Seattle's Richard Tait is a modern day Midas—the former Microsoft exec and co-founder of the Cranium boardgame recnetly launched the futbol-themed, all-natural sports hydrating energy drink Golazo. With ties to many international soccer stars and teams, Golazo...
On a 24-acre farm in Bend, Ore., Bendistillery holds their distillery, tasting room and herbal garden for gin production, the first spirit founder and CEO Jim Bendis made in 1996. Today, the distillery produces seven spirits for themselves under the Crater Lake...
As one of the first in Washington's Woodinville Wine Country "warehouse district," restaurant industry vet, sommelier and Tennessee native Chris Sparkman started his winery in 2004, centered around his family. Naming his wines after his children and his children...
What's better than an empty nest after kids go to college, 15 acres of apple orchards and a view of Mount Gardner and the North Cascade Mountains? Probably not much, but your own ciderhouse comes in at a close second. This scenario was brought to Richard and Lynne...
Arguably one of the world's healthiest foods, ginger adds pep to any step. An aid in gastrointestinal distress, an anxiety reliever, possessor of therapeutic properties and antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects, ginger is all good. Eugene, Ore.-based Genesis...
Son of an 1840's Oregon pioneer and first generation Oregonian Robert Imbrie had 12 children and a mother to think about. After establishing a necessary granary and farm to finance his extensive line of kinfolk, he took three years to build an elaborate,...
Seasonal ales might be the guilty pleasure of the brewer's trade. Although standard, staple beers are a must for the in-house tap list and for distribution purposes, the small-batch, timely infusions of seasonal ales are a pleasant departure from the norm, running...
In honor of Idaho's first recognized grape-growing region, the Snake River Valley, Coiled Wines names itself and its wines for the land it comes from. The well-drained volcanic soils mixed in lake sediment from long ago floods, along with the dry climate and high...
Brewed and bottled by the folk's at Portland's Townshend's Tea Company, Brew Dr. Kombucha is 100-percent raw kombucha with more than 2.2 billion live and active cultures per bottle. The benefits to said billion bacteria in your tea? Labeled as "good bacteria," the...
As a lady-made publication, we always love to support the lady-made liquors out there. broVo Spirits set the bar, producing locally-fueled botanical liqueurs and spirits, headed up by former sales and marketing pros Mhairi Voelsgen and Erin Brophy. Sippable on the...
