Montana Newbie

[WAKeele]

have you eaten at 9 Mile yet? it's NW of Frenchtown if I remember right.

I haven't, nor have I heard anything about it.

Thanks Sergeant Captain!

[Billy Klubb]

used to be a pretty good steak house.

[Ozwald]

4 pint limit? Unfortunately it's only 3 (48oz). It works great in Billings where the 4 breweries are all within stumbling distance from each other (even if I spend all my time at Carters - Mike's the best Belgian-style brewer in the state).
I work at Madison River Brewing Co. in Belgrade, live in Bozeman and work my winter job at Moonlight in Big Sky. Little confused, which brewery are you near, Bayern or Lone Peak? Either way, welcome to the forum and subsequent asshattery. If you're in the Bozo/Big Sky area, we should get together for a beer sometime.

Yeah, 48 oz max. They serve 12 oz.
I was impressed by the stuff at Madison River when I went to the brewery a several months back. The bottled stuff we can get out here is good, but I wish I could get some of the other stuff MUCH more. Big Sky and Bitterroot (in Hamilton) are trying some Belgian styles now that the ABV limit has increased. It's exciting.
I live close to Bayern. I don't even know where Lone Peak is. It sure isn't in Missoula. Just Bayern, Big Sky and Kettlehouse in town.
Thanks for the invite, I'll have to remember to announce any possible trips that way.

Lone Peak is in the Big Sky Meadows. Bitterroot is doing some great stuff - have you tried their Baltic porter yet? - but if you really want to check out some Belgian styles, you definitely need to head to Billings and go to Carters. No one else is even close to what Mike is doing over there. Are you coming to Bozo for the upcoming beer fest?

[Pharmbrewer]

Welcome to the forum. I'm in missoula as well, been doing all grain for about year now. I live on the south side of town if you ever want to get together and brew let me know you can pm me. My schedules a little full with the job 2 kids and the bitch. (I'm refering to that slobering beast who just ate my yeast starter not my lovely wife) but I still manage to brew once a month. Anyway see ya around the forum.

Prost
PB

[WAKeele]

Lone Peak is in the Big Sky Meadows. Bitterroot is doing some great stuff - have you tried their Baltic porter yet? - but if you really want to check out some Belgian styles, you definitely need to head to Billings and go to Carters. No one else is even close to what Mike is doing over there. Are you coming to Bozo for the upcoming beer fest?

That still doesn't help me. I'm from Tennessee and only know places around Missoula, Great Falls and places between there and Boise. I'll have to Google map it.
As for the Baltic porter if it's the one done up in the whiskey barrels I have and LOVE it. I was going to get a growler of it to take to friends in Boise, but those lazy bastards were almost out and had to settle with a sample at the brewery. It always seems the stuff I like most is the hardest to come by. Apparently they have a Belgian Honey Trippel and a Wit going on now. Maybe there will be some left by the time I make it down that way next.
I wasn't aware of any brewfest in Bozeman. Probably not. School takes up 98% of my time and the remain 2% goes to bathing, eating and getting from point A to B.

[WAKeele]

Welcome to the forum. I'm in missoula as well, been doing all grain for about year now. I live on the south side of town if you ever want to get together and brew let me know you can pm me. My schedules a little full with the job 2 kids and the bitch. (I'm refering to that slobering beast who just ate my yeast starter not my lovely wife) but I still manage to brew once a month. Anyway see ya around the forum.

Prost
PB

Thanks PB. It looks like I'm done brewing for a while. I just started a Belgian Stong and still have bit of Doppelbock and a little Munich Lager on tap. I'll be leaving town for a year in May to go to an Air Force school in Mississippi (which their dumbass laws will not stop me from brewing some while I'm there!). Sounds like I need to avoid kids and dogs--shouldn't be a problem. Beer is more important to me than those, so I guess I need to keep my priorities strait.

[Ozwald]

Bozeman Fairgrounds, 4/10 6p-12p

http://www.montanabeerfest.com/

[WAKeele]

Man, that is tempting....
Thanks!