Craft Beer Community news, Reviews, Homebrew
Changes in the commercial landscape of the local craft beer community. Announcing new establishments and noting final chapters of same.
Garden City, ID, has been a bit of a “hotbed” of craft beer activity for about 20 years now. Comings and goings over the years, starting with the craft beer explosion in the early 2000’s, have included a dozen or more establishments. Some have gone by the wayside, and some others are still with us,…
The Boise area’s newest player to the craft beer scene is Wild Frontier Beer Project. Taking over the site previously inhabited by Mad Swede Brewing, which called it quits last October. The man behind WFBP is Chris VanSickle, most recently of 10 Barrel Boise. He was one of the survivors there when Tilray Brands, of…
Take Hwy 55 north out of Boise, and a few miles up the road, just past Shadow Valley golf course, is the “Planned Community”, Avimor. Construction on the development began in earnest in 2005. In the 20 years since, over 800 homes have been constructed. Avimor is now home to about 1500 residents. Partnership In…
Another brewery/taproom is saying goodbye to the Boise area this week. It has been a rough year for local craft beer and the industry in general. This time, it is Mad Swede throwing in the towel. Starting 9 years ago, almost to the day, Jerry and Susie Larson launched the brewery in an industrial park…
Originally posted on November 9, 2023 Boise, for a long time, had been home to 3 or 4 breweries/Brewpubs and in the mid 2000s, everything craft beer sort of took off. Garden City seemed to be the epicenter of that explosion, partly due to the favorable utility rates offered to commercial tenants. Payette, Crooked Fence,…