Mountains Walking Brewery

What Mountains Walking Brewery does

Mountains Walking Brewery & Pub is a privately held craft brewery and restaurant founded in 2017 by Gustav Dose and operating from a single 7,000-square-foot site at 422 North Plum Avenue in Bozeman, Montana. The company serves local residents and travelers visiting the Yellowstone region through a destination taproom combining beer, wine, and a full wood-fired food program; revenue is split across on-premises draft and packaged beer sales, dine-in food service, and small online DTC channels including merchandise and ToastTab-based ordering.

The brewery is built around a 10-barrel brewhouse with dual mash tuns, a coolship open-fermentation room that captures wild yeasts and bacteria native to the Bozeman air, and two 1000-gallon cypress foeders for mixed-fermentation and barrel-aged beers. The kitchen is anchored by a hand-built stone wood-burning oven maintained at 700°F, where pizza dough is cold-fermented for 48 hours and most condiments are made from scratch. The beer portfolio spans classic lagers, the Oat Whip hazy IPA series, sours, barrel-aged and experimental styles, with Damsel Fly (International Pale Ale, World Beer Cup Gold 2022) and Sky Flowers (Experimental IPA, World Beer Cup 2023) as the lead validated SKUs.

Commercially, the business runs on a direct-to-consumer taproom model supplemented by regional grocery distribution of packaged four-packs, with pay-as-you-go unit pricing across beer flights ($15), wood-fired pizzas ($16-$27), sandwiches ($18-$22), and a children's menu. The company is founder-owned with no disclosed institutional investment, uses organic social plus earned media (Forbes, Hop Culture, Vinepair, Tavour) for acquisition, and runs recurring community charity events, including a per-can donation to Warriors and Quiet Waters tied to Damsel Fly.

Name

Mountains Walking Brewery

Legal name

Mountains Walking Brewery & Pub

Website

https://mountainswalking.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Mountains Walking Brewery & Pub is a privately held craft brewery and full-service restaurant in Bozeman, Montana, founded in 2017 by Gustav Dose. It serves local residents and Yellowstone tourists with terroir-driven craft beer and wood-fired pizza from a single destination taproom.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Craft Brewery and Taproom Restaurant

NAICS

Breweries (31212), Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages) (722410), Breweries (312120)

SIC

Malt Beverages (2082), Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810), Beverages (2080)

akta.pro primary industry

Brewpubs & Taprooms (On-site Beer Service) (THAFALAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Craft Beer Bars & Taprooms (THAFAEAG), Beer, Brewery & Craft Beverage Tastings (THAJAGAE), Regional & National Breweries (THAFALAD), Craft Beer Retail & Bottle Shops (Off-Premise) (CRANAAAC)

Keywords

• Craft brewery
• Wood-fired pizza
• Taproom restaurant
• Wild fermentation beers
• Craft beer pub

Headquarters

HQ city

Bozeman

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Taproom Beer Sales: Direct sales of draft and packaged beer consumed on-premises at the taproom. Includes flights ($15), pints, and other on-site consumption.
2. Food Service: Wood-fired pizza, small bites, salads, sandwiches, and full meals served daily. Kitchen open 11:30am-8pm with full menu.
3. Retail Beer Distribution: Packaged beer (four-packs) sold at local grocery stores, such as the award-winning Damsel Fly pale ale.
4. Merchandise: Online merchandise shop selling branded items through shop.mountainswalking.com.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Mountains Walking Brewery is a craft brewery and restaurant in Bozeman, Montana that produces and serves artisan beers (lagers, hazy IPAs, sours, barrel-aged and coolship-fermented wild ales) alongside a scratch food program centered on wood-fired pizza cooked in a 700°F stone oven. Customers consume products primarily on-site at the taproom, with secondary distribution of packaged beer through local grocery stores.

