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…
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Washington Beer? There’s an app for that
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…
Seattle’s Favorite Beer Bar – Round One Results
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…
Live Reports from GABF – WA Beer Posse Hits Ft. Collins
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…
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…
Survey Says…. (we’ve added polling to the blog)
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…
It’s All About the Hops – Fresh Hop Fest and More
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…
Houghton Market Beer Sale
We just got a call from the beer buyer at Kirkland’s Houghton Market. It seems they’re going out of business. They currently have all of their beer on sale for 20% off. Houghton Market is (was?) a rather upscale, boutique grocery store so you should expect to find some tasty selections. If you are in…
Not Snoqualmie Summit, but the Beer Summit
I’m going to step outside our Washington beer box for a moment and talk about the other Washington. And beer, of course. By now, we all know about Gates and Crowley. Cambridge, MA police sergeant James Crowley (who just happens to be white) apprehended a Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates (who just happens to be…
