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We're doing a couple new things this week. St. Patty's day is obviously pretty huge in Butte and today marks the halfway point to that particular celebration, so in honor of that we're having a "Half Way" party at the brewery tonight. We'll feature our last keg of An Ri Red Irish Red ale which...

Actually TroutSlayer, I expect you are talking about the established brewery in town. We've actually made our peace with them and as far as I know, things have been pretty good. It could be there is still some flack coming from their side of the pond, but I haven't heard about that. No this...

Ya, we're going to GABF, although we don't have a booth this year. We're too small and nobody would know who we are. The plan is to do a booth next year and just check out the festival, meet some folks and try some beers in new styles this year. As I've mentioned earlier we've entered a...

You like brutal honesty... here's some. Remember how I told you that breweries love one another and play nicely in a warm pool of happiness and joy? That's not entirely true. It seems that's only true until you become somewhat successful. Once you get to a point where you're perceived as a...

We do that iijakii, our point of sale system tracks each pint and growler sold nightly and tabulates that into gallons and ultimately barrels. We also track our barrels coming down from the taproom to cross-reference so we have something to double-check our figures and get a feel for taproom...

Dear God! Kidney Stones! The Pain. The horrific pain.

Gosh, I'm not keeping up very well, am I? Ok. Let's talk about stuff you ought to know about. Keeping the taproom stocked is hard. We run a 10 barrel system and you'd think that being able to brew 300+ gallons of beer twice or more a week ought to be sufficient, but surprisingly, it's...

Ah yes, the black and tan. In this case I believe Storm the Door Porter and Uptown Blonde Ale. I was trying to dig up the photo of the triple layer beer that one of our servers made around St. Patty's day but I can't do it off my phone. Now THAT was impressive. I'll have to do it from home...

Well in less than a month we'll be down in Denver. Things are starting to pick up again with Summer tapering off. The college students have returned and the partners have come up with a new and bold scheme. I now only need to keep 4 beers on tap at all times, the rest I can rotate through at...

And there's the truth of it. You can hide flaws in a stout or a porter. You can hide flaws in an IPA. Your blondes, your pales, your hefe's and your wheat ales... They're harder to hide flaws with. You want to find out if somebody's got good clean equipment and processes? Try their milder...

Congratulations! Didn't even see that that drawing took place.

You know what's funny Jinks? There was a guy at the festival who was raving over everybody's IPA's. He LOVED him some Tamarack IPA. (And I get that. Those guys make a fine IPA.) But he comes over, asks about our DIPA, which we didn't have, but tried our Amber instead. He KILLS us with his...

Hey, I saw Rusty Gears Brewing at the Montana Brewers Association Summer Festival in Helena this weekend. He stopped by and said hello. I was serving some Crazy Beautiful pale ale and No Paddle Amber. The amber has a decidedly aggressive hops bite to it. In fact it's really just short of an...

Not currently planning on attending that one. We'll just be getting back from GABF in Denver.

I should clarify. I was unfair when I said the distributors don't have skin in the game. They do have to market your beer, pick it up, transport it and deliver it. That ain't free. If the customer doesn't like it for some reason, the distributor has to round up your beer and bring it back to...

Currently we are working on local self-distribution. Our next step would be to do some larger regional distribution and get outside the town and the county. The biggest risk to any small business and particularly to a small brewery is to believe your local press and grow too quickly. It's...

And... They're off. We just sent our beer off to the competition. Very exciting stuff. Our Chocolate Stout and our Vanilla Porter are about to meet the world in a big way. We'll see how they do. As I mentioned before, as far as I know tonight is the debut of An Ri Red. That ought to be...

Well, let's see. With our Irish festival about to open (Butte is a BIG Irish town,) we're going to roll out our Irish Red Ale. The festival is called An Ri Ra. Which translates roughly to "A Ruckus". We've named the red, An Ri Red, which we affectionately translate to "A Red Ruckus." (Yes...

Go Stillers!

Sorry I've been away so long. Been busy. Man, my cupboard is bare! We have a brand shiny new keg cleaner that is supposed to ship today as I'm told. That's going to make life SO much easier. Our malt supplier had a mix up on their end and they shipped us a much larger breweries order so we...