Yesterday we posted an article about our recent trip to San Diego, where the weather disappointed us but the beer did not. This is part two of that story. Hitting the Beach Day One, continued: After visiting Stone Brewing, Ballast Point Brewing and AleSmith Brewing, we checked into our hotel in San Diego’s Pacific Beach…
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Exploring the San Diego beer scene, part 1
This is Part 1 of the San Diego beer adventure. (see Part 2.) Fellow Seattlites, count your blessings—the Emerald City is replete with craft beer. Sure, the rest of the country is slowly catching up, but for most of the nation craft beer is still an anomaly and only about one in 25 beers consumed…
A Diversion – Chicago Beer Touring
Last weekend, I was lucky enough to make a return visit to Chicago. It had been about 10 years, and while the city seemed familiar there was a satisfying change: the beer was better. I’ve noticed this in recent travels and talked about it with beer fans – good craft breweries are opening, and bars that focus on…
Beer Cruising: Northern California style
We just returned from a vacation. We high-tailed it down the I-5 corridor, hopped around northern California, and returned via Bend, Oregon. This was not a beer trip. We did not set out on one of our beer adventures. Seriously, that wasn’t the point of this trip. Really. This vacation was about relaxation. That having…
Where would you go on your next beer vacation?
A good friend of the Washington Beer Blog is currently in Belgium, which gave us an idea for a new poll. Our friend is doing a very good job of keeping us posted as he ambles about the bucolic Belgian beer landscape. Bastard. Not really, it’s just that he is making us very jealous, to…
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,…
