For the first eight years of its reincarnation, the Missoula Brewing Co. has existed only on paper with a single contract-brewed beer to its name, Highlander Scottish Red Ale. Over the past year, that piece of paper has evolved into a sizable brewing operation and pizza kitchen now set to open to the public on…
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…
A version of this article appears in the current June/July issue of the Rocky Mountain Brewing News, along with my regular Montana New column. Unfortunately for me, the Brewing News inadvertently listed the wrong author in the byline. Thus, I am reprinting it here. _____________________________________________ Drink Local. It’s a short, easy phrase that conjures up…
This month’s Session* is a momentous one, being the 100th since the Session began more than 8 years ago. It is rather impressive this collective writing effort persists in the face of so many other social media/blogging directions one can take. A testament, too, to the continued importance of recognizing a diversity of opinions available…
2015 Marathon Beer Run and Missoula Area Beer Guide Welcome Runners! (And their families and friends!) The 2015 Missoula Marathon weekend takes place July 10-12 and again kicks off with the Missoula Marathon Beer Run on Friday, July 10. This super cool event pulls in hundreds of runners from around the world for an easy…
For the upcoming June/July issue of the Rocky Mountain Brewing News I wrote a feature article exploring what it means to “drink local.” Locally made beer using locally grown products seems to be the ultimate quest in the minds of beer drinkers, but it’s not the easiest to accomplish for the brewer. Plus, in our…
Monday night of Missoula Craft Beer Week is Movie Night and this year’s movie, Homebrewed, has a great local connection. In fact, Montana beer fans will likely recognize many of the cast of characters. Created by Missoula filmmakers Carl Spurgeon and Rob Truax, Homebrewed is a documentary about the craft beer culture in Montana. Carl…
This Saturday April 25 you’ll be able to kick off the 4th Annual Missoula Craft Beer Week by getting a peek behind the scenes at how your favorite Missoula beers are made. New this year for Craft Beer Week is the Missoula Beer Open House with all six of Missoula’s breweries providing behind the scenes…
Human Foosball, Mini-golf, Irish traditional music, and Bacon. These are likely not the kinds of things that come to mind when you think “craft beer week,” But Missoula Craft Beer Week is no ordinary beer festival. Sure, we’ve got tap takeovers and beer dinners, too – and they’re great – but Missoula Craft Beer Week’s…
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…