Grizzly Growler

A friend of mine is part of the Grizzly Scholarship Association so I thought I’d pass this along to anyone interested in downing some beer for a cause. Missoula’s Tamarack Brewing Co. is holding a Community Tap Night tonight (Tuesday, May 15) to help out the GSA. For every beer sold, 75 cents goes toward [...]

Researchers at the University of Illinois in Chicago claim in a recent study that men who imbibed in a couple of beers were better at deducting a brain teaser than those who drank nothing. To reach that surprising conclusion, the researchers devised a bar game in which 40 men were given three words and told [...]

With so many breweries sprouting up all across America, it’d be nice to buy beer that you normally can’t find at your local market. That’s where a relatively new service hopes to fill a void. Beerjobber.com works with breweries and connects them with beer lovers. Users of the service can place orders from specific breweries [...]

Blue Marble Bio, a biotech firm with a facility in Missoula, has teamed with InBev (present owners of Anheuser-Busch) to turn brewery waste into products such as shaving cream and soap. It basically works by converting the waste into carboxylic acid, which then can be used in cleaning supplies and grooming products. Of course, reusing the remains [...]

Mark your calendar. Zane Lamprey’s “Drinking Made Easy” featuring Missoula airs Wednesday, Feb. 29, at 6 p.m. In the show, Lamprey and sidekick Steve McKenna hit up the Iron Horse, Big Sky Brewing, the Rhino with Bayern Brewing’s Jürgen Knöller, Reds, Bodega and the Testicle Festival. If you’re not familiar with the show, the premise [...]

Popped open a bottle of Dogfish Head’s Pangaea the other day, which I bought last March in Arizona. The idea behind it was to make a beer that contains ingredients from every continent: crystallized ginger from Australia, water from Antarctica, basmati rice from Asia, muscavado sugar from Africa, European yeast and North American maize. Here’s [...]

Not much to do about craft beer, but beer news nonetheless. Missoula-based Zip Beverage Co. recently completed its purchase of Butte’s Thompson Distributing Inc., which has been in business since 1976. The Montana Standard reports the Thompson family decided to sell after seeing the trend of small distributors being bought up by larger companies in [...]

Hey all, Grizzly Growler will have some slight changes in the works over the next couple of weeks starting with a new email address, GrizGrowler@gmail.com. I am moving on from my job at the Missoulian to go back to school (accounting of things), but will be maintaining the blog and Facebook page. Check out the updated [...]

A few weeks ago, I asked readers to share their most memorable beers of 2011. Here’s a selection of what you said: Sean Essen – Had to be Southern Tier’s Creme Brulee Stout, ridiculous stuff, dessert in a glass. … Actually, scratch that – ’96 Sam Adams Triple Bock. Andy Baker – About three weeks [...]

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 [...]