Lex Anteinternet: Is Beer the Most Distributist Product Ever? It would appear so.

I posed that question here:

Lex Anteinternet: Is Beer the Most Distributist Product Ever?: Eh? Okay, let's start off with a definition refresher, as for many folks the term "Distributist" is a mystery. ...

And apparently the answer is yes.

 6-5-4 Recreational Ale by Old Skool Brewery in Baker Montana.

I was in Baker Montana earlier this week.  First time I've been there.

Baker is a tiny town even though its the county seat of Fallon County.  I'll post more about my observations regarding it here, but one thing that seemed to be the case (and which I'll mention in more detail later) is that the highly isolated very small farming town seems to be doing pretty well.  It lacks some of those things like access to big box stores and the like that small towns nearer larger ones have, and at least by observation, it's doing well without them . . . maybe because of not having access to them.

Anyhow, one thing about Baker is that, at least in my short tour de Baker, is that it lacks restaurants that are open at night (again, more in a moment), but its bars all serve food and at least the one I ate in the one night I ate there had a decent menu.

And it also had what turned out to be local brews.

I drove post the brewery, located in an old grade school, the next day and was stunned to see a town of this tiny size with a brewery/brew pub.  It turned out that the ale that I and everyone else in the bar had poured the prior evening (and there were a lot of people in the bar) was one of their brews.

I've noted this a lot in Wyoming.  In bars and restaurants its really common to find the local brews featured and people will order them over the big brewery beverages.  That's small "d" distributism in action. . . subsidiarity in suds.  People were doing that in Baker as well.

But that Baker, a highly isolated town a long. long ways from any even small sized city, would have a brewery. . . that's amazing.