It may have taken longer than they’d wished to transform the historic car dealership into Kalispell’s first craft brewery, but that lengthy bout of hard work seems like the distant past now that Kalispell Brewing Co. has become a central feature of the City’s downtown. To celebrate its one-year anniversary, Kalispell Brewing Co. is throwing…
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…
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…
A chance trip to Kalispell gave me the opportunity to pay a visit to Kalispell Brewing Co. this week and Beer Ambassador Maggie Doherty was kind enough to show me around. They’re hoping for a September start-up date and construction is moving along at a good clip. But until we get a chance to try…
Billings has six. Missoula four. Bozeman, Helena and Great Falls have two each. Butte is soon to get its second one. Heck, even Philipsburg and Wibaux have one. For some reason, Kalispell has long remained the only one of Montana’s seven “large” cities without a brewery. Missoula’s Bayern Brewing Co. kicked things off in the…