Posted in Everything Else on Sep 3rd, 2010
Your friendly Washington Beer Bloggers are about to head out on a two week adventure–a roadtrip, campout, and trek for warmth and sunshine. Likely we’ll point the Washington Beer Cruiser south, but we’ll see. We know this, we will be in Denver for the Great American Beer Festival (Sept 16-18). The blog will not be [...]
Posted in Everything Else, beer news on Aug 16th, 2010
Happy August. Hot enough for ya? Can I get you a drink to help cool you off? Yes, we all love beer, but when the weather gets this hot I often find that my mind wanders away from big hearty ales and thinks about cool, crisp, delicious apple cider.
While the brands of cider that most [...]
Posted in Everything Else on Aug 12th, 2010
I recently met Shon MacDughlas, the owner of the Cask in West Seattle, which opened about a month ago (we reported it here). We talked about his plans to serve regional craft beers on tap alongside world beers in bottles and we talked about his vision for the Cask overall. His vision, especially the part [...]
Posted in Everything Else, food and beer pairing on Jun 29th, 2010
With the Fourth of July rapidly approaching, people across the nation are preparing to fire up their grills and celebrate our nation’s independence by cooking food over flame. The question is, what to grill? Perhaps the most obvious choice is to cook up some hot dogs. The good old fashioned tube steak is certainly easy [...]
Posted in Everything Else on Apr 30th, 2010
If you consumer our blog’s RSS feed, you may have noticed a change recently. We have our reasons for making the change -truncating the stories, basically- but we are not unconcerned with how it impacts you. Without you, we are nothing but a couple of people who like beer. If you subscribe to our RSS [...]
Posted in Everything Else, Washington Beer Travel on Feb 2nd, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Everything Else on Jan 11th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Everything Else, beer news on Dec 21st, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Everything Else, beer news on Dec 16th, 2009
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, [...]
Posted in Everything Else on Dec 14th, 2009
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 [...]
