What does it taste like when 600 people help make a single spirit? Try Seattle's Fremont Mischief Gin and find out. The bright, botanical-focused liquor, thanks to the help of taste-testers at local businesses throughout the distillery's Fremont neighborhood, went...
Between bartending, cooking and baking with coffee, it’s hard to say which yields the best results. While there are arguments to be made for any of the three—the coffee-infused burgers at Burgundian in Seattle, the Spanish Coffee at Huber’s in Portland—baking is...
In a sea of copper liquors at last month’s Whiskeyfest NW in Portland, one of the more colorful characters drawing attention from Eastside Distilling’s epicentral booth was the joyfully jewel-toned Cherry Bomb Whiskey. Already recognized for their masterful...
The art of service. A vaguely-articulated ideal parlayed in one form or another to lofty-sounding slogans for hotel after hotel over the decades. What happens when a hotel really backs those words up? I visited Portland’s Heathman Hotel to find out what it takes to...
The beauty of having a wide swath of a coffee “Bean Belt” growing region looping around the world, stretching north to the Tropic of Cancer to south to the Tropic of Capricorn, is having great coffee available to us year-round. However, even seasoned coffee...
Crafting a gin from 100-percent organic British Columbian wheat has never been a small endeavor. Up until the last year, it might have been near impossible. Now, thanks to the slow drawing of the curtain of old BC liquor laws, a quickly-growing handful of craft...
Whether camping, road-tripping or music-festing, this Memorial Day weekend took Northwesterners to all corners of the region and beyond, and effectively marked the start of summer vacation season. When packing cars or RVs with gear and craft beers, it often proves...
Truffles, cakes, cocktails—what will we put coffee in next? Add burgers to the list as one of the more surprising foods that you can kick up with caffeine. Seattle’s Hard Rock Café serves a Java Lava Burger as its “Local Legendary” Emerald City sandwich, and...
This last weekend, Portlanders of all kinds had one thing on their minds—whiskey, in the form of WhiskeyFest Northwest. In only its second year, the festival has burgeoned from one day with about 60 distilleries in 2013 to two days with nearly 100 in 2014. The...
With coldbrew fresh on your radar, you may be asking yourself how best to spike up an upcoming summer’s worth of chilled coffee beverages. Look no further for inspiration than the innovative bartenders and culinary artisans of the Pacific Northwest, always one step...
