Rick Salisbury opened the first Strap Tank in Springville in 2016 — craft beer and comfort food built around the Utah agricultural calendar and a kitchen that treats pub food with enough seriousness to earn its own following. By 2019, a second and larger location opened in Lehi. In April 2025, Strap Tank expanded into Southern Utah for the first time at 1872 Crosby Way in St. George, on the east-side corridor near the I-15 interchange that has become one of the densest new-construction strips in Washington County.
The St. George brewpub follows the Strap Tank format: house craft beers on tap alongside a menu organized around dishes that use Utah ingredients — proteins and produce calibrated to the seasons, presentations designed to make the beer pairing obvious without demanding it. The room is family-friendly, which matters in a county with Southern Utah's demographic profile, and the scale of the space (the St. George location is large by Southern Utah standards) allows for the kind of group dining that the brewery corridor in Springville does well.
For the register, Strap Tank is the Utah-founded craft brewery entry that Southern Utah has been missing. The nearest equivalent before this opening was a significant drive north. Salisbury's operation is Utah-rooted and Utah-capitalized, not a national chain concept that wandered across the gorge looking for a new market. The St. George location brings that origin with it.
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- https://straptankbrewery.com/
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