The inaugural Missoula Craft Beer Week gets started less than two weeks from now. Most of the 20+ events are open to just dropping by, but there are two you’ll need to sign up for: The first is the Garden City Brewery Bus Tour on Friday, May 4, 2012. This is a bus ride adventure…
Helena’s Green Meadow Country Club is the site of a fundraiser for ExplorationWorks this Thursday, April 19, 2012, featuring a beer seminar and samples of craft beer and hard cider from Montana, Oregon, Wisconsin and Belgium. Brian Smith of Blackfoot River Brewing Co. and Cortland Dunn of George’s Distributing will present a one-hour beer seminar…
The 6th Annual Montana Beer Festival is taking place tomorrow, April 13, 2012, at the Gallatin County Fairgrounds in Bozeman, MT. Some 33+ breweries taking part in the event which runs from 6:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Tickets are $30 and get you unlimited tastes during the festival. V.I.P. tickets are available for $50 which…
No, you’re not reading a typo (see the post below). We do indeed have two reasons to celebrate beer on April 7. Along with National Beer Day, celebrating the repeal of prohibition in American, comes Session Beer Day. That it also falls on April 7 is no coincidence. As intensely happy as we are to…
Sure, Sunday is Easter, but for craft beer fans the time to celebrate comes a day early. April 7, 2012 is National Beer Day, 79 years to the day since the Cullen-Harrison Act took effect and repealed prohibition in America. Reportedly, people lined up at breweries in Milwaukee the night before in anticipation of being…
We’ve been hard at work over the past several weeks helping organize a great lineup of events for the inaugural Missoula Craft Beer Week, May 1-5, 2012. Yes, we know there has only been a trickle of teasing information thus far, but we’re close to releasing the schedule and launching the website. Thanks to our…
Craft beer weeks have become popular across the United States in cites big and small. As we’ve said many times, beer is social and craft beer weeks are a great way to bring together a variety of events with the singular theme of celebrating craft beer. With the 20th Anniversary of the Garden City BrewFest…
Looking for a few beer related events this weekend or in the next couple of weeks? Check out one or more of these: 1. Bigfork Brewfest. TOMORROW, Saturday, February 25, 2012, Bigfork, MT. The 3rd annual Bigfork Brewfest takes place outdoors on Mill Street from 3 to 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance or…
Missoula’s Sustainable Business Council kicked off their 10th Anniversary celebration Wednesday night with a gathering of local brewers, industry representatives and craft beer fans for a discussion with Cheri Chastain, Sustainability Coordinator for Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. The fun continues tonight, Thursday, February 23 at 6:00 p.m. in room 106 of the Gallagher Business Building…
I don’t how many chocolate beers exist in this craft beer world, but for a few hours Saturday night, Missoula, MT was the capital of them all. Months in the making, our local loose-knit tasting group managed to assemble seventeen chocolate beers for a Valentine’s Day themed celebration of craft beer. From chocolate stouts to…