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Craft Beer contributes $34 billion to the U.S. economy

It’s an impressive number: $34 billion. That figure represents the craft beer industry’s contribution to the U.S. economy, according to the Brewers Association (BA). The…

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MobCraft – the world’s first crowdsourced brewery

An interesting release hit our inbox today – “The World’s First Crowdsourced Brewery.”  Not Kickstarted or crowd-funded. But crowdsourced. How? MobCraft solicits beer ideas from…

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Lowercase Brewing & the brewery boom in South Park

We visited one of Seattle’s newest breweries a few weeks ago: Burdick Brewing, which opened a couple months ago in the South Park neighborhood (read…

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Thanksgiving Day tune into Aljazeera America for a craft beer special

We like it when craft beer shows up on television. Tomorrow (Thanksgiving), Inside Story with Ray Suarez will focus on the American craft beer scene….

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Harmon Brewery secures Iron Brewers Championship

Congratulations to Harmon Brewery. Last Thursday night Tacoma’s beloved brewery took first place in the Beveridge Place Pub (blog sponsor) Pro-Am Iron Brewers Competition. To…

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Benefit for Portland Beer Blogger, Brewpublic Angelo

We are looking forward to a day when we don’t have to write a post like this. A day when medical conditions don’t require charitable…

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New Belgium Brewing doubling capacity for wood-aged beer production

I typically focus on news from the Washington beer and brewing scene, but sometimes make exceptions when the news is big and interesting. And since…

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No-Li Brewhouse announces distribution to Canada

News today that Spokane’s No-Li Brewhouse plans to ship beer across the border to Canadian markets. Spokane, WA… No-Li Brewhouse, crosses the border with Modern…

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A first visit to two new taprooms – two sorta new Seattle breweries

Saturday afternoon we decided to grab some low-hanging fruit. That is, we decided to hit a couple of new breweries that are not too far…

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