Note to all local breweries: get your IPA submissions in for this year’s National IPA Championship! Details are below. The Northwest has had some strong showings in the past, and I’d love to see that trend continue. It’s that time again! The National IPA Championship entry form is ready. Let the games begin! The 5th [...]
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Local Breweries: National IPA Championship is Open for Submissions
December 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Happy Thanksgiving From Seattle Beer News
November 24th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Hope your day is spent with friends and loved ones, and good food and beer of course. Thanksgiving is a time to get a little cheesy and not just reflect on how thankful you are for the meal you’ll be eating today, but also for anything else in your life. Here are [...]
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American Beer Blogger TV Series With Lew Bryson
November 16th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Philadelphia’s Lew Bryson is one of the country’s better-known beer writers and is a true advocate for craft beer. He is part of a project trying to raise funding to produce a television series called American Beer Blogger that will focus on all things good about the beer world, with Lew as the host. The [...]
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Meet Brewed Awakening Author Joshua Bernstein at Two Events This Weekend
November 15th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Author Joshua Bernstein will be in town this Friday and Saturday to promote his new book Brewed Awakening: Behind the Beers and Brewers Leading the World’s Craft Brewing Revolution at three events. November 19: Foggy Noggin Brewing in Bothell 1 p.m.–4 p.m. During growler hours at Foggy Noggin Brewing, I will be tipping back delicious [...]
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WA Breweries at GABF: Black Raven and Redhook
September 21st, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
On September 29, the 30th annual Great American Beer Festival will kick off in Denver, CO. Around 49,000 attendees are expected (it sold out in a week) and 465 breweries will be on hand to pour more than 2,400 beers. If you haven’t been, the festival is a must at some point in your life [...]
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The Seattle Cask Ale Scene
August 24th, 2011 · 17 Comments · Chris Clemetson, Uncategorized, Washington Breweries
From SBN contributor Chris Clemetson. I have been fortunate enough to have some recent vacation travel and one of the things I look forward to is catching up on my reading list. One of the books that I enjoyed was titled “Beer Is Proof God Loves Us: Reaching for the Soul of Beer and Brewing” [...]
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Are You Ready for Some Football?
August 22nd, 2011 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
With the miserable seasons my Cubs and Mariners have been enduring, baseball is essentially dead to me at this point (my fantasy team sucks, too). With NFL and NCAA football just around the corner, I can finally divert my attention towards another season of watching games on Saturdays and Sundays. I watch a lot of [...]
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American Brewing to Start Bottling Breakaway IPA
July 20th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Great news from Skip Madsen, Neil Fallon, and the rest of the team up at American Brewing in Edmonds, WA. More WA beer available in bottles is always a good thing. Bottling Begins! Incredible! At almost 5 months from our opening date, we will begin bottling Breakaway IPA on Monday, July 25th! DON’T MISS OUT [...]
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Flying Bike Cooperative Brewery Announces Brewing Competition
July 18th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Press release from Flying Bike Cooperative Brewery: Seattle, WA, July 11, 2011 – “From Basement to Brewpub”. Flying Bike Cooperative Brewery (FBC) has announced the details of their first brewing competition. As part of the ongoing development for their line of beer, FBC is drawing from its membership via brewing competitions. “We surveyed our members [...]
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Seattle Weekly: Top 5 Ways to Annoy Your Bartender
June 24th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
I’m honestly not sure that I could ever have the patience to be a bartender, which makes me respect those that are quite a bit. Even the best bartenders get annoyed though. The Seattle Weekly polled current and retired bartenders and came up with their list of the Top 5 Ways to Annoy Your Bartender. [...]
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