Grizzly Growler

This comment was in response to my post, Is Beer Recession Proof? THE BOSTON BEER PARTY? Whether the veracity of the numbers in the article can be ascertained by the publisher of SKY NEWS is a point well taken. I would also question (probably even more) the same numbers if they appeared in the New [...]

According to a news report from Sky New, which I find suspect simply because the website is owned by Rupert Murdoch, people are drinking 1.8 million less pints of beer a day this year than last in the UK. Read the article here. If that’s the case, than it doesn’t bode well for American pubs, [...]

Jürgen Knöller, owner and master brewer at Bayern Brewing Co., remembers people visiting the brewery at its old location in the train station with their babies. Now, 21-years-later, those youngens are old enough to drink some of the finest German-style beers in the Rocky Mountains. With that, the brewery announces some scary news, according to [...]

Where he makes a beer and ice-cream float. Prost! GG

Big Dipper Ice Cream has an interesting new ice cream flavor this week – Cold Smoke. As in Kettlehouse Brewing Co.’s legendary Scotch-style ale. The flavor comes from pre-fermented beer, or wort that captures the beer’s nature without having to deal with the fizz and foam or the alcohol of the finished product. I probably [...]

Don’t forget to check out the 2nd Annual Pray for Snow Burning Dog Festival. Last year’s festival was a huge success, to say nothing of the amount of snowfall we received. Let’s all join the Big Sky folks for an evening of fun and merriment. Cheers, GG

This is one of the first videos I ever did for my old beer blog, Will Blog for Beer. I had a co-blogger then. Michelle Theriault is an awesome beer blogger and tasting companion, but she has gone to seek her fortune elsewhere, leaving me to carry on the beer blogging torch. Anyway, I thought [...]

The term probably has more significance for brewery workers than your average beer-drinking Joe, but I’d like to expound upon it from an everyman’s point of view. The thought of cheating on your brewery or favorite beer crossed my mind last night as I stood sipping an IPA at the Big Sky Brewing Co. taproom [...]

Last year was a banner year for Montana breweries participating in the Great American Beer Festival. Besides the four medals, three for Montana Brewing Co., and one for Red Lodge Ales Brewing Co., Travis Zeilstra won Small Brewpub of the Year honors. This year, without knowing how many Montana beers were submitted, I can say [...]

It’s on, and I’m stuck in Missoula. Well, with how bad the newspaper industry is, I guess I should just be glad I have a job. Last year’s visit to the GABF was phenomenal. You can find all my reports from it here, here, here, here, here and here. I wanted to go to the [...]