For 29 years, Woodinville, Wash.'s Redhook Brewery has been brewing their Winterhook seasonal ale, each year updating the recipe for its own original version. With the new bottle package makeover that launched last year, Winterhook is all dressed up in a snowy...
What once was a rundown walnut and fruit orchard is now the Nicholas Vineyard and estate to Anam Cara Cellars in Oregon's Chehalem Mountains appellation. Nick and Sheila Nicholas purchased the property in 2001 after a global career stint and named it Anam Cara...
Warning: this cider is going, going...you get the picture—this limited edition fresh hop cider was kegged, bottled and sent on its way from Finnriver Farm and Cidery's Olympic Peninsula abode in late August so what's out there is what's out there. Found at an...
Root beer is in Kainoa Lopez's blood. Although he was set on the track to success in corporate America as a database engineer, Lopez decided to follow in his great-grandfather's footsteps and brew classic sodas. Lopez's predecessors created Waialua Soda Works on...
Southeast Portland’s Distillery Row packs six distilleries within blocks of each other, producing more than 20 spirits amongst them. One of the row’s founding fathers, Eastside Distilling, has been producing their artisan spirits since 2009, with ambitions to use...
Residents of Boise, Idaho might be more familiar with Ontario, Ore. than the people of Portland. Less than 12,000 people call Ontario home, just one hour from downtown Boise and 375 miles from Portland, including Beer Valley Brewing Company. Launching their...
It's the most wonderful time of the year... For hop-heads. Fresh hop season—the growing, priming and gathering harvest for hops has been completed across Yakima Valley, home to approximately 75 percent of this great nation's hop acreage, and put into a variety of...
What once grew pears now grows Grenache, Syrah, Tempranillo, Chardonnay and Viognier in the name of Jaxon Vineyards. With diligent research put into the land—referencing the latitude, the soil and the microclimate of Fern Valley in the Rogue Valley—Jamie and...
Alpenfire Cider's Steve and Nancy Bishop credit their original awareness of cider to underage drinking in Canada. Well, technically, drinking at 19 is legal in Canada, so the college-aged couple was off the hook when falling for cider in the 1970s, courtesy of a...
Distillery, event space, bottle shop, part-time spirits educational institution—Seattle's Batch 206 has taken the responsibility of bringing booze to the people ever since the Washington Craft Distillery legislation was enacted in July of 2008. Their vodka and gin...
