Yes, I did change the design of the blog. No, I’m not too keen on the way it looks, either. However, I needed to do something to make the text easier to read and I think that mission was accomplished. If nothing else. I’m not sticking with this design, but it’s the best I’ve got…
Once upon a time – actually not that long ago – Great Falls, MT, was a place where all the “good” beer was hidden behind closed doors and discussed only in hushed whispers by a select few enthusiasts down dark alleys while trading imported beverages from far away lands like . . . . Oregon.…
Did you know that pairing craft beer and pizza is trickier than you think? No? What’s wrong with you? Did you think you could just get away with ordering up your favorite pie and inadvertently pairing it with (gasp!) any old favorite beer? All along you’ve been thinking it’s a simple task and then .…
The first annual Montana Mashup statewide home brew competition was held this weekend in Bozeman, with judging taking place at Bridger Brewing Co. Spawned out of good-natured smack talk between home brew clubs Zoo City Zymurgists (Missoula), Rimrock Brewers Guild (Billings) and Bridger Brew Crew (Bozeman), the competition serves to celebrate the home brewing culture…
About a chapter into Lawrence Osborne’s latest book, The Wet and the Dry: A Drinker’s Journey, I realized I needed three things: a map, a dictionary, and a stiff drink. Osborne is well traveled and this is intimately apparent as he weaves his travel diary from bar to bar in England, throughout the Middle East…
Have a beer on for with me today as we hit the four year mark with this thing called Growler Fills. There are many beer blogs out there, more than 1,000, actually, and I appreciate each of you tuning in here, on facebook, and on twitter to participate in this fun conversation we call craft…
The winners of the 2013 Great American Beer Festival’s competition were announced yesterday morning in the always electrically charged and highly anticipated ceremony before the final session of the massive brewfest. It was the biggest competition yet, on beer’s biggest stage, with 4,809 entries from 732 breweries evaluated by 201 judges from eleven countries.…
I wasn’t planning to write about this topic. First, I figured the federal government shutdown would be over by now. Second, a hundred other bloggers and media sources have already covered the basics. The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), the federal department responsible for approving new beer labels, is shutdown, preventing some…
Raise your hand if you know what tomato pepper bread tastes like. I suspect there were two of you. One who actually knows what tomato pepper bread tastes like, and one who doesn’t want to appear so unsophisticated as to admit not knowing what tomato pepper bread tastes like. I’ll admit it. I don’t know…
A friendly reminder here that the deadline for entries to the 1st Annual Montana Mashup statewide home brew competition is Thursday, October 10, 2013. While the competition will be held at Bridger Brewing Co. in Bozeman on October 19 and 20, several drop off locations have been secured across the state. Locations accepting entries up…