- by Kendall Jones, Washington Beer Blog - Below are the results of this years Great American Beer Festival awards. Only four GABF medals were awarded to Washington breweries this year. That’s the least in recent memory. Don’t despair. It’s not a comment on the quality of the beer produced in Washington as much as[.....]
- by Kendall Jones, Washington Beer Blog - Last month Tully’s Coffee announced that its green “T” was being removed from the Old Rainier Brewery building along Interstate 5 in Seattle (see our original post). They also announced, happily, that the historic red “R” would be returning, noting that the building never looked quite right[.....]
- by Kendall Jones, Washington Beer Blog - “Our brew house suddenly feels a lot more crowded, and a whole lot shinier,” Wingman Brewers told us in a recent email. The Tacoma brewery has some big news to share. “We recently got a new 7-barrel brewhouse and some tanks from Marks Design and Metalworks in[.....]
- by Kendall Jones, Washington Beer Blog - Nobody knows better than a brewer the value of good water. Around here, we seemingly enjoy an abundance of the wet stuff, but our local brewers should not take it for granted. None of us should. Washington Wild is an organization that works to permanently protect our[.....]
Tucked away in a neighborhood just east of downtown Spokane, you will find Iron Goat Brewing’s tasting room. Usually, it is packed. Note the small, iron statue of a goat on the bar. Back in 1974 Spokane hosted EXPO 74, the first environmentally themed world’s fair. What is now Riverfront Park was originally the fairgrounds.[.....]