Cider Summit and Cider Con pivot again, new tasting kits and event for the new year
Cider lovers, rejoice! The folks who bring you the Cider Summit events are bravely pushing their way forward despite the current circumstances. For you, that…
Beer Release – Feather Weather, Black Raven Brewing
Sweater weather, feather weather, whatever you want to call it, it’s here. Black Raven Brewing is releasing this big, bold beer today. Just in time…
Ring in the new year with Fresh Hop Beer. Yep, it’s happening
Update – March 12, 2021 – I received an email from Jim Schlichting of Blue Lake Hops in Michigan informing me that they’d been working…
Garden Path Fermentation releasing its first spontaneously fermented beer
Garden Path Fermentation in Burlington, WA is releasing its first 100 percent spontaneously fermented beer this Saturday, January 2nd: The Spontaneous Ferment. A lot of…
Fremont Brewing releasing a barley wine for Bonney
Matt Bonney was a larger-than-life personality on the Seattle beer scene. Among his numerous contributions to the local beer universe, he opened Toronado Seattle in…
The Top 10 Beer Stories of 2020 That Aren’t About You Know What
I typically wrap up the year with a retrospective of some sort. Most often it includes a listing of our top 10 most-viewed stories of…
Goodbye 2020 IPA – 5 local breweries collab on a beer for the service industry
Five breweries from around the Greater Seattle Area teamed up to create one beer: Goodbye 2020 IPA, a final beer of the year. The collaboration…
Beer excise tax relief and COVID relief realized – CBMTRA becoming law
This is good news, by all accounts and appearances. The Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act (CBMTRA) is about to become law. Basically, this…
Silver City Brewery returns the love, offering screamin’ deals to its fans
While many of us beer drinkers are doing our best to support our beloved local breweries during these trying times, Silver City Brewery has stepped…
