Grizzly Growler

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 [...]