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Barleywine for breakfast? Sure.

Barleywine lovers, you need not despair. Sure, the 2010 versions of the Barleywine Bacchanal and the Hard Liver Festival are now history, but Tacoma’s Parkway Tavern has you covered. Coming up on April 24th and 25th, the Parkway Tavern celebrates the most bodacious of beers when they host the 5th Annual Parkway Barleywine Festival. This [...]

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I am posting this because I’m curious to see if anyone cares. I am particularity curious to hear what people in the industry think. Yesterday the Liquor Control Board adopted revised rules restricting outdoor alcohol advertising at all establishments serving and selling alcohol. Among other things, this rule impacts the size and number of signs [...]

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The current issue of Draft magazine includes a listing of the Top 150 Beer Bars in the country (Draft magazine, Jan-Feb 2010). Six of our local beer joints made the list.
If you were conducting this important research, what would be your criteria? Draft kept things rather ambiguous, stating only that they were looking for: “The [...]

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Live from the new Jolly Roger

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 [...]

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Time once again for the Beveridge Place Pub’s IPA Cask-o-Rama — a wonderful celebration of  good firkin beer! The event starts this Thursday, Nov. 5th at 6:00 p.m. and runs until the end of business on Saturday. Where else can you find 24 different cask-conditioned IPAs on tap at once? Even if you cannot make [...]

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Laurelwood Pub and Brewery opened last Friday in Battle Ground, Washington. With multiple locations around Portland, Laurelwood has finally made their way north of the Columbia River into Washington. We’ve always liked Laurelwood – the pubs and the beers. To be honest, we’ve always liked Oregon as well – the pubs and the beers. It’s [...]

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For the past couple of weeks, we have been conducting a poll asking you to vote for your “Favorite Seattle-area beer bar (not brew pub).” We now move into the final round which means you can all vote again. It also means that we narrowed the field to include only the top seven vote-getters. Going [...]

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We’ve just closed our first poll –Seattle’s best brew pub– and the results will be posted soon. We have already posted a new poll. This time we’re asking you to select your favorite Seattle-area beer bar. There are a lot of them around here and we’ve only included the ones that we think are most [...]

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Tonight is another Wednesday night cask crawl in Redmond – an Oostkant Cask Crawl. The Malt and Vine will be serving up a cask of Hale’s Supergoose. Not too terribly far away at Black Raven, they’ll be pouring a cask of Hefenweizer – their German style Hefe.
A few people have asked me what Oostkant means. [...]

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Iron Brewer Ends with a Tie

Last night we attended the Beveridge Place Pub’s first-ever Iron Brewers competition, which ended in a tie.  The crowd was perfectly divided between the entry from Schooner Exact Brewing and the entry from Diamond Knot Brewing. The two beers, brewed using orange as the theme ingredient, were remarkably different. Personally, I had a tough time [...]

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