Looking for a weekend beer trip in October that doesn’t involve accordions and the chicken dance? This weekend, Saturday and Sunday, October 9 and 10, Skamania Lodge is hosting an unusual event pairing beer with luxury at their Celebration of Beer Weekend. The weekend festivities include a Saturday morning nine-hole golf tournament on the Skamamia course, a…
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Draft magazine’s list of Seattle’s best
The current issue of Draft magazine includes a listing of the Top 150 Beer Bars in the country (Draft magazine, Jan-Feb 2010). Six of our local beer joints made the list. If you were conducting this important research, what would be your criteria? Draft kept things rather ambiguous, stating only that they were looking for:…
New Leavenworth Brewery in the works
Seattle’s Daily Journal of Commerce broke the news today about yet another new brewery in the works, this time in the town of Leavenworth which seems to be long overdue for a new brewery. Leavenworth used to have a brewery, but many moons ago it was sold to Fish Brewing and shortly thereafter the brewery operations…
Happening Tonight – Boundary Bay Birthday Bash
Boundary Bay is celebrating their 14th anniversary tonight in Bellingham. Their actual anniversary was yesterday, but in classic beer-lovin fashion they delayed the party by one day so that they could also launch this year’s Harvest Ale, a beer they are calling a “full bodied beer with maltiness as the predominant flavor.” Party goers will…
Portland’s Laurelwood Brewery Coming to Washington
Portland’s Laurelwood Brewing Company is well-decorated and well-respected. In fact, their Workhorse IPA won the 2009 National IPA Championship (NIPAC). We just learned that Laurelwood will soon be distributing some of their product in Western Washington. While we normally focus on Washington beer, sales of Laurelwood’s Prevale IPA will benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society…
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…
Hoptoberfest at the Beveridge Place Pub
Update Oct 17th – The final eight have been nominated! Congrats to Boundary Bay IPA, Diamond Knot IPA, Elysian Immortal IPA, Fish Organic IPA, Harmon Pt. Defiance IPA, Schooner Exact 3-Grid IPA, Skagit River Scullers IPA, and Snoqualmie Wildcat IPA for making the primaries! You have until the 22nd to vote for your favorite among…
Mark the Date(s) – Washington IPA Cask-o-Rama
Mark your calendar – Thursday November 6th. Time once again for The Beveridge Place Pub’s Cask-o-Rama. Last year they had 24 kegs of cask conditioned IPA lined up on the bar! You’ve never seen anything like it. It starts on Thursday and rolls on until the casks are all empty. Get there on Thursday for…
Rogue Announces Release of “The Deadliest Ale”
Rogue Ales has partnered with one of the captains of the popular show Deadliest Catch to create Captain Sig’s Deadliest Ale. According to the release from Rogue, “Captain Sig’s Deadliest Ale is India Pale Ale meets Red Ale that combines the traditional maltiness of a red ale with the hoppy profile of an IPA.” The beer will…
