New Beer on Tap! Powderblaster Pale Ale

Powderblaster Pale: Named to honor the Bozeman "pray for snow" event that supports the Friends of the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center every year, this pale ale is bursting with flavor and aroma. The aroma hits you with floral, citrus and berry notes. Flavors of berries, lemon zest and pine dominate the palate as it closes out with a slight bitter, but clean finish and topped with a bright white head of foam. It is served in a 16-ounce pint glass.

 ABV 6.3%     IBU   45
Hops: Columbus, Cascade, Comet, Azacca and Barb Rouge

Beers on tap this week:

Standards:

Tippy Truck Honey Ale           - 5.5% ABV - 20 IBUs

Scotch Ale                                - 7.9% ABV - 25 IBUs

Pale Ale                                    - 5.8% ABV - 40 IBUs

IPA                                            -7.4% ABV - 77 IBUs

Rotators:

Pink Guava/Passionfruit Gose - 4.5% ABV - 5  IBUs

Airwaves and Evergreens IPA - 6.8% ABV - 55 IBUs

Powderblaster Pale Ale            - 6.3% ABV - 45 IBUs

Tartan Scottish Schillings Ale  - 5.7% ABV - 20 IBUs

Nitro: Tartan Scottish Shillings

Beers on tap this week

Beers on tap this week!

Tippy Truck Honey Ale
Katabatic Strong Scotch (Wee Heavy)
Katabatic Pale Ale
Katabatic IPA

Last keg of Miami Hitman - NE IPA
Pink Guava/Passionfruit Gose
Airwaves and Evergreens
Swan Dive Cream Ale

Special release this week:
Orange Mexican Chocolate Stout

5th Anniversary Party

We're 5 years old! We want to celebrate with you! We will have our 5th Anniversary Beer, a Pink Guava - Passionfruit Gose on draft, as well as a Stout sampler flight of rare stout releases, and super special releases from the brewer's reserve. Come get a commemorative glass, have it filled with beer, grab a plate of food and celebrate with us! Live Music from 5:30-7:30

Where's the cowbell? Farmhouse Ale

New on Tap this week! 

Where's the Cowbell? -Farmhouse Ale

This Belgian Saison style farmhouse ale is slighty tart, refreshingly dry, citrusy, and finishes crisp. The aroma is driven by the classic Belgian farmhouse yeast. Citrusy and bright, easy drinking and refreshing. A great summertime beer!

Happenings this week:

Monday: Growler Monday - Get $1 off a growler fill, and a free pint while you wait. Bluegrass Jam starts promptly every week at 6 pm.

Tuesday: Beer for a Cause –Youth Dynamics $1 from every pint between 4-8 goes to them. Drink some beer and support a good cause!

Wednesday: Live Music – Tim Fast

Thursday: Gr-raffle - Enter your name to win a growler. Get it? Growler-raffle?

Saturday: Live Music – Erin Williams

Sunday: Bike to the Brewery – Use human pedal power to get to the brewery, tell a server and they will give you $1 off your first beer.

Bourbon Barrel Aged Scotch Ale and Triple Pearl SMaSH Pale Ale

What's New?


Well, we have a phantasmagorically awesome Bourbon Barrel Aged Scotch Ale that just came out last week. We put our awesome Scotch Ale with notes of vanilla, dark chocolate, and dark fruits in to some Willie's Distillery Bourbon and Honey Moonshine barrels, aged them for 2 months, then blended all the barrels together to get one awesome sauce! Gi-normous bourbon aromas, with vanilla and toffee tones waft up when you smell the beer. Then big vanilla, oaky-tannins, leather, smoke, bourbon meld when you take a drink. This beer is pretty damn close to perfection folks, get some before it is gone. Served in a snifter.

Coming out Tuesday is Rusty Pearl, a Single Malt and Single Hop (SMaSH) Pale Ale made with Triple Pearl hops and comes in at 5.4% and 43 IBU's. Triple Pearl hops are a new USDA publicly grown hop not a proprietary variety like Simcoe, Citra, El Dorado, Mosaic, etc. In 2014 the USDA let out 4 new hop varieties. Cashmere was our first experiment from these hops, and now Triple Pearl. 

