Busted Knuckle Brewery

It started with a gift from his mother.

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It was a home brew kit, given to Ben Boreson about seven years ago. The first beer he made was a Mexican cerveza. And the taste? Boreson said he learned one of many lessons in the brewing arts.

“Patience with beer,” he said. “You need a little patience.”

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But every finished product begot more requests for his beers. Attendees at community events and parties were drinking his beer. And while Boreson ran his own mechanic and repair shops, an idea formed that it could be a business.

At one point he pivoted careers, and today his Busted Knuckle Brewery is the only such business in Glasgow and gaining reputation on the Hi-Line.

Boreson ran a general agriculture equipment repair shop in Opheim for years. He and his wife, Connie, raised their children in the northern Montana town. He started a radiator shop in nearby Glasgow about five years ago, after their kids grew up and moved out.