Putting on Missoula Craft Beer Week, a product of Ryan Newhouse and Alan McCormick operating as Craft Beer Promotions, LLC, is an annual exercise of creative thought, outreach, pavement pounding, more than a bit of cajoling, a touch of hand-holding, and good ol’ hard work. Missoula Craft Beer Week provides beer fans an exciting week…
The Missoula Independent, Missoula’s weekly newspaper, is a big supporter of the Montana craft beer scene. The Indy, as locals call it, has long been a significant supporter of Missoula’s rite of spring, the Garden City Brewfest. It’s weekly column “Happiest Hour” regularly features great Montana beers and the places to find them. Articles and…
There is nothing I can do to stop the endless stream of “Top 10 Beers” and “Top 5 Breweries” and “Top 8 Beer Vacations” lists. Sure, if you’re a brewery you want to see your name up in lights, but can we stop believing any of these lists matter? Endless, too, is the stream of…
CraftBeer.com (published by the Brewers Association) today announced the winners of its annual Great American Beer Bars survey. None is anywhere near Montana, though I guess that depends on where in Montana you may be. And your definition of near. When you live in a state where two of its breweries are 640 miles and…