By Ben Keene
For many people, the start of a new year represents an opportunity for change, a chance to start fresh or be better. Some resolve to exercise more often, while others…
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Skagit Buckwheat Adds to the Haze
Skagit Valley Malting now offering brewers a malted buckwheat option that is adding to the haze Hazy beer, and especially hazy IPA, is a rather polarizing topic these days. Some people are…
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4 Questions with Darin Hamm of Beach Cat Brewing
One of the newest craft breweries in Washington is Beach Cat Brewing, located in the little coastal town of Birch Bay. Owner and head brewer Darin Hamm, like many craft…
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Cocktail Recipe: Wildwood Spirit’s Vaken
Wake up! It’s time for a cocktail with some coffee in it! No, Vaken is not an extraterrestrial humanoid species in the “Star Trek” universe, vaken means “awake” in Swedish, the heritage…
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Olympia Vodka: From the Cascades to Your Glass
Drawing artesian water straight from the source by hand, master distillers Ray Watson and Lesa Givens have no need to modify an already perfect process when distilling their premier spirit,…
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Mead 101: Much More Than a Medieval Sipper
You may have first heard about mead from reading “Beowulf” or watching “Game of Thrones,” or perhaps you stumbled upon it at a roadside fruit stand. Mead is a beverage…
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4 Questions with CJ McCollum of McCollum Heritage 91
The word “legacy” has serious significance for CJ McCollum. The 29-year-old shooting guard for the Portland Trail Blazers strives for legacy on and off the basketball court — recently launching…
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Cocktail Recipe: Blackberry VIDO Vodka Spritzer
The Monson family has been farming in Washington’s Yakima Valley since the early 1900s. First came orchards, then came cattle but after connecting with Dr. Walter Clore (the man who…
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Sea Shells +Cocktails Down by Seabrook
I have lived in Washington my entire life and never once been to the Pacific Ocean coast in my home state. I don’t have enough fingers on both hands to…
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Three Black Women of Wine Blaze a Trail
Marcia Jones, Donna Stoney and Eunice Chiweshe Goldstein are “first” ladies in their own respective ways. As Black women, these three trailblazers are using their voices to lay the groundwork…
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