3 Howls Distillery founder Will Maschmeier kicked off a new run for distilleries in the Seattle-area when he released his rum in June. As the first rum the state has seen (although produced with molasses from Barbados and outsourced pure sugar cane), 3 Howls...
10 Barrel Brewing is now the proud owner of two pubs in two beer-boasting states—Oregon and Idaho. In Bend and Boise, respectively, the latter location is the first "new" brewpub to open in city limits since 1991. The brewery's famous wood-fire pizzas are available...
It shouldn't come as a surprise that RN74 Seattle's lead sommelier-turned-winemaker is producing Washington Syrah that resembles those from the northern Rhône valley in southern France. Named after the tourist highway that rides through France's Burgundy region,...
Washington’s South Sound is finally getting the credit and notice it deserves, between the seven wineries on the wine trail, 22 breweries and recent four distilleries popping up from Tacoma to Lacey and Centralia—there is now room for cider. Co-founders David White...
College dreams turned into reality, Townshend Tea Company's modest beginnings have developed into a multi-location tea shop enterprise. The company was developed more than a decade ago at the University of Oregon and can now be found throughout the state with spots...
Seattle's first legal distillery since the Prohibition is also one of the first in the area to bottle an Old Tom Gin. Located in the in between neighborhood of Interbay, Sound Spirits is owned and operated by craft spirits evangelist and Boeing engineer Steven...
Portland's organic urban brewery, Hopworks, sources specific grains (Hard Red Spring wheat) from their exclusive farm on a specific Northwest Island (San Juan) for their Pig War White India Pale Ale. This particular grain takes credit for the creamy, wheat aroma...
Old school Seattleite winos might know Ron Irvine as one of the founders of Pike and Western Wine Shop, a wine cellar and boutique established in 1975 and perched outside of Pike Place Market, now owned and operated by Michael Teer. Others know Ron Irvine as the...
A favorite of celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse, Seattle's Espresso Vivace Roasteria has been roasting their mild Arabica beans in a Northern Italian style since 1992. Co-founder David Schomer wrote a book detailing his "hands-on research" and experience with espresso...
Rain City Spirits' founder and distiller Cory Duffy places a new definition behind the word "handcrafted." The Seattle restaurant veteran and homebrewer built a lot of his distilling equipment himself, also producing, bottling and labeling his spirits solo or with...
