One epic adventure: Helena men explore the state one microbrewery at a time

[Ptah]

POLSON — When the talk at the Glacier Brewing Co. tap house turned to the
Montana Brewery Trail, owner Dave Ayers showed off a postcard tacked to the
wall to commemorate two men’s epic adventure.

The postcard reads: “30 breweries, 2,000 miles, 1 Helluva Good Time.”

The Helena men who sent the postcard came upon the the Montana Brewery
Association’s trail map, which lists breweries from Wolf Point to Wibaux to
Red Lodge to Whitefish.

“How awesome would it be to visit all these,” they said to each other.


http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20130324/LIFESTYLE01/303240012/One-epic-adventure-Helena-men-explore-state-one-microbrewery-time

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This is a four-click article.
Well worth the read.

[Bennyboy]

1. Moose Drool!

My favorite Montana Brew, Big Sky Brewing. Montana has great brewers and I'll be that is fun. Come to CA some time. I can hit thirty breweries within the Sacramento area and have some to spare.

[JoeBlowToo]

2. This guys are rank novices...check out the British "beer tickers"....one guy has tasted 38,000 brews

A crazy documentary film about beer drinking and collecting. The hobby of beerticking

Following several of the best beertickers as they search the UK and abroad for new ales to drink and tick! Brian the Champ leads the pack with almost 40,000 different real ales; his mate Mick the Tick not far behind with a hobby that's taken over nearly 40 years of his life.
http://beertickersfilm.com/

[Bennyboy]

3. The craft brewing industry is setting an example for all of America...

We are finding out now that a neighborhood brewery works. Or a small town brewery works. As more and more people get into craft brewing, brewers will have larger and larger customer bases. And that you can get your friends involved and do business in a very different way than everyone else does it...

10 barrel system is all you need to be profitable if you have places locally that wills serve it. There is a huge influx of tap houses now that are all looking for craft brews.

Here in NORCAL we are seeing this. Breweries opening that are small, but have loyal customers at the tap rooms around the area. We are no longer seeing bars that even have Bud On tap. Or Coors or any of that shit. Even the Mexican restaurants have Eye of the Hawk... everywhere now has a number of micro brews that are not the bullshit ones like Shock Top and Blue Moon..... So they get a few lined up and get your beers in some stores and you got a profitable business. Of course your beer has to be really really really good.

[LiberalLoner]

4. K+ R

[neverforget]

5. Everytime I come to Billings, I have to stop at Angry Hanks

but I need to hit the other ones too. I plan on going to Red Lodge and visit Red Lodge Ales Brewery again.