What's blowing around Katabatic this week?

Happenings this Week:

Tuesday: "Beer for a Cause"- $1 off each pint from 4-8 goes to the Payden Foundation to help kids fight cancer. http://payden.org

Wednesday: Live Music - Danny Bee, he plays with Big Ol', but tonight he'll be playing solo on his trusty electric guitar.

Thursday: Graffle - Don't know what a "graffle" is? Come have a pint or two, on your 2nd and 3rd pints, turn in your drink tickets with your name and phone number and get entered to win a free growler and growler fill.

Head Brewer Jason dry hopping "Base Hit"

Friday: Nitro Friday!!!! This weeks Nitro suds selection is Katabatic APA on Nitro. If you haven't checked out what nitro is about, give it a try, it won't bite.

Saturday: Live Music - Tammy Hauer - Bozeman local, with a great song repertoire and great voice.

Sunday: Family day - Bring the whole fam-damnly, grab a pint, or root beer, sit down and beat the pants off your 6 year old at Battleship. Or let them win, we won't judge, we also have a ton of board games including cribbage, checkers, chutes and ladders, Livingstonopoly, Bananagrams and a bunch more.

Spent Grain from our "Base Hit" Session Pale Ale

For ROTATORS on tap we currently have Anabatic Amber Ale. A well balanced, slightly-malty initial taste that is balanced with hops and plenty of caramel notes. It finishes with a floral and tropical fruity aroma that is refreshing for this style of beer. Named after those warm afternoon upslope breezes that you experience on the perfect summer day in the mountains or on the river.

Cliff cleaning the kegs

Next up: "Base Hit" Session Pale Ale. A low-alcohol, easy drinking pale ale that is "sessionable". By sessionable we mean you can drink a few in a session without feeling too weighted down or too tipsy. Think lawn mowing beer that has a medium-bodied, "real" beer taste, not yellow fizzy stuff that tastes like carbonated dog pee. Can we say dog pee on the blog? I guess we just did.

Nitro Fridays and Anabatic Amber Ale Alert!

Introducing Nitro Fridays!!

Starting Friday April 3rd at 12pm (MST) we will tap a keg of pure Nitrogen-charged Katabatic Beery-goodness. Each Friday a new keg will be on tap. We will tap one keg at noon on Fridays, and when it's gone, it's gone man, gone!

Introducing this Friday for our inaugural pour: we are tapping Katabatic APA on Nitro.

Nitro suds

Also coming this Monday April 6th, is our newest rotator: Anabatic Amber Ale.

An amazingly well balanced malty beer with enough hops to keep it balanced, but not overly bitter. It is our Katabatic take on a West Coast Amber, dry hopped with Galaxy and Chinook hops. Weighing in at 40 IBU's, it has enough hops to back up the malty backbone, with notes of caramel, toffee, and honey.

Job Announcement: Assistant Brewer Opening

Want to live in a really cool rural town with a population of 7500, right on the shores of the Yellowstone River? Want to get paid to make awesome beer? Katabatic Brewing Co. in Livingston, MT is now accepting resumes for an Assistant Brewer position.


Scope and General Purpose of Job:
Assist with brewery operations and cleaning to include all aspects of the brewing process, wholesale delivery, packaging and retail sales. The assistant brewer will be responsible for their own brew days as we move to double and triple batches. More extensive knowledge of the brewing process is required.

Job Requirements:
• 2-3 years experience as an assistant brewer, or formal brewing education, or current enrollment
• Positive attitude along with an absolute passion for brewing and beer
• Must be willing and able to work for extended periods of time in hot/wet environments and cold/wet environments. 
• Ability to frequently reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl 
• Ability to lift 55 pound sacks of grain
• Ability to work overtime as needed

Check out our online postings here at probrewer.com or if you are a member of the Brewer's Association check it out here.

Katabatic is down the valley.

Hey friends, spring has sprung! And so have we. We sprang down the valley and dropped some beer and root beer off at Chico Hot Springs. So go for a soak, and while you're at it, sip on a frosty cold Katabatic American Pale Ale or Katabatic Root Beer.









We have our India Black Ale as a BITTER rotator,  Katabatic Root Beer should be on tap Wednesday the 25th, and up next in two weeks we'll have an Amber Ale on tap as our BOLD offering. So what are you waiting for? Dust off the bike, get it out of the garage and come on down. You're likely to see the garage door open any day its above 60 degrees out.












This week:

Tuesday: Beer For A Cause is: the Depot Foundation.
Wednesday: Rad Live music by "Hollerin Pine" our talented friends from the Bozone area.
Saturday: Live music by Paul Lee.
Sunday: Game/Family night. Bring the kids, suck down some root beer and ales, and sink a battleship or two.

Coming up this week! We are rolling out our newest rotator beer: Beetle Kill American Brown Ale. 

This balanced American Brown ale is chalked full of tasty chocolate and dark malts, while citrusy american hops brings it back to center in the flavor profile. At 5.9% abv, this beer is very approachable by the novice beer drinker, yet it has complexity in the malts and hop profile that will keep the beer geeks coming back for more. If you liked the porter, and the stout, our next dark incantation is just as tasty, dark and malty, but a little more balanced with the hops.

