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This Bon Appetit article on canned craft beer is a great example of how craft brewers, especially those in the Rocky Mountain West, are writing the history of beer they way they want to. Sometimes you have to take tradition and history and stuff it in a bottle and send it out to sea. Canning [...]

Provided we get some more snow to actually have a floating season this summer, the possibilities for river-friendly beer is overwhelming all of a sudden. Between the likes of New Belgium, Big Sky and now Anderson Valley Brewing Co., there is a sudden surge in craft brews available in cans. I’ve already said my bit [...]

So we’ve all heard about the rumor that Kettlehouse Brewing Co. would be putting Eddie Out Pale Ale in cans. We’ve waited patiently through a two-year-long process of building the North Side brewery. We’ve waited through snow storms and the heat of a Montana July. Several in fact. And now, I can say that with [...]

Since moving to Missoula in 2007, I’ve been enamored of Grupthink, a local company that uses kick-ass software to gather public sentiment through polls, open-ended questions and other techniques in searchable forums. That sounds like a mouthful, but it’s one of the coolest technologies I’ve seen in awhile as it relates to the news business. [...]