2nd Annual Imperial IPA Invitational at the Noble Fir this Friday

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The beers are invited, but you don’t need an invitation. You just need to show up and enjoy some best-of-breed Imperial IPAs. Everybody is welcome at the Noble Fir (assuming you’re over 21). This Friday at 4:00, the Noble Fir will swing open the doors and the 2nd Annual Imperial IPA Invitational will get started. The lineup is remarkable. We have the list of beers below.

Expect a large crowd. The place will pack-out almost instantly at 4:00, but the crowd comes and goes. The beers will pour until they’re gone. Meaning, the most rare and desirable beers will blow first. Others will last (perhaps) through the weekend. One last bit of advice, consider using public transportation or Uber. Be safe out there. These are big beers.

What is That Keg Doing at the Goodwill Store?

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People need to understand that a keg is the property of the brewery. I know it sounds silly to point that out, but something happened recently that brings up this issue. If you happen to find a keg laying around, whether it be on the side of the road or in a dark corner of…

Beer Hunter: The Movie. Debuts this Saturday at Diamond Knot

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This Saturday (June 22) Diamond Knot Brewing will host the local premier of Beer Hunter: The Movie. Details below. The movie chronicles the travels of one of beer’s most important personalities. Back before Al Gore invented the Internet, we learned about beer by reading printed pieces of paper that were bound within a cover. We…

Laurelwood Brewing Teams Up with CBA

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Portland’s award-winning Laurelwood Brewing Company has teamed up with Craft Beer Alliance to get more of its product on store shelves across the Northwest and especially in the Seattle area. Expect to see more six packs of Laurelwood Brewing’s Free Range Red and Workhorse IPA on the shelves before too long. Laurelwood Brewing is based…

Washington Brewers Festival 2013 – Pictures and Thoughts

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Once again the Washington Brewers Festival was a huge success. This year, the largest crowds in festival history filled Marymoor Park in Redmond and filled their glasses with tasty Washington beer. In the end, more than 20,000 people attended this year’s festival. On Saturday alone, attendance topped the 10k mark. I know that at certain times…

It’s Like a Taxi, Only Better & Now it’s Also Free

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Lip service. “Be safe, use a designated driver, take a cab, don’t drive drunk.” Lip service. We hear it all the time at beer events, but in the end nobody does very much to actually help us get home safe. I suppose that’s fine. After all, it is our own responsibility. Still, the Washington Beer…

Celebrate Hopstock 2013 – West Sound Beer Week Now Underway

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Welcome to West Sound Beer Week. As places here on the east side of the pond, like Ballard and Woodinville, burst with new breweries, so too does the west side of Puget Sound. Kitsap County and the Olympic Peninsula are not strangers to the beer boom. To celebrate the blossoming beer scene in the region,…

Washington Beer Awards – Medal Winners Announced

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On Saturday, June 15, the winners of the inaugural Washington Beer Awards were announced at the Washington Brewers Festival. We were there when the winners were announced and did our best to congratulate everyone in person. If we missed you, congratulations! Below you will find the complete list of winners. Also, I offer some highlights…

Battle of the Breweries Starts Tonight

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The craft beer business is booming, we all know that’s true. Lately, the general public and mainstream media is catching on to craft beer too, god bless em. Tonight at 7 p.m. , the Battle of the Breweries starts on that most mainstream of local television shows, King5 Evening Magazine. You may have seen this…