Hey! We have our new Goldensteins in too! These beautifully made custom glass-blown steins were made by area artist Ona Maguro. We decided rather than buy some mass produced German stein, we would have a local artist make them with their own twist. The result is an exquisite vessel in which to imbibe or quaff your favorite refreshments.

Happenings this week:

Tuesday: "Beer for a Cause"- Livingston Tennis Association
$1 from every pint from 4pm to 8pm goes to the Livingston Tennis Association. Come show your support.

Wednesday: Live Music - Scott Evje. Foot stompin' good music

Thursday: Introducing the "Graffle!" Turn in one or two of your drink tickets with your name and phone number on the back, and you will be entered to win a full glass growler at the end of the night. Get it? Growler + Raffle = Graffle!

Saturday: Live Music - Smoke Stack and the Foothill Fury. You've got to check out this blues musician. He's got so many things going on, he's an octopus. You won't be disappointed.

Btw, did we tell you we're awesome? If not, how about we let Draft magazine and "the Best of Craft Beer" awards in Bend, OR tell you how awesome we are. We went up against Regional and National craft breweries and got a Bronze medal for our Bier' de Gardiner, a Biere de Garde (French Farmhouse) style. Sorry, none left, but we have a great American Brown coming out soon.

"June-ary" Ends!

Or has it? Thankfully it cooled back down a bit to slightly represent winter. Although we're not too sure winter hasn't gone back east for awhile and will come back after a long layover somewhere else.

Happenings this week:

Monday: Bluegrass Jam (Bring your own milk jug or mando) and Growler Night. Get a growler filled and get a free pint with your fill. Plus $1 each growler fill.
Tuesday: "Beer for a Cause" $1 from each pint will go towards Aids Outreach. Come have a beer and help support Aids Outreach!

You sunk my battleship!

Wednesday: Live Music - Backwoods Dreamers! They are awesome. Come check 'em out, and kick up your dancing heels.
Friday: Fresh Food Fridays- Bierocks (aka Bison rocks or Bison Buns) and Spudrocks for dinner. Tasty buns filled with bison, vegetables and deliciousness. 1 for $4 or 2 for $7.50. Beer and dinner, what could go better together? White and rice?


Saturday: Live Music - Dirk Alan the "One man band".
Sunday: Family Night. Put the kids out in the yard and bring the dogs down for some board games and fun. We have games like Battleship, Cribbage, Sorry and Chutes and Ladders. Just 'cuz your an adult doesn't mean you can play games. Come on ya' silly!

Cottonwood School at the foot of the Crazy Mountains.

You can find our beers at:
MT Rib and Chop House - Livingston
The Mint Bar - Livingston

Country Roads:
I drove past a one-room schoolhouse this weekend. Can you imagine riding your horse to school a couple miles every morning to a one-room schoolhouse in the winter with Katabatic winds? Talk about rugged, yet refined. Got to love this place!

Now tapping Icefall Oatmeal Stout

We are pleased to announce that tonight we will be tapping our newest Rotator handle, Icefall Stout. Its a luscious Oatmeal Stout with lots of toast, but low on the roast. Flavors and aromas that is. Icefall Stout is a fairly big bodied beer at 6.4% ABV with a balanced approach between malt and hops at 25 IBUs.
It will be served in our standard pint glass for $3.75.

We still have our Bier de Garde special of a snifter glass for $3, or $7 for a growler fill. Other rotators as of late are our Hibiscus Wit Belgian table beer that was dry-hopped with Galaxy hops, and our spicy malt-bomb Spatial Dendrite Winter Ale.

Tonight we have live heel-stomping tunes by our good friends the Prairie Wind Jammers. They were the first band to play in our space during our Grand Opening party October 4th. They also host a live bluegrass jam session on Mondays where anyone who has an in-tune instrument that wants to jam can join in.

Thursday night we have a special treat! An amateur fly fishing film contest sponsored in part by our friends at Sweetwater Fly Shop and the local Joe Brooks Trout Unlimited chapter. There will be prizes awarded to the best film and runners up. Come support your local guides with some stoke and come watch some fishing. It promises to be a fun time.

If you are on the buddy board, you have beer credits waiting for you. See for yourself if anyone bought you a beer buddy. Looks like John Mayer has a buddy!

Taplist

New on tap is the Spatial Dendrite Winter Ale. A malty spiced beer brewed with Molasses, Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Orange Peel and Pumpkin. It's a very festive and tasty for a winter seasonal beer.

Our first of three in our "Farmhouse Series" Saison du Pine Crick is gone. Sorry folks, it was delish!

Our second offering of the Farmhouse Series is our French Farmhouse ale "Bier de' Gardiner". It's a big malt bomb dressed up like Little Bo Peep.

Our third installment of the Farmhouse Series is the Hibiscus wit which is now on tap as well. A Belgian table beer (easy to drink) with lots of different grains orange peel in the boil, and dry-hopped with hibiscus, and galaxy hops in the fermenter.




Hope you wore your galoshes Monday.

This week:
Tuesday: Beer for cause proceeds go to Livingston Center for Arts and Culture
Wednesday: Live Music- Bobb Clanton
Thursday is Pint Night. Get a pint and a glass for $6!
Saturday: Live Music- Shelly Beslar and Tony Polecastro
Sunday night as always is family night.