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Sadly, we missed the Strangebrew Festival this year. Instead of heading west to Port Townsend for a weekend of fun and frivolity, we flew south to Palm Springs to conduct important research on the status of the craft brewing industry in California’s Coachella Valley. After all, some one has to do it.
In this story, we’ll [...]

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As if heading out to Port Townsend for the annual Strangebrew Festival isn’t enough of an adventure, we like to include at least one other beery stop on our way to or from the event. These are the real easy ones:
Heading across the Narrow’s Bridge? Stop by 7 Seas Brewing in Gig Harbor. The tasting room is open from [...]

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UPDATE: We have named a winner in our Facebook contest. Lorraine -a.k.a. the Beveridge Place Beer Goddess- was the very first person to guess and she got it exactly right. Behold the awesome power of Lorraine. This was not rigged. It kind of freaks me out, actually. She’s got powers, or something. The complete list [...]

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Previous posts in this series:
Vancouver, the gateway to the Gorge
Highway 14, Stevenson and White Salmon
This is the final installment in our series of reports on our recent trip to the Columbia Gorge. Our previous post talked about the breweries on the Washington side of the river (Walking Man and Everybody’s Brewing). In this post, we’ll [...]

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This is the third installment in our Columbia Gorge Brewery Tour series.
Previous posts in this series:
Beer Trails: Columbia Gorge Brewery Tour.
Beer Trails: Vancouver – gateway to the Gorge.
From Vancouver, Highway 14 (the Lewis and Clark Highway) winds its way east along the Washington side of the Columbia River, passing through small, historic towns. It affords [...]

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As we told you in an earlier post (click here), we spent Thanksgiving weekend touring the breweries and pubs of Southwest Washington and the Columbia River Gorge. In this installment, we stop for lunch in Vancouver.
Salmon Creek Brewery and Pub
We had long heard about this place but had never stopped in to visit. In 2007 [...]

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When we awoke from our Turkey-induced coma it was Friday morning following Thanksgiving – Black Friday. Our plans did not include anything as trivial as shopping. We quickly packed up the Washington Beer Cruiser for a road trip: this time, to tour the breweries and brew pubs of southwest Washington. That alone would be reward [...]

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It feels like I’ve got bugs in my hair. There’s a strange itch in my toe. When I get this feeling, there’s only one thing to do. ROADTRIP!
This Thanksgiving weekend we’re hitting the road. As soon as we snap out of the Turkey coma on Friday morning, we’ll be packing up the Washington Beer Cruiser [...]

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