Some antique bottles were discovered by workers digging a water main on the former location of Billings Brewing. Ironically enough the water main work was near the new Uberbrew brewery also on the same street. Details from the BillingsGazette:
When construction workers digging a trench for a new water main on Montana Avenue cut into a thick layer of antique beer bottles beneath the asphalt and old paving bricks last week, they weren't entirely surprised.
Jason Lehman, a worker with COP Construction, said people from Uberbrew, the new microbrewery at 2305 Montana Ave., had told them what to expect.
The block of Montana Avenue on which Uberbrew sits was once home to the Billings Brewing Co., a large operation that was closed in 1951 and later demolished.
Uberbrew co-owner and head brewer Mark Hastings said he and his partners first became aware of the cache of mostly broken bottles when they were running a water line into their business, which opened this summer.
Later, when they were putting in new floors at the brewery, they discovered that the layer of bottles was 3 to 4 feet deep and ran from the alley all the way into Montana Avenue. On Montana, the bottles stretch from the parking lot east of the Rex to the east end of the Venture Theatre.
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