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BREWERIES CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9
They work to give back to the community. Every Sunday there are two fundraising events. From 11AM-12PM is Down Dogs and Draughts, which draws up to 50
people a week. For $10/person, with $2 of that going to a local charity, the Loft Yoga Studio leads yoga, and every participant gets
a pint of their choice afterwards.
From 5-8PM is Brew a Better Community Night, with $1 of every pint sold going to another local organization.
CROOKED FURROW BREWING
Helena’s brewery business shows new growth this year, with two brand new breweries opening within a few months of each other. Crooked Furrow Brewing partners David McKeever, Nick Diehl,
and Mick Mondloch are hard at work getting Helena’s latest craft brewery ready for a late spring/ early summer opening. Nick and David have been homebrewing for years, and it was being introduced to Mick that was the catalyst that got them all thinking about going into the business. “It’s all about the beer,” they say. They want to share their enjoyment of craft beer with the community, and to expand their customers’ palates.
Their location at 2801 North Roberts street, a block west
of Sanders near Sportsman’s Warehouse, is in the nal stages of renovation. The brewing equipment was installed in mid-March, and the work on
the taproom and the brewroom continues. The taproom will hold just under one hundred people, with plans on having outside
seating
sometime
in the
future.
The bar
will have
twelve
taps, with four or
ve being used upon opening, and expanding their selection from there. Customer choice and taste will guide what the agship offerings will be in the future. They have plans to introduce styles and varieties not seen in Helena before as they expand their offerings.
They plan to be
brewing in April and hope to produce six hundred barrels of beer a year from their ve barrel operation. They will be the only brewery in Helena with a reverse osmosis system for all the water used in brewing. This will allow them to customize the water, which is 95% of any beer, to each
individual beer’s preference.
For example, soft water is good
for light beers, while hard water
is better for the darker beers.
This will also help guard against problems in quality as Helena switches water sources from Ten Mile Creek to the Missouri over the course of a year.
SO MANY BEERS.
SO LITTLE TIME.
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