It’s no secret that the diversity of craft beer is so dismal when the culture of beer itself has become so associated with masculinity and something that has become a sort of hobby for the middle class who moonlight as homebrewers and self-proclaimed cicerones. The...
Whether you live on the Eastside or need a reason to make a trek out there, Eastside Beer Week presents the perfect opportunity to explore the other side of the lake. From July 12 to 21, the Eastside will be host an array of beer events. As official sponsors of the...
Each year, members and allies of the LGBTQ community come together to commemorate the events of the 1969 Stonewall Riots with Pride events celebrated throughout the month of June. This year happens to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and the 45th...
In the heart of Eastern Washington wine country, alongside the rolling Columbia River, sits two tightly packed crop circles. Here, in the Horse Heaven Hills, this 90-acre vineyard has two ravines that run through it giving the winery its name, Double Canyon. Since...
Washington distilleries are facing a battle that their alcoholic beverage industry compatriots are not. This year marks the second time the Washington Distillers Guild (WDG) has pushed for legislation that would allow distilleries to open up two remote tasting...
The hype around cannabis and the products that can be made with it seems to be here to stay. Every trip to the dispensary presents new options of ways to ingest the substance. The days of pot brownies and cookies aren’t exactly over, rather they’re just having to...
They say not to judge a book by its cover but sometimes the cover is just so eye-catching that you can’t stop yourself. The same can be said for beer cans whose labels are becoming an art unto itself. A great graphic design can get the person who knows next to...
Effortless style. That’s what the Italian word sprezzatura roughly translates to and it’s what the team behind Sprezza — the latest canned alcoholic spritzer to hit the market — hope to offer people. A few years ago Kia Karimi, the vice president of Seattle-based...
Alter ego: noun [al-ter e-go]; a second self or alternative personality; a close and trusted friend; a constant companion. The name comes of this cidery is derived from partners Anne Hubatch and Nate Wall’s other job as winemakers — their alter ego being...
Co-fermenting wine adds another dimension to the winemaking process. Rather than just blend the separately fermented varieties at the end (or prior to aging), these wineries are revisiting an old technique in which they ferment different varietals together, before...
