The Biggest Craft Beer in Big Sky Country — KettleHouse’s Cold Smoke in Missoula-ish, Montana
There’s no smoke or Scotch in the beer, Pils says, but “the power of suggestion is pretty strong.” Mark Thomsen, who has for the past 30 years been a clerk at Worden’s Market and Deli—part of what Pils calls the “holy trinity” of Cold Smoke’s original retailers—tastes a peaty flavor with “a little kiss at the very end.” For Pils, the Scotch Ale is “basically a modernized Amber [Ale]” and a “widely approachable, malt-forward beer.” ? I think a dirty little secret about beer is that people like it slightly sweet.. — Al Pils, brand engagement manager, KettleHouse Brewing.