Tag Archive: beer_trails

A Few of My Favorite things #5

In November 2009, we were in a bottle shop in Vancouver, WA (By the Bottle) talking to the shop’s owner about our current beer adventure—a trip up the Columbia River to visit breweries in the greater Hood River area. He gave us two important pieces of advice about our visit to the Gorge: “First, Double…

Two Washington beer lovers get lost in the desert

Sadly, we missed the Strangebrew Festival this year. Instead of heading west to Port Townsend for a weekend of fun and frivolity, we flew south to Palm Springs to conduct important research on the status of the craft brewing industry in California’s Coachella Valley. After all, some one has to do it. In this story,…