Brewed Locally: Craft brewers add value to Montana barley

Sarah Brown
Mar 1, 2019
Mar 1, 2019 Updated Mar 21, 2019

FLBC — Flathead Lake Brewing Co. director of brewery operations, David Brendgard, and sales representative, Kevin Porto, check out a fresh crop of hops grown at Glacier Hops Ranch an experimental hops farm in Kallispell, Mont.
By SARAH BROWN, The Prairie Star

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BIGFORK, Mont. –The Flathead Lake Brewing Co. celebrated its 15th anniversary last month with a week-long party and a limited-edition Bière de Garde, a farmhouse ale brewed with more than 200 pounds of locally-grown Sweetheart cherries, aged six months in oak barrels and released on tap and in 750ml cork and cage bottles.

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