Pinnacle Brewing Company (aka Groggs)

7/12/2008 7:26:31 PM, saturday, july 12, 2008 [ Updated tuesday, august 05, 2008 ]
Wow! It’s been 651 days since BrewDad visited, and after being unable to find Groggs last time I went by this way, I have found the fabled Groggs. Tons of Bikes parked outside, but a surprisingly nice and quaint place inside. A basic small town bar, some old nic nacs laying around and locals drinking away. We got a huge pizza, which was nice. The service was good, and the beers were not as bad as others have said. Maybe a different batch. Overall, a bizarre place due to location for sure. But I salute Groggs, every small town should have a brewery, though Grogs’s beers are made 100 miles away by Uinta. Anyway, a nice place to get some rare ratings and good food. What is Friday night like I wonder? Images of Roadhouse come to mind. Oh, and 6 of their own beers on tap.

10/5/2006 12:01:38 PM, thursday, october 05, 2006
This was a very interesting place to stop a for our first stop on our trip around Utah, and mainly Colorado. This was a small one horse town with not much going to fir and as far as you can see this was not a place that was frequented by the rednecks in town. I am sure they are more likely to drink PBR, Ceers and such. We where greeted with no on in the place and to find out they do not even brew there beer and they contract out with Unita Brewers of which makes a pretty bad beer for them. The beer was lite and not very full of life. The food was good but a tad off. And the service well she needs to find that ticket out of town and move to Broadway they need people like her. The place was quant, quite and just a off the wall place to eat at. Glad it was the first. East Bound we are headed now.

7/31/2005 10:41:53 AM, sunday, july 31, 2005 [ Updated sunday, november 19, 2006 ]
Concur with mjames ... kind of a weird setting, but what else could you hope for out in the center of Utah? I think I had the same lady helping us! Like mjames says, if you’re cutting the corner from SLC to Moab, go ahead and stop by if you have the time. But don’t make a special trip.

10/17/2004 8:39:24 PM, sunday, october 17, 2004 [ Updated tuesday, september 18, 2007 ]
This is a little small town honkytonk bar, yet somehow they operate a brewery in the back. The beer was the absolute worst I’ve ever tried, and I’m being completely honest. No Budweiser or malt liquor has ever been as bad. All the beers had a smelly boot quality to them, and I couldn’t tell the difference between the pale ale and the porter, taste-wise. The ambiance is a gravel parking lot off of a small road outside of town, and you walk up a couple of wooden steps and into what seems like a doublewide where there are a few wooden bar tables and a small wooden bar. I visited early in the day, at about noon, so the cigarette smoke and local overacheivers presence wasn’t overbearing. I felt like I was in a bad movie, but I do have to give credit to the bartender, she was a nice lady who tried her best to make us feel welcome in what I think we all knew wasn’t a beer geek place. If you want to be amused, and maybe experience the other end of the “extreme” beer spectrum (extreme suckage), you might as well visit if you’re in the area... it’s really the only thing beer-wise out in central Utah.