On Super Bowl Sunday, Americans will drink approximately 325.5 million gallons of beer. That’s enough beer to fill nearly 500 Olympic-sized swimming pools. That really amazes me. Only 500? Seriously, I didn’t realize Olympic-sized swimming pools were that big.

Super Bowlbecue Tailgate Party

In West Seattle we will do our share of beer drinking on Super Bowl Sunday, but instead of drinking beer to line the pockets of the uber-huge, multi-nationally conglomerated beer manufacturers we will be drinking locally brewed beer to support a good cause—the local YMCA’s after-school programs. Too often the kids who most need to be involved in those programs are kids from families that can least afford it.

Beer Church, the Porterhouse, Diamond Knot Brewing, Georgetown Brewing, and Port Townsend Brewing invite you to join us for an afternoon of delicious beer, succulent barbecue, and football. All you have to do is come out to the Porterhouse on Super Sunday and take part in our Super Bowlbecue Tailgate Party and you’ll be supporting a great cause. We’ll have plenty of TVs for those you actually interested in the game, piles of amazing food coming off of the barbecues, and lots of delicious Washington-brewed beer.

Super Bowl Sunday marks one of the most gluttonous days of the year. Americans will fill our faces until our bellies distend and will drink beer like it is a full moon Saturday night and not a Sunday afternoon. The Super Bowl is its own economic stimulus plan. We spend. And at the end of it all, what do we have to show for it? This year, you can be part of something worthy. Make the beer you drink and the food you eat mean something. Come join us.

Super Bowlbecue Tailgate Party
Sunday, February 6^th
1:00 – 8:00 p.m.

The Porterhouse Pub
2329 California Avenue Southwest
Seattle, WA 98116
(206) 932-2575

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We just caught wind of this. The Porterhouse in West Seattle is about to celebrate its first birthday. Part of the celebration includes the tapping of Dottie’s Seattle Lager from Emerald City Beer Company.  Initially reported as the inaugural tapping, turns out this will just be one of the first. Emerald City Beer Company will be there as part of the celebration.

Hello Seattle! Meet Dottie.

We first told you the story of Emerald City Beer Company back in May when we interviewed Rick Hewitt about the brewery he was in the process of opening in the old Rainier Brewery building.

Here are the details about the party.

Porterhouse One Year Birthday
Friday, August 13th

Specials on beer and door prizes galore all night long.

Tapping into:
Dottie’s Seattle Lager from Emerald City Beer Company.

A firkin of Fremont Brewing Company’s Interurban IPA, dry-hopped and with a hint of lime.

Cask-conditioned Lucile IPA from Georgetown Brewing.

They’ll also have swag from Big Al Brewing.

A beer-battered Monte Cristo sandwich? Shut the front door!

Tomorrow’s Master Brewers Brunch at the Porterhouse (Friday, May 21st) should be a good one. In attendance will be rockstars from the brewing world, such as John Harris of Full Sail Brewing and Steve Wagner of Stone Brewing. Local heroes like Drew Cluly (Pike), Pat Ringe (Diamond Knot) and Dave Buhler (Elysian) will also be in attendance. Rounding out the list of “for sure” guests is Jamie Floyd of Ninkasi Brewing. Rumors abound, but you can bet that this event will attract other great brewers from near and far. There are a lot of important people in town this week. Duh.

Like the brewers, the beers that will be poured include some certainties and some surprises. For sure, expect to see Full Sail’s Spotless IPA, Stone’s Russian Imperial Stout, Pike’s Double IPA, Elysian’s Dry-Hopped Immortal IPA, Diamond Knot’s ESB, and Ninkasi’s the Kraken.

Things get rolling at 10:00 a.m. and the food and beer will last until it is all gone. We just got a sneak peek at the food menu. Now you get the same.

• Quiche Lorraine served with assorted fresh fruit.
• Omlette Denver Style (ham, greem pepper, onion and cheddar) served with hashbrowns and choice of toast.
• Fresh crepes. Your choice of sweet with fresh strawberry and marscapone or savory with chicken and provalone.
• Porterhouse Portobello Pile – Roasted mushrooms, green onions and tomato with two eggs your style and your choice of cheese, served with your choice and toast.
• Beer Battered Monte Cristo with fresh organic raspberry coulis.
• Smoked Salmon Benedict, fresh house-made hollandaise and love. Served with hashbrowns.

Happening tonight – Big Al brewers night at Porterhouse. The crew from Big Al Brewing will be at Porterhouse Pub in West Seattle. Pliny the Younger, on the other hand, will not.

It’s a Tuesday night. Not usually a busy night on the beer scene; however, the much ballyhoed arrival of Pliny the Younger is upon us. This is wacko. We can’t complain. I guess we started the hysteria when we published the story back on Jan. 15th, hinting that some of the much-coveted triple IPA was bound for Seattle. Apparently Plinymania is now fully upon us.

Last Friday Collins Pub blew through a 1/6 barrel in 20 minutes. Oh well, we missed it. We were going to announce that tonight Naked City will be tapping a keg, and that you should go out and try some, but you can scratch that. Naked City tapped their Pliny the Younger at 5:00 p.m. today. Drained it in 6 minutes.

So we’ll be heading up to the Porterhouse in West Seattle to join Big Al Brewing for a brewers night celebration. Sure, maybe it isn’t quite as sexy as a big uber IPA from California,  but we love Big Al and, well, is that so wrong?

If you’re heartbroken because you just cannot keep up with the Pliny fever, come join us and Big Al at the Porterhouse.  They’ll have plenty of beer, I promise.

We wanted to share with you a really good deal. Today only, you can buy a coupon that will give you 50% off your tab at the Porterhouse, where they have 25 handles pouring a great selection of West coast craft beers and a fabulous menu to delight your appetite. Many of you are familiar with the concept behind Groupons. Here’ the way it works. You buy the coupon (Groupon) for a fixed price of $15. The Groupon entitles you to $30 worth of beer and food at the Porterhouse in West Seattle.  So, you spend $15 today and you get $30 worth of food and beer next time you’re at the Porterhouse. That’s a screamin’ deal!

Click here to view or purchase the Groupon.

Tonight (Tuesday, Nov. 24) the Porterhouse Pub in West Seattle will host a Rogue socks and underwear drive. The event is a combination of a Rogue brewers night and a benefit party to collect socks and underwear for kids. It sounds a bit funny, I know, but the event supports West Seattle Helpline – an organization that provides all kinds of services to people in need. One of those needs is socks and underwear for kids.

The event will include all the normal brewers night fun – swag and great beer. There will also be live music from The Head and The Heart. You are encouraged to contribute new sock, new underwear or cash money to help support the cause.

The event gets underwear (underway) at 6:00 p.m.

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.