It’s Grand Opening time for Imagine Nation Brewing Co with a day filled with live music, workshops, food vendors, new beer and plenty of fun from 12:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. this Saturday, September 19. I’ll be leading one of those workshops, an informal beer tasting workshop that will cost you nothing more than the…
With Montana now reaching 45 operating breweries, getting around to them all is becoming more and more challenging. In Western Montana the task is a little easier with two brewery tour companies ready to whisk beer lovers around the burgeoning brewery scene. Montana Brewery Tours and Tap Room Tours, both based in Missoula, launched this…
Here’s a brief update on beer related items at the Montana Legislature for Tuesday, January 22, 2013. HB 58, creating a brew-on-premise license, easily passed the House by a 70 to 29 vote and has been transmitted to the Senate for its consideration. Along the way, the bill was amended to clarify that a licensee…
Blogging friend Rob Fulmer of Beer PHXation had an interesting post yesterday taking great issue with what he calls the “Two Ounce Culture.” Stan Hieronymus was so enamored with the phrase that he implored Rob to run out and protect it. The premise stems from an New Yorker article on art. More specifically, an article…
A few weeks back the tasting crew got together to check out the world of chile beers – those brewed with the peppers, not the country of origin. Chile beers have become much more prevalent over the past couple of years and are even turning up in Montana’s tap houses. Bowser Brewing in Great Falls…
I don’t how many chocolate beers exist in this craft beer world, but for a few hours Saturday night, Missoula, MT was the capital of them all. Months in the making, our local loose-knit tasting group managed to assemble seventeen chocolate beers for a Valentine’s Day themed celebration of craft beer. From chocolate stouts to…