It is a big Friday for beer in Montana. Big Sky Brewing Co. is throwing a 21st birthday party in Missoula and the Montana Brewers Association is holding its Solstice Rendezvous in Billings. Montana’s beer fans have two great opportunities this Friday, June 17. The Montana Brewers last held a brewfest in Billings three years…
Big Sky Brewing Co. turns 21 this year and is hosting a fun celebration at Missoula’s Caras Park featuring 21 of the brewery’s beers. The party takes place from 4:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. on June 17, the same date Big Sky brewed its first beer at the original brewery on Hickory Street in 1995.…
Two packed days of conference sessions and fun at the Montana Brewers Association’s annual conference wrapped up last night in Missoula, but the capstone of the week takes place this evening, October 16. The Montana Brewers Fall Festival has quickly become the state’s best brewfest (and there are a lot of good ones), always featuring…
It’s Grand Opening time for Imagine Nation Brewing Co with a day filled with live music, workshops, food vendors, new beer and plenty of fun from 12:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. this Saturday, September 19. I’ll be leading one of those workshops, an informal beer tasting workshop that will cost you nothing more than the…
This Saturday, September 19, marks the inaugural “Brews Cruise,” a bicycling tour of several Missoula beer hot spots and poker run designed to raise funds for a local charity. For 2015 proceeds from the festivities will benefit MTB Missoula, the area’s only mountain biking advocacy group. A project of Townsquare Media, Montana Brewery Passport, and…
For years the Montana Brewers Association held a single – and wonderful – all Montana-made beer festival, first in Bozeman, then moving the festivities to Missoula. That was great if you lived nearby, or wanted to take a heck of a road trip, but in a state the size of ours it was not always…
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…
It’s FourPlay time at Draught Works Brewery with a super affordable way to enjoy great desserts on Valentine’s Day, whether you’re partnered up or not! For $12.50 a ticket, you’ll get to enjoy four beers, four ounces each, paired with four desserts on Saturday, February 14, any time between 5:00 and 8:00 p.m. at Draught…
Great Falls, Montana, in November might not be everyone’s idea of an exciting vacation spot, but the Montana Farmers Union is betting you’ll set that aside for a good reason: Beer. The Farmers Union is hosting its first Harvest Montana Grain Conference this week and it ends with an all-Montana beer brewfest Friday evening. With…
The 6th Annual Montana Brewers Fall Festival takes over Missoula’s Caras Park this Saturday, October 11, 2014, and there has never been a bigger selection of Montana-made beers at the same place at the same time. But with 137 beers to choose from, how do you know where to start? Never fear as Alan (Growler…