Rusty Pearl is a great sessionable pale ale. Stone fruits, ripe fruits, and white tea in the aromas, stone fruits, honey dew, and fruit-tea-like flavors are subdued and complimentary to the light malt backbone. It finishes up dry and crisp, with a slight bitterness on the finish. It is a great single hop beer, and very unique! 
If you are bored with the same old "rip your face off" IPAs and APAs, then swing on in and give this very tasty and unique little gem a try.

Happenings this week:

Monday: Growler Monday - Get $1 off a growler fill, and a free pint while you wait. Bluegrass Jam starts promptly every week at 6 pm.

Tuesday: Beer for a Cause - Montana Roots- $1 from every pint between 4-8 goes to them. Drink some beer and support a good cause!

Wednesday: Live Music - Sister Otis

Thursday: Gr-raffle - Enter your name to win a growler. Get it? Growler-raffle?

Saturday: Live Music - Neil Beddow

Sunday: Bike to the Brewery – Use human pedal power to get to the brewery, tell a server and they will give you $1 off your first beer.

Rotators on Tap:

Galaxy in the Rye - Rye IPA - delicious fruity, citrusy, and piney, with a touch of spice from the Rye malt. 

Alt-ernative Polka - Alt bier or German Amber - A german ale that inspired Fat Tire and the rest of the American Amber beers. Dryer, more crisp, and hoppier than the traditional American version.

I'm not Irish Stout - Irish Dry Stout. Like Guinness only better because it didn't come over here in a hot shipping container, it was made locally and therefore more fresh and tasty!

Upcoming New Rotators: Triple Pearl SMaSH(Single Malt and Single Hop) Pale, Honey Blonde, English Nut Brown

Happenings this week:

Monday: Growler Monday - Get $1 off a growler fill, and a free pint while you wait. Bluegrass Jam starts promptly every week at 6 pm.

Tuesday: Beer for a Cause - $1 from every pint between 4-8 goes www.touchtheskyclimbing.org. An organization that promotes youth involvement in the sport of Rock Climbing. Drink some beer and support a good cause!

Wednesday: Live Music - Catching Magpies. Check out Catching Magpies Facebook page.

Thursday: Gr-raffle - Enter your name to win a growler. Get it? Growler-raffle?

Saturday: Live Music - Sean Devine. Livingston Based Alt-Country, Folk guitarist

Sunday: Bike to the Brewery – Use human pedal power to get to the brewery, tell a server and they will give you $1 off your first beer.

After a long awaited absence on the blog....we're back!

We have been so freaking busy making beer, that our little blog to keep you beer lovers informed has gone the way of the fallow fields for a bit. Alas, don't fret, we now have more help, we will make more beer, and we will keep you in the loop and informed.

Rotators on tap currently today May 5, at 3pm:

Galaxy in the Rye - Rye IPA - delicious fruity, citrusy, and piney, with a touch of spice from the Rye malt. 

Konichiwheat - Filtered American Wheat beer. Light, dry, crisp with a lemony finish. On sale till it's gone, $3/pint, $10/growler

German Cologne - German Kolsch Ale - An ale that drinks like a lager. Light very dry, sweet and malty, with a clean and crisp finish.

Alt-ernative Polka - German Amber - A german ale that inspired Fat Tire and the rest of the American Amber beers. Dryer, more crisp, and hoppier than the traditional American version.

I'm not Irish Stout - Irish Dry Stout. Like Guinness only better because it didn't come over here in a hot shipping container, it was made locally and therefore more fresh and tasty!

Happenings this week:

Monday: Growler Monday - Get $1 off a growler fill, and a free pint while you wait. Bluegrass Jam starts promptly every week at 6 pm.

Tuesday: Beer for a Cause - $1 from every pint between 4-8 goes to them. Drink some beer and support a good cause!

Wednesday: Live Music - none this week

Thursday: Gr-raffle - Enter your name to win a growler. Get it? Growler-raffle? MBA Spring Rendezvous Brewfest in Bozeman. Check out Montana Brewer's association website for the 911

Saturday: Live Music - Amber Ikeman

Sunday: Bike to the Brewery – Use human pedal power to get to the brewery, tell a server and they will give you $1 off your first beer.

