Sawtooth Brewery Ketchum

Event will also support Beer Hunter: The Movie, a locally produced documentary
Michael Jackson is the best beer critic.  Ever.  And Michael Jackson had Parkinson’s.  Join us at Sawtooth Brewery on January 27 at 6pm for a fundraiser for Pint’s for Parkinson’s and to help our Bartender, John Richards, complete his nationally recognized documentary about Michael Jackson and the impact he has had on the craft beer industry.  Along with Sawtooth Brewery, Alaskan Brewing Co. and Full Sail Brewing Co. are sponsoring the event.

A $20 donation at the door  gives you free beer until the designated beer is gone.  The donation will also give you an entry into the raffle for an Alaskan Brewing Co. snowboard, a DVD of Beer Hunter when it is released, and an invitation to the Idaho premier.  We will show footage of interviews with Michael Jackson throughout the evening, and the filmmaker will be on hand to discuss the movie.  The snowboard will be raffled off the following evening, Saturday, January 28 at 9pm, at Sawtooth Brewery’s Pray for Snow Party.

Sawtooth Brewery is located at 600 N Main Street in Ketchum, with the entrance on 6^th Street.  Parking is available across 6^th Street in the Ketchum public parking lot.  Regular tap room hours at the Brewery are Wednesday-Friday, 3pm-Close, and Saturday and Sunday from 1pm-Close.  Close is usually around 10pm.  More information about the event is available on our Facebook page.

For more information about Sawtooth Brewery, please visit www.sawtoothbrewery.com.  You may also follow Sawtooth Brewery on Facebook, or contact Kevin Jones, Business Manager, at (208) 450-9324 or kevin@sawtoothbrewery.com.  Or you may also Paul Holle, Head Brewer, at (208) 720-8437 or paul@sawtoothbrewery.com.  You may contact John Richards, Producer of Beer Hunter: The Movie at (707) 217-8013 or jr@beerhuntermovie.com.

Sawtooth Brewery’s Grand Opening Celebration will be held this Friday, December 2, 2011, at 3pm at their tap room and brewery in Ketchum. After hosting their “Soft Opening” on 11/11/11, which had around 300 people come in 4 hours, they will celebrate the grand opening and begin regular business hours. The Grand Opening will include a unique and “smashing” ribbon cutting ceremony with Ketchum’s Mayor Randy Hall. The brewery will also have some light appetizers on hand throughout the evening. Sawtooth Brewery plans on releasing three new beers for the event: Out Cold Winter Ale, Pumpkin Cream Ale on Nitro, and Amber Ale. Sawtooth Brewery is located at 6th Street and Main Street in downtown Ketchum at 600 North Main Street, Unit #A-120. The entrance to the tap room is on 6th Street.

The tap room is the location to enjoy Sawtooth Brewery beer, with the brewery selling out of all of their beer every weekend since their soft opening. Beginning on December 2, the tap room hours will be 3pm-10pm Wednesday through Friday and 1pm-10pm on Saturdays and Sundays. The tap room will not be open on Wednesday or Thursday this week in Preparation for the Grand Opening. The tap room has multiple guest taps including a nitro tap and cask conditioned beer as well. The list of current beers on tap and what is fermenting will be listed on Sawtooth Brewery’s new web-site, which will be launched later this week at www.sawtoothbrewery.com. The tap room also features locally produced Frenchman’s Gulch wines and Bucksnort Root Beer.

The tap room has some simple snacks available and guests are welcome to bring in their own food, take-out, or have food delivered from other restaurants to enjoy with their beer. The tap room also features Toni’s Sun Valley Ice Cream in Stout Floats, Root Beer Floats, and pints of Beer Fusion Ice Cream to go. The brewery offers growler fills for all of the beers on tap, allowing guests to enjoy Sawtooth Brewery beer at home as well.

So far, the brewery has had such a demand for their beers that they have already added two more 2/3 barrel fermentors and ordered an additional one since their soft opening. They hope to add an additional fermentor in January to continue to increase their weekly production. Other plans for the near future for Sawtooth Brewery in addition to increasing fermentation space include hosting their 1st Annual Ugly Sweater Party on December 18. The brewery also hope to return to their own beginnings in January and work to encourage homebrewing in the Wood River Valley through education, networking, and hopefully assisting in the formation of a Wood River Home Brew Club.

For more information about Sawtooth Brewery, please visit www.sawtoothbrewery.com. You may also follow Sawtooth Brewery on Facebook, or contact Kevin Jones, Business Manager, at (208) 450-9324 or kevin@sawtoothbrewery.com. Or you may contact Paul Holle, Head Brewer, at (208) 720-8437 or paul@sawtoothbrewery.com