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Bonfire Brewing out of Eagle, Colo., has jumped on the Tim Tebow bandwagon with its “Tebrew” barley wine. The logo features “a man crouching as if in prayer but holding up a mug of beer, with the tagline ‘The Sunday Sipper.’ ” Is there anything Tebow can’t do? No. Here’s the story via the Associated [...]

The End of History from BrewDog on Vimeo.

Oregon’s homebrew community is in shock after the Oregon Liquor Control Commission resurrected an old law that forbids homebrewers from consuming their product anywhere other than where they brewed it. This has caused the closer of homebrew contests around the state and at various fairs. It turns out that the issue may have come to [...]

My friend Josh Quick, a very talented artist from Missoula, and I have been having an ongoing argument about the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to alcohol use. From my angle, I’ve long held that craft beer is more expensive and specialized and therefore not to be blamed for many of [...]

So I’ve been asked quite a few times about a new brewery or beer produced in Missoula. In fact, last night at Big Sky Brewing Company, a number of patrons of the taproom were chatting happily about some newfangled beer about to make its appearance in our town. Here’s what I know. Earlier this week [...]

According to this excellent piece in BeerNews.org, Redhook Brewing Company is making an Eisbock, a lager-style beer that uses ice distilling to create very smooth, high-alcohol beers. It’s a technique that’s technically illegal in the U.S. because of prohibition-era laws. It’s also fodder for those crusading against alcapops, those high-gravity malt beverages some allege are [...]

A controversial blog post by a beverage distribution company has stirred up the craft beer world with a question about how many breweries/beers is too many. In this blogger’s opinion, it’s a very good question. Here’s why: There is a big difference between distributed beer and breweries that brew only for on-premise consumption. The list [...]

As far as I can tell, pumpkin ale goes back to the time of George Washington and perhaps farther. Particularly brewed around harvest, these so-called spiced ales reflected the need to use up as many resources as possible so that nothing was wasted. You see, pumpkin doesn’t actually add that much flavor to a beer. [...]

I’ve always said that if I were to wake up suddenly allergic to seafood, I’d go to Boston, gather up all the ingredients for a fine bouillabaisse and go out in style. But if that were a hop allergy, I’d search out the best medical doctors, read up on the latest convergence of science and [...]

Utah became the 46th state to legalize homebrewing recently, according to the Brewer’s Association, along with other significant changes to the state’s alcohol policies. This encourages me, because if a state like Utah, with a lot of religious interests mixed in with its government, can do it, it gives me hope for Montana. But it [...]