For the first eight years of its reincarnation, the Missoula Brewing Co. has existed only on paper with a single contract-brewed beer to its name, Highlander Scottish Red Ale. Over the past year, that piece of paper has evolved into a sizable brewing operation and pizza kitchen now set to open to the public on…
Cole Schneider and Maggie Doherty opened Kalispell Brewing Company less than nine months ago, but quickly growing demand has them undertaking their first expansion project. Kalispell opened with a fermentation system using four 10 barrel fermenters. The expansion project increases fermentation capacity 150% by adding two 10 barrel fermenters and two 20 barrel fermenters for…
Kalispell, in the lush Flathead Valley near the west side of Glacier National Park, last had a brewery around 1955. That changed in June this year when Cole Schneider and Maggie Doherty opened the ten-barrel Kalispell Brewing Company along busy Main Street. Getting the brewery open in the downtown historic building was a lengthy, challenging…
After a successful test run for mug club members last night, Cabinet Mountain Brewing Co. in Montana’s far northwest town of Libby opens to the public today at 11:00 a.m. Congratulations to owners Kristin Smith and Sarah Dinning and brewer Grant Golding on becoming Montana’s 45th operating brewery. Expected to be on tap for today’s…
Not very long ago it seems I only needed to issue one of these “Montana Brewery News” items once every six months or so. This will be the third in the past two months. By all accounts 2014 is likely to go down as the Year of the Brewery. If anyone wants to create a…
Congrats to Montana’s newest brewery, Beaverhead Brewing Co., which quietly opened in Dillon this past weekend. Their official grand opening is set for Saturday, June 21, 2014. If you’re near Dillon this weekend you’ll find them at 218 S. Montana Street (corner of S. Montana and Reeder Streets). Their facebook page is at this link…
Back on October 30, I posted an article about the rise in Montana breweries, bringing to 46 the number of breweries operating, or under construction. It is a bit hard to believe, but it’s already time to update the list again. When I updated my list less than two months ago (see the side bar…
While making a few temporary design changes to the blog last night I also took a moment to update the list of Montana breweries in the side-bar to the right (look right, scroll down). That seems to be a popular feature as I see people clicking through the list on a regular basis. My criteria…
Rolling across my beer newswire recently were two “best of” lists that featured Montana breweries. First up was Thrilllist.com’s “The Best Craft Brewery In Every State” which chose Big Sky Brewing Co. for Montana. This list was followed a few days later by Businessinsider.com’s “24 American Microbreweries Every Beer Lover Should Know.” According to the…