On a Tuesday afternoon, at about 1:30, I stopped by The Beer Junction to talk with Morgan Herzog about a project we were working on together (The Beer Junction website). I figured this would be a good time for us to chat without pesky customers distracting him with questions about beer. When I arrived, there…
Today I am happy to introduce a new sponsor: the Red Hot in Tacoma How Good Can a Hot Dog Be? I don’t even like doughnuts, but I vividly remember when Krispy Kreme opened its first Washington location in Issaquah back in 2001. Radio and television media delighted at the opportunity to tell stories about…
Once again, we invite you to see the world through a fresh set of eyes. Our own North Seattle Sarah talks about managing the impact of the higher gravity beers that we craft beer aficionados have come to consider normal. If you are a craft beer newbie, this is some valuable advice. Now that I…
Time for me to admit one of my guilty pleasures: a show of shame, if you will. Well, not really shame. It’s a great show, actually, but one you might not expect a self-proclaimed “dude’s dude” like me to watch. It’s all Kim’s fault. You see, she’s a bit of a foodie in addition to…
“Craft beer is the perfect metaphor for the American dream.” That’s just one of the quotes from the trailer for the upcoming documentary film Beer Culture. The film explores the increasingly popular world of craft beer through the eyes of a group of Colorado craft breweries. The film is currently going into final production and…
In Seattle we’re proud of our beer culture. Seattleites love great beer and we have great places to drink it, but sometimes this blog fails to give proper respect to the city to the south that also embraces fabulous beer. It is a beautiful city, one of the jewels of the northwest, with a serious…
It’s a trend we can sink our teeth into—food and beer pairing events. The rise in popularity of beer dinners and other beer/food pairing events is definitely one of our favorite things. There was time when the gastronomically elite looked down their noses at beer—a time when “food and beer pairing” referred to serving a…
Observant followers of this blog might be noticing some changes to the site as they read this post. We’ve incorporated some new graphics into the header and made some other changes. Other than the new header graphic, these are pretty minor changes, but we think they combine to provide some pretty nice improvements to the…
What we do not have on tap Not long ago I walked into a fairly typical bar and grill in Seattle for a beer, a bite to eat, and a few innings of playoff baseball. This was not a great beer bar, but at least they offered some sort of craft beer selection. I asked…
