Grizzly Growler

I’ve been involved in several conversations about the ABV limit in Montana since I moved here. Lately, though, I’ve been searching my own soul for the right answer to this problem that limits Montana craft breweries. I recently heard Gov. Schweitzer talk about how he supports Montana’s tavern owners in their pursuit of monopolistic watering-hole [...]

OK, it’s a subjective thing, but good looking beer often can be good beer. Color only is part of the beer experience, but it can be equally as enjoyable as the taste. That’s if you’re someone who enjoys the whole taste, sound, texture, look thing. I for one am one. The first time I saw [...]

Welcome to Growler Radio, what I hope will be a weekly craft beer talk show complete with interviews with area brewers, beer lovers, beer business advocates as well as beer reviews and just plain old beer speak. This week’s episode features Missoula’s own Mike Saxton, founder and owner of BeerTrips.Com, one of the world’s leading [...]

But where did you go? I could lie and say I was stranded in Oregon for a long weekend with no computer access, although it wouldn’t really be a lie. In a firebolt trip, I drove the family to Salem so they could spend spring break in a place that is green. I mean with [...]

Is the hop crisis worsening? Should we be worried? I don’t want to be an alarmist, but I think the hop situation is worth looking in on from time to time. If for nothing else than that we are not surprised when we find our beer is being flavored with ginger and infused with bark [...]

The Grizzly Growler does television, as in Attack of the Show, a television show that focuses on technology, pop culture, movies, music and current events. I realize my post count is down lately, which could mean that it is spring, there’s the historical event of a dam coming down in our town, the roads to [...]

‘Tis St. Patrick’s Day. A day, perhaps above all others, to talk about beer. I’m not one for the kitsch of it all. The green beer, the four-leaf clover on the lapel, the pinching, oh, god, the pinching. Not to demean the holiday or the Irish, of course, but simply for that fact that many [...]

I got an E-mail from a blog reader recently. I love getting notes, but this one really made me happy. Seems he had picked up a bottle of Deschutes Brewery’s Abyss and wanted to know if I wanted to come over and try it. Does Hillery Clinton need a personality? Of course I’ll come over [...]

I saw this on Brookston Beer Bulletin the other day. Beer Mapping I love maps. When I arrive in a new place I don’t do so unprepared. Usually I’ve spent months pouring over any map I can get my hands on. I read maps like books, in fact, when the National Geographic magazine showed up [...]

Check out the training video from our boys at Big Sky Brewing Co. The good news is our BSBC team took 3rd place in Jackson Hole. We’re number one next year. Cheers guys, GG