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Great Burn Brewing, Montana’s 47th brewery and Missoula’s 5th*, is opening its doors to the public at 3 p.m. on Friday August 29, 2014 at 2330 McDonald Ave. A few of us (and mostly their Mug Clubbers) got a sneak peek last night, along with the chance to sip on their initial line up of beers. Which include:
Co-owners Greg and Mike Howard (along with Greg’s wife, Diana Garret, another partner, Jenny) had always planned to open a brewery with their other brother, Chad, but he passed away in 2009 from brain cancer before that dream could come to fruition. Chad worked as a U.S. Forest Service firefighter with the Lolo Hotshots and Krassel Helitack Crew in Idaho.
The name of the brewery, Great Burn, is in honor of where Chad fought his first fires. The Howards keep a large picture of their brother in the brewhouse, “so he’s always with us,” says Mike Howard.
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Source: Montana Beer Finder
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