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New Brewery Coming to Hood River

Josh

The last time the Washington Beer Blog told you anything about Josh Pfriem was back in October of 2009. We reported that Josh was leaving Bellingham’s Chuckanut Brewery and relocating his family to Hood River, OR where he had accepted a position with Full Sail Brewing.  Today we learn that he will soon open his…

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…

Beer Trails: Hood River. It’s just barely Oregon

Previous posts in this series: Vancouver, the gateway to the Gorge Highway 14, Stevenson and White Salmon This is the final installment in our series of reports on our recent trip to the Columbia Gorge. Our previous post talked about the breweries on the Washington side of the river (Walking Man and Everybody’s Brewing). In…

Beer Trails: Columbia Gorge brewery tour over Thanksgiving weekend

When we awoke from our Turkey-induced coma it was Friday morning following Thanksgiving – Black Friday. Our plans did not include anything as trivial as shopping. We quickly packed up the Washington Beer Cruiser for a road trip: this time, to tour the breweries and brew pubs of southwest Washington. That alone would be reward…