ale is dark gold or orange in color and has slight crystal malt flavor balanced by moderate hops, has a creamy malty mouthfeel and is slightly cloudy. I would recommend stopping here if in the area, worth the trip. Not a Pub Discount program member.

Thursday 25th of June 2009 11:16:01 AM

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Still amazed... I have been here twice in th elast year or so. It still amazes me that there beer here is good, true to style and still only 3.2%. This trip I had 7 of there offerings from their English Summer light ale to their Cream Stout. All very good, but the Pale ale was the stand out. The IP Junior and Special Bitter were a tad of a let down, but the Bamberg Rauch Bier interesting. Very full smokey flavor, but yet not overpowering. I had a pizze this go around and although very good, I like others wouldn't go there just for that. The place was busy, but the atmosphere was fine, typical large microbrewery.

Tuesday 30th of December 2008 06:16:18 PM

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Had a chance to stop here while in Salt Lake for the holidays and I was sure glad I got to stop. I missed this place last time when I was here for the Great Salt Lake Beer Run and was really kicking myself for missing it. They have a great brewpub feel and style. Just like every other brew pub I have been in and they all look and feel the same. This place was jumping with people. Now for the reason I went the beers. A huge sampler and with there funky Utah booze laws they had to say the sampler of 10 was for the both of us my wife and I. So it was off to the races and chugging the samples. They have light beers to dark beers and all around the 3.2 mark. With the lighter style the 3.2 is no biggie but when it comes to styles that need more malt they tend to come across watery with using less malt. So they have some issues but the beers overall where decent. The service was very good and the server told me some interesting facts about there beers. We had a great time the food was good and plenty. I was glad I stopped. If ever in Utah and need something different than the main brew pubs Red Rock might be up your alley.

Wednesday 2nd of April 2008 06:11:15 PM

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How the hell do you get drunk in Utah? 3.2 beer, of course!
It sounds funny, but I somehow got pretty tipsy at this place on three beers and had to kill time on the phone outside before driving home. And, yes, I had food. Strange, I know.
The place is big, noisy and popular, and there seemed to be just as many here for the beer as there were for the food, and a wait for tables.
Now, I won't go into Utah's ridiculously complex laws regarding bars and restaurants, but the beers I had were all 3.2. I think though that this almost makes the beers better because so much effort is put into making them exactly 3.2 while still maintaining a reasonable beer taste. And reasonable they were.
Pretty good stuff all around, actually. I had the brown, the "organic" pale and the stout. The stout only disappointed in that it seemed a little light, but I'm used to stouts that clock in at about 9%. The other two though certainly did not seem light at all, and I could have sworn that the bartender, who had to explain a couple of the rules to me, gave me the wrong, higher % beers.
Their centerpiece on the food is the wood-fired oven pizzas, which I tried. I wouldn't go back just for the food, but it was a pretty good for a wood-fired pizza.
This is just down the street from the other good brewpub Downtown, Squatters, so it's worth a stop for beer fans. There is parking on the street, free after business hours, and I was able to find a spot basically out front.