Grizzly Growler

I’d love to buy a craft beer for each of you in my life who has served this country and provided for my freedom, my right to speak freely, my safety and my future. I’d like to sit down with you and talk about your sacrifice and remember with you. I’m talking specifically to my [...]

This is a long one, but the pub scenes and whiskey stores are fun to see. Prost, GG

I found a half rack of Harvest Moon Brewing Company’s Beltian White in cans at Worden’s Market the other day, and I figured it would be the perfect camping beer. Beltian White is a nice Belgian-style wit beer with good flavor and light complexion. It’s also a really good food beer with some hints of [...]

Ah, the weekend is upon us, and I have your Saturday breakfast beer all lined up for you. This week’s edition is the Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast. I love the name of this beer for the fact that it recognizes that in all of us who love breakfast, a little geek must be found. Some [...]

There has been a little dust down at the Kettlehouse Myrtle Street Location recently. Al Pils’ secret hideaway, known alternatively as his office, is now hidden behind a wall, and the brewery’s guts are now hidden behind a large garage door, giving the place a more hangout appeal, in my opinion. The new lines clean [...]

Judging whiskey is a difficult thing to do. So I’m going to leave that to the professionals. But writing about whiskey is great fun, as is reviewing a good whiskey now and then. For some time now I’ve been keeping an eye on the Montana distillery scene. There are numerous vodka makers out there, and [...]

Looks like Quarry Brewing Company is holding a lady’s night party around the opening of the “Sex and the City” movie sequel. They’re advertising karaoke, food, fun, prizes, giveaways and great craft beer. And they’d like you to come dressed as your favorite character. Prost, GG

Imbibe Magazine released a list of the 10-best canned beers for the holiday weekend. I would contend they left off a few deserving breweries. Anyway, read the list for yourself here, and then tell me which beers you’d like to see added to the list. Remember, canned beers only here. Prost, GG

The craft beer industry in Montana has changed immensely in the three years that I have been living here and covering it in the pages of this blog. Breweries have come and gone, remodeled, rebuilt, moved and otherwise been agents of great change. To you, the beer consumer who buys beer at the store, you [...]

Looks like Glacier Brewing Company is popping the cork on an aged Biere de Mars, a French/Belgian farmhouse-style ale traditionally brewed in early winter and served in the spring. If you’re in Polson and coming to Missoula, pick me up a growler. Prost, GG