Come for the beer, leave the wine alone
Riverfront / Downtown Ogden · Ogden · Brewpub / American · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · July 11, 2026
RagingWine reviewed Ogden Beer Company’s wine list and gave it The Lazy List — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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The wine list at Ogden Beer Company is exactly what you'd expect from a place called Ogden Beer Company — an afterthought. Six labels, all familiar grocery-store names, tucked in behind a full page of craft beers where they clearly belong. If you're here for wine, someone made a wrong turn.
Six wines, six by-the-glass pours — meaning the entire 'list' is just whatever's open behind the bar. You've got Canoe Ridge Expedition Cab, Macmurray Estate Pinot Noir, Fossil Point Chardonnay, Adami Prosecco, a house red blend, and a house white. These are recognizable, widely distributed labels with no pretense of regional curation or discovery — this is the wine section of a mid-tier grocery store, priced for a restaurant. There are no bottles, no deeper cellar plays, no old-world presence, no natural or independent producers in sight. The list hasn't been updated with any intention beyond covering the bases for guests who don't drink beer.
Every single wine on the list is available by the glass, which sounds generous until you realize the 'list' is only six bottles. Prices run $8–$15, and while the lower end is reasonable, hitting $15 for a Fossil Point Chardonnay or Adami Prosecco at a riverside brewpub is a stretch. There's no rotation, no seasonal swap, no sense that anyone's thought about these pours since they were first added to the menu.
Canoe Ridge Expedition Cabernet — $14
Relative to its neighbors on this list, the Canoe Ridge Cab is the most wine you'll get for your dollar here — it's a real producer from Washington's Horse Heaven Hills with some actual structure. Still not exciting, but it's the least offensive choice if you need a red.
Adami Prosecco
Adami is legitimately one of the better Prosecco producers out there — a family estate in Valdobbiadene that makes clean, honest bubbly. It's completely out of place on this list, which makes it the one wine here that hints at someone, somewhere, knowing something about wine.
Fossil Point Chardonnay
At $15 a glass, you're paying a premium for a Central Coast Chardonnay that retails for well under $15 a bottle. The math doesn't work, and the wine isn't interesting enough to justify the markup at a brewpub where a great pint costs half as much.
Macmurray Estate Pinot Noir + Chili Verde
The Macmurray Pinot is light enough not to fight the green chile heat, and its modest fruit gives the pork-forward chili verde something to lean against. It's not a revelatory pairing, but it's the best this list can offer against one of the kitchen's better dishes.
The Bottom Line
Ogden Beer Company is a genuinely fun riverfront spot — just order a Cougar Juice wheat and call it a day. The wine list exists, technically, but it's not trying to impress anyone and you shouldn't let it impress you.
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Grocery Store
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Acceptable
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Willing but Green
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Acceptable
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Steep
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Willing but Green
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Crowd Pleasers
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Basic Stemmed
Rotating Cast
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Grocery Store
Fair
Basic Stemmed
Rotating Cast
Set & Forget
Acceptable
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Set & Forget
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