Question for you: Where is the one place you can find 77 beers from 21 of Montana’s breweries all in one place for your tasting enjoyment? There’s only one answer: The Fourth Annual Montana Brewers Festival at Caras Park on October 6, 2012. Montana has many fun beer events, but nothing compares to the Montana…
Here’s a reminder for you. Tomorrow, Saturday, Sept. 8, Missoula’s Draught Works Brewery is hosting on of the coolest fresh hops events I’ve seen. Volunteers will be picking fresh hops which will be transported via teams of bicyclists from the Bitterroot Valley to the Brewery in Missoula. Meanwhile, other volunteers will be milling 1,000 lbs…
New Belgium Brewing Co. loves to travel around and spread the good word (about beer, that is) and tonight they’re setting up shop in Missoula’s Caras Park for Clips of Faith. That’s New Belgium’s “beer-toting, film-traveling, noprofit-benefiting show” featuring short films created by the brewery’s fans and shown on a great big inflatable screen. It’s…
As you might imagine, I’m always on the lookout for new beers to try and keep a close eye on the beer aisles in Missoula and beyond. When a new line of beers shows up I’m often curious to learn the story behind the brewery’s decision to make in-roads in Montana. Yeah, I’m beer-geeky that…
The Rhino in Missoula is well known for it’s 50 taps and often has a few high gravity choices that few others in the Northwest offer. Each February The Rhino hosts its annual barleywine festival and this year’s lineup is particularly impressive. Here’s a look at them: 2007 Old Guardian from Stone (11.26% abv). 2008…
Here’s a couple of reminders as you head into your Friday fun: Tomorrow, Saturday, May 7, is the 19th Annual Garden City Brewfest at Missoula’s Caras Park. Sixty beers, live music, and lots of food will be on hand at this popular Missoula event. Also, Missoula is in the running for the unofficial and unscientific…
Next to Grizzly football games, few events in Missoula attract as big a crowd as the annual Garden City Brewfest. This year the Missoula Downtown Association’s event takes place Saturday May 7, 2011 from 12:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Caras Park. Sixty or so beers will be available for your tasting pleasure. Tickets are…
Part I is here. In more than 400 training miles and 550+ miles on the year, not once had I experienced any need to hit the can, so to speak. That all changed around Mile 4. Seriously? Today? Now? More than 550 miles since January and nothing. Then again, not once during all those miles…
I’m still not sure how it happened, but back in early February I started toying with the idea of trying to run the Missoula Half Marathon. I tossed the idea around in my head for more than a week before telling anyone about it. Even then it was with a very cautious, tepid, “what if”…
Pneumonia sucks. Precisely one day after posting this entry extolling how wonderful my half marathon training was going I was handed a serious change to my training plan. I headed out for my regular Wednesday evening training run with the Run Wild Missoula group thinking I would run through the return of a head cold…