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Montana Brewing Company

113 North Broadway
Billings MT 59101-2043
Telephone: +1 406-252-9200
Hours: Open daily 11am-2am.
Brewer: Evan Taylor
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Notes

Visited: July 14, 2024

Opened: 1994

Annual Production: 900 bbl

Contributors: Justin Pearce, Mario Kornmesser, Ralph Wells, Richard R Tinurelli, Siegfried Binge

Updated: July 22, 2024

Beer List

Billings IPA

American-Style India Pale Ale
- Date: October 1, 2004 (#5465)
  
  Package: draught
  
  Place: Great American Beer Festival, Denver CO
  
  Score: 13½ points
  
  Appearance (3)
  Bright golden. Good head.
  
  Aroma (2)
  Grassy, herbal hops, DMS.
  
  Mouthfeel (7)
  Medium body. Fiercely bitter, but not much else.
  
  Overall Impression (1½)

Custer's Last Stout

Foreign (Export)-Style Stout

Awards:

Gold Medal, 2004 Great American Beer Festival

Date: October 1, 2004 (#5466)

Package: draught

Place: Great American Beer Festival, Denver CO

Score: 19 points

Appearance (3)
Black. Nice dense head.

Aroma (4)
Rich roasty chocolatey malt.

Mouthfeel (9)
Medium body, fairly fizzy. Lots and lots of chocolate and lots and lots of roasty malt.

Overall Impression (3)
Real Tasty Beer.

Espresso Porter

Coffee Flavored Beer

Date: November 18, 2007 (#6706)

Package: draught

Place: at the brewery

Score: 18 points

Appearance (3)
Black. Dense brown head.

Aroma (3)
Espresso.

Mouthfeel (9)
Medium body, creamy. Nice malt character, and lots of espresso. The malt sweetness subdues the coffee's bitterness, making for a tasty, well-balanced beer.

Overall Impression (3)

Fatbelly

American-Style Amber/Red Ale

5.40% abv.

Date: November 18, 2007 (#6702)

Package: draught

Place: at the brewery

Score: 17 points

Appearance (3)
Bright red. Thick head.

Aroma (3)
Mild caramel, mild toffee.

Mouthfeel (9)
Medium body. Fizzy. Nice smooth maltiness, nice caramel flavor. Mild grassy, earthy hop flavor, moderately bitter. Hops linger a bit in the finish.

Overall Impression (2)
Good clean beer.

Date: November 18, 2007 (#6705)

Package: draught

Place: at the brewery

Score: 16 points

Appearance (3)
Golden, hazy. Thick head.

Aroma (3)
Mild earthy hops.

Mouthfeel (8)
Medium body, fizzy. Nice caramel malt like the Sharptail. Spicy earthy hop flavor is surprisingly subdued.

Overall Impression (2)
Tasty beer, but pretty sweet. Brewed with freshly-picked locally-grown Cascade hops.

Date: July 14, 2024 (#11858)

Package: draught

Place: at the brewery

Score: 12½ points

Appearance (3)
Deep, dark red. Thick creamy head.

Aroma (2½)
Pretty clean. Very mild dark toast.

Mouthfeel (6)
Light-medium body, creamy. Dark caramel and diacetyl.

Overall Impression (1)
Butter beer.

Date: November 18, 2007 (#6700)

Package: draught

Place: at the brewery

Score: 18½ points

Appearance (3)
Bright golden. Dense head.

Aroma (3½)
Citrusy. Bready.

Mouthfeel (9)
Light and fizzy. Sweetly grainy, bready. Mild citrusy hop flavor, low bitterness. Fruity fizzy finish.

Overall Impression (3)
Refreshing. It was a good 15-point beer when I first tasted it in 2007.

Date: November 18, 2007 (#6703)

Package: draught

Place: at the brewery

Score: 18 points

Appearance (3)
Bright red-amber. Thick dense head.

Aroma (3)
Big spicy hops, with lots of citrus. Perfumey.

Mouthfeel (9)
Medium body. Creamy-but-fizzy. Big caramel malt underlies an even bigger spicy-citrusy hop flavor. Very nicely bitter.

Overall Impression (3)
Very tasty beer.

Date: November 18, 2007 (#6704)

Package: draught

Place: at the brewery

Score: 15½ points

Appearance (3)
Bright golden. Thick head.

Aroma (2½)
Very clean...just a hint of floral hops.

Mouthfeel (8)
Medium body, smooth, but pretty fizzy. Big sweet maltiness with a nice rye malt nutty flavor. Very low hop character. Very sweet.

Overall Impression (2)

Date: November 18, 2007 (#6701)

Package: draught

Place: at the brewery

Score: 15½ points

Appearance (3)
Yellow. Hazy. Thick head.

Aroma (2½)
Very faintly floral.

Mouthfeel (8)
Light body, very fizzy. Lots of sweet wheat malt. Faintly yeasty, with a mild banana flavor.

Overall Impression (2)