The nominations were collected, sorted and ranked. Now comes the time to vote. CraftBeer.com has opened up voting on its annual list of Great American Beer Bars. While no Montana bars made the list, you may very well recognize some of your favorites in the Mountain West and Pacific regions. Have a look at the…
The Montana Brewers Association is adding to its lineup of excellent all-Montana beer brewfests with a grand celebration this Saturday, August 16, in Helena, MT. To help celebrate Helena’s 150th birthday, the MBA is hosting a brewfest beginning at 4:00 p.m. at Memorial Park (or 3:00 p.m. with VIP tickets). Twenty two Montana breweries…
At the risk of sounding like the resident beer curmudgeon, forgive me for laying down one big yawn at another annual #IPAday. This year it falls on August 7, 2014. A triple IPA. Originally billed as more of a social media experiment – about which I’ve said kind words – it now seems like throwing…
It was August 2011. We stepped off the tour bus at Goschie Farms south of Portland, OR, into a cloud of hop particles floating like crystals in the warm, bright, sunny evening air. The hop harvest had just begun and our timing could not have been better. It was a bath of hop aroma and…
With Montana now reaching 45 operating breweries, getting around to them all is becoming more and more challenging. In Western Montana the task is a little easier with two brewery tour companies ready to whisk beer lovers around the burgeoning brewery scene. Montana Brewery Tours and Tap Room Tours, both based in Missoula, launched this…
This month’s Session* topic is hosted by Jake Scholan at Hipster Brewfus. He names his topic “Beer Fight Club” though I’m renaming it “Criticism” to better reflect the theme of his entire post. Jake’s title comes from the following premise: Have you ever drank a beer that became a battle, more than an enjoyable experience?…
The Missoula Independent, Missoula’s weekly newspaper, is a big supporter of the Montana craft beer scene. The Indy, as locals call it, has long been a significant supporter of Missoula’s rite of spring, the Garden City Brewfest. It’s weekly column “Happiest Hour” regularly features great Montana beers and the places to find them. Articles and…
Montana’s 22 beer and wine distributors support more than 2,000 jobs, says a July 2014 study prepared by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research of the University of Montana. They aren’t primarily minimum wage jobs either, with average annual earnings of nearly $54,000. The study was conducted at the request of the Montana Beer…
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…
Sierra Nevada is close to opening its new east coast brewery in Mills River, NC. To celebrate, they’ve been traveling the county while presenting a multi-weekend traveling beer festival in select cities. Two more take place this weekend (Portland, ME and Philadelphia, PA) before the final stop in Mills River on August 3. Credit: Sierra…