Tamarack Brewing Company in Lakeside, MT, turned four years old recently, marking several years of great food, great atmosphere and a frequent rotation of one-offs and seasonal brews. To help celebrate, Tamarack once again brewed up an anniversary amber, based off their popular Yard Sale Amber Ale. We stopped by last weekend during a couple…
Where most of Flathead Lake Brewing Co.’s brews pack some serious flavor punches, Saison lands on the softer side, providing a lighter bodied brew that just might light up your summer day. We stopped in at the brewery at Woods Bay this past weekend while spending a couple of days hanging out at Flathead Lake. …
Collaboration beers are a hot trend in the craft beer world with dozens of breweries joining together to brew up something unique. It’s a trend that embodies the spirit of cooperation that is prevalent in the industry. It’s not too shabby a marketing technique, either, adding plenty of one-off beers to entice the curious. Montana…
Lone Peak Brewery in Big Sky, MT, started bottling four of their beers back in May. Those bottles made their way onto Missoula shelves over the past week and we got our first look at the artwork, which looks pretty snazzy. The four brews are Hellroaring ESP, IPA, Hippie Highway Oatmeal Stout and Nordic Blonde, …
Indeed, the posts on Growler Fills have dropped to a trickle recently, but that’s only a temporary situation. The final weeks of training, along with actually running the Missoula Marathon, left little time to explore the beer world. Add in summer activities and pleasantly busy work demands and the first thing to suffer is this…
As we announced back in April, The Missoula Brewing Co., makers of Highlander Scottish Red Ale under contract with Great Northern Brewing Co., reached an agreement with Great Northern to begin bottling Highlander in 22 oz. bombers. Well, now they’re ready to go and should be on the shelves in short order, likely in early…
What qualifies as a “session” beer is a topic of much debate in the beer world with no clear definition. Beer Advocate suggests it’s a beer with no more than 5% alcohol, a good balance between hops and malt and a clean finish, creating a highly drinkable beer. The lower alcohol and typically lighter body…
For every one of my many birthdays, I’ve had some form of chocolate for desert. Most often, that’s been a chocolate cake with chocolate icing, though there was a stretch of chocolate pies in there, too. It’s a good streak to have. According to Mom, many of those early cakes had a train on top,…
Elevator Imperial IPA, Harvest Moon Brewing Co.’s latest offering to find its way to a six pack, is a curious beer. If someone told me it was a Belgian Dubbel, I’d say the alcohol was a little high, but would have no other reason to question the diagnosis. The beer pours a wonderful copper color,…
To my knowledge, none of the cats involved in Flathead Lake Brewing Company of Missoula’s Humane Society fundraiser got to wrap their paws around a glass of Belgian Triple during the brewery’s launch party last Thursday. Their loss is your gain, though the world is running a bit short on entertaining youtube cat videos. FLBC’s…