Beer list for 4th annual Montana Brewers Festival in Missoula
It’s hard to believe, but the 4th annual Montana Brewers Festival is right around the corner. And if you live in Missoula, it could literally be around the corner.
As posted last October, the Montana Brewers Association decided to move the festival from Bozeman to Missoula this year. The festival will be held on Saturday, Oct. 6., from 1 to 7 p.m. at Caras Park. Tickets are $12 for a 6 oz. taster and two drink tokens. Extra tokens are the usual $1. If you want to beat the crowd, you can get a VIP ticket for $20 (plus $1 processing fee), and that will net you 4 tokens and entry to the festival at noon.
There will be more than 20 Montana breweries at the event bringing around 75 beers total. What’s more is that there will be “23 different 2012 Festival Release Beers never before to have seen the light of day.”
Here is the list courtesy of the Montana Brewers Association (Festival Release Beers denoted with *):
406 Brewing
* ABC IPA (IPA) – 7.4%
Citra Amarillo (IPA) – 7.2%
Brown Porter (Brown Porter) – 6%
Beaver Creek
Da Blonde Ski Ale (Lager Style Ale) – 4.7%
Red Headed IPA (American IPA) – 7.3%
Bitterroot Brewing
* Imperial Honey Citra IPA (Imperial IPA) – 9.35%
Single Hop Ale (NW Stong Pale Ale) – 6.6%
Last Cast Black IPA (Cascadian Dark IPA) – 7.2%
Blackfoot River Brewing
* Lambica (Montana Style Lambic) – 9.3%
Single Malt IPA (American IPA) – 6.8%
Missouri River Steamboat Lager (California Common) – 5.6%
Tartanic Scottish Ale (Scottish Style Strong Ale) – 6.65%
Double Black Diamond Extreme Stout (Extra Stout) – 6.9%
Blacksmith Brewing
* Wine Barrel Tripple (Belgian Tripple) – 9%
* Single Malt Single Hop IPA (IPA) – 7%
Pale (Pale Ale) – 5.5%
Porter (Porter) – 7%
Bozone
* 3rd Virtue (Belgian Tripel) – 10.5%
* Export Golden Lager Kellerbier (Dortmunder Lager) - 6.8%
* 2012 Bozone Terroir (Fresh Hop IPA) - 7%
Bozone Select (Amber Ale) – 5.5%
Hopzone IPA (IPA) – 7%
Harvest Fest (Oktoberfest) – 6%
Draught Works
* Potato with a Mullet (Rye IPA) – 7.2%
Shadow Caster (Alt) – 4.9%
Clothing Optional (Pale Ale) – 5.2%
Scepter Head (IPA) – 6%
Flathead Lake
* Montucky Sour Cherry Brown (Flanders Style Brown Ale) – 6.8%
The Tripel (Belgian Triple) – 8.6%
Bufflehead Brown Ale (American Brown Ale) – 6.5%
The Centennial (American Style IPA) – 7.3%
The Imperial (American Style Imperial IPA) – 8.6%
The Front
* Oktoberfest Festiv Ale (Oktobertest/Marzen) – 5.8%
Mountain Man Strong Ale (Complex Scotch Ale) – 6.8%
River Water IPA (American IPA) – 6.9%
Headquarters Pale Ale (Pale Ale) – 5.6%
Glacier Brewing
* Ursus Arctos Hefebilus Ale (Imperial Hefeweizen) – 8%
Golden Grizzly Ale (Kolsch Golden Ale) – 5.5%
Slurry Bomber Stout (Stout) – 5.5%
Glacier Select Oktoberfest (Oktoberfest/Marzen) – 6.7%
Great Northern
* Frog Hop 2012 (Fresh Hop Pale Ale) – 5.1%
Good Medicine Imperial Red (Imperial Red Ale) – 7.9%
Wheatfish (American Hefeweizen) – 4.75%
Tea P.A. (American Pale Ale) – 5.25%
Higher Ground
Flash Flood Milk Stout (Milk Stout) – 6%
Summerfoot Pale Ale (Pale Ale) – 5.4%
Base Camp Irish Red (Red Ale) – 5.7%
Lewis and Clark
* Lewis and Clark Festival Release Tumbleweed IPA (IPA) – 6.6%
Miners Gold (Hefeweizen) – 4.95%
Back Country Scottish Ale (Scotch Ale) – 5.6%
Madison River
* Frostbite Barley Wine (American Barley Wine) – 11%
* Green Emerger Fresh Hop (Fresh Hop IPA) – 6%
Black Ghost Oatmeal Stout (Oatmeal Stout) – 8%
Salmon Fly Honey Rye (Rye with Honey) – 5.5%
Neptune’s
* Sheze Titian (Belgian Blond) – 9%
Taddletale (Scottish Ale) – 10%
Shakebite (IPA) – 7%
Outlaw
* Outlaw Alt-Oktoberfest (German Alt) – 5.5%
Pugalist Chocolate Porter (Porter) – 6.4%
Philipsburg
* HayBag Hefeweizen (American Wheat) – 5.3%
The “Gonk” Amber (Alt) – 6%
Quarry
* Opal Oktoberfest (Vienna Style Oktoberfest) – 5.4%
Shale Pale Ale (English Style Pale Ale) – 5.8%
Open Pit Porter (Robust Porter) – 5.8%
Ironstone IPA (Imperial IPA) – 8.4%
Red Lodge Ales
* Helio Hefewiezen (Hefewiezen) – 5.5%
Bent Nail IPA (IPA) – 6.3%
Tamarack
* Single Malt Oktoberfest (Oktoberfest/Marzen) – 5.8%
Sip N Go Naked (Apricot Fruit Beer) – 5.2%
Fresh Hop Cascade Dark Ale (Cascadian Dark Ale) – 6%
Wildwood
* Karapiller Red Lager (Red Lager) – 5.3%
Organic White Bark Wheat (Bavarian Hefeweizen) – 5.5%
Organic Mystic Stout (Irish Dry Stout) – 5.6%
Czech Pilsner (Pilsner) – 5.4%
- Matt Pritchard