We recently learned that a 3rd distillery will be opening in Missoula, Montana, joining
Montgomery Distillery and Montana Distillery. To be fair, the only one of these actually producing and selling spirits is Montgomery, but given the craft love (Missoula already hosts no less than 5 breweries) in this small college town, home to the University of Montana, we knew it is only a matter of time before somebody else jumped into the game.
The Hogan brothers seem up to the task, with a plan in mind and a location picked out next to downtown icon
Double Front Chicken and across the street from the upscale watering hole
James Bar. They've named their distillery after local waterway Rattlesnake Creek, which runs through town, and hope to take advantage of the state's abundance of raw materials, namely water and grain.
Read more in
this story from the local paper.
