The name is complicated. Basically, in the 18th century, recruiting sergeants for the British Army used to pop into pubs to "encourage" those with less than peak inhibitions to join their ranks. Thing was, they did this by dropping one of the Queen's schillings (a...
Boy meets girl. Then boy meets wine and girl meets art. Years and vintages later that take the duo around the globe and back, boy and girl (also known as Brian Marcy and Clare Carver) planted their dreams (grapes and home roots) on a farm in Gaston, Ore., and...
It's a mouthful. The name of this new Portland-based cidery and the ciders themselves. Confident and brazen in both branding and cider composition, Cascadia Ciderworkers United represents the broad picture of Northwest-made cider, using "Cascadia-grown" whole...
Betsy Peabody is insatiable when it comes to shellfish. Sure, she enjoys turning the top off to slurp down local mollusk and plunging her arm shoulder-deep into the sand to cup the base of a geoduck’s shell, but Peabody’s appetite for shellfish goes beyond its...
Unassuming and industrially outfitted, Seattle's Naked City Brewery and Taphouse sits as the hub for drink in the growing neighborhood of Greenwood. Founded in 2009, Naked City is known for its wide variety in rotating tap handles, affinity for pouring guest taps...
Midwest-made, Purdue University-educated, winemaker Morgan Lee wasn't exactly on the likely path to enology. After taking a wine appreciation course in college, however, Lee took off to Washington state, worked a harvest under the tutelage of Juan Muñoz-Oca at...
The New York Times called Washington's Vashon Island a "rural throwback" in a March 2012 feature. Sure, the isle is home to only 10,000, has more than a dozen family-owned and-operated farms and everyone knows each others' names (and business), but one of said...
Talk about refreshing. This citrus explosion from Seattle's Vital Juice Co. is now widely available for all to transport themselves some place warm, tropical and wealthy in the pithy, pulpy fruits. GMO-free, certified organic and the whole fruits and vegetables are...
There's only so much beer a guy can take—or make, for that matter. Joel VandenBrink is far from tapped out from brewing barrels for his flagship Seattle brewery, Two Beers, but after a diagnosis with Crohns Disease (where beer can be a trigger to symptoms), he...
Sodas are the new black. Not only are local lovers of libation playing with sodas in cocktails and as solo sippers but many are producing their own, like the poppin' piquant sodas of Portland Soda Works. Soda is so hot right now. Created in small-batches with all...
