The Montana Brewers Association is throwing its second Montana Brewers Festival September 10, 2010 starting around 5:30 at the Haynes Pavilion, Gallatin County Fairgrounds in Bozeman. We’ve got a lot of great festivals and brewfests all around Montana, but you’re not likely to find a bigger collection of Montana brewed beers anywhere. Twenty-one Montana breweries…
One of the great things about summer in Missoula is the constantly rotating string of outdoor festivals. Each weekend it seems there’s an old favorite or a new one to check out. That’s the case this Saturday, July 31, 2010 with the first Celtic Festival Missoula. It takes place downtown at Caras Park starting at…
Few celebratory event weeks could be easier to celebrate than American Craft Beer Week (May 17-23, 2010). Begun in 2006 by the Brewers Association, American Craft Beer Week is a celebration of small and independent craft breweries and highlights what Americans love about craft beer. Even Congress got into the act with the House of…
Right on cue (noon, actually) Mother Nature decided to open up the clouds with a strong showing of rain mixed with snow to usher in the 18th Annual Garden City Brewfest. But this is Missoula. We love our festivals and a little cold weather, rain and snow isn’t going to deter us from a time…
Perhaps you might have heard by now about the 18th Annual Garden City Brewfest taking place this Saturday, May 1 at Caras Park in Missoula beginning at noon? What, three posts in this blog not enough for you? If not, this week’s Missoula Independent is devoted to the beer scene in Missoula and has your…
Though the weather forecast is less than stellar (Mostly cloudy, 51 degrees, 20% chance of showers), the 18th Annual Garden City Brewfest at Caras Park in Missoula will carry on rain or shine. Think of it this way. The lines will likely be shorter than last year when the sun was bright enough to burn…
Judging by the crowds each year at the annual Garden City Brewfest, this event is anticipated almost as much as spring itself. The 2010 Garden City Brewfest will be on Saturday, May 1, 2010 from noon to 8:00 p.m. at Caras Park in downtown Missoula. It typically brings in around 60 beers along with plenty…
Good weather, a good crowd and good beer combined to create quite a success for the inaugural Bigfork Brewfest on Saturday. Perhaps a bit too successful. Brewers were left scrambling for more kegs when a larger than expected crowd fully drained some offerings in the first hour. Yet, the hundreds in attendance didn’t seem to…
If you need a beer fix this weekend, the place to be is Bigfork, Montana for the first Bigfork Brewfest. Eight breweries have signed up and the organizers are working on three more. The fun kicks off at 3:00 on Saturday in downtown Bigfork (you can’t miss it) with live music, food, beer and K-9…
Word on the street, well, Facebook anyway, is that Highlander Beer is sponsoring the first Celtic Festival in Missoula this July 31, 2010 at Caras Park. The Festival will feature Celtic music, Celtic food and dancing and, of course, Highlander Scottish Ale. Years ago, somewhere around 1999 if memory serves, I remember attending some Highlander…