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Whether that includes me canning beer or scrubbing the bathroom, it’s just life. “You’re just living,” he says, comparing the brewhouse to a big man cave. While Templin acknowledges owning a brewery is more work than he anticipated, it’s not work work. Rather, he says, “it’s more about so when I retire I can hand the keys to my nephews and my kids and say, ‘here you go.’ Don’t mess it up.”īut that could still be a ways off. Brewing so he could buy a Ferrari or other extravagances. Kevin and Britt Templin often travel to watch their son, Porter, play competitive hockey. “I always knew Kevin was a great brewer and knew he would make sure whatever we did, we would succeed,” Britt Templin says. I think we made some good beer down there.”īut he knew one day he would open his own brewery. “I raised my kids there, traveled the world, got educated. In 2007, the Great American Beer Festival awarded Red Rock Large Brewpub and Large Brewpub Brewer of the Year. “I was a total greenhorn.”įor the next 18 years, Templin brewed for Red Rock, developing countless recipes and winning dozens of medals. “I cleaned my first day and then my second day I made an American Light Lager, which is like the hardest beer in the world to make,” he laughs. In 2000, Dunlap needed a brewer and Templin obliged. Templin did contract work for Eric Dunlap, a part-owner of Red Rock Brewery, which was one of the first craft breweries in Utah. He left there to help a few other now-former breweries - Avalanche, Tracks, Rivers, etc. The beer turned out, and after a few years bouncing between Alta and Jackson Hole, Wyo., Templin snagged a job at Desert Edge Pub & Brewery. The carboy wouldn’t fit in his fridge so he lagered it in an old mine. It’s while working at an Alta restaurant that Templin brewed his first batch of beer - a homebrewed German-style Doppelbock. He joined his brother, who was living in Alta, and spent the next four years as a “professional ski bum.” Templin, 50, says it wasn’t snowing enough in Maine in the winter of 1991-92, so he bought a one-way ticket to Utah. TEMPLIN FAMILY BREWING Templin Family Brewing on the eve of its official opening in October 2018. You can come here and chill out and drink and feel very comfortable with a 22-year-old goggle-eyed skier or my mom sitting there having a martini - and everyone in between. “We want customers to come in here and have a good time. Learn what’s next for the brewery, hear his thoughts on the Utah beer scene, and find out what challenges he sees facing craft beer - the biggest of which might surprise you. I brew beer.” (article continues below) The flagship Granary Kellerbier at Templin Family Brewing in Salt Lake City.īONUS: Subscribe to the Utah Beer News Podcast and listen to our interview with Kevin Templin, T.F. “She made the place how it looks, she makes the place run. “This place would be nothing without her,” he says. “I’d rather people come in here and sit down at these nice Russian Oak tables with the proper glassware and be served in the whole environment - smell the mash, see the guys working.”įor the brewery aesthetics, he turned to his wife, Britt, whom he met a few years after moving to Utah in the early 1990s. “The presentation of the beer is super important to us,” Templin says. Appropriate glassware is vital for T.F., as are proper pours. It’s flanked by a half-dozen different glassware designs. Each option comes with a view of the 15-barrel brewhouse.Ī draft list is hand-written on a mirrored wall above the tap handles. And then the opportunity to sit at the bar or take a seat at one of the brewery’s communal tables. To smell it and see it.”įrom the moment customers walk through the door, they feel as if they’re part of the family. “I wanted an open-air concept, I wanted people to be part of the brewing process. “We knew what we wanted, we knew the vision,” says Templin, as he thinks back prior to T.F.’s opening in 2018.

Templin describes it as the “total package.”