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Montana breweries take home medals at 2012 World Beer Cup

Matt Pritchard — Wed, 09 May 2012 01:49:05 +0000

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 awards. The big winner was Montana Brewing Co., which took home a gold medal for its Whitetail Wheat. Lewis and Clark Brewing received a silver for its Miner’s Gold, and Missoula’s own Kettlehouse Brewing Co. won bronze for Cold Smoke.

Montana Brewing Co.

Category: American-style wheat beer with yeast
Gold medal – Whitetail Wheat

Category: Ordinary or special bitter
Silver medal – Happy Hour Hero Ale

Lewis and Clark Brewing

Category: American-style wheat beer with yeast
Silver medal – Miner’s Gold

Kettlehouse Brewing Co.

Category: Scotch Ale
Bronze medal – Cold Smoke

Head over here for a full listing of all 95 categories and winners.

- Matt Pritchard

Kettlehouse Brewing among Montana medal winners at 2011 Great American Beer Festival

Matt Pritchard — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:15:13 +0000

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 an accomplishment, as more than 3,900 beers competed for just 248 medals. Here’s a breakdown of the winners.

- Matt Pritchard

Big SkyBrewing Company Beers Rock Down Under

Tim Akimoff — Mon, 24 May 2010 22:05:36 +0000

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 Porter, and Ivan The Terrible Imperial Stout down to the Australian International Beer Awards. This is the largest international beer judging in the Asian/Australian area. Over 1300 beers from 40 nations were entered, and Big Sky won the trophy as best new exhibitor.

Ivan and Bobo both took Gold Medals while Big Sky IPA took a Silver Medal.

Congratulations to Big Sky Brewing Company and all the hard working folks who put out great beer that wins awesome awards around the world. They’re making Missoula look good one continent at a time.

Prost,

Montana Brewing Company wins a bronze at the World Beer Cup

Tim — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:47:52 +0000

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 brewer Travis Zeilstra continues a streak of brewing award-winning beers that includes a stint as Small Brewer of the Year at the Great American Beer Festival in 2007.

Congratulations to Travis and his crew at Montana Brewing Company. Thanks for keeping Montana at the forefront of the brewing industry’s award-winning and innovative breweries.

Prost,

Big Sky Brewing Co.’s Ivan the Terrible named Grand Champion at USBTC

Tim — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:45:42 +0000

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 Beer
Ivan the Terrible Big Sky Brewing Company Missoula, MT
Honorable Mention Bourbon Barrel Double Vision Grand Teton Brewing Company Victor, ID

Barleywine
Old Crustacean Rogue Brewery Newport, OR
Honorable Mention Mirror Mirror Deschutes Brewery Bend, OR

Strong/Old Ale
Mogul Madness Ale Rogue Brewery Newport, OR
Honorable Mention Wassail Full Sail Brewing Company Hood River, OR

Imperial Stout
The Abyss Deschutes Brewery Bend, OR
Honorable Mention Imperial Stout Rogue Brewery Newport, OR

Stout
Obsidian Stout Deschutes Brewery Bend, OR
Honorable Mention Polar Bear Stout Coeur d’Alene Brewing Company Coeur d’Alene, ID

Porter
Bobo’s Robust Porter Big Sky Brewing Company Missoula, MT

Brown Ale
Hazelnut Brown Nectar Rogue Brewery Newport, OR
Honorable Mention Lakeside British Ale Coeur d’Alene Brewing Company Coeur d’Alene, ID

Scottish-Style Ale
Sheep Eater Scotch Ale Grand Teton Brewing Company Victor, ID

Belgian-Style Ale
Dick’s Grand Cru Dick’s Brewing Company Centralia, WA
Honorable Mention Ménage À Frog Issaquah Brewery Issaquah, WA

Dunkels Lager
Dirtoir Black Lager Rogue Brewery Newport, OR
Honorable Mention Session Black Full Sail Brewing Company Hood River, OR

Vienna/Marzen Lager
Fest Bier Marzen Lager Grand Teton Brewing Company Victor, ID

Spice Beer
Auld Acquaintance Pike Brewing Company Seattle, WA

Smoke Beer Smoke Ale Rogue Brewery Newport, OR

Belgo-American No winner declared

Congratulations to Matt and the crew at Big Sky Brewing Co., awesome job on the Ivan and Bobo and all the other great beers you guys make.

Prost,