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…
We just received word of a new beer festival. The New Year Beer Festival takes places on Sunday, January 22nd at the Kitsap Conference Center in Bremerton and features beers from no less than 15 Washington breweries. For those of us on the east side of Puget Sound, the Conference Center is within very easy…
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…
To accommodate a need for more space and increased demand for its product, 7 Seas Brewing is moving to historic downtown Gig Harbor. The new location is just one block from the waterfront in the Peninsula Shopping Center. Construction is already underway in the new 11,000 square foot space. Formerly a QFC store, the new…
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…
Back in October, we announced that Pyramid was reopening its Seattle brewery and would actually produce beer in Washington again (read it). We also mentioned how the decision impacted Redhook. At that time, we told you Pyramid hired Kim Brusco, then brewery manager at Redhook, to spearhead the rebirth of the Seattle brewery. Brusco said…
I was trying to come up with some clever way to introduce this story. I thought about creating a metaphorical image to describe the many unexpected, interesting, brilliant and bizarre things I’ve heard Dick Cantwell say over the years. You see, Dick first told me about the 12 Beers of the Apocalypse a few months…
About one year ago we first told you about Reuben’s Brews, when home brewer Adam Robbings’ Roasted Rye IPA took the 2010 PNA Winter Beer Taste by storm (read it) and won first place. Fast-forward. About one week ago someone forwarded to me a curious email from Adam Robbings, who was apparently looking for a…
Sound Brewery is now bottling beer. The Poulsbo brewery hit the ground running last winter. You never would have guessed it was a new brewery. The very first beers I ever tasted from Sound Brewery were polished to perfection. Now you can enjoy that same deliciousness in bottles. Once again, Sound Brewery seems to have…
