Just more than a month away, the 3rd Annual Missoula Craft Beer Week is shaping up to be the best ever! Like last year, the week gets started with the incredible Beer-n-Bacon Brunch at Draught Works Brewery and continues through the grand finale, the Garden City Brewfest. In between we’ve got an array of events…
News broke this week that the Motley Fool deemed Montana the most “beer friendly state.” Predictably, beer centric blogs, trade associations and your average Montana beer lover tweeted the news or posted it on facebook with giddy abandon. Even local news outlets picked up the story. Factors used to rank the states for their beer…
After you get your fill of the annual Missoula St. Patrick’s Day Parade this Saturday, head over to The Rhino where they’re closing down Ryman Street and hosting a collection of “big” beers for your drinking enjoyment. The Big Beer Fest takes place on Ryman Street between Front and Main streets on Saturday, March 15…
You may recall my recent mini-rant about a photo I saw in our local Safeway grocery store depicting “a better beer aisle” coming soon as part of a store-wide refreshing. If not, read up here. The photo depicted a sign I’d hoped was for illustration purposes only. I also pondered what “categories” Safeway intended to…
This month’s Session* topic is hosted by Doug Smiley at Baltimore Bistros & Beer who asks a seemingly easy question: Why do you drink? But then Douglas provides a different context for the discussion: It’s easy to find article after article on the internet telling us that alcohol is bad. As beer bloggers it’s safe…
Run Wild Missoula’s monthly Beer Run for February takes place at Sean Kelly’s this Wednesday, February 26, 2014. The good news? There’s actually some natural light past 6:00 p.m. these days, as I discovered this evening after a long day at work. The bad news? It’s snowing at an impressive rate this Monday evening as…
Here are two dates Montana beer lovers should definitely mark on their calendars: April 25 and October 11. Those are the dates for the Montana Brewers Association’s Spring and Fall Festivals, the largest brewfests Montana has to offer and the added kicker of being all-Montana made beers. The Spring Festival in Billings, the MBA’s second,…
Anybody know what we’re supposed to call “beer” these days? I ask not because I want to dive back into the craft versus crafty debate. No, it’s because I came across this sign while picking up a few items at my local Safeway one evening last week: According to the sign, we should be looking…
Cabin fever fighters rejoice! The Missoula Downtown Association’s winter brew fest takes place this Friday, February 21, at Caras Park in Missoula. It’s the fourth such event and the second to take place outside. Forty-two beers, ten wines, live music and food vendors are expected. The fun gets going at 5:00 p.m and continues until…
We like to complain about our brewery laws here in Montana (often for good reason), but it is easy to forget Montana does have it better that some. Montana breweries have long been allowed to fill growlers of any size and type for off-premise consumption. Even the sale of beer for on-premise consumption has been…