Posted in Breweries, beer news, washington_beer_news, washington_breweries on Jul 23rd, 2010
Last night we attended a brewers night celebration at the Beveridge Place Pub and had a chance to talk to Mike Runion, one of the owners of 7 Seas Brewing, which will celebrate its one year anniversary with a big bash at the brewery next Saturday. We talked about a lot of things, like how [...]
Posted in Breweries, beer news, washington_beer_news, washington_breweries on Jul 22nd, 2010
Iron Horse Brewery just announced that they will soon be opening a second location—a new “micropub” in downtown Ellensburg. (Press release below.) They will still brew the beer over on Prospect Street, where the brewery’s taproom has become increasingly popular and crowded in recent years, but now will offer a larger, downtown location where patrons [...]
Posted in beer news, pubs, washington_beer_news on Jul 9th, 2010
Last night The Cask opened in West Seattle. The self-described “old world ale house and wine house,” features four beers on tap and one on the beer engine. The Cask also has a nice selection of bottled world beers, not to mention wine by the glass. With the exception of the world beers, the focus [...]
Posted in Breweries, Events, beer news, washington_beer_news on Jul 5th, 2010
To celebrate its second anniversary, Chuckanut Brewery in Bellingham is about to double its brewing capacity. Hard to believe it has only been two years, given the awards they’ve won and the esteem they’ve gained. We just received a message from Mari Kemper, who tells us about the planned birthday celebration as well as the [...]
Posted in Breweries, beer news, washington_beer_news on Jul 2nd, 2010
We visited the Old Schoolhouse Brewery a couple years ago, shortly after they opened. They had recently purchased the old Winthrop Brewery, closed down in the middle of the busiest time of year for a thorough cleaning and paint job, and reopened a month later as the Old Schoolhouse Brewery. Our conversations with Old Schoolhouse [...]
Posted in beer news, washington_beer_news on Jun 28th, 2010
The story we published last Thursday (June 24th), entitled Let’s put the trademark issue to bed, mistakenly said that Magic Hat owned Pyramid. In fact, Magic Hat Brewing Company and Pyramid Breweries are both owned by the same company –Independent Brewers United Inc.– but operate as completely separate companies. Indeed, it is an important distinction [...]
Posted in Breweries, beer news, washington_beer_news on Jun 24th, 2010
Joel VandenBrink at Two Beer Brewing sent a message this morning. Here it is:
Two Beers Brewing Comany is calling all artists or designers to help us design our next round of t-shirts. If your design is picked you will win a keg of your favorite beer that we brew as well as recognition on our [...]
Posted in Breweries, beer news, washington_beer_news on Jun 24th, 2010
If you’ve been paying very close attention—I mean, “stalker-like” attention—you might have noticed that the Washington Beer Blog is the only blog in town that has not posted something about the recent trademark hullabaloo involving Black Raven Brewing and Franciscan Vineyards (Ravenswood).
We don’t want our readers to think that we don’t care. We do care. [...]
Posted in Breweries, beer news, washington_beer_news on Jun 23rd, 2010
Sad news from Port Townsend showed up on Facebook this morning. It seems that Water Street Brewing is closing down. We wish them all the best. Great people thrust into a difficult situation.
Cheers to Queen Nina! Long live the Queen!
To all of the beautiful people…Water Street Brewing, as you know it, is closing the doors. [...]
Posted in Breweries, beer news, washington_beer_news on Jun 23rd, 2010
We keep our ear to the ground waiting to hear about new breweries that might be opening and other interesting beer-related information. Occasionally we like to publish bits and pieces of information just to see if anyone knows more than we do. Drop us a line if you have information to share. If you’re affiliated [...]
