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Several Montana breweries took home some hardware over the weekend during the 2012 World Beer Cup awards ceremony. Nearly 800 breweries throughout the world entered close to 4,000 beers into the competition, which took place at the beginning of May and is held every two years. Montana breweries entered 29 beers and four of those won [...]

The 30th annual Great American Beer Festival was held last weekend in Denver, and three Montana breweries took home medals, including Missoula’s own Kettlehouse Brewing Co.: Kettlehouse Brewing Co. – Seeley Axe, Bronze, Gluten-Free Beer Carter’s Brewing – Blackened CDA, Silver, American-Style Black Ale Montana Brewing Co. – White Eagle Baltic Porter, Silver, Baltic-Style Porter Quite [...]

Got a note from Big Sky Brewing Company today about a little beer competition in Australia. Turns out our mountain brewing friends picked up a couple golds, a silver and Best New Exhibitor. Here’s the note from Big Sky: Well, a few months ago we sent a few bottles of Big Sky IPA, Bobo’s Robust [...]

The largest beer competition in the world was kind to Montana Brewing Company this year, recognizing their Whitetail Wheat with a bronze medal in the American-Style Wheat Beer with Yeast category. From what I can tell from reading the list of winners, there were no other winners from Montana this year. Montana Brewing Company head [...]

That’s the United States Beer Tasting Championship, if you didn’t know. Good old bourbon-barrel-aged Ivan also won best of the Northwest/Pacific in the barrel-aged category. And Bobo’s Robust Porter picked up the best of the Northwest/Pacific in the porter category. Here’s a breakdown of the Northwest/Pacific region and the winners in each category. Northwest/Pacific Barrel-Aged [...]