They’re not brewing beer yet, but Lolo Peak Brewing Co. is hosting a homebrew competition with one heck of a grand prize: the chance to spend a day brewing at Lolo Peak and have your winning beer on tap when the brewery opens in 2014. Here’s the scoop. The competition is open to non-professional brewers…
Last October, homebrew clubs from around Montana came together to stage Montana’s first state-wide homebrew competition. Dubbed the Montana Mashup, the competition featured two days of judging at Bridger Brewing in Bozeman with 129 beers entered across nine categories. The winning beer from each category moved on to a final round with the top scoring…
The American Homebrewers Association’s 15th Annual Learn to Homebrew Day is tomorrow, Saturday, November 2, 2013. Clubs, homebrew shops and others around the country are hosting events to introduce the curious to homebrewing and help existing homebrewers take it up a notch. While I learned to homebrew some 16 or so years ago, I only…
The first annual Montana Mashup statewide home brew competition was held this weekend in Bozeman, with judging taking place at Bridger Brewing Co. Spawned out of good-natured smack talk between home brew clubs Zoo City Zymurgists (Missoula), Rimrock Brewers Guild (Billings) and Bridger Brew Crew (Bozeman), the competition serves to celebrate the home brewing culture…
A friendly reminder here that the deadline for entries to the 1st Annual Montana Mashup statewide home brew competition is Thursday, October 10, 2013. While the competition will be held at Bridger Brewing Co. in Bozeman on October 19 and 20, several drop off locations have been secured across the state. Locations accepting entries up…
One of the fun things about the Beer Bloggers Conference is learning what others are up to in the online beer world. I don’t make it a habit of striking up substantive conversations in the men’s bathroom during a beer break, but that’s what lead to learning about Bottle and Barter, a new website started…
This October, home brewers throughout Montana (and beyond) will have the opportunity to square off in Montana’s first* statewide home brew competition. A cooperative effort of Missoula’s Zoo City Zymurgists, Bozeman’s Bridger Brew Crew, and Billing’s Rimrock Brewers Guild, local home brew clubs, the 1st Annual Montana Mashup Competition will be held in Bozeman on…
The Sasquatch Home Brew Competition is almost here! All entries are due by Saturday, June 15 at noon at Higherground Brewing Co. at 518 N. First Street in Hamilton (or by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, June 14, if you’re dropping them off at Summer Sun in Missoula). Sponsored by Higherground Brewing Co. and Summer Sun…
Higherground Brewery and Summer Sun Garden and Brew are at it again. Following on the heels of the successful Yeti Home Brew Competition last December, they’ve teamed up again to offer a summer equivalent, the Sasquatch Home Brew Competition. Co-sponsored by Growler Fills and the Missoula Independent, it’s sure to be another great occasion celebrating…
On March 21, we ran a post congratulating Mississippi grass-roots organization Raise Your Pints on their successful multi-year effort to make homebrewing legal in their state, leaving Alabama as the only state left prohibiting it. Today, the Governor of Alabama signed legislation legalizing homebrewing in Alabama, also the result of a grassroots efforts of “regular,…