Beer and family, what more does Dad want for his annual devoted day? Food trucks? Live music? A keg toss? Okay fine, the 2013 Washington Brewers Festival has that too. On June 14-16, treat Dad to 250 beers to taste from 74 different Washington breweries all at...
It's been 13 years since Ross Mickel started Ross Andrew Winery, after gathering some grape grit under his nails at Australia's Rosemount Winery and working for Woodinville, Wash. greats DeLille Cellars and Betz Family Winery. It's been a decade since Ross Andrew...
From exclusively Jonagold apples grown on Monmouth, Ore.'s Riverwood Orchards, Traditions Ciderworks (the folks behind 2 Towns Ciderhouse) produces a brut cider that "expresses the best of Oregon's warm summer days and cool summer nights." The 2011 Riverwood...
Portland-brewed and -bottled Crater Lake Soda borrows its name from the natural wonder to its south and produces 100% pure sugar cane sodas that steer clear of high-frutose corn syrup, are gluten-free, caffeine-free and Kosher. Promising "truly gourmet" sodas and...
Potato vodka from Idaho should come as no surprise and Teton Glacier Potato Vodka does not disappoint the gluten-free fan club of vodka drinkers. With little story to tell thus far (minimalistic back story and media fanfare), Teton Glacier promotes a potato vodka...
Spokane, Wash. native and brewer Mark Irvin started Northern Lights Brewing in 1993. It wasn't until last year, however, that an east coast brewery with similar title, a big bark and an even bigger pocketbook seemed to have a problem with Irvin's nomenclature. At...
One varietal, one vineyard, one wine and four friends found iOTA Cellars in Amity, Ore. in 2000. Three of the four friends make up the cellar team and commit to small (or iota) lot wines, working with the land and Mother Nature herself, commencing with the 2006...
The powerhouse producers and marketers behind the Craft Brew Alliance (Redhook, Kona, Widmer and Omission) released their first cider project last month, Square Mile Cider Company, available on draft and 22-ounce bottles for retail. Inspired by "fortitude and...
From the folks that bring you some of the rose city's choicest pizza comes HOTLIPS real fruit sodas, carrying the name of the 28-year-old Portland pizzeria over and into their eight-year-old beverage line. Using 100 percent natural, 100 percent local, small-batch...
Once just a berry farm on the banks of the Green River in Kent, Wash., Sidetrack Distillery is now one of the choice producers of fruit liqueurs and eau-de-vie spirits in the Northwest. The Cassis Liqueur, made with blackcurrants grown on the farm in Kent, is one...
