Utah’s first Black-owned brewery moving to Salt Lake City

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Utah’s first Black-owned craft brewery is leaving southwestern Utah and moving to Salt Lake City. Policy Kings Brewery is owned and operated by Deandre and Sara Ridgel. The husband-and-wife duo opened Cedar City’s only craft brewery in 2018. First, it was a two-barrel operation, but it quickly grew to five. Child wakes up from coma after driving toy tractor into Beaver Co. river, nearly drowning “We outgrew our space three years ago, and we couldn’t find any commercial space down here,” Sara Ridgel told ABC4. After trying to find another home in southern Utah, where Sara grew up, the couple opted to move their business to the state’s capital, in part because of its flourishing craft beer scene. “Beer is normalized up there. Craft beer is accepted,” Ridgel said. “It’s a part of people’s everyday lives. It’s community for them, like it should be.” Policy Kings plans to open in Salt Lake City this fall in the hip 900 South area, not far from Scion Cider. Black-owned business Policy Kings derives its name from the prohibition era in Chicago, when an illegal game of chance called “policy” — similar to today’s lottery — was extremely...