If the whole Days of ’47 Parade scene just isn’t your “thing,” but you still feel like making merry in Utah on July 24, blow off Pioneer Day and celebrate Pie and Beer Day instead.
The 10-year-old Official Pie and Beer Day, planned for Salt Lake City’s Beer Bar, was abruptly canceled Thursday afternoon — but other options are available.
If you feel like trekking a bit to get your drink on, put on your best prairie attire, make like the pioneers, and participate in the first annual Pioneer Trail: A Pie and Beer Day Pub Crawl.
This sprawling, multibar event starts at 4 p.m. and goes until 11. The first “supply stop” is at The Ruin, at 159 S. Main St. There, during check-in from 4 to 6 p.m., you’ll get your “passport,” which you need to get stamped four times in order to qualify for a drawing for prizes at the end. (The Ruin counts as your first stamp.)
Travel to the different supply stops to get stamps and “spin for your fate,” where, in the style of the old computer game “The Oregon Trail,” you can experience outcomes like drowning and dysentery (you really just have to drink a random alcoholic or nonalcoholic drink).
(Chris Detrick | The Salt Lake Tribune) The entrance to Quarters Arcade Bar, 5 E. 400 South in Salt Lake City Thursday, March 22, 2018. Quarters is one of the stops on the Pioneer Trail: A Pie and Beer Day Pub Crawl.
The other “supply stops” include:
Quarters Arcade Bar Downtown, 5 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City.
The Pearl, 917 S. 200 West, Salt Lake City.
Water Witch, 163 W. 900 South, Salt Lake City.
Bar Nohm, 165 W. 900 South, Salt Lake City.
Quarters Arcade Bar Sugar House, 1045 E. 2100 South, Salt Lake City.
All the bars are meant to be accessed via TRAX. For your final stamp, make your way to Quarters in Sugar House, where you can get a ticket for a drawing for prizes at 10 p.m., plus get $5 off pizza pies. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased on 24tix.com.
More Pie and Beer Day events
Chappell Brewing • 2285 S. Main St., South Salt Lake • Chappell Brewing is baking four different pies from scratch for Pie and Beer Day this year, including: smoked pumpkin with cardamom whipped cream and a candied bru-malt dust; classic apple pie with sharp Vermont cheddar and a dollop of vanilla bean ice cream; blueberry mint pie with crumble crust and mint whipped cream; and strawberry rhubarb with balsamic whipped cream and a little airplane cookie. The brewery will also be holding a pie-eating contest.
Church & State • 370 S. 300 East, Salt Lake City • Church & State is celebrating Pie and Beer Day on Wednesday with a five-course vegan feast curated by Grounded Plant Based Goods. The menu will feature salads and sliders, plus watermelon, root beer, ginger beer, apple beer and a variety of pies. There will also be entertainment, games and a drawing for prizes, and all proceeds will go to support Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. Tickets are $35 in advance, $45 the day of the event.
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Fisher Brewing Company is one of the breweries that will be pouring beer at the Official Pie and Beer Day party in downtown Salt Lake City on Wednesday, July 24.
Fisher Brewing Company • 320 W. 800 South, Salt Lake City • On Wednesday, food truck Bella will be serving artisan wood-fired pizzas, and Pie Party will be serving a variety of pies, and you can pair both with Fisher beer.
HK Brewing • 370 Aspen Ave., Salt Lake City • This kombucha brewer is brewing a special keg of key lime pie-flavored kombucha that will be on tap on July 24. Patrons will be able to get the key lime kombucha and a draft beer for $10. There will also be empanadas and mini pies to pair with your beverages.
Hopkins Brewing Company • 1048 E. 2100 South, Salt Lake City • Every year for Pie and Beer Day, Hopkins Brewing Company features a local pie maker. This year, that maker is Pies the Limit, which will be serving blueberry sour cream pie, strawberry rhubarb, chocolate banana cream and pistachio mascarpone. Hopkins will also be holding its weekly Jazz Jam in the evening on July 24 from 8 to 11 p.m.
Kiitos Brewing • 608 W. 700 South, Salt Lake City • The Pink Boots Society, which supports women and nonbinary folks in the brewing industry, is doing a pub crawl on July 24, and Kiitos, Beer Bar and Fisher Brewing are among the stops. For Pie and Beer Day, Kiitos is brewing a Watermelon Blonde and Blue Corn Lime Cerveza and serving pizzas.
Pat’s Barbecue • 155 W. Commonwealth Ave., Salt Lake City • Pat’s Barbecue is celebrating Pie and Beer Day from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Wednesday with $2 root beer floats, $4 pie, $2 appetizers, $4 draft beer and $2 flavored sodas, plus a burger special for $8.99 and $2 fries, hush puppies, chips and salsa, or corn riblets with the purchase of an entree.
SaltFire Brewing • 2199 S. West Temple, South Salt Lake • SaltFire Brewing is teaming up with Vosen’s Bread Paradise for a celebration featuring craft beer and pies, Wednesday at 3 p.m. For $10, you can select the pie and beer pairing of your choice.
Scion Cider Bar • 916 S. Jefferson St., Salt Lake City • Scion Cider Bar is throwing its third annual Scioneer Day on Sunday, with live music starting at noon. The Dough Miner will be serving meat & veggie savory hand pies, plus sweet options. To pair with the release of Scion’s new Pioneer Perry — a spiced pear cider featuring cloves, coriander and lime — Pie Party will be serving gluten-free key lime bars. On the 24th, Scion will have Pie Party apricot cheesecake bars to pair with another new release: a reserved edition of Scion’s Provençal apricot and lavender cider, barrel-aged for 8½ months in a Sugar House Distillery rye whiskey barrel.
2 Row Brewing • 73 W. 7200 South, Midvale • 2 Row Brewing will have sweet and savory pies with beer pairings for Pie and Beer Day, and they’ll be tapping a key lime pie beer firkin at 4 p.m.
