From our Best Of the Northwest 2014 issue, this selection was one of three remarkable Libation Destinations in Washington state. To read more in-depth stories from print, subscribe here! It might be the sparkling sheen of the Salish Sea from the edge of Bellingham...
From corporate careers in California to farming in Southern Oregon's Applegate Valley, just 50 miles north of the Golden State's line, Blair Smith and Marcey Kelley staked their claim on an apple orchard and a new life. Five arduous and tasking years later, the...
As if you didn't already know—you profoundly educated local beer drinker, you—Bend, Oregon has 23 breweries in a town of roughly 81,000 inhabitants. Saving you the math, this means Bend has more craft breweries per capita than any other city in the United States...
Not many cideries can say they are produced solely on 100 percent estate-grown fruit. Tieton, Washington's Tieton Cider Works can—all the fruit for Craig and Sharon Campbell's ciders (including a Perry) comes from their Harmony Orchards in the Yakima Valley. Craig...
Lion Heart Kombucha keeps it real. The artisan kombucha brewery in Portland uses custom blends fine teas from Jasmine Pearl Tea Merchants using all and only real, raw organic ingredients that ferment in glass and top-grade stainless steel wine fermentation tanks....
Chef de cuisine Nick Novello of Seattle’s Skillet Diner was a vegetarian for nine years. Skillet, the meat-braising, fried chicken-sporting Americana diner, doesn’t often come to mind as Seattle’s solution to animal-free provisions. Novello’s previous meatless life...
Regardless of your location in the Northwest, you know you are a Seahawks fan. Especially since both the 49ers and Broncos are out of the championship running and you lost your arguing excuse. Whether you wore your blue in your baby photos or you're a newly minted,...
Extending and expanding her dedication to the craft market, Portland's Helioterra winemaker Anne Hubatch (read about her 2012 Yakima Valley Syrah here) teamed up with fellow Rose City producers Nate Wall and Kris Wall of Whoa Nelly Wines and Guild Winemakers to...
Just because the holidays are over (good riddance?), doesn't mean you have to stop spoiling yourself and loved ones with great, beverage-focused grabs. Below are some of our favorites from our fall issue! For the full story and to get your own print subscription,...
In many ways and in a more traditional sense, cider follows suit of wine. In others ways and in a more "New World" approach, it takes notes from beer. Additives like hops, herbs and fruit mirror that of its carbonated barley brother, and in styles like...
