Strange Brewfest 2014 – event details announced, tickets on sale
Rarely does an event live up to its name as well as Strange Brewfest. Every year this beloved event attracts a huge crowd of beer…
Last minute beer gift idea number 4 – fancy growler gear
While some people dispute the merits of growlers, the rest of us just keep filling them up. I don’t think of it as an argument…
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…
West Seattle Brewing’s taproom opens this Thursday
Some time ago, West Seattle Brewing started selling beer on a very limited basis. Unless you hang out at A Terrible Beauty, the Irish pubs…
Wingman Brewers collaborates with musicians to benefit education
Here’s a press release from Wingman Brewers in Tacoma. Tacoma Brewers and Musicians Collaborate for Education TACOMA—Local beer makers Wingman Brewers and the band Mighty…
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…
Last minute beer gift idea number 3: Beer Books
Give the gift of knowledge. Or entertainment. Today I want to provide some recommendations for beer books, which always make great gifts for literate beer…
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…
Last minute beer gift idea number 2: Beer Club
Really, it’s all any beer lover wants: beer. Back in the mid-90s, I was contacted by a company that wanted to give me a membership…
