Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 12th, 2010
The readers of this blog tend to be fairly knowledgeable about beer. We cater to a wide variety of beer lovers, so I suppose “knowledgeable” is a relative term; nonetheless, compared to a random sampling of beer drinkers, our audience has a clue about beer. We thought it would be fun to take a look [...]
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Posted in beer news, pubs on Feb 25th, 2010
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: “The [...]
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Posted in beer news on Feb 3rd, 2010
Research Reveals Link Between Beer and Bone Health.
Back in the 1920s Guinness ran a controversial advertising campaign that boldly stated, “Guinness is good for you. Gives you strength!” It was controversial because some people were outraged by the mere suggestion that beer was in some way healthy. Guinness softened its position, officially stating that it [...]
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Posted in beer news on Jan 8th, 2010
Early Thursday morning a fire in a substation caused a power outage in Portland that lasted most of the day. The outage affected a lot of people and businesses across the city. Businesses had to close and traffic lights were dark, but the real tragedy was the volume of beer that was lost. By the [...]
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Posted in beer news on Jan 5th, 2010
Janelle Pritchard, General Manager at Snoqualmie Falls Brewing Company, has been appointed to the Washington Beer Commission. She will represent the state’s beer producers. Janelle will provide the commission with a great wealth of the industry knowldege as well as a lot of passion for craft beer. Cheers to the SFBC Beer Goddess!
Here is the [...]
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Posted in beer news on Dec 29th, 2009
It seems like only yesterday that the beer industry was facing a hop shortage. Actually, it was more like a year ago – or maybe even a bit longer ago than that – when bad weather in Europe, a drought in Australia, and eventually a fire in Yakima conspired to send hop prices through the [...]
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Posted in beer news on Dec 28th, 2009
Last week we pointed you to a cute King 5 News story about a company using spent grain to create perfume. There’s much more to it than that. To begin with, the story did not mention that the grain was coming from Fremont Brewing. When we introduced you to Fremont Brewing last February, one thing [...]
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Posted in Everything Else, beer news on Dec 21st, 2009
Some one just directed us on to this video. It’s a story that appeared the other night on King 5 news. It’s about a new “beer fueled” perfume. The story is done by Eric Wilkinson, who we know to be a craft beer aficionado, so we thought it was worth a quick post.
Just remember, like [...]
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Posted in Events, beer news on Oct 8th, 2009
Last May, Seattle celebrated its first official Seattle Beer Week. For 10 days our calendars were slam-packed with all sorts of cool beer events. Our livers barely survived and, as great as it was, by the last day most of us were breathing a sigh of relief. However, it only took about 5 days for [...]
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Posted in WA Beer News on Oct 27th, 2008
Laura Stoudt has slung suds at two of the Seattle area’s greatest beer bars. Recently, you could find her behind the bar at Uber Tavern. Before that, you could find her working the taps at the Dog and Pony. The picture below shows her with one of the Dog and Pony regulars (Kevin Jones) as [...]
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