Congratulations to Anthony Stone, the recipient of the 2012 Glen Hay Falconer Foundation American Brewers Guild scholarship. Anthony, one of the brewers at Boundary Bay Brewing in Bellingham, will attend the American Brewers Guild’s Intensive Brewing Sciences and Engineering course. This year the Foundation entertained the largest number of applications in the program’s history. The…
Last spring Big Al Brewing became the first Washington craft brewery to install a solar-thermal heating system. Big Al Brewing flipped the switch in June and started brewing with water heated (at least in part) by the sun. Net Zero Impact, a local solar energy solutions firm, designed and installed the system. The same company…
Advance tickets are now on sale for the Washington Beer Commission’s first beer festival of 2012: Belgianfest. The event takes place in Seattle on Saturday, February 4th. See our previous posts about the previous three Belgianfest events. The list of participating breweries and the list of beers is still unavailable, but we know there will…
Tonight is your last chance to vote in the Elite Eight round of Hoptoberfest at the Beveridge Place Pub (blog sponsor). The annual month-long event features the best Washington IPAs in tournamentp-style showdown to determine which beer will be the house IPA for the upcoming year. Because it is Micro Monday, the pints will only…
Have you seen the current (October) issue of Seattle Magazine? I am talking about the magazine named Seattle, not the similar publication with “Seattle” in the name. For October, Seattle Magazine decided to do a feature about the local beer scene: “An epic 24-page beer extravaganza,” as one Seattle Mag editor called it. The issue…
Ballard’s newest brewery opens to the public today. Hilliard’s Beer invites the public to come visit their warehouse-style brewery today (Friday, October 7th) from 3:00 – 10:00. A local street-food vendor (Skillet) will be there serving food and a DJ will spin discs to help mark the occasion. Along with Hilliard’s Saison, with which many…
Tickets are going fast for this weekend’s Great Pumpkin Beer Festival. Especially for the Saturday session, which we have just learned is very close to selling out. Elysian Brewing Company, which hosts the annual event, assures us that there will be plenty of beer for both days. What’s more, they’re saving a few treats to…
Pretty much every brewery we talk to these days recognizes a need to expand in one way or another. While breweries in business parks and industrial buildings around Washington are knocking down walls to stretch their legs and increase brewery output, in downtown Seattle the Pike Brewing Company must grow with careful design. Pike Brewing…
It has been over a year since I introduced you to Bellevue Brewing Company, which promises to be Bellevue’s first locally owned craft brewery. (Read our original story.) The mastermind behind the project, John Robertson, has been moving cautiously and with purposeful resolve. He wants to get it right the first time. He has entertained…