Product overview

Mountains Walking Brewery is a craft brewery and restaurant in Bozeman, Montana offering a unified hospitality experience. The core offerings consist of wood-fired pizzas made from scratch with 48-hour cold-fermented dough and an rotating craft beer program featuring lagers, hazy IPAs (Oat Whip series), sours, and experimental barrel-aged beers utilizing native Bozeman yeasts and coolship open-fermentation. Supporting offerings include a full food menu of housemade items, non-alcoholic beverages (Athletic Brewing, kombucha), a children's menu, and merchandise. The Damsel Fly beer operates as a branded sub-product with veteran charity support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Wood-Fired Pizza Hand-crafted wood-fired pizzas made from scratch with dough cold-fermented for 48 hours, cooked in a 100% wood-fired oven at 700°F. Features classic and specialty pizzas including Margherita, Carnivore, Hawaiian, and build-your-own options, priced from $16 to $27. Served to dine-in and takeout customers.
• Full Food Menu Seasonally changing food menu featuring housemade small bites (Brussels sprouts, bacon, fries, pretzels, wings), salads, sandwiches, burgers, and desserts. Most items are made from scratch including housemade ketchup and fermented mustard. Served daily at the taproom from 11:30am to 8pm.
• Craft Beer Selection Artisan beers including classic lagers, hazy IPAs (Oat Whip series), sours, barrel-aged beers, and mixed fermentation styles. Features wild yeast beers utilizing Bozeman's native airborne yeast captured through coolship open-fermentation, and experimental offerings aged in cypress foeders. Available on draft and as packaged four-packs.
• Non-Alcoholic Beverages Non-alcoholic options including Athletic Brewing Company beers, Happy Mountains Kombucha in multiple flavors, soft drinks, and bottled sparkling water, available for dine-in customers.
• Children's Menu Family-friendly menu for ages 12 and under featuring kid-sized portions of fries, tater tots, pretzels, chicken, pizza, and fruit/veg options. Includes The Bizzy Bag screen-free entertainment activity pack.
• Merchandise Store Online merchandise store selling branded apparel and accessories for the Mountains Walking Brewery brand.

Quantifiable outcome

• World Beer Cup 2022 Gold Medal for Damsel Fly in International Pale Ale category
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Warriors and Quiet WatersminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2024Charitable partnership where Mountains Walking donates a portion of every can of Damsel Fly beer sold to Warriors and Quiet Waters, supporting post-9/11 veterans.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Outlaw Brewing: Bozeman-area craft brewery and taproom competing head-to-head for local and tourist draft and packaged beer sales in the same primary market.
• Bridger Brewing: Bozeman-based brewpub operating a wood-fired pizza program alongside craft beer, directly competing with Mountains Walking for the same local resident and Yellowstone tourist traffic in the same primary geography.

Regional players

• Crazy Mountain Brewing Company: Colorado-based regional craft brewery with a taproom and broader Mountain West distribution — comparable in size and category positioning to Mountains Walking's regional packaged ambitions.
• Lone Mountain Brewery: Craft brewery and kitchen operating in Big Sky, MT — within the broader Bozeman/Yellowstone tourism corridor and serving an overlapping visitor and second-homeowner customer base.
• Madison River Brewing Company: Montana craft brewery with taproom and packaged distribution, operating in the same regional Montana craft market with comparable brewery + hospitality positioning.

Broad incumbents

• Odell Brewing Company: Regional craft incumbent operating a destination taproom with an in-house kitchen, comparable in concept mix (brewery + scratch food) but at meaningfully greater scale and broader distribution.
• New Belgium Brewing Company: Large, established craft brewer with a destination taproom and broad packaged distribution — useful as a benchmark for what a regional craft brand with awards and a hospitality program can scale into, though at a vastly larger scale.

Emerging players

• Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales: Michigan-based brewery and restaurant group built around mixed-fermentation, oak-aged sour and wild ales — a comparable operating model of brewpub + wild beer program that informs Mountains Walking's potential path.
• Allagash Brewing Company: Maine craft brewery widely recognized for its coolship program and wild/belgian-style fermentation — the closest functional analogue to Mountains Walking's native-yeast coolship and foeder program, offering a benchmark for what a terroir-led wild beer brand can scale into.
• Russian River Brewing Company: California brewpub renowned for its barrel-aged wild/sour program and food-led destination experience — comparable to Mountains Walking on both the food-and-beer destination model and the differentiated wild/aged portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/MountainsWalkingBrewery
• Instagraminstagram.com/mountainswalkingbrewery
• Xx.com/mtnswalkingbrew
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/mountains-walking-brewing

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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