Big Sky!

I'm lucky enough to visit Montana for work on occasion and the lowly populated state does have some fine brew. Missoula, large to MT but small to the rest of the world, has quite a few fine breweries. One of my favorites is Big Sky. Moose Drool is da bomb.

It so happens that my client is located quite close to the new Big Sky Brewery. Its convenient to stop by the taphouse on the way back from the office. This time they happened to have a special version of the Scape Goat pale ale which was dry hopped... Super Scape Goat. It was yum. Its not sold outside of the brewery and it was going fast. I called a friend in town with a fridge (cuz my hotel room doesn't have one) to see if they'd be interested in me storing a growler in their fridge but no answer. And then 10 minutes later the beer was all gone.

But I tried their IPA again for the first time in awhile and damn! I thought the server gave me a second dry hopped Scape Goat. That would have been quite nice of her considering you are only allowed one sample of the rare beer. So my third tasting I asked for the IPA again... and it tasted the same! That IPA is damn good, and better than the special Super Scape Goat. The server told me it was also dry hopped. I'll be drinking lots of the IPA in future visits.

UPDATE: On Wednesday the Big Sky IPA tasted just as good, but today it tasted more like a regular IPA and less of the fresh hop taste. New batch?

UPDATE: So on my next trip to Missoula I confirmed that it tasted just as good as it did the first time. Its interesting how your palate changes depending on things like other food and drink.