American Brewing Company is now selling its beer online and shipping it across the country. There’s more to it than that, but the short version is that you can now send a case of Breakaway IPA to Uncle Bubba in Bakersfield or to Aunt Wilma in Walla Walla. You can also send a case of Caboose Oatmeal Stout, American Blond, or a mixed case of all three. Beerjobber.com is the website making this possible.

Beerjobber.com is a site dedicated to selling and shipping beer. At this time, American Brewing and Diamond Knot Brewing are the only Washington breweries selling beer on Beerjobber.com. We provide an invitation code below which allows you quickly set up a profile at Beerjobber.com and check things out for yourself.

Along with American Brewing and Diamond Knot Brewing, breweries from across the country use Beerjobber.com to share their beer with a national audience. It’s a pretty cool marketplace for non-Washington beers — interesting beers that you will not find on the shelf at the local bottleshop.  I encourage you to go to Beerjobber.com, set up an account using the info below, and take a look around. This is a cool service and we’d love to see it continue to grow. They have not paid us any kind of consideration. We just think its cool.

Shipping beer to consumers, whether it be intrastate or interstate, is messy business. To begin with, there are only 35 states that allow this kind of shipping at all: Beerjobber.com can only ship to those 35 states. What’s more, some beers cannot ship to specific zip codes. And that is just the beginning of messy regulations through which Beerjobber.com is wading. Oy vey!

In most cases, Beerjobber.com cannot ship intrastate. That means if you live in Pennsylvania you cannot order Pennsylvania beer and have it delivered to your home. You can order it and have it shipped to another state, but not to the state from which the beer originates. GOOD NEWS! Washington is an exception. Beerjobber.com is set up as a retailer in Washington. This means you can order beers from American Brewing and Diamond Knot Brewing and have them delivered to Washington addresses.

Please don’t turn this into an argument about the three-tier system, the cost of shipping beer, or any of that jazz. It’s the holidays. Let’s keep things pleasant. Let’s all just agree that it is nice that we can send local beer to our friends in 35 states. Also, let’s all be happy about the fact that we can order beer from mysterious, faraway breweries like Lazy Magnolia Brewing (Louisiana), Blue Point Brewing (New York) and Voodoo Brewing (Pennsylvania). I’ve heard really good things about Lazy Magnolia. Might be my first Beerjobber.com order.

Check out Beerjobber.com

• Click here to go to Beerjobber.com
• The code is: AMERICANHOLIDAY8  (yes, it does need to be in CAPS)
• On the log-in page go down to the bottom where it says “if you have received an invitation code…”

Of course, it’s Wednesday so you can expect to find casks at Black Raven and the Malt and Vine. It is, after all, an Oostkant Cask Crawl Wednesday.  Other than that, the only thing I’ve come up with as far as “happening tonight” is happening at the 74th Street Alehouse. If you know of something else, please leave a comment and share the information. This is, after all, one of the best party nights of the year – Thanksgiving eve.

The 74th Street Alehouse will have a firkin of Diamond Knot Industrial Ho Ho on the bar tonight. Come on by and sample some of the wintry goodness. The Industrial Ho Ho is certain to warm the cockles of your heart and set your tummy right for digesting massive quantities of  Thanksgiving fixins.

Tonight (Tues. Oct. 20) – The Porterhouse West Seattle will host its first-ever brewers night celebration as they welcome the good folks from Diamond Knot Brewing. We don’t always mention every single thing that is happening on a particular Tuesday night, we know; however, we thought that this was noteworthy since it is their first time doing it in West Seattle. And because it’s what we’ll be doing tonight. Come join us! The fun gets started at 7:00.

The Porterhouse in West Seattle opened in August, as we reported here. Since that time, they have been settling in and working out all the bugs (though we haven’t seen any bugs at all). This coming Tuesday (Oct. 20th, 7:00 pm) the Porterhouse will host its first brewers night celebration. And what better way to do it than to invite Mukilteo’s Diamond Knot Brewery, which just so happens to be celebrating its 15th anniversary this month?

Congratulations to the Porterhouse on hosting its first brewers night.  Congratulations to Diamond Knot for 15 years of outstanding beers.

In addition to being a typical brewers night, this event will also feature the introduction of Diamond Knot Ho! Ho!, their winter seasonal. The Porterhouse is located at 2329 California Ave SW, Seattle (map).

The wife and I were wondering aloud recently about exactly when good old fashioned IPA started to turn the corner and become the hop monsters that we now so fondly appreciate. One must remember, there was a time when 75 IBUs was unusual. Practically unheard of. If you were around the beer scene back in the 80′s and 90′s, then you now what I’m talking about. At some point, for each of us, a locally-brewed beer came along that made you say, “Hot damn! Now that’s a hoppy beer!”

Diamond Knot is the one I remember. There was a time when the Diamond Knot booth was the first one I’d hunt down at every brew festival. Sure, there may have been other brewers making beers that, at the time, seemed to be ridiculously over-hopped, but DK is the first one I remember.

As an undergrad, I recall a philosophy professor saying that anybody can come up with radical ideas, but great philosophers introduce the world to radical ideas that are eventually considered normal.

As Diamond Knot winds up their 15th Anniversary celebration week, we’d just like to say thank you. Not only for the IPA, the Industrial XIPA, and the Shipwreck XXXIPA, but also for all of their other great beers. Personally, I’m a big fan of the Possession Porter. Among other tasty DK treats, I’m looking forward to drinking a Diamond Knot Ho Ho next week at the Porterhouse.