Pint Points Congratulations to Aslan Brewing on opening up their Seattle location in Fremont! Make sure you check them out if you find yourself down south. It’s going to be truly rad. Celebrate Halloween with Boundary Bay! They’re closing off their beer garden for the weekend and BAAY! is turning it [...]
Green power is renewable power. It's power made from resources that are naturally replenishing like sunlight, flowing streams and cool breezes. The PSE Green Power Program is an ideal way customers can match some or all of their electricity usage with green power. The attached graphic indicates the amount of renewable [...]
Fall is malt season in the craft beer world and Chuckanut Brewing will be releasing some beautiful representations over the next month through a range of styles. It's all covered in the following Press Release From Chuckanut Brewing. ---------------- Our 3rd rendition of the Single Hop Lager will be coming [...]
Pint Points 122 West Brewing's Grand Opening today through Saturday! Come visit Bellingham's newest brewery and welcome them to the neighborhood Elizabeth Station has a really special event today, starting at 3pm. They'll be tapping a bunch of kegs from the venerable Hill Farmstead! This is a special opportunity! Aslan Barrel [...]
Tap Trail received the following Press Release from Illuminati Brewing Company. We want to raise our glasses to the brewery for making a run in an ever crowding industry. _______________________________________ Illuminati Brewing Co. of Bellingham will complete a two-year run of creating excellent handcrafted brews and delicious food on its final [...]
Sometimes you just don't know what to do with it all. Bellingham's constant cycle of events, beer and food is just mouth watering. But Aslan Depot has really upped the game these next few days. Aslan Brewing opened Aslan Depot a year ago and now you'll have an opportunity to [...]
Coming Summer 2019...Aslan Seattle! Located in the heart of the Fremont neighborhood, this new taproom will serve exclusive organic beer brewed by and delivered directly from Aslan Brewing Company. