An Interview with Flying Bike Cooperative Brewery by Nate Muller – Senior Homebrew Correspondent I had the pleasure of meeting Jeff Hicks, President and founder of Flying Bike Cooperative Brewery, last month at the ExBeerience Beer Festival. Flying Bike’s concept of building a brewery is unique—they want to make a member-owned cooperative, instead of the…
by Nate Muller – Senior Homebrew Correspondent Are you a beer lover who would like to start homebrewing? Did you buy a homebrewing book, but you still haven’t found the energy to open it? Believe it or not, King County Library is looking to help you out. They are sponsoring a series of beginning homebrewing…
by Nate Muller, Senior Homebrew Correspondent Washington Homebrewer Association (WAHA) just released its latest newsletter, and its packed with great events and competitions. For the homebrew geek, Jess Caudill will be speaking at Big Al Brewery. I really enjoyed his talk last year on the use of wild yeast and bacteria in brewing. Although the…
Today we introduce a new contributor. Nate Muller is an avid home brewer and has generously offered to help keep us informed about what’s happening on the local homebrew scene. While this first story focuses on something his particular homebrew club is organizing, he’ll be reaching out to other clubs as well. Please welcome Nate…
On Saturday, November 13th the Phinney Neighborhood Association held its 23rd Annual Winter Beer Taste. The event featured beers from some of Washington’s best-loved and most highly respected professional brewers. Surprisingly, it was a homebrewer that took home first place in the people’s choice awards. Sadly, I was unable to attend. I was home on…
Today at 2:00 Brouwer’s Cafe hosts the awards ceremony for the 2010 Seattle Weekly Homebrew Competition. Each year local home brewers submit samples of their beer to the competition with the hopes of getting to live the dream–the winning brewer is awarded the opportunity to brew the winning beer on the big system at Big…
We just learned about the winners of the Puyallup Fair Amateur Beer Contest. What’s more, we just learned that there is such a thing. Cheers to that. The top three winners of each category are being displayed through the remainder of the Fair, which ends Sept. 26. First and second place winners received a cash…
There are a few events happening today. Details about all of these events can be found on our Washington Beer Events page. We’ll be out there. Find us, win free beer (details below). Woodinville – The Redhook Brewery (12:00 – 4:00) will be the site of the 4th Annual ExBEERience. Sponsored by the Cascade Brewers…
The 4th annual ExBEERience will be held on Saturday, March 13, 2010 at Redhook Brewing Company in Woodinville from noon to 4 PM. The event, sponsored by the Cascade Brewers Guild home brewing club, will feature commercial brewers, home brew samples, food, and the recognition of award winners from both the 2010 Cascade Brewers Cup…
