How Missoula Taps tracks current pours.

1. Source collection

The site starts with publicly available tap lists, venue pages, and brewery or menu systems linked by the businesses themselves. Different venues publish in different ways, so the collection layer is built to work with several source formats instead of assuming one standard menu.

2. Normalization and cleanup

Raw tap data is not always consistent. Brewery names, beer names, and style labels can vary from one source to another. Missoula Taps keeps aliases and style groupings so similar pours are easier to compare across venues instead of feeling like a pile of mismatched entries.

3. Review before uncertain data goes live

When a scrape is low confidence, the data can be held for review instead of being pushed straight to the public tap list. That keeps the public pages more trustworthy and reduces the chance that a messy source change creates junk entries.

4. Why the pages are organized this way

The town-wide tap page is grouped to help you scan by beverage type and broad style families. Venue pages are for deciding whether one stop is worth the trip. Brewery pages answer where a producer is pouring around town. Newest Taps shows recent additions rather than a full archive of everything ever seen.

5. Freshness and limitations

Source pages do not all update at the same pace, and some venues change a line without warning. That means Missoula Taps should be read as a current best snapshot, not a promise that a specific pour is still available when you walk in.

Latest refresh in this snapshot: May 18, 2026 10:32 p.m. MDT.