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Unless this is the queen mother of all April Fools jokes, Big Sky Brewing Company is reportedly going to offer limited release beers in what they’re calling the 406 Series. And to make everything just awesome, the first beer will be a Saison – Belgian Farmhouse Ale. These 406 Series beers will be rotating specialties [...]

If light, Belgian-style wits are your thing, Kettlehouse Brewing Company has a beer for you. It pours up like a gaudy, orange biscuit, and it tastes really good. Which is good, because it’s made with sorghum instead of barley, which means it’s nearly gluten free. In all probability, it is gluten free, but with so [...]

Via Glacier Brewing Company’s Facebook page -
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!!! We will be changing our open hours beginning this Friday, March 12, to noon-8:00 p.m., seven days a week! That is the same day that we will begin offering pizza by the slice in the tasting room!!! Pint and a slice!!!!! Yum Yum!
I get people asking me [...]

The Montana Brewer’s Association has been working hard to forge alliances with Montana farmers to insure that the world-class barley grown here is used to produce the state’s amazing selection of craft beers. With the help from a Growth Through Agriculture Grant, you’ll begin to see this seal at your favorite Montana breweries that are [...]

Here’s the skinny:
Winter BREWFEST

SNOW BUS FUND RAISING EVENT
SATURDAY, March 6, 1:00-5:00 PM

IN THE WHITEFISH MOUNTAIN RESORT VILLAGE
WHITEFISH, MONTANA

FEATURING LIVE MUSIC

FEATURING THE LIVE MUSIC OF
JOHN FLORIDIS 1 TO 3PM
&
THE GOOD WOOD BAND 3 TO 5PM
, A HEATED BEER GARDEN, AND PLETHORA OF MICROBREWS

At 4:00 Come and watch the 2nd Annual Dummy Derby, [...]

Exotic is another word for home sweet home
I’ve drank a Fiji Bitter during a nasty cyclone in Fiji. I drank a malty devil on a hot July day in Havana, Cuba. I sipped a big Pilsner in a 1500-year-old castle in the north of Albania, as American war planes flew overhead on their way to [...]

As far as popular craft beer goes, Big Sky Brewing Company’s Summer Honey doesn’t just indicate a change of seasons, it actually introduces a whole way of life. My wife, for one, will be intensely happy to see this beer in growlers in our refrigerator again. Yes, spring is on the way, and this light, [...]

Until recently, mug number 98 sat dusty and forlorn on a shelf at Bitterroot Brewing. But some hard-working journalists and Grizzly Growler fans at the Ravalli Republic newspaper have been filling in for me in between my long absences from the southern Bitterroot Valley.
Which is why it was funny that the server in the taproom [...]

Tamarack Brewing Company is going to be expanding the Yard Sale Amber Ale around the Flathead Valley, and they’d like your help to rename it. Post your answers on Tamarack’s Facebook page here, or use your Facebook login and connect to the Montana Craft Beer forum at SpeakupMissoula.com.

If you could rename Yard Sale [...]

The famed Seattle beer shop, Bottleworks, will release their 11th Anniversary Ale tonight. The big craft beer news is that this beer is a blended Ivan the Terrible from Big Sky Brewing Company, and it has a little of everything in it and more. Take a little magic and stir it around with some almost [...]