We just received an update from Westport Brewing. Mark Wagner, the Brewmaster, just sent us an email to tell us the following: “We’ve been in production since late December 2011 and our tap room opened January 1 2012. Our Cohasset Cream Ale is ‘selling like hotcakes’ in Grays Harbor! Take a road trip, see the…
The Washington Beer Blog would like to extend our congratulations to Schooner EXACT Brewing. The once-diminutive brewery is about to celebrate its 5th anniversary. A party to mark the occasion takes place tomorrow night (Friday, January 20, 7:00 p.m.) at the Beveridge Place Pub (blog sponsor). The official gift for any 5th anniversary is wood….
Next Wednesday the Elliott Bay Brewery and Pub in West Seattle hosts a delicious tasting event featuring a vertical selection of big beers: three vintages of Imperial Stout. The West Seattle brewpub is a bit off the beaten path for most Washington beer enthusiasts. For the Washington Beer Blog, Elliott Bay is our local pub….
It seems the Ram Restaurant and Brewery plans to open a new location in Federal Way. A “Coming Soon” sign now stands in front of the building that used to be a Marie Callender’s restaurant at 31920 Gateway Center Blvd. The location is just off Interstate 5 at the 320th Street exit near The Commons…
Tomorrow night (Thursday, Jan. 5th) is a big night in West Seattle as the Beveridge Place Pub (blog sponsor) officially inaugurates the new house IPA for 2012. Each October the Beveridge Place hosts the Hoptoberfest tournament and permits its patrons to select the house IPA: the IPA that will always be on tap at the…
We are now just one month away from the 3rd Annual Belgianfest. The event organizer, the Washington Beer Commission, has now released a list of participating breweries (below). Belgianfest is an increasingly popular celebration of Washington-brewed, Belgian-style beers. To accommodate the need for a bigger venue, this year Belgianfest moves to the Bell Harbor International…
The other day I visited the Pyramid Alehouse in Seattle. It was the first time in a long time, I admit. For the past few years seeing the old brewery in mothballs made me a bit sad. Although the company’s headquarters is still in Seattle, Pyramid Breweries halted the last vestiges of its Seattle brewing…
Congratulations to Anthony Stone, the recipient of the 2012 Glen Hay Falconer Foundation American Brewers Guild scholarship. Anthony, one of the brewers at Boundary Bay Brewing in Bellingham, will attend the American Brewers Guild’s Intensive Brewing Sciences and Engineering course. This year the Foundation entertained the largest number of applications in the program’s history. The…
Enrollment is now open for the National IPA Championship (NIPAC). Each year the Brewing News invites brewers from across the country to enter a competition pitting beers against beers in a tournament-style elimination taste-off. Five locations across the country host tasting events throughout February. This year the tournament makes its first stop on the West…
