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Snohomish Smash & Dash - 5 breweries, 3 days, 1 beer, 5 hops

by Kendall Jones, Washington Beer Blog Three days, five breweries, five beers that are all the same only different It’s one thing to collaborate with other breweries, nothing new or different about that, but what the breweries of Snohomish, Washington do each year is a bit different. They call it Smash and Dash and it reminds me[…..]

Bale Breaker Brewing and Yonder Cider opening Seattle taproom

by Kendall Jones, Washington Beer Blog Bale Breaker and Yonder team up for new Ballard taproom This is good news for both beer lovers and cider lovers. One of the state’s most popular breweries, Bale Breaker Brewing, is teaming up with Yonder Cider to open a new taproom in Ballard. The new location is scheduled[…..]

Gig Harbor Brewing introduces a beer for SuperSonics fans

by Kendall Jones, Washington Beer Blog It’s hard to believe Seattle has lived without an NBA team for more than a dozen years. For folks of a certain age, who’ve actually lived here for a while, the wound still feels fresh. It still seems weird that we don’t have the Sonics. Gig Harbor Brewing just[…..]

Postdoc Brewing celebrating 6th anniversary all this week

by Kendall Jones, Washington Beer Blog Like everyone else, Postdoc Brewing has adapted to the situation. Among other things, it transformed a portion of the parking lot into a beer garden, greatly increasing its outdoor seating capacity. Although it feels a bit like Groundhog Day, the pandemic has not stopped time from marching on. Starting[…..]

Two recent releases from Garden Path Fermentation

by Kendall Jones, Washington Beer Blog Because of the kind of beers Garden Path Fermentation produces, it took some time for things to progress to the point that the brewery could release beers. Garden Path opened in 2018 and the wait was painful at first, but over the past several months they’ve really ramped up[…..]