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If you’re heading to Denver anytime soon, or just want another reason to go, check out this promotional video about the fine craft brewers in the Mile High City via craftbeer.com. I’ll be heading there in a few months, and this video is making me thirsty. – Matt Pritchard

Dubbed “Movember,” the men of Big Sky Brewing are putting away their upper-lip razors to get mustachioed in an effort to raise awareness and money for cancers that affect men. This is second year the guys over at the brewery have taken on this hairy challenge. On Nov. 1, the generally bearded crew shows up [...]

Zephyr Adventures of Red Lodge is offering a brewery tour in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming that also involves day hikes around Yellowstone National Park, and biking in Grand Teton National Park and along Beartooth Pass. The trip, from Sept. 9-14, takes participants to six breweries: Bozeman Brewing Co. in Bozeman; Lone Peak Brewery in Big Sky; Grand Teton Brewing in Victor, [...]

Just back from a great trip to Los Cabos, Mexico, and I have to say there’s not much in the way of craft beer down there. However, I did manage to check out the only brewery in southern Baja California, Baja Brewing Co. It was started in 2007 by several guys from Colorado who went [...]

Recently, I decided to take my well-earned free time and limited coin down to the Blacksmith Brewery in Stevensville for a little “What’s on Tap?” investigatory “research.” Over the two hours or so that I spent in that wonderful, vintage brick tasting room I had the chance to observe a good cross-section of the North [...]

I used to walk around the concourse at Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium during Dynamo Kyiv soccer games thinking about how lucky I was to be doing my initial journalism internship in a country on the brink of revolution. It’s every reporter’s dream. At least it is for those reporters who got into this to be foreign [...]

There was never a more welcome sight. After several sweltering days in the Havana heat, my brother and sister and I were looking for some relief. It came in the form of a vending machine. A vending machine that dispensed cold beer. At night, after the cafes close, the only options are nightclubs, where every [...]

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

This year’s tour started with a bang, as I introduced Oregon craft beer lovers to some of our best Montana beer. We opened bottles of Big Sky’s Ivan the Terrible, cans of Kettlehouse Brewing Co. Cold Smoke and Double Haul IPA as well as some Red Lodge Bent Nail IPA. While I was introduced to [...]

I’m not going to assume all of you have seen the movie “Beer Fest,” but if you have, then you know what I mean. I’ve always wanted to drink from a boot, and thanks to beer buddy Beau, I can now say I have. Oh, by they way, that boot is filled with Bent Nail [...]