As the Northwest slips into its spring attire, many seasonal beers don a lighter tone as well. We love all the zesty offerings that allude to summer right around the corner, but Double Mountain Brewery’s complex Molten Lava Imperial IPA this year sure helps with...
If you're reading this, odds are you've thought at least once of how awesome it would be to open a winery, brewery, distillery or cidery. To pack up the box from the boring 9-5 job you hate, and start doing the thing you love: making amazing booze. With the number...
I'll go ahead and say it—this is one of my favorite beers. Albeit, you don't know how many favorites I have and how I exactly I define "favorite," but it goes worth saying again that this beer is on that list. Many a'diatribes I have had on how there are not enough...
Tillamook, Oregon, besides being the home of a certain cheese company, has become synonymous in the past three years with sour beers thanks to the work of de Garde Brewing. First beginning operations in 2013, this small operation brewing primarily European...
Hypothetical scenario: you’re driving through the country of rural British Columbia, or the downtown streets of Portland, on the hunt for a brewery a friend told you about. But wait! Suddenly a flood of questions envelope your mind, filling you with fear! Are the...
Deschutes Brewery maintains a stellar lineup of seasonals, and the new batch of River Ale is the next one up. The powerhouse Bend, Oregon brewing operation’s sessionable springtime brew is a light 4% ABV, and similarly light, refreshing and sippable in flavor....
It’s not hard to forget it’s been winter in the Pacific Northwest with the lack of customary cloudy days, annual snowfall and frigid cold. Kick back on the porch with a glass of Woodinville, Washington-based Dirty Bucket Brewing Co.’s refreshing Sicyne India pale...
Despite what the groundhog (or the weather man) claims, it is still winter... Although the Pacific Northwest has been going through an uncommonly warm winter season, something in our taste buds calls for the beers of the season. Dark stouts, strong barley wines,...
Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood is a Mecca for music, entertainment, culture, shopping and food. In fact, while I am a lover of all the above, it’s the food that always keeps me coming back to this hip little hood. However, with so many tempting eateries...
Hallå from Ballard—the birthplace of Hilliard's Beer, one of the first craft breweries to can their suds in the Pacific Northwest and now one of the first Pacific Northwest breweries to export beers to Sweden. It only makes sense—the Seattle brewery is based in the...
