Grizzly Growler

Western Montana’s Summit Beverage has an excellent guide to decadent winter beer on its website. The guide has more than 30 beers, from Deschutes’ Stoic to Bayner’s Face Plant to Boston Beer’s Infinium Ale, to help keep you warm on these cold nights. There’s also food pairing recommendation with each brew. Now I assume these [...]

As we raced the cold and snowy dark to get back to Missoula, I saw a warm and inviting oasis in Lakeside at Tamarack Brewing Co. Knowing that it was probably my only chance to sneak in and grab some Cross-Eyed Christmas Ale, we pulled off the highway and darted inside. Two quick samples of [...]

On a brief business trip to Kalispell, I had a chance to shoot up the highway to Whitefish and pop into the Black Star Draught House, the bar that serves as a clearing house for the great ales from Great Northern Brewing Co. It was a quick trip, so I ordered a Snow Ghost Winter [...]

If you’re passing through Polson today, they tapped a keg of the Shotgun Winter Warmer last night. The prediction is that it will be gone by Saturday night. If you had some, let me know what it was like. Prost, GG

I don’t like making lists. Someone inevitably gets left off and then pissed off at me. But, I know some of you really like lists, so I’m going to round out the top local beers of 2008. I may or may not get around to doing my favorite beers anywhere list, so enjoy this one. [...]

Bayern’s Thorsten Geuer called yesterday with some big news. The brewery is releasing its first new beer since the 1990s ( as far as anyone can recall). Faceplant is a combination of German ingenuity and American marketing savvy. The doppel weizen is a warm and pleasant beer with major wheat characteristics, which gives it a [...]