Washington Beer Blog

Today marks the start of the Beveridge Place Pub’s 8th Annual Barleywine Bacchanal – a week-long celebration of potent libations. This year the Beveridge Place has included some special events within the larger event. We have included a complete list of what will be on tap and when below. This is the most amazing list [...]

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The current issue of Draft magazine includes a listing of the Top 150 Beer Bars in the country (Draft magazine, Jan-Feb 2010). Six of our local beer joints made the list.
If you were conducting this important research, what would be your criteria? Draft kept things rather ambiguous, stating only that they were looking for: “The [...]

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Last night we attended a Big Time brewers night celebration at Naked City Taphouse. While we were there enjoying fine beers from Big Time, we also had a chance to chat with Don Webb, one of the owners/brewers at Naked City. We have a couple of quick things to report.
Finally, an Oscars party for beer [...]

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Is it a conspiracy to keep Washington breweries down or is it simply fate? Is it a blatant attempt to stack the deck against us or is it the luck of the draw? You be the judge.
Seven of Washington’s finest beers made it out of the first round of the National IPA Championship (NIPAC), but [...]

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There has been a bit of a shake up at Schooner Exact Brewing and Marcus Connery wants to make sure there aren’t any silly rumors floating around. One of the founders of Schooner Exact Brewing, Marcus told me today that he is now a former partner in the venture. They parted ways amicably and Marcus [...]

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This Saturday, Beer Church will host its 11th Annual Beer Church Turkey Bowl. The event is a bowling party, fundraiser and food drive to support the West Seattle Food Bank. Within the larger event, six Washington breweries will be competing in the 2nd Annual Battle of the Brewers.
Teams from Big Als Brewing, Elliott Bay Brewing, [...]

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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 [...]

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We are currently running the finals of our Seattle’s Best Beer Bar poll. You can select from the list on the right. For two weeks we ran the preliminary poll (the first round), asking people to vote for their “Favorite Seattle-area beer bar (not brew pub).”
Here is the list of beer bars  from which people [...]

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For the past couple of weeks, we have been conducting a poll asking you to vote for your “Favorite Seattle-area beer bar (not brew pub).” We now move into the final round which means you can all vote again. It also means that we narrowed the field to include only the top seven vote-getters. Going [...]

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Wouldn’t it be nice if the convenience of yesteryear could be combined with the needs of today? I’ve always thought that a beer delivery service was a simple and beautiful business concept that couldn’t fail, I’ve just never had the business acumen to realize the dream.
Enter Milkman Seattle. Currently operating in trial mode, Milkman Seattle [...]

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