Posted in Breweries, Washington Beer Travel on Jul 6th, 2010
Skookum Brewing is one of the breweries that nobody seems to know much about. It is as mysterious as the name. When Skookum Brewing showed up at the Washington Brewers Festival last month a lot of people took notice–including us. Given the seemingly hundreds of trips we’ve made up and down the I-5 corridor between [...]
Posted in Breweries, Washington Beer Travel on Jun 9th, 2010
When people describe a location as being nowhere, they usually mean it in a negative way. The term nowhere is most often used as a descriptor in a tale of misfortune. “Our car broke down in the middle of nowhere.” The truth is, nowhere can be an awfully nice place. There is something soothing about [...]
Posted in Breweries, Washington Beer Travel, beer news, washington_breweries on Apr 2nd, 2010
The vernal equinox is in the rearview mirror. April is upon us and it’s time to start venturing out of the cave to enjoy these long spring days. The roadtrip described below is best suited for this particular time of year. The Skagit Valley is painted with tulips, the rivers are bounding with runoff, and [...]
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 Events, Washington Beer Travel, beer news on Jan 29th, 2010
As if heading out to Port Townsend for the annual Strangebrew Festival isn’t enough of an adventure, we like to include at least one other beery stop on our way to or from the event. These are the real easy ones:
Heading across the Narrow’s Bridge? Stop by 7 Seas Brewing in Gig Harbor. The tasting room is open from [...]
Posted in Washington Beer Travel on Jan 8th, 2010
UPDATE: We have named a winner in our Facebook contest. Lorraine -a.k.a. the Beveridge Place Beer Goddess- was the very first person to guess and she got it exactly right. Behold the awesome power of Lorraine. This was not rigged. It kind of freaks me out, actually. She’s got powers, or something. The complete list [...]
Posted in Breweries, Washington Beer Travel on Dec 11th, 2009
Previous posts in this series:
Vancouver, the gateway to the Gorge
Highway 14, Stevenson and White Salmon
This is the final installment in our series of reports on our recent trip to the Columbia Gorge. Our previous post talked about the breweries on the Washington side of the river (Walking Man and Everybody’s Brewing). In this post, we’ll [...]
Posted in Breweries, Washington Beer Travel, pubs on Dec 3rd, 2009
This is the third installment in our Columbia Gorge Brewery Tour series.
Previous posts in this series:
Beer Trails: Columbia Gorge Brewery Tour.
Beer Trails: Vancouver – gateway to the Gorge.
From Vancouver, Highway 14 (the Lewis and Clark Highway) winds its way east along the Washington side of the Columbia River, passing through small, historic towns. It affords [...]
Posted in Breweries, Washington Beer Travel, pubs on Dec 2nd, 2009
As we told you in an earlier post (click here), we spent Thanksgiving weekend touring the breweries and pubs of Southwest Washington and the Columbia River Gorge. In this installment, we stop for lunch in Vancouver.
Salmon Creek Brewery and Pub
We had long heard about this place but had never stopped in to visit. In 2007 [...]
