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.

Hibiscus Galaxy Wit coming soon!

IPA is back on tap! Coming up this week we'll be brewing a couple batches of our standards. Additionally, we'll be tapping our Hibiscus Galaxy Wit. This belgian white styled beer is dry hopped with 2 pounds of Galaxy and tea made from 2 pounds of Hibiscus flowers. It will be a light, refreshing, lower alcohol beer that has a light body, thick white foamy head, with a slightly tart, dry finish.

Jason "dry-hops" the Witbier with Hibiscus flower tea. Not blood.

Monday: Come on down for the Bluegrass jam. Grab an instrument and jam, and don't forget to get your growler filled and slurp on a free pint while you wait for your growler to be filled. $1 off each growler fill.

Tuesday: Beer for a Cause- This week is the Senior Center.

Wednesday: Live music- We have Jason Moreland aka JBird (local Livinstonian) live on the Katabatic Stage. Music starts at 5:30 goes until 7:30 or 8.

Thursday: Pint night. Get a couple snifters to drink your holiday grog in. Beer and a pint glass or snifter glass to take home, $6! Now that's a deal.


Friday: Special Music night. The Mighty Travis will be gracing the microphone. Travis Yost is the drummer for the Tom Catmull band out of Missoula. He has a solo gig too, so we're very pleased to have him.

Saturday: Live music and Barbecue! Music by Stephan May. Eat ribs from Zac's Montana BBQ while you listen to good music. $8 gets you BBQ ribs, coleslaw and bread. Slow-cooked to perfection. If you came down during the Livingston Ice Skating Association beer for a cause night, then you know it's good. Zac does some pretty mean barbecue folks. Better get it while you can!

Visit our Facebook page for more information about the Live Music.

Holiday Beer Season

It's that time of year again. Time to hunker down, make sure that down parka is in the coat-rack, and get into the Holiday Beer Season!

On tap this week:

Katabatic Hefeweizen

Katabatic Scotch Ale

Katabatic American Pale Ale (APA)

Katabatic India Pale Ale (IPA)

Saison du Pine Crick (Belgian Farmhouse)

Double Danger Double IPA

Bier de Gardiner (French Farmhouse)

Coming Soon:

Galaxy Hibiscus Wit

Winter Ale

Here's our brewer Jason "The Master" mashing in our Winter Ale. Tons of pumpkin, blackstrap molasses, cinnamon, nutmeg and orange peels go into this spicy-malty goodness. It has a nice dark coloring, almost like a brown ale, but a little lighter with ruby highlights.













Thanks to all the folks who have been coming down for our "Beer for a Cause" nights on Tuesdays. For those not in the know we give $1 from every pint, Tuesdays from 4-8, to the Non-profit of the week.

For those looking for something to do besides shop:
Sunday: Family Night- Come play board games
Monday: Growler Night, Free pint & $1 off a growler fill,  also Bluegrass jam night, bring an instrument and play along
Tuesday: Beer for a Cause, changes weekly
Wednesday: Live Music, changes weekly
Thursday: Pint night, pint to take home and beer in it $6
Saturday: Live music, changes weekly

We also have Growler Gift sets!

$22 will get you four Katabatic English Pints and a 64oz glass growler. That's a $5 dollar savings or a 22% savings depending how you do your coupon-shopping-math!

Giving back to our community!

As we enter our 3rd month of being in business things are steady. We, as owners, have truly enjoyed providing our customers with information about beer and listening to our customers talk about beer. Seeing someone enjoy our beer is a very satisfying moment.

As small business owners though, we also want to be seen as a community partner. In order to achieve that goal we have implemented Beer for a Cause. Beer for a Cause allows us to partner with area non-profits to not only learn about their cause and their needs but to also give a tangible cash donation to help their cause.

Every Tuesday evening from 4pm - 8pm we host Beer for a Cause, where $1 of each beer goes to the non-profit of the night. We began hosting groups in October and have learned so much about our community. So far we have been able to support six groups (Community Closet, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Livingston Food Pantry, Livingston Education Foundation, Livingston Ice Skating Association, and Stafford Animal Shelter).

The biggest rewards for us are seeing community members engage one another. We have seen customers learn more about volunteering, find out information on new services, sign up for events and get excited about new projects. The taproom provides the space and the opportunity for local groups to engage community members.

American Made Coat 

On Thursday, November 20th we will be going outside our normal Tuesday event and we will be partnering with the Local Fire Fighters Union, Gils Goods, Timber Trails, and American Bank to ensure that any kid in Livingston that needs a coat has a coat. Operation Warm Coat raises funds to buy an American made coat for every child in Livingston. The proceeds stay here and provide needed warmth for kids living right here!

You can buy tickets at Katabatic Brewing Co. A $20 minimum donation is required to take part in three free drinks and free food from Gils Goods. A donation of $34 buys one whole coat. Tickets are for sale in advance and the event is November 20th from 4-8pm. You can also buy a ticket the day of the event.

Finally, on November 25th, just two days before Thanksgiving we will be hosting our own food drive. Bring in three of more items of non-perishable food and receive $1 off of each beer (three beer limit). Food items will be taken to the Livingston Food Bank in time for Thanksgiving.