Scott McMartin was a fundamental cog in the machine of Seattle's coffee behemoth, Starbucks, for 12 years, working on procuring beans, starting and nurturing grower relationships, producing the recipes, blends and even developing international chain strategies and...
The rolling, fog-laden hills of Italy's Piedmont region are best known for providing optimum terrior for its celebrity variety, Nebbiolo (re: Barolo). Barbera plays second fiddle, especially from the Piedmontese regional villages of Asti and Alba—the latter also...
Aptly named for the namesake 268-foot waterfall nearby, Snoqualmie Falls Brewery in Snoqualmie, Washington is a historic haunt serving up seven different ales and one root beer seven days a week to a town of nearly 13,000 people. Launching in 1997 on seven barrel...
Twelve miles off the Fauntleroy-Vashon Island ferry, through a meandering highway of draping woods, modest farms and spotted views of the Puget Sound, is the distinctive and unorthodox island architecture of Jim Gerlach and Cheryl Lubbert's home in the heart of...
Keeping it simple, Rachel's Ginger Beer in Seattle is built on four key ingredients: lemons, ginger root, organic cane sugar and water. Fortunate to have access to good, clean water, the other three components of these ginger beers are added in, brewed and often...
"Micro canning since 2005," Caldera Brewing boasts the title as the West Coast's first craft brewery to can their beers. Representing as one of the longest-standing breweries in Southern Oregon, Caldera opened their 30-barrel brewhouse and pub in Ashland to meet...
With a degree in fermentation science from in U.C. Davis (not to mention the title of "Cum Laude" at graduation), Rob Griffin moved to Washington state, taking a job at the now shuttered Preston Wine Cellars in Pasco in 1977. As one of the few single-digit wineries...
When I build my dream house (let's be honest, it won't be with my own two hands), I would like it to be modeled after a room at Willows Lodge in Woodinville, Washington. Wood-clad, stone-framed and rustic in what has become a quintessential Northwestern decor of...
Birthdays, holidays, "I deserve this today" gifts—one of these beverage-related picks are sure to spoil the receiver (even if it's you). PERFECT POUR Never sacrifice a drop of beer to the summer heat again. The latest from Hydro Flask, the Bend, Oregon purveyors of...
"Why put beautiful, floral lavender in a vase when it's even better in a bottle?" Seattle's DRY Soda poses this question in regards to their latest bottling of their Lavender DRY soda. Described as rosemary's "more beautiful, refined sister," lavender is a...
