Craig Hendry and Raise Your Pints have a problem. They’re Mississippi craft beer enthusiasts in a state that doesn’t embrace their enthusiasm. Homebrewing remains illegal. Craft beer may contain only up to 5% alcohol by weight. There’s still a division of wet counties and dry counties. Simply transporting your unopened six pack through a dry…
On an 11-0 vote Tuesday, the Montana Senate’s Business, Labor, and Economic Affairs committee passed SB 203, without amendment, sending it to the full Senate for consideration later. SB 203 would allow non-brewery sale of beer in growlers for off premises consumption (i.e. a bar could fill a growler from its taps). The bill needs…
Senator Ryan Zinke of Whitefish, introduced two bills yesterday in the Montana Senate which will have quite an effect on the Montana beer scene if passed. SB 202 (Senate Bill 202) would shift the hours of operation for a tap room at a small brewery from 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. to 12:00 p.m. -10:00…
If you’ve been paying attention, and . . . ahem . . . I know some of you aren’t, you know I’m a big fan of brown ales. I stopped in at North Bay Grille in Kalispell for dinner recently while up doing some work and found Flathead Brewing Co.’s Brown Ale on tap. This…
If that’s what you think, you’re right, but we’re definitely not the only ones. Microbreweries in South Carolina can’t do direct sales or provide samples to their patrons. But that might change according to the South Carolina Brewers Association who is helping to support a bill in the South Carolina General Assembly that would (gasp!)…
Do you guys serve food? It is a question asked frequently at Montana breweries’ taprooms and one I’ve heard often. The answer is typically no (hold on, keep reading). As we learned in the last installment of Montana Beer Laws, the sale of alcohol is a highly regulated matter and includes limits on how, when…
If you’ve ventured into a Montana tap room, you’ve probably read the signs or otherwise been informed of the limited amount of beer you can purchase to consume on site. Or perhaps you wondered why there’s no food for sale. Or, to your horror, discovered at 8:01 p.m. that the taps were shut off until…
Tamarack Brewing Co. in Lakeside, MT is doing some great things with beer. Sure, they’ve got a nice stable of always available beers, but that’s not what I like most about them. Rather, their quick rotation of small batches of creative beers means there’s almost always something new on tap, or just around the corner…