Grizzly Growler

On days when the sun beats down on Missoula after a long winter, on days when the blue sky promises to go on forever beyond the jagged mountain tops that frame our horizon, on days when the air seems to carry a heaviness born of the perfume of freshly mowed grass, those are the days when taste and thought collide to form a certain permanence.

I love spring for more than sunshine and baseball games.

I love spring because there are tastes that are only associated with it. Chocolate bunnies for one. Chocolate just tastes different shaped like a fluffy bunny. Lamb is another spring taste. You can eat lamb any time of year, but it tastes like it should fresh in the spring.

The Big Sky Belgian Wit is another one of those tastes. Crisp and light, like a mimosa on Easter, the wit beer seems to cross the zones of your mouth like a wedge of Curacao sunshine.

The slight wheat sweetness is balanced by a delicate lactic sourness, which makes this beer a perfect spring salad partner. Throw a spinach and strawberry salad together with a balsamic vinaigrette, and you’ll have the most amazing splash of taste combinations celebrating in your mouth.

Prost,

GG