The Montana Brewers Association will again hold its annual conference in Missoula this October and the lineup of presentations looks to be the best yet. Held at the downtown Holiday Inn Parkside, the conference takes place October 14 and 15. Registration is open to the public. Panel presentations include sessions on the state of raw…
For the 34th Great American Beer Festival, 1,552 breweries from all 50 states and Washington D.C. entered 6,647 beers in the related competition (20 percent more than in 2014). From those entries, 275 medals were awarded in 90 beer categories. Gold, silver and bronze medals are awarded to the beers best meeting the style guidelines…
The 34th Great American Beer Festival takes place September 24 to 26 in Denver, Co. and represents the largest collection of U.S. made beers served at any public tasting event. More than 60,000 attendees will have the opportunity to enjoy samples from more than 3,500 beers from 750 breweries from across the U.S. It is…
With hop harvest season coming to a close it’s time to enjoy one of the year’s best beer seasonals: fresh hop ales. These beers highlight the flavors and aromas of hops by using them at their best, straight from the harvest. A well-done fresh hop ale has a certain extra zing to it that is…
It’s Grand Opening time for Imagine Nation Brewing Co with a day filled with live music, workshops, food vendors, new beer and plenty of fun from 12:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. this Saturday, September 19. I’ll be leading one of those workshops, an informal beer tasting workshop that will cost you nothing more than the…
This Saturday, September 19, marks the inaugural “Brews Cruise,” a bicycling tour of several Missoula beer hot spots and poker run designed to raise funds for a local charity. For 2015 proceeds from the festivities will benefit MTB Missoula, the area’s only mountain biking advocacy group. A project of Townsquare Media, Montana Brewery Passport, and…
Though a Bill intended to create a study of Montana’s alcohol licensing system failed to pass both chambers during the 2015 Montana Legislative Session, much discussion continues to occur among the participants. That Bill, HB 618, was quickly watered down and would have directed the Economic Affairs Interim Committee only to study whether to undertake…
For years the Montana Brewers Association held a single – and wonderful – all Montana-made beer festival, first in Bozeman, then moving the festivities to Missoula. That was great if you lived nearby, or wanted to take a heck of a road trip, but in a state the size of ours it was not always…
We arrived in Asheville, North Carolina, a couple days ahead of this year’s 2015 Beer Bloggers & Writers Conference on an evening filled with sunny skies, humid mountain air and the promise and excitement always present in completing cross-country vacation travel. Until the hotel informed us we did not have a reservation for that night,…
The 2015 Beer Bloggers & Writers Conference provided a long desired opportunity to explore Asheville, North Carolina, this past weekend with friends old and new. What follows is not a recap, but an articulation of three takeaways searching for a place on this digital paper. Asheville Lives Up to the Hype I am fortunate to…