Erin James
Erin James has been a long-time freelance writer and editor in the greater Seattle area, with a focus on lifestyle writing. As one of the pioneering journalists for WINO Magazine when it first printed in 2007, James has since been published in more than a dozen regional and national publications, including, of course, Sip Northwest. She is also the editor-in-chief of sister magazine CIDERCRAFT and the upcoming Sip's Wine Guide: British Columbia, as well as the author of "CIDERCRAFT: Discover the Distinctive Flavors and the Vibrant World of North American Hard Cider," published by Storey Publishing in August 2017. Email her at editor@sipnorthwest.com.

5 Fall Events Full of Cider

Forget pumpkin spice, true fall fanatics know that cider is the go-to drink of the season. As temperatures begin to drop with the seasonal transition from summer to fall, there’s a plethora of upcoming cider-centric events all over the country to raise your...

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Get Your Cider On Tap in One-Way Kegs

Kegging cider just got easier with the petainerKeg™. Your cider is all the rage and now customers are asking for it in their favorite drinking establishments. So now it’s time to get serious about putting your cider on tap. We promise, it’s really not that...

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Recipe: Urbane’s NW Manhattan

The downtown-chic Urbane restaurant and bar, located in Hyatt at Olive 8 in Seattle, celebrated its eighth anniversary this month the only way the crew knew how: through eight nostalgic cocktails. One of which was the NW Manhattan, a signature cocktail created for...

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Recipe: Cider “Iced” Hard Lemonade

You may be more familiar with the brands Woodchuck and Wyder’s, the longtime and consumer-familiar brands of Vermont Cider Co., but the company namesake recently released its own house collection of small batch, “ultra-premium” ciders with much praise. The Cerise...

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3 Sips for the First of the Month

Welcome back to Sip Northwest’s Bar Tab, our editor’s bi-weekly selection of what to drink in the Northwest now. This week, we pull a few selections from the current print edition to honor the first of the month (Bone Thugs, anyone?), from a crushable IPA for...

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