Montana Breweries Shine At 2025 International Beer Awards

Montana loves its beer.

It is known.

Those maps of the drunkest counties in America seem to circulate through my social media every other week. It's like they're trying to make me feel bad about living in the drunkest areas in the country.

The Drunkest Counties in the USA
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Fun fact, err, maybe not so fun fact, I have lived in Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. All states that are FILLED with the drunkest counties in America.

Like I said, Montana knows its beer, and that was backed up at the 2025 North American Brewers Association International Beer and Cider Awards.

13 Montana Breweries Recognized Internationally

The Montana Brewers Association took to Facebook to celebrate its 13 award-winning breweries.

Congratulations to the Montana breweries who won medals at the International Beer and Cider Awards! Hosted by the North American Brewers Association in Idaho Falls, 13 Montana breweries received a total of 29 medals last Friday. - Montana Brewers Association's Facebook

Here's a list of the 13 breweries and 29 medalists.

Gold medalists

Bayern Brewing's St. Walter Hefeweizen
Bozeman Brewing Company's Plum Street Porter
Bozeman Brewing Company's Saru Zen Japanese-Style Rice Lager
Bridger Brewing's Premo Pilsner
Carter's Brewery's Biere de Mars 25 Saison
Lewis & Clark Brewing Company's Prickly Pear English Style Pale Ale
Phillipsburg Brewing Company's 5 Phantoms
Sacred Waters Brewing Company's Raft Soda Lager
Sawdust and Steel Brewing's Punch List

Silver Medalists

406 Brewing Company's Belgian Pale Ale
406 Brewing Company's Guava Tangerine Gose
Bozeman Brewing Company's Metamorphic Flanders Red
Bridger Brewing's Bimyo
Bridger Brewing's Blue Horse Kolsch
Lewis & Clark Brewing Company's Backcountry Scottish-Style Ale
Lewis & Clark Brewing Company's Tumbleweed English Style Pale Ale
Meadowlark Brewing's Black Steers Tookus Oatmeal Stout
Old Bull Brewing's Broadside English-Style Ale
Outlaw Brewing's Gambler Amber American-Style Amber Ale
Outlaw Brewing's Little Lueven Saison
Sacred Waters Brewing Company's Lil Salmon Fire Chili Beer

Mmmmmmm beer. Credit: Elevate (Unsplash)

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Bronze Medalists

Big Sky Brewing Company's Strub
Bozeman Brewing Company's Funky Fieldhand Brett Saison
Bridger Brewing's Higher Haze Hazy IPA
Carter's Brewing Uncommon Vienna Lager
Lewis & Clark Brewing Company's Miner's Gold Ale
Lewis & Clark Brewing Company's Yellowstone Golden Ale
Old Bull Brewing's Kind of a Big Dill
Outlaw Brewing's Patio Pounder IPA

LOOK: Best Beers From Every State

To find the best beer in each state and Washington D.C., Stacker analyzed January 2020 data from BeerAdvocate, a website that gathers user scores for beer in real-time. BeerAdvocate makes its determinations by compiling consumer ratings for all 50 states and Washington D.C. and applying a weighted rank to each. The weighted rank pulls the beer toward the list's average based on the number of ratings it has and aims to allow lesser-known beers to increase in rank. Only beers with at least 10 rankings to be considered; we took it a step further to only include beers with at least 100 user rankings in our gallery. Keep reading to find out what the best beer is in each of the 50 states and Washington D.C.

Gallery Credit: Angela Underwood