This month’s Session* topic is hosted by Derrick at Ramblings of a Beer Runner who begins with the following statistics: There’s been much cheering and fanfare reverberating throughout the brewing community about the latest brewery numbers recently released from the Brewer’s Association, who counted exactly 2,126 breweries in the United States. To put that into context, you have to go way back to…
Montana continues to demonstrate it has plenty of room for new craft breweries. With breweries stretching from Hamilton to Wibaux, it’s also clear the size of the town matters little and the thirst for great beer spans them all. Among several new breweries expected to open in 2012 is Desert Mountain Brewing Co. in Columbia…
Evan Bowser had a plan. We he retired, Evan thought he’d open a brewery. Somewhere along the line things didn’t quite work out that way. Now at the ripe old age of 27, Evan finds himself presiding over Bowser Brewing Co., Great Falls, MT’s first brewery in the modern age of craft brewing. Staffed by…
Tucked between I-90 and the Gallatin County Fairgrounds in a redeveloping former industrial area sits 406 Brewing Co., one of Montana’s newest breweries. It opened in May 2011at 101 East Oak St. in Bozeman, MT and it’s not a stretch to suggest it’s Montana’s most experimental brewery. It seems brewer/owner Matt Muth enjoys switching things…
When it opened last week, Higherground Brewing Co. in Hamilton, MT, became Montana’s 29th brewery, beating Bowser Brewing of Great Falls by a few days. Straight out of the box it looks like they’ve got a good thing going. You’ll find it at 518 N. First Street, also known as the main drag through town…
Tim Jacoby is the new-old head brewer for Flathead Lake Brewing Co. and he tells us the brewery is indeed shooting for a March reopening. Tim was the brewer at Flathead Lake from June 2007 through the end of 2008. He was trained by Travis Zeilstra of the Montana Brewing Company over in Billings which…