Missoula Brewing Co. Announces Plans for Summer Opening, Pizza Kitchen

Missoula’s latest brewery, Missoula Brewing Co., is quickly rising out of the ground just a short stretch west of North Reserve Street. The brewery released a press release yesterday with more details on the facility and its operations. Read on to learn more: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Missoula, MT – Missoula Brewing Company announces it will…

Missoula Brewing Company Announces Plans For New Brewery

Try and locate the Missoula Brewing Company this afternoon and all you’ll find is a small notation on a bottle of Highlander Beer. That’s about to change in a very big way. Today, the Missoula Brewing Company announced plans to construct a brewery where Highlander Beer will again be brewed in Missoula for the first…

Meadowlark Brewing Co. – Montana’s 46th – Now Open

Anyone getting bored with this kind of news yet?  Of course not! Montana welcomed its 46th operating brewery on Saturday, August 23, with the opening of Meadowlark Brewing Co. in Sidney. Meadowlark’s restaurant and coffee house has been open for a few months now, but the beer is now flowing as well. On tap initially…

Cabinet Mountain Brewing Opens Today, Montana’s 45th

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…

More Montana Brewery News: Openings, Closure.

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…

Beaverhead Brewing Opens in Dillon; Montana Now at 42

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…

Montana Brewery Status Update And Television Interview

With the news of yet another brewery hitting town, Missoula’s KECI television station called for some insight into the state of breweries in Montana.  I happily obliged with an interview appropriately taking place at Draught Works Brewery.   You can watch the interview here (which I am unable to embed): http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/2014-could-be-record-year-for-new-montana-breweries/25330948 With Triple Dog Brewing Co.…

Muddy Creek Brewery Coming Along in Uptown Butte

The Historic Daily Post Building in Uptown Butte is getting quite the addition. Originally housing Butte’s newspaper in the early 1900’s, the Daily Post has long since hosted a series of drinking establishments, one of Butte’s favorite pastimes. Now hosting a pub on the first floor and a martini bar on the second, the building…

More Montana Breweries Added to List; Now at 46

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…