On Tap: New Hayden brewery offers big taste in small batches

Local beer drinkers soon will learn what being Bombastic is all about.

To the owners of Bombastic Brewing, North Idaho’s newest brewery, it’s about adventurous recipes (and curious names) – like the Attempted Murder vanilla cinnamon stout that debuts next Thursday at Enoteca in Post Falls.

It’s about alternative business models. Bombastic plans to produce small-batch specialties in-house, but contract with other area breweries to make regular, larger-scale offerings.

And it’s about a more ambitious approach, like the sort of celebratory bottle release events you might see at breweries in bigger cities such as Seattle and Portland.

“We want to grow the beer culture in the Spokane area,” said Phil Hottenstein, Bombastic’s marketing spokesman. “You’re going to see craft really taking hold here, brewers getting more experimental, pushing the envelope more. We want to be at the forefront of that”/ Rick Bonino, SR On Tap. More here.