Saturday’s sunny weather served as a brief reminder that it is spring here in the northwest: the season of birth and rebirth. I’m not sure craft breweries are actually born, but they certainly are springing to life at an alarming rate these days. In the spring of 2008, Kim and I decided to write a…
GrinOn Industries in Montesano, WA recently beat its own world record. They poured 44 cups of beer in one minute. Well, they didn’t exactly pour them: they filled the cups from the bottom up. A story ran on King 5 News last night about this, so I did a little follow up. Here’s what I…
“Craft beer is the perfect metaphor for the American dream.” That’s just one of the quotes from the trailer for the upcoming documentary film Beer Culture. The film explores the increasingly popular world of craft beer through the eyes of a group of Colorado craft breweries. The film is currently going into final production and…
What we do not have on tap Not long ago I walked into a fairly typical bar and grill in Seattle for a beer, a bite to eat, and a few innings of playoff baseball. This was not a great beer bar, but at least they offered some sort of craft beer selection. I asked…
Today it was officially announced that Pliny the Elder is the best beer on the planet. It is not merely a matter of opinion or taste, it is an absolute truth confirmed by scientific methodology and mathematical proof. Well, kind of. The readers of Beer Advocate have spoken. For those who do not know, Beer…
Happy International Beer Day! Cheers, Salute, Prost, Sláinte and Op uw gezondheid! August 5th is International Beer Day. Big thanks go out to our fellow beer blogger, BrewDad, for first pointing this out to us. According to the organizers, one of the purposes of International Beer Day is to show our appreciation for the good…
Our friends over at the Seattle Beer News published a story yesterday that provides insight into the actual impact of this tax increase. We encourage you to go check it out. On this blog and other, as well as all other media outlets, there has been a great deal of discussion about the new beer…
For some of us, it would be a magical dream come true: throwing out the first pitch in Safeco Field at a Mariners game. Pyramid Breweries is currently running a contest that will allow one lucky person to do just that. Beyond getting to throw out the first pitch when the Mariners take on the…
My fellow Americans, the United States Congress encourages you to show your appreciation of the accomplishments of American craft brewers this week by attending events at microbreweries, brewpubs, and beer stores across the United States. Well, okay, if they insist. As the ten-day-long Seattle Beer Week rolls happily along, today (Monday, May 17th) marks the…
