Grizzly Growler

One of my favorite activities is an afternoon visit to Blacksmith Brewing Co. in Stevi. Often we ride our bikes from around Lolo on the side road. However, the snow is falling early this year, so we’ll be road-tripping to Blacksmith through the winter.

On a whim, I pulled up their web site only to find a well-designed and highly readable site that not only highlights their beers but lists musicians playing on Wednesday and Saturday nights and upcoming specials.

I particularly like Blacksmith brewer Mike Howard’s page, where he talks about specialty brews and local favorites. Currently, he’s featuring something I find very interesting called an I.R.A. I’m going to have to check that out. Mike also mentions a vanilla porter. Man, where are all you Growler fans out there? Keeping this stuff to yourselves just isn’t cool.

Mike also mentions some fresh hop beers coming soon, including one featuring New Zealand hops.

I’m a huge fan of craft brew web sites, because they push the envelop of beer education. A well-designed site should inform and make you want to visit the brewery. Blacksmith has an admirable site, one of the best I’ve seen in Montana so far. Nice job guys.

Prost,

GG