Boubon Barrel Aged Scotch, Bronze medal Scotch and Dark Rapids Black IPA

Photo of our 2015 BCBA medal for our Bier d' Garde

So, we participated in "Best of Craft Beer Awards" BCBA again this year, and guess what? WE WON A BRONZE MEDAL! For our Katabatic Scotch Ale. We won the medal in the Scottish Ale category. This was one of the four big national competitions. So I guess you could say we're proud!










We also recently drained the Willie's Distillery bourbon barrel that had our award winning Scotch ale in it. Then we blended that with a little fresh beer and what you have is a totally different complex taste bud explosion. It's rich in vanilla and toffee notes, with a heady bourbon aroma, but it's not like drinking a "Boiler maker". It's like sipping a fine wine. Except it's freakin' beer! Come try some, you will be glad I told you so.

It's okay to get caught in these Dark Rapids.

Did we also tell you that we're tapping the Dark Rapids Black IPA today? 7.1 % ABV and 65 IBU's using Galaxy, Cascade, Chinook, and Columbus hops. A black in color West-Coast style IPA, or India Black Ale.

Aroma- Citrusy, resinous, piney-character with a hint of toast.

Flavor- Big piney notes, followed by slightly citrusy, and melon hop character

Finish- Dry and crisp with a clean finish without the lingering bitterness

Happenings this week:

Monday: Growler Monday - Get $1 off a growler fill, and a free pint while you wait. Bluegrass Jam starts promptly every week at 6 pm.

Tuesday: Beer for a Cause - Livingston/Park County Tennis Association. $1 from every pint between 4-8 goes to them. Drink some beer and support a good cause!

Wednesday: Live Music - Ford Boozer - 

Thursday: Gr-raffle - Enter your name to win a growler. Get it? Growler-raffle?

Saturday: Live Music - Scott Tecca - info here

Sunday: Suds and Bugs 4-6pm – $10 gets you a pint and expert instruction on how to tie one type of fly each Sunday. Bring your fly tying vise, bobbin, scissors and black thread.

Beetlekill Brown is back on tap!

Beetle Kill Brown has just been transferred into the serving tanks and is rockin' on the taps right now!  This malty dark brown ale sports just a enough hops to stand up to the big malty backbone. It's balanced, roasty, and finishes with a nice crisp finish.

We are also sporting Honey Blonde, Amberdextrous Amber, and Mosaic Pale Ale. This weeks Nitro keg is Beetle Kill Brown.


Don't forget. We have really dope-ass looking old-school beanies that say Katabatic Brewing on them. They look like the ones you and your siblings had of your favorite football team back in 1983. Check 'em out!

Happenings this week:

Monday: Growler Monday - Get $1 off a growler fill, and a free pint while you wait. Bluegrass Jam starts promptly every week at 6 pm.

Tuesday: Beer for a Cause - Stafford Animal Shelter. $1 from every pint goes help feed and house animals at our local shelter.

Wednesday: Live Music - Ian Thomas - Bozeman acoustician bluesy and old-timey feeling.

Thursday: Gr-raffle - Enter your name to win a growler. Get it? Growler-raffle?

Saturday: Live Music - Aran Buzzas - Missoula honky tonk singer/songerwriter

Sunday: Suds and Bugs 4-6pm – $10 gets you a pint and expert instruction on how to tie one type of fly each Sunday. Bring your fly tying vise, bobbin, scissors and black thread.

Winter Coffee Porter - It might give you the jittery jingles

We want to wish you a Hoppy Holidaze with our "Winter Ale" offering called Dead Rock Coffee Porter. It is a delicious medley of toasty malts and coffee bitterness, melded with dark malt mellow sweetness, that finishes dry. It clocks in at 6.5% ABV and 34 IBUs.

On tap at The Mint Bar and Cafe in Belgrade

Happenings this week:

Monday: Growler Monday - Get $1 off a growler fill, and a free pint while you wait. Bluegrass Jam starts promptly every week at 6 give or take a few.
Tuesday: Beer for a Cause - None this week

Wednesday: Live Music - Scott Evje - Local guitar picker.

