This Monday, August 6, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. at the pub in Missoula, Flathead Lake Brewing Company will tap a keg of Montucky Sour Cherry Brown Ale – a beer available only on Mondays while it lasts. Brewer Tim Jacoby will be on hand as a guest bartender to answer all your questions about this…
Next up on the Thanksgiving-open-up-that-special-bottle of beer fun was Iron Horse Brewery’s Brass Ass Brown Ale. Iron Horse Brewery is over in Ellensburg, WA and I’d picked up a couple of 22 oz bombers at Bottles to try last time we made it over to Spokane. Iron Horse calls describes their Brass Ass Brown Ale…
Sierra Nevada Brewing recently released its new fall beer, Tumbler Autumn Brown Ale, and I’ve started seeing it arrive in Missoula’s grocery stores over the past week. It replaces Sierra’s Anniversary Ale in their line up of regular seasonals. I’ve read (source: beernews.org) that Sierra replaced its Anniversary Ale for a couple of reasons. First,…
I try to get to other breweries. Really I do. But I can see how my two readers could get the mistaken impression that I only ever visit Tamarack Brewing Co. in Lakeside. Unfortunately, my travels rarely take me east of Missoula where great breweries like Blackfoot River, Quarry, Angry Hanks and many others lurk. …
It’s not like Missoula, Montana is in the middle of nowhere and we get a great selection of beers thanks to the likes of Worden’s Market, The Good Food Store, Pattee Creek Market and The Rhino, to name a few. Unfortunately, we’re just not in the distribution area for a number of beer’s I’d like…
I found this one at Kettlehouse Brewing Co. in Missoula last weekend. The Myrtle Street location, that is. On nitro. This is the first time in my craft brew drinking history that I’ve ever seen a brown ale on nitro. Stouts and porters, yes. Even found an Imperial IPA on nitro once, though I can’t…
Sometimes through no fault of your own you manage to have good timing. That was the case with me when I stopped by Tamarack Brewing Co. recently on the way back from Kalispell. Just 30 minutes before I stopped for lunch, the fine folks at Tamarack had added this beer to their line up. A…