To this point we presented our list of favorite things in no particular order. Meaning, we do not necessarily like thing number three more than thing number six. However, we have saved the best for last. So with no further ado, we present our very favorite thing: the people. That’s right, the people of Washington…
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A Few of My Favorite Things #2
Oh, Humulus Lupulus, how I love thee! Chinook, Cascade, Galena, Palisade, Amarillo, Nugget, Simcoe, Sorachi Ace, and the list goes on. I love each and every one of you. Hops, you are one of our favorite things. Hops, you are amazing. But you cannot do it on your own. So much depends on the brewers…
A Few of My Favorite Things #3
A city is only as great as its pubs. The Washington Beer Blog calls Seattle home and we are grateful that we live in a city with so many great pubs. Seattle’s pubs and publicans, you are one of our favorite things. I’m not going to wax poetic. There’s no time for that. I have…
A Few of my Favorite Things #4
In Seattle we’re proud of our beer culture. Seattleites love great beer and we have great places to drink it, but sometimes this blog fails to give proper respect to the city to the south that also embraces fabulous beer. It is a beautiful city, one of the jewels of the northwest, with a serious…
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…
A Few of My Favorite Things #6
One of my favorite things is the way that so many of our local breweries, pubs and bottle shops are effectively using social media to keep us informed. In addition to running the Washington Beer Blog, I also help small businesses launch websites and market their products and services online. That is, I drag people kicking and…
A Few of My Favorite Things #7
We continue sharing a Few of Our Favorite Things: our list of beloved places, beers events, people and other beer-related fun stuff. I won’t bore you with history, but early settlers in the region referred to Port Townsend as the “City of Dreams.” They were convinced that Port Townsend would end up being the largest…
A Few of My Favorite Things #8
It’s a trend we can sink our teeth into—food and beer pairing events. The rise in popularity of beer dinners and other beer/food pairing events is definitely one of our favorite things. There was time when the gastronomically elite looked down their noses at beer—a time when “food and beer pairing” referred to serving a…
A few of my favorite things – #9
Our list of favorite things includes beer places, beer adventures, beer events, and other beer-related stuff. We’re posting our top 10 between now and the end of the year. Regular readers of this blog probably will not be surprised to learn that one of our favorite things is Boundary Bay Brewery and Bistro. We have…
