Welcome to Sip Northwest’s Bar Tab, a weekly selection of what to drink in the Northwest now. For the third installation of Bar Tab, we’ve curated a list of locals to get your fix with—new and old with big flavors and balanced narratives to equally suit your...
We Northwestern folk may love our food and drink by the small-batch, but we love our love by the heaping ton—and perhaps no occasion is a better emblem of this than the region’s annual Pride Month celebrations. In fact, our corner of the country is renowned for...
When it comes to cracking cans of our favorite sparkling ciders or IPAs, we don’t bat an eyelash. Even some of the more outlandish canned products (ahem, canned bread) maintain enough of a fan base to keep the stuff on grocery shelves. Surely the wine world is ready...
Just southwest of Portland, Union Wine Co. is one beloved craft operation on track with the trendsetting nature that fuels the area’s (lovingly dubbed) refrain: “keep Portland weird.” Of course, the winery’s particular strand of “weird” strictly embraces its many...
Defrost at the ski lodge after a day on the slopes, crack open a bottle as a reward-to-self for shoveling snow or enjoy at the season's abundance of holiday parties… In addition to warming the belly with golden ale goodness, hearty spices and toasty wood aging kick...
Just as Chuckanut Bay serves as an icon of the Northwestern Washington shoreline, a quiet inlet sandwiched between Bellingham and Samish Bay, the folks at its sister distillery are purveyors of iconic local ingredients, manifested in a line of terroir-focused spirits....
Thirty minutes outside of Boise, in Idaho's Snake River Valley AVA, rests the product of more than 30 years of family-owned winemaking tradition. Since 1982, the Stowe clan has been blending regional grapes and bottling award-winning varieties at Indian Creek Winery....
In 1996, an Idahoan river guide structured Sockeye Brewing around the symbolism of the state's iconic Sockeye Salmon, an ecologic staple of Sawtooth Mountain's Salmon River. Similarly, the brewery grew to become a staple of regional craft beer, and today produces a...
At week's end, Halloween night will finally be upon us—the culminating celebration of October. This means the final stop for the season's Haunted Northwest tour, and we're going out with a bang. Courtesy of Victoria, BC historian, storyteller and Canadian supernatural...
For the third installment of Haunted Northwest, we head east to Idaho for ghost stories plus Creole and Cajun-style flare. The joint: BJ's Bayou || 655 N 2880 E, Roberts, ID The history: Twenty minutes north of Idaho Falls sits the rural town of Roberts, home to a...
