Grizzly Growler

Green eggs and ham are one thing. I might have trouble with that until I try it. In the craft beer world, I don’t know if it would take so many words to convince someone to try it. I gotta hand it to beer writer Jay Brooks on this one. If only I had time [...]

Check out my article about Blackfoot River Brewing Company in the digital version of Missoula Magazine. It’s the first article on the second set of pages. Just click the little buttons at the bottom of the magazine to scan through it. Clicking on the page will make it big enough to read.
Prost,
GG

I don’t have a pint of Open Cab Copper to hoist tonight, but if you do, hoist a pint or a growler of it in honor of Butte native Bryon Wilson, who slayed a field of monster athletes at the 2010 Olympics in British Columbia, Canada to take the bronze medal in men’s moguls.
Go USA!
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It was Super Bowl Sunday of course. But that’s no excuse. On Friday, I received an E-mail from one Steffen Rasile, of The BarBeerians, asking if I could meet him for a pint at the Kettlehouse on Sunday. Well, I explained that the Kettlehouse Brewing Co. did not keep Sunday hours and suggested Bayern Brewing. We [...]

I ran across this on the Kettlehouse Brewing Co. official Facebook page, and I gotta say, I like this line of reasoning. I prefer dark glass, but I think they’ve got something here.
The subject of using dark brown glass for growlers vs clear glass comes up frequently for us. Here’s our line of reasoning for [...]

For your Friday reading pleasure. Take a moment to read this wonderful Web site at Modern Drunkard Magazine. If for nothing more than the pure comedic vitriol it pours forth.
Prost,
GG

It wasn’t my first choice for playing softball in the dead of winter, but 21st Amendment Brewing Co.’s Watermelon Wheat in cans intrigued me enough to splurge on a six-pack for the mid-winter classic in Missoula, Montana.
I wasn’t the taste tester of choice though, that pleasure fell to my wife. I was sipping on Oscar [...]

I saw this on Stone Brewing Co.’s Facebook page. While it’s quite an honor for Stone, it’s also an interesting look at some of America’s most innovative breweries. It’s also interesting to not which breweries are not on this list.

Spend a few minutes analyzing this chart and see for yourself.

We live in the last best place and drink the last best beer for sure, but I find it hard to believe we’re number one for consumption and 41 for income. This is depressing, I might have to think about this over a pint or [...]

Very few breweries don’t think about waste and the environment. Brewing is a very natural process, but cleaning beer equipment and storage considerations can wreak havoc on the environment. And though many new breweries are building green sites to begin with, I’m seeing many more retrofit as others upgrade or expand. Big Sky Brewing Co. [...]