You brewed, you sipped, you’re satisfied—and you still have leftover coffee. What to do with it? While you can simply dump the remaining liquid and discard the grounds, the frequency with which people have found themselves in this same situation over the years has...
Finnriver Farm and Cidery'’s Black Currant is a liqueur rooted in brandy, made by a farm-based cidery and masquerading as a fruit wine. Over in Chimacum, on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, the elixir is born of fermented organic black currant wine, fortified with...
When I was in college, coffee shops that closed early were the bane of my existence. As a night owl, it was nearly impossible to find a long-haul place to work apart from the library—it felt like I’d barely get my laptop plugged in and my Americano ordered before I...
Remember those sweet, spicy date cookies with the brown butter frosting that your grandma used to make every year at Christmas? Well, KennLueur Liqueur is kind of like that. Dreamed up by RiverSands Distillery in Kennewick, Washington, the unique liqueur is based in...
Tequila, which must be made in the Mexican state of Jalisco, isn’t often considered a hometown spirit in the Northwest, but Papa Bueno is making a bid to be known as the Seattle tequila. Founded by Scott Greenburg, a Seattle-based attorney, the company has become a...
This weekend, a Salt & Straw collaboration resulted in the nation’s first-of-its-kind Affogato Bar. This is the second of back-to-back brick and mortar projects with Portland ties highlighting the ongoing importance of cooperation, flavor pairing and focus on...
Stein Distillery is situated in little Joseph, Oregon (population of barely over 1,000), where it proudly claims the title of Eastern Oregon’s first microdistillery. Since 2009 the Stein family has used grain grown on its own farm in carefully executed family recipes,...
For all the fame Clyde Common has earned for its James Beard-nominated bar program (currently it’s a semifinalist for 2015, having also been nominated the past three years running), it’s easy to forget that the Rose City institution was opened in 2007 with just as...
The Specialty Coffee Association of America held the second half of its first ever two-year exposition (The Event) in Seattle last week. This year’s event, like last year’s, brought 10,000 attendees from more than 75 countries to Jet City. They came for expositions,...
Most people aren’t approached without warning and asked to open a distillery. And Nin Truong and Christa Thomas already had plenty going on when they were offered that very opportunity. “It was pretty much out of the blue,” says Thomas, whose past successes as a local...
