The Brewers Association handed out hundreds of medals Saturday morning at the annual Great American Beer Festival in Denver, CO, and one Montana brewery made a big splash. Helena’s Lewis and Clark Brewing Co. received three medals and was named the Small Brewing Company and Brewer of the Year, an award given to breweries producing…
Fifteen Montana breweries were awarded a combined twenty six medals at the North American Beer Awards on June 2, 2018. The competition is held in Idaho Falls each year in early June in conjunction with the Mountain Brewers Beer Fest. Organized by the North American Brewers Association, this well regarded competition is conducted as a…
Missoula Marathon Beer Run and Missoula Area Beer Guide (Updated for 2019) Missoula Marathon Beer Run: 6:00 p.m., Friday, June 28, 2019 Race Expo / Missoula 5K: 8:00 a.m. Saturday, June 29, 2019 Missoula Marathon / Half-Marathon: 6:00 a.m. Sunday, June 30, 2019 Missoula is a city that makes you want to run. Or walk,…
The Brewers Association announced the winners of the 2018 World Beer Cup Thursday at the conclusion of the Association’s annual Craft Brewers Conference, held this year in Nashville, TN. It was the largest competition to date for the biennial event, with 8,234 beers entered in 101 beer style categories, a 25% increase over the 2016…
[Note: A version of this article first appeared in the 2017 August/September edition of the Rocky Mountain Brewing News.] Billings, Montana, bills itself as Montana’s Trailhead and standing on the edge of the City’s famed rimrocks give a perfect indication why. Seven mountain ranges dot the view, Pryor, Big Horn, Bull, Snowy, Crazy, Absaroka, and…
Bayern Brewing Co. celebrated its 30th anniversary earlier this year and its selection of authentic German beers have been a favorite of many across the Montana and beyond. Opened in 1987, the Missoula brewery first packaged its beer in 1997 with bottles of Amber and Pilsener. Bayern has been a champion of the sustainability of…
[Note: A version of this story first appeared in the 2017 August/September edition of the Rocky Mountain Brewing News.] For a brewery racking up major hardware from some of the most prestigious beer competitions, Überbrew’s best feature might be its comfortable, unassuming, inviting nature that rewards patrons with top-notch beer. That unpretentious nature begins at…
Missoula’s newest beer store, Big Head’s Bottle Shop, will hold it’s grand opening this Saturday, October 21, from 1:00 p.m. to 7:00. p.m. Formerly a part of Summer Sun Garden and Brew, the bottle shop was spun off as a separate business when the stores relocated this summer to adjoining suites at 3106 W. Broadway…
I’m a little late in sharing the news, but Montana breweries picked up more medals at the beer competition held in conjunction with the Great American Beer Festival. Winners were announced at a ceremony held in Denver, CO on October 7. Judges awarded 293 medals in 98 beer categories covering 161 different beer styles in…
The Montana Brewers Conference takes place in Missoula this week, Sept. 28-29, with two days of conference content in advance of the annual Fall Rendezvous brewfest on Saturday, Sept. 30. Conference content includes a presentation on the Brewers Association Beer Servers Training Manual by Tim Brady of Whetstone Brewing from Battleboro, Vermont, a panel on…