So back in 1990 I was home visiting from college and I stopped at the is new place called Squatters. Oh man I was in heaven. They had this awesome new thing you can fill an entire 64oz glass bottle and you can take home fresh craft beer – I was hooked. Captain Bastards Oatmeal Stout was the order. You can say from then on I was a craft beer geek. Just a few years later did I really discover the passion to find the ultimate Barley Pop.
From Squatters Brewing –
It all began with a business trip to the Northwest. Jeff Polychronis and Peter Cole, business partners long before Squatters Pub Brewery came to be, had frequented brew pubs and noticed that they seemed to be “the” place to be for a lot of the locals. So after a year-long pub crawl, visiting more than 40 brew pubs throughout the west, and with a swill, a swallow and many nights of appreciating great beer, they decided it was time that Salt Lake had a brew pub of its own. Squatters Pub Brewery opened in downtown Salt Lake City on September 5, 1989.
By 1994, considerable demand existed for Squatters beers from restaurants, hotels, bars and resorts, which resulted in opening a production brewery to bottle and keg their brews. Jeff and Peter opened a second pub at Salt Lake City International Airport in 2002 as well as merged their microbrewery operations for draft and bottle production with Wasatch Brewery, creating the Utah Brewers Cooperative. A third Squatters location opened in Park City in 2006. Salt Lake Brewing Company now operates 5 brewpubs, a wine and ale house and employees over 500 individuals.