Thursday: Gr-raffle - Enter your name to win a growler and fill. Closing Early @ 5pm Happy Holidays everyone!

Saturday: Live Music - John Dendy -

Guess what he's filling the barrels with!

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Amberdextrous - Our latest rotator and Lebowski-Fest

We have a new beer out this week. It's called Amberdextrous. A crisp, amber-hued vision of deliciousness, with just a bit of piney hops to round it out. It clocks in at 6% ABV, 40 IBUs. If you're a malty-type person, give it a shot, and if you're a hoppy-type person, well, give it a shot too. It's well balanced and shockingly good.

Alongside with the Shane Lalani Center we will be hosting Lebowski-fest Dec. 5 at 6 pm. Costume contest including, best dude, people's choice and best-in-show goes from 6-8 at Katabatic Brewing Co. then we will trapse over to the Shane Lalani Center and watch the movie with Katabatic beer! 

Happenings this week:

Monday: Cy-beer Monday - Get $1 off a growler fill, and a free pint while you wait. Bluegrass Jam starts promptly at 6 every week.

Tuesday: Beer for a Cause - Gallatin NF Avalanche Center

Wednesday: Live Music - Tarek Isham from The Cottonwood line band

Thursday: Gr-raffle - Enter your name to win a growler. Get it? Growler-raffle?

Saturday: Lebowski-Fest - You're a Lebowski, I'm a Lebowski, let's celebrate! $5 will get you a ticket. Costume contest at the brewery, movie showing at the Shane Center.

Sunday: Bike to the Brewery - Ride your two-wheeled steed down for $1 off your first beer.

 

Happy Thanksgiving from the Katabatic Family

Aleworks just before pint night craziness

 News: We just had a "pint night" at Aleworks in Bozeman. They featured our IPA and it went great, we had a lot of happy new faces who loved it. So, next time you are in at Aleworks, ask them if they have Katabatic beer. It might happen sooner than you think.

We are going to be featured as "Beer of the Month" at Rockin-R Bar in Bozeman. For the whole month of December a Katabatic APA pint is $3!

We also want you to support the local businesses of Livingston. Bring in a receipt on Shop Local Saturday of a purchase at a local business and get $1 off your first pint.



Now on the Katabatic Map -
New additions-
Sacajawea Hotel - Hefeweizen - Three Forks

On tap at Pompey's Grill and the Sac Bar in Belgrade

The Mint Bar and Cafe - APA - Belgrade
Buck's T-4 - APA - Big Sky
Scissorbills - Hefeweizen - Big Sky

Sometimes, and right nowish
The Timber Bar -Hefeweizen - Big Timber
Blackbird Kitchen - Hoppin' the Rails IPA - Bozeman
The Dram Shop - Hoppin' the Rails IPA - Missoula
The Rhino - Scotch Ale - Missoula
The Steinhaus - New 'Merica and Scotch Ale - Great Falls

Always on tap-
Rib and Chop - Hefeweizen - Livingston
Chico Hot Springs - APA - Emigrant
The Sport - Hefeweizen - Livingston
The Office - Hefeweizen -Livingston
Zacc's MT BBQ - Hefe, APA, IPA - Livingston
The K-Bar - APA - Gardiner
Rocking-R Bar - APA - Bozeman

On tap at The Steinhaus in Great Falls

Cat's Paw - APA - Bozeman
Red Tractor Pizza - APA or rotator - Bozeman
Red Chair Cafe - APA - Bozeman

Happenings this week:
Monday: Growler Monday - Get $1 off a growler fill, and a free pint while you wait. Bluegrass Jam starts promptly every week
Tuesday: Beer for a Cause - Livingston Food Pantry - $1 from every pint goes to this awesome organization!
Wednesday: Live Music - JBird - Always a fun time with JBird playing tunes!
Thursday: Gr-raffle - Enter your name to win a growler. Get it? Growler-raffle?
Saturday: Shop local Saturday - bring in a reciept from any Livingston business and get $1 off your first beer.  
Also Saturday - Live Music - Danny Bee - Local musical troubadour who gets it done!
Sunday: Bike to the Brewery - Ride your two-wheeled steed down for $1 off your first beer.