Beer Trails: Highway 14, Stevenson and White Salmon

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:…

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Introducing Kevin Davey: a new brewer on the scene

We heard some weeks ago that the brewer at Chuckanut Brewery and Kitchen,  Josh Pfriem, was moving on. After helping Chuckanut win some impressive medals…

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Start the weekend off with Big Wood

Big Wood – Today (Thrs. Dec. 3rd) the Big Wood Festival* gets underway at Brouwer’s Cafe in Fremont. Doors open at 11:00 a.m. This year…

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Beer Trails: Vancouver, the gateway to the Gorge

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…

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Why in the world is Michael Wilton making beer?

See the follow-up story, when Diamond Knot got involved. If Michael Wilton is famous, it certainly isn’t for making beer. Over the last 25 years,…

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Still tickets for Winter Beer Fest, where beer and chocolate await you

There are still tickets left for this weekend’s Washington Winter Beer Festival. The event is in Fremont at the Hale’s Paladium. It is one of…

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What does the future hold for Dick's Brewing

In the weeks since Dick Young’s unexpected death in October, we’ve been asked several times: “What are they going to do?” Last Friday we were…

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Beer Trails: Columbia Gorge brewery tour over Thanksgiving weekend

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…

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Beer industry loses another friend

We just heard some sad news from our friend Bryan Bendix (Diamond Knot Brewing) regarding a longtime friend of the Washington brewing industry — Jay Fairchild…

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