Next Wednesday the Elliott Bay Brewery and Pub in West Seattle hosts a delicious tasting event featuring a vertical selection of big beers: three vintages of Imperial Stout. The West Seattle brewpub is a bit off the beaten path for most Washington beer enthusiasts. For the Washington Beer Blog, Elliott Bay is our local pub….
We’re live at the new Maritime Pacific Jolly Roger Taproom, at the preview event for WABL members. It’s standing room only, with a free cask of IPA blown in 18 minutes. No worries, pints will be two dollars all night (open until 10 p.m.). George Hancock just welcomed the crowd and is now offering brewery…
The people of Ballard love their local brewery and pub, that’s for sure. Back in September we ran a poll asking people to vote for their favorite brewpub. Maritime Pacific’s Jolly Roger Taproom won by a landslide (see the results). Not long after our poll closed, they shut down the Jolly Roger and moved the…
We were truly honored to be invited to the Pike Brewing 20th Birthday Party last night. It was a veritable who’s-who of the local beer industry. Charles and Rose Finkel pulled out all the stops and threw one heck of a bash. As anyone who has ever met the Finkels can imagine, they were gracious…
The results are in. We asked you to vote for your favorite Seattle brew pub and here is what we learned. By a sizable margin, Maritime Pacific (Jolly Roger) came in first place, collecting 49% of the vote. Elysian Capitol Hill came in second place with 23%. Beyond that, it was really close between the…
We’ve been running a poll for a couple of weeks now. The question, “What is your favorite Seattle brew pub?” The plan was to pull it down today and announce the results. Change of plans. We’ll run it for the rest of this week to see if the tie can be broken between Maritime Pacific…
As we reported earlier, Pillagers Pub is now open. This Wednesday (March 25th) they will have the official grand opening party. Here is the official info from Jeff Smiley: Avast ye scurvy dogs! It’s time to shake the moth balls out of your eye patch, polish your peg leg and come on out to Greenwood…
Yesterday we reported live from Pillagers Pub. This is the follow-up. To begin with, we’d like to extend our congratulations to Jeff Smiley and his wife Kate. They’ve worked their tales off getting the new place open and it looks great. Here’s some stuff we learned. The Pirate Thing – It’s Jeff. He’s the one…
Spring is in the air. Well, almost. This Saturday, it is time to bid farewell to winter beers for another year. (Don’t worry kids, just like Frosty the Snowman, they’ll be back again next year.) Join the folks at Elysian’s Capitol Hill pub to mark the end of the season with the annual Winter Beer…
