Rewind for a moment to the autumn of 2009 and you might recall that Chuckanut Brewery took the Great American Beer Festival by storm. In its first trip to the GABF the young Bellingham brewery brought home four medals for beer and was also awarded Best Small Brewpub and Brewer of the year (read about…
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Northern Ales moves to the big city
A couple of years ago we told you about Northern Ales—the brewery in North Port, WA that we’d dubbed Washington’s most remote brewery. (North Port is 2.5 hours north of Spokane very near the Canadian border.) A few months ago we reported that Northern Ales was in the process of moving to Kettle Falls. Now…
Brouwer’s turns the taps over to Washington beers
Starting tomorrow (Wednesday, Oct. 13th) Brouwer’s Cafe in Seattle will turn its attention to Washington-brewed beers. They will be pouring nothing but Washington beer for a week. When Brouwer’s says that they’re switching out all of the taps, it’s no small feat. The venerable Fremont beer mecca features as many as 64 beers on tap…
The Washington Beer Blog hits the road
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…
A new kind of website for a new beer bar
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…
Redhook, the official craft beer of the UW Huskies
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…
More new breweries in Washington
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…
Happening Today – Black Raven new beer release
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…
Boundary Bay introduces a mobile app
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 conveniently get…
