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Sadly, we missed the Strangebrew Festival this year. Instead of heading west to Port Townsend for a weekend of fun and frivolity, we flew south to Palm Springs to conduct important research on the status of the craft brewing industry in California’s Coachella Valley. After all, some one has to do it.
In this story, we’ll [...]

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Here in Washington we enjoy a vibrant beer culture. We have over 100 breweries making some of the world’s finest craft beer and we have hordes of people who love to drink it. This is not a secret. Our affection for craft beer has not gone unnoticed and apparently the word has gotten out that [...]

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Some one just directed us on to this video. It’s a story that appeared the other night on King 5 news. It’s about a new “beer fueled” perfume. The story is done by Eric Wilkinson, who we know to be a craft beer aficionado, so we thought it was worth a quick post.
Just remember, like [...]

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For days now I have been pondering something. Which is more stupid, a dollar beer or a $150.00 beer?
Sam Adams recently released this year’s version of Sam Adams Utopias. The retail price tag on a single bottle is $150. I’ve seen people reselling it for $500 a bottle. Now, I’m all about the free market, [...]

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I know that I’m not the only Washington beer lover sporting an iPhone these days, so I thought it was time to talk about some of the beer-related applications available for the iPhone. This article focuses only on those applications that at least claim to be useful. Sorry, I’m not going to review the Beer [...]

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We are currently running the finals of our Seattle’s Best Beer Bar poll. You can select from the list on the right. For two weeks we ran the preliminary poll (the first round), asking people to vote for their “Favorite Seattle-area beer bar (not brew pub).”
Here is the list of beer bars  from which people [...]

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As we told you yesterday in our post about GABF, going to Denver’s Great American Beer Festival is about experiencing the local beer culture as much as it is attending a festival. Today, members of the Washington Beer Posse are trolling about in the Fort Collins area (one hour due north of Denver) looking for [...]

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Oktoberfest Facts and Etc.

Oktoberfest (the real one, in Munich) started this past Saturday. It will run until Sunday, October 4th. Here are some Oktoberfest facts and fun stuff for those of you who want to sound smart around the water cooler and don’t already know such things.

This year’s festival is the 176th Oktoberfest.
Approximately 6 million people will attend.
Approximately [...]

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We were thinking… Evening Magazine is polling people to learn what they think about Washington’s brew pubs and beer bars (see our post), so why shouldn’t we? After all, our readers are the ones with opinions that really matter. You guys are the experts in this field. Having met many of you –the people who [...]

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In late August, a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of hops. Last night was Hop Fest at Brouwer’s. Last weekend was the Washington IPA Challenge at the Beveridge Place Pub. A couple weeks ago we were visiting Chris Miller, brewer at Snipes Mountain Brewing in Sunnyside, and he actually told us, “The Simcoes are [...]

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