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IPA tasting at the Wild Mare in Corvallis on Wednesday

A new restaurant in Corvallis will host its first India pale ale tasting on July 20. Owner Pam Kaye says there will be 10 IPAs: Kettlehouse Double Haul, Flathead IPA2, Blackfoot Single Malt IPA, Bitter Root IPA, Lone Peak IPA, Deschutes Hop Henge Experimental IPA, Sierra Nevada S. Hemisphere Harvest Fresh Hop Ale, Sam adams [...]

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Blackfoot River Brewing Co. pint night at Rhino on Thursday

One of my favorite Montana breweries, Helena’s Blackfoot River Brewing Co., is heading to the Rhino in Missoula on Thursday to host a special pint night starting at 4 p.m. Here’s the lowdown from Blackfoot’s newsletter: Join Blackfoot River Brewing partner Greg Wermers at the Rhino in Missoula, this Thursday, April 14th for a Blackfoot Pint [...]

Missoula’s Caffe Dolce holds Blackfoot River Brewing beer tasting on Tuesday

Helena’s Blackfoot River Brewing Co. is coming to Missoula to host a beer tasting event at Caffe Dolce on Tuesday. The event features nine samples and tickets are $20. Spots are filling up fast, so if you want to go you’d better call soon. The number is (406) 830-3055 (ext. 3), and Caffe Dolce is [...]

Shmaltz Brewing Co. book reading, tasting in Hamilton

Jeremy Cowan of Shmaltz Brewing Co. will be in Hamilton at Chapter One Book Store on Friday, Nov. 26, at 7 p.m. to read from his new 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.” There will also [...]

Labor of love in Stevi taproom

Recently, I decided to take my well-earned free time and limited coin down to the Blacksmith Brewery in Stevensville for a little “What’s on Tap?” investigatory “research.” Over the two hours or so that I spent in that wonderful, vintage brick tasting room I had the chance to observe a good cross-section of the North [...]

Upcoming Beer Dinner At Blue Canyon

If you missed last year’s beer dinner at Blue Canyon, and I know you did, because I was there, you really need to check out this year’s dinner. On (CORRECTION) Friday Jan. 23nd at 6:30 in Bison Room of Blue Canyon, chef Laurence Coffman and Big Sky head brewer Matt Long will take you on [...]

Dispatches from China

Craft brew really has made it across the Pacific. This is from my good friend Peter Bowling, a business man, philanthropist, AIDS activist working in China. Take it away Pete – Here’s a shot of the import beer section. There used to be just about nothing in the way of good beer here, but now [...]

The ABCs of beer

Australia, Bozeman and Cantillon to be exact. There was no order to this tasting, nor was there a theme. Conveniently, I found a loosely threaded theme to follow in a simple song my two-year-old sings. My buddy Luke from Kettlehouse, grabbed a growler of schwarz beer from Bozeman Brewing Co., I threw in two bottles [...]