It may have taken longer than they’d wished to transform the historic car dealership into Kalispell’s first craft brewery, but that lengthy bout of hard work seems like the distant past now that Kalispell Brewing Co. has become a central feature of the City’s downtown. To celebrate its one-year anniversary, Kalispell Brewing Co. is throwing…
Kalispell, in the lush Flathead Valley near the west side of Glacier National Park, last had a brewery around 1955. That changed in June this year when Cole Schneider and Maggie Doherty opened the ten-barrel Kalispell Brewing Company along busy Main Street. Getting the brewery open in the downtown historic building was a lengthy, challenging…
Rogue Ale’s Brewmaster John Maier made news-of-the-weird variety last year when word broke that Rogue planned to create a beer using yeast harvested from John’s beard. What seemed like a late April Fools joke turned out to be a humorous reality. Rogue initially collaborated with White Labs, one of the country’s largest brewing yeast suppliers,…
Billings has six. Missoula four. Bozeman, Helena and Great Falls have two each. Butte is soon to get its second one. Heck, even Philipsburg and Wibaux have one. For some reason, Kalispell has long remained the only one of Montana’s seven “large” cities without a brewery. Missoula’s Bayern Brewing Co. kicked things off in the…
Montana’s Flathead Valley has gained a new homebrew shop and homebrewing association according to this article in the Flathead Beacon. Junior Szklarz and Karen Witt have opened The Beer Store which shares space with their other business Brass and Bullets. The shop is located at 2703 Highway 93 S, south of Kalispell.Junior and Karen have…