Posted in Everything Else on Sep 3rd, 2010
Your friendly Washington Beer Bloggers are about to head out on a two week adventure–a roadtrip, campout, and trek for warmth and sunshine. Likely we’ll point the Washington Beer Cruiser south, but we’ll see. We know this, we will be in Denver for the Great American Beer Festival (Sept 16-18). The blog will not be [...]
Posted in Everything Else on Aug 12th, 2010
I recently met Shon MacDughlas, the owner of the Cask in West Seattle, which opened about a month ago (we reported it here). We talked about his plans to serve regional craft beers on tap alongside world beers in bottles and we talked about his vision for the Cask overall. His vision, especially the part [...]
Posted in Breweries, beer news, washington_beer_news on Aug 5th, 2010
Redhook has just announced a 3 year partnership with the University of Washington to be the Huskies’ exclusive craft brewery. What does that mean? It means that when you go to “The Zone” at a UW football game you’ll be drinking Redhook products.
The Zone is the UW’s answer to a big tailgate party. Although no [...]
Posted in beer news, washington_beer_news, washington_breweries on May 26th, 2010
We have some new breweries to tell you about. What’s more, we can tell you that Harmon Brewing Company’s newest location opened a couple days ago, apparently without a hitch. The Liquor Control Board is currently entertaining a number of applications. Below, we tell you what we know. As usual, we ask that you share [...]
Posted in Breweries, New Beer Releases, beer news on Apr 13th, 2010
On the heels of last weekend’s impressive medals-grab at the World Beer Cup (read it), Black Raven Brewing will release a new beer today. Splinters Bourbon Barrel-Aged Scotch is the latest seasonal release from Redmond’s award-winning brewery. This beer is the barrel-aged version of Second Sight Scotch ale. It will be available at the Raven’s [...]
Posted in Breweries, beer news, washington_beer_news, washington_breweries on Apr 9th, 2010
We just learned that Boundary Bay Brewing has introduced a new mobile application for your mobile phone. Here’s the announcement:
First time to town and need directions to Boundary Bay Brewery? Looking for live music and not sure what’s playing in our Tap Room? Curious about what’s on tap? Well now you can [...]
Posted in Breweries, pubs, washington_breweries on Apr 8th, 2010
When you walk into Renton’s Dog and Pony Alehouse and ask the bartender what they have on tap, she’ll point to a tall, vertical chalkboard listing all 30 draft selections. At first glance it might escape you, but after a moment you will realize that the first 12 beers on the list are all the [...]
Shon MacDughlas grew up right down the street from the business he’s about to open. A West Seattle native, MacDughlas (pronounced “MacDouglas”) knows the lay of the land. I talked to MacDughlas the other day and he told me a bit about The Cask – the bar/store that he and his wife are preparing to [...]
The Washington Cask Beer Festival (Saturday, March 29), which is completely sold out, will showcase dozens of interesting, creative beers. If you know anything about this event, you will not be surprised to learn that one of the beers is an oak-aged strong ale brewed using, among other things, candy sugar. The beer, named 841, [...]
Posted in beer news on Mar 16th, 2010
This is a call to arms. As craft beer enthusiasts, we need to make our voices heard. A new bill has been introduced in the other Washington that promises to help the craft brewing industry nationwide. We all need to contact our representatives and tell them to support H.R. 4278. It is easy and quick [...]
