Great Falls, Montana is getting ready to welcome 100+ beer writers, social media influencers, and other beer industry personnel from across the country for the 2019 Beer Now Conference on June 6-8. Now it its 10th year, the conference has previously taken place in well-known beer destinations like San Diego, CA, Portland, OR, Boulder, CO,…
It’s time for another Montana homebrew competition! This one is a combined effort of the Central Montana Homebrew Club and Mighty Mo Brewing Co. in Great Falls. Entries are due to Mighty Mo by March 15 and will be judged according to the BJCP style guidelines. More information is available on this handy flyer:
The Montana Farmers Union hosted its first Harvest Montana Brew Fest and Competition this past weekend in Great Falls. Twenty two breweries participated in the brewfest portion, handing out samples and chatting with participants while enjoying the rockabilly sounds of Cold Hard Cash. Many more Montana breweries took advantage of the opportunity to have their…
Great Falls, Montana, in November might not be everyone’s idea of an exciting vacation spot, but the Montana Farmers Union is betting you’ll set that aside for a good reason: Beer. The Farmers Union is hosting its first Harvest Montana Grain Conference this week and it ends with an all-Montana beer brewfest Friday evening. With…
Montana was predicted to top the list of barley producing states this year with an expected 900,000 acres of barley to be planted, according to the Prospective Plantings Report released by the American Malting Barley Association last March. Actual production is an entirely different matter with storms causing wide-spread damage across Idaho, Montana and Alberta.…
Once upon a time – actually not that long ago – Great Falls, MT, was a place where all the “good” beer was hidden behind closed doors and discussed only in hushed whispers by a select few enthusiasts down dark alleys while trading imported beverages from far away lands like . . . . Oregon.…
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…
Lets be honest here. Great Falls, Montana, has not been a hotbed of craft beer activity. When many of Montana’s other larger cities got a new brewery (or three or four), a few bars and restaurants with nice tap selections and an improving craft presence in the local grocery stores, Great Falls plodded along on…