Distilleries in Montana

Bozeman Taproom & Spirits

Bozeman, Montana

Bozeman’s latest excuse to escape a winter chill is the Bozeman Taproom & Spirits, a place that shouts community spirit while actually delivering a real job. Their high-balls are a ginormous affair – enough to make a seasoned bartender weep. The rooftop bar, the only spot that’s not a flat stretch of concrete, lets you sip while watching the sun bite through the sky.

• Distillery-specific point: Wide selection of high balls and adult beverages.
• Distillery-specific point: Rooftop bar with great atmosphere, especially on a hot day.

Montgomery Distillery

Missoula, Montana

Missoula, Montana has a distillery that insists it’s more about craft than fluff, and I’m not entirely wrong. Montgomery Distillery takes its grains straight from a family farm and sends them through a hand-crafted still made by Germany’s oldest maker – a tiny bit of German engineering for a Montana spirit. The result is a line of small-batch drinks that are as honest as the weather here – from fiery rye to silky vodka, and even a gin that actually tastes like gin.

• Offers non-alcoholic cocktails
• Unique vodka spirits made with fresh ingredients

Glacier Distilling Company

Coram, Montana

In the ruff foothills just off Glacier National Park sits Glacier Distilling Co., a place that proves you don’t need a fancy title to make great whisky. Founded over a drunken conversation by a fireside, the crew turns local grains and pristine glacial water into small-batch alpine spirits that taste like a dare taken by the Rockies themselves. No pretentious jargon, just pure, bold flavour that makes you question why most distilleries bother with excess.

• Locally distilled spirits available
• Conveniently located near Glacier National Park

Bozeman Spirits Distillery

Bozeman, Montana

Bozeman Spirits Distillery, smack-dab in Bozeman, Montana, turns locally-grown grains into liquid gold, ageing whisky in the state's brutally dry, wind-tossed climate. It’s not about glossy tours and fancy talk; the real beauty lies in gritty craftsmanship and a stubborn devotion to community.

• Donates 100% of whiskey proceeds to local dog rescue.
• Unique gin recipe results in best-tasted gin ever tasted.

Dry Hills Distillery

Bozeman, Montana

Dry Hills Distillery in Bozeman is a claim that a family farm can still beat the distillers. Five generations of a Montana lineage churn out spirits that literally carry a field, batch and bottle number — no secret identities required. Their signature Montana Huckleberry Vodka is a single-field, single-batch delight that lets you taste wild berries without dilution. The wheat whiskey, famously called Bin 7, gives you the heft you expect from a bar, minus the snob slogans.

• Offers gluten-free options.
• Beautifully restored tractors inside the distillery.

Spotted Bear Spirits

Whitefish, Montana

Whitefish, Montana – a women-run distillery that takes raw, untamed ingredients and turns them into small-batch spirits that even sober folks would admit are good. No flowery marketing, just real conservation-driven production. Midnight Forest Bourbon, cheekily nodding to Roosevelt’s forest crusade, delivers a no-nonsense taste with a subtle forest floor undertone. The gin, harvested from rivers a few dare trace, marries citrus and a floral bite that feels less “craft” and more “actual chemistry.” Limited-edition Snowghost Vodka shows Montana’s winter can stay crisp without being a sad, wintry cliché.

• Spotted Bear Spirits offers handcrafted cocktails.
• Single shot cocktails allow for more experimentation.

Wildrye Distilling

Bozeman, Montana

• Offers unique, handcrafted spirits with natural infusions.
• Bartenders create delicious cocktails using house-made mixers.

Asylum Distillery

Billings, Montana

Asylum Distillery in Billings, Montana, is the kind of place where the only thing you’ll find better than a decent dram is the laugh-induced joy of watching the distillery’s bulk-sized apparatus roar to life. They’re not about posh snobbery; they’ve got a raw, industrial warehouse that looks more like a speakeasy than a production line, and that’s half the charm. Their cocktails aren’t just flavourful – they’re outright distinctive, with fruit-infused moonshine that makes a regular whiskey taste like a science experiment gone right. Bartenders here concoct signature recipes as if the bar was a laboratory, and the entire process is so interactive you can almost feel the spirit in your teeth. And here’s the kicker: the first bottle you buy is on the house – no pretence, just a straightforward reward for picking a local craft over some global big-brand mumbo-jumbo.

• Distillery has killer cocktails with unique flavors.
• Asylum features a large, interactive distillation process area.

Stonehouse Distillery

Winston, Montana

Stonehouse Distillery in Winston, Montana has actually managed to produce good spirits. Located at the foot of the Elkhorn range, they combine traditional European techniques with local grains, wheat and barley. The result is whiskeys and rums that are as honest as a bloke in a pub.

• Locally sourced ingredients used in productions
• Rustic charm to the distillery's atmosphere

Headframe Spirits Manufacturing

Butte, Montana

Headframe Spirits Manufacturing in Butte, Montana is the sort of place that turns a dusty western frontier into a high-tech laboratory for liquid alchemy. For over a decade, a handful of master distillers and a rag-tag band of engineers have been churning out a continuous distillation process that feels like a polite, efficient rebellion against the old, clunky, one-batch a-day bottlenecks. The result: whiskeys that glide in your mouth with the grace of a well-fitted lap-seat, vodkas that snap like a high-strength fibre-reinforced joint, all at a level of precision that would make a watchmaker weep.

• Distillery prioritizes employee safety with "seatbelt" protocol.
• Employees work hard to produce high-quality products.