— by Kendall Jones, Washington Beer Blog — About a month ago I sat down with Joel Vandenbrink of Two Beers Brewing and Dave Richter of Briess Malt & Ingredients Company to formulate a recipe. We wanted to create a wintery version of a Northwest Pale Ale. Once we’d determined how the beer would look,[…..]

— by Kendall Jones, Washington Beer Blog — Sound Brewery is now bottling beer. The Poulsbo brewery hit the ground running last winter. You never would have guessed it was a new brewery. The very first beers I ever tasted from Sound Brewery were polished to perfection. Now you can enjoy that same deliciousness in[…..]

— by Kendall Jones, Washington Beer Blog — Here is the list of breweries and beers for this year’s Washington Winter Beer Fest. The event takes place this weekend in Seattle. Once again the event showcases some amazing beers: Winter Beer Fest always features some wonderfully interesting beers as well as some seasonal classics. I[…..]

— by Kendall Jones, Washington Beer Blog — A couple months ago we reported that Jeff Smiley, the owner of Seattle’s Baron Brewing, intended to move his operation about 100 mile south to a new location in Chehalis, WA. (Read that story.) While many of our regular readers were interested to hear that Baron was[…..]

— by Kendall Jones, Washington Beer Blog — On November 9th several West Seattle bars celebrated the release of Whale Tail Ale, “the next West Seattle charity beer.” This brown Belgian-style beer is once again made by Big Al Brewing and will only be on tap around West Seattle. According to the website, “It’s a[…..]