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We've done the chamber, had a couple news interviews - TV, Radio and Paper. We've hosted some local civic activity groups like the "Park and Ride" group and we're sponsoring our local fledgling Roller Derby team. And yes, I'm always up for something humorous.

Ya. We're not "big enough" yet to be able to pass on that margin to our consumers. Unless we win some hardware at a meaningful festival or something we'd just have to eat the distributor margin ourselves. Essentially, there IS no margin difference. We just take it in the shorts when we HAVE...

nvious23, The tide is turning but Bud and Bud Light are still the king of beers in America. True, marketing is a huge part of that success, and it's very interesting to note just how much money and really creepy thought has been put into the marketing of beers and alcohol in general in America...

zwiller, we have a two-page write up that we give out to all our prospective accounts that lists all our products, their ABV, their ibus and then gives a description of the style and what to expect in terms of flavor etc. The description is worded such that if the restaurant (whatever) chooses...

Hey, good news! The 2 quarter kegs that we took to Mackenzie River last Thursday have already kicked. Wait for it... wait for it... They want a regular account. Our Vanilla Porter, named Storm the Door has a new home! They'll take a 1/2 barrel. Nice! EDIT: Sorry, forgot for a moment...

zwiller, I'm always happy to hear some advice. I'm not proud. ;-)

Headed off to get some "sample growlers" ready for Makenzie River. They encouraged us to take a few extra along to let customers who hadn't gotten a chance to visit us yet try some of our other beers so we'll do that. I'm going to take the IPA, the Amber, the Blackberry Pale Ale and some...

I thought that too. And believe me, all I hear is that people REALLY like our beer. But it turns out that it's REALLY REALLY hard to get your foot in the door with new accounts. Particularly if you're self-distributing. We've had to knock on doors over and over and over again. We're bugging...

Bobeer and 1977, What I can tell you is that everyone told US that summers will reduce your sales. We didn't believe that. Now, with taverns, it makes sense that people would go out during the summer months and find things to do. However, a brewery atmosphere is different. There's live...

I expect we'll be in Helena, on way or another. I don't have that one on my calendar yet, but they're just down the road and pretty easy to get organized for quickly.

desabat, in a word - uniqueness. It's a fine West Coast IPA. It's clean, crisp and certainly has an aggressive hop bite. It comes out with an impressive grapefruit tang from the cascade dry-hops we use. However I wouldn't say it's anything overwhelmingly special. I have had a certified...

We're going Colo, but we won't have a booth this year. We're submitting Muddy Creek Chocolate Stout, Storm the Door Vanilla Porter and perhaps, Skinny Cow IPA, although I honestly don't feel it's quite good enough to submit for national competition. However, the goal really just to get a...

Alright, I'll keep my end of the deal up. No punches pulled. I'll just go on telling you how it is. You guys and gals want to know what it's like running a full-on commercial brewery and are willing to invest your time reading these threads, I suppose the least I can do is not blow smoke up...

Ok. I think we need to do something different here folks. We will have been "officially open" 3 months now in a couple days. While that doesn't make us "grizzled veterans" by any means, I think we can say that the stage 1 thread is complete. Time to move on to the next stage of a young...

Yep, good correction Chum. White Noise IS UberBrew's beer. Excellent hefe! Wonderful wonderful beer. It's got a super clean, nice finish. I really enjoyed it. And their C-Bomb. No words... Simply No words.

I should also point out that if you ever get a chance to try "Clothing Optional Pale Ale" from DraughtWorks out of Missoula or their White Noise Hefeweizen you should definitely do so. The Pale Ale won a gold in 2014 in Denver and DraughtWorks won the Small Brewery of the year award that year...

We went to our second Brewfest last weekend. This time we went to a little town called Livingston where another brewery worked with the community to host a festival. There were about 15 or 16 other breweries there and around 46 different beers to taste. All around it was a great day. We...

Hey, great news. We attended our first festival today. Our porter was a big hit. In fact, the servers said many people came up and said it was the best beer at the festival. Sadly they did NOT have a "Peoples' Choice" award. Nonetheless, we did end up kicking the entire keg. Our Karma...

Craft Beer Week is nearly upon us! :mug: Monday: Beer and Food Day - Our local Great Harvest Bread Company will be making "Cheddar Beer Soup" from our Stout, they'll also make some fresh bread to go along with it, also from some of our wort. This will be served to our patrons for a...

I'm glad to hear it Jinks. We now have a vanilla porter on tap that I believe is an even better beer than the stout. We also have an orange-infused wheat ale, and I've got a blackberry pale ale coming on tap in a bit. So there are quite a few new things to try in the pipeline. I'm also...