Montana’s first community-owned brewery brings fresh life to downtown Ronan

The first community-owned brewery in Montana is officially up and running in downtown Ronan after 400 community members came together to help make their dream of having their own brewery a reality.

“Teachers, their business owners, there are just a lot of people who’re into the cooperative,” Ronan Cooperative Brewery board member Heidi Fleury told MTN News.

Community members in Ronan came together in 2016 to gather ideas on how to revitalize downtown and now, five years later, they have their own brewery.