by Kendall Jones, Washington Beer Blog This one hits particularly close to home. Literally. I live in West Seattle and today one of our local breweries announced that it is closing down. Best of Hands Barrelhouse announced via social media that it will close on November 30th. In real estate, they say that location is[…..]

by Kendall Jones, Washington Beer Blog Today was the ribbon-cutting day at Vice Beer in Vancouver. As they called it, “The mother of all publicity stunts.” Today they “fake-cut that fake ribbon with fake scissors.” The actual grand opening celebration is this weekend. Vice Beer is located at 705 SE Park Crest Vancouver, WA 98683.[…..]

by Kendall Jones, Washington Beer Blog Below, I share the list of winners at the 2022 Yakima Fresh Hop Ale Festival, which took place last Saturday, but first I want to tell you a bit about the festival itself. (Above: the crew from Stoup Brewing, winners of Best in Show this year.) Like many festivals,[…..]

by Kendall Jones, Washington Beer Blog Washington and Oregon breweries both showed well at this year’s Great American Beer Festival, the nation’s most important, professionally judged, beer competition. Washington breweries brought home 19 medals and Oregon breweries brought home 17 more.  Results from the GABF, held each autumn in Denver, were announced this past weekend.[…..]

by Kendall Jones, Washington Beer Blog “What’s old is new again,” or so the saying goes. I do not mean to suggest that hazy, juicy IPAs are going away, but those of us who pay attention to such things have noticed a trend. It’s not about something new, it’s about something old making a comeback:[…..]