Grizzly Growler

It’s technically spring, but it sure doesn’t feel like it. So while we wait for the weather to warm up, hopefully sometime before July, Bitter Root Brewing has something to tide us over – the 2011 release of Huckleberry Honey Ale in bottles. Here’s a line from the latest newsletter: Our first batch of Huckleberry [...]

According to a Facebook rumor, Bitterroot Brewing will be previewing this delightful summer thirst quencher this weekend. Stop in and have a look…er taste.

That is a great question actually. I don’t have any overriding love of figs, per se, but I’ve found that I enjoy beers brewed with figs for some reason. After a day of plundering the anime video section at Hastings in Missoula, my brother-in-law, who is visiting along with my sister and their one-year-old boy, [...]

The beauty of things like Twitter and Facebook is that it makes real people more accessible. I met Buckbean Brewing Company, of Reno, Nevada, through Twitter. And I’m absolutely stoked about getting my hands on some of their beer. The first of the three I received looked like a tall boy of Fanta with its [...]

Cherry beers seem to show up like blossoms on the Flathead this time of year, and so it shouldn’t be too difficult to find one to enjoy on V-Day. Big Sky Brewing Co.’s new Kreik (cherry) is a whopper of a fruit beer, with amazing cherry, cocoa and wood characteristics that I guarantee your significant [...]