Montana Senator Max Baucus was on hand at Tamarack Brewing Company’s Missoula pub Wednesday afternoon to reveal the winner of Tamarack’s “Have Beer, Need Art” contest. Danielle Willoughby was chosen the winner from forty-one entries. Her design features a simple stylized image of Ear Mountain, a well-known landmark on the Rock Mountain Front. It’s a…
Well that’s cool. Our neighbors to the north – that’d be Alberta, Canada – are apparently eying our beer culture. Montana’s, that is. In a Calgary Herald article posted last week, author Jason van Rassel had this to say about Montana’s beer scene: Think about Montana the next time you hear someone trot out the…
Friday evening of the 2013 Beer Bloggers Conference took us to the Sam Adams brewery in Jamaica Plain, MA, just south of Boston. We filed in to the brewery and took our seats on rows of folding chairs set up along fermenters and other brewery equipment where every Sam Adams beer you’ve ever had began…
This month’s Session* topic is hosted by James Davidson of Beer Bar Band. James asks us to develop an “elevator pitch” for beer under the following scenario: You walk into an elevator and hit the button for your destination level. Already in the elevator is someone holding a beer…and it’s a beer that annoys you…
It never fails. On every trip I take, I find beer I want to bring home. While I can always throw it into the cooler in the truck when we’ve driven somewhere, flying brings added challenges. Fortunately, I’ve discovered one heck of a good alternative to wrapping bottles up in your underwear and hoping for…
The third annual IPA Day is Thursday, August 1, 2013, so get ready to . . . . . . do pretty much what most of you do each and every day. Grab a beer and celebrate something. Held the first Thursday of August, there’s not much more I can say about IPA day that…
Sorry for the late notice, but the July Run Wild Missoula Beer Run is tonight, July 31, 2013, beginning at the usual time of 6:00 p.m. For July, the run heads back to the Silver Dollar Bar at 307 Railroad Street. Three and five mile routes are available for your running enjoyment. Well, as much…
The 2013 Beer Bloggers Conference rolled from Portland, ME to Boston, MA yesterday with a stopover in Portsmouth, NH for a beer lunch at Portsmouth Brewing Co. It may very well be the most shoehorned brewery in the world, but you can’t argue with the results. Once reaching Boston (and some very decidedly non-Montana like…
Mention Portland in our area of Western Montana and everyone knows where you’re talking about. That active, lively, outdoors oriented, bicycling-loving town by the water with a heck of a beer culture. Turns out that’s a pretty good description for the other Portland, too. Well, not so sure about its love of bicycling, but after…
It’s one of the highlights of my beer year. This year’s Beer Bloggers Conference will be my 3rd in a row and takes us to Boston, MA, home of a great beer culture. The conference has become a family reunion of sorts with friends and beer bloggers from around the country gathering together to geek…