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Montana Rep. Denny Rehberg is taking on Rep. Dan Lipinski of Illinois over Saturday’s NAIA football championship, which pits Carroll against Saint Xavier, and good beer is on the line. According to the Great Falls Tribune, if Carroll wins its second title in a row, the Montana lawmaker will receive a growler from Harrison’s Brewery [...]

As 2011 comes to a close, it’s time to reflect on the year that was. So GG’s interested: What was the most memorable beer you had this year? Now, it doesn’t necessarily have to be the best beer, just one that sticks out in your mind. For instance, it could be one you had while [...]

Western Montana’s Summit Beverage has an excellent guide to decadent winter beer on its website. The guide has more than 30 beers, from Deschutes’ Stoic to Bayner’s Face Plant to Boston Beer’s Infinium Ale, to help keep you warm on these cold nights. There’s also food pairing recommendation with each brew. Now I assume these [...]

Jeremy Cowan, owner of San Francisco-based Shmaltz Brewing Co., returns to western Montana for the second year in a row to talk about and sign copies of his book “Craft Beer Bar Mitzvah: How It Took 13 Years, Extreme Jewish Brewing, and Circus Sideshow Freaks to Make Shmaltz Brewing Company an International Success.” Cowan will [...]

The Garden City’s most beer-obsessed bar has a new website called, simply, 50beersin50days.com. The idea is straightforward, the blog will look at 50 of the Rhino’s beers and will tell a short story about each one through pictures, words and videos. There will also be interviews with bar owners, brewers and distributors. The beers profiled [...]

New Belgium Brewing’s film tour promoting beer and sustainability hits Caras Park on Friday at 7:30 p.m. The tour will benefit Bike/Walk Alliance for Missoula. Watch some films, drink some beer, it’s easy enough. Beer. Film. Folly. Fans. Bring ‘em all together and we discovered the makings of one tasty, traveling event: Clips of Faith [...]

It may seem counter-intuitive, but more craft breweries are finding themselves pulling out of markets in order to feed their local, and growing, base. Flying Dog Brewery in Maryland is one that’s seen its local demand boom and thus has curtailed distribution to 13 states. The moves help to save on shipping costs and also [...]

Question: What has bicycle wheels, pedals, a bar top and allows patrons to drink beer while on the go? Answer: Cycle Pubs. James Watts recently brought two Cycle Pubs to the streets of Bend, Ore., where riders can sip on a beer as they pedal around town. A driver in the front man’s the steering [...]

I grew up in LaGrange, Ill., a suburb outside of Chicago, and one of my best friends back then was Craig Frymark, who lived three houses down from me. When I moved to Missoula in 1995 at age 13 with my family, we lost touch, as is bound to happen. Recently, through my parents and [...]

Here’s a long look at the status of Mexico’s craft beer scene, which faces an uphill battle going against the giants, Grupo Modelo and Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma, which makes Corona, Tecate and other brands. Red tape and politics hinder the growth of the little guys, but with any luck they may be able break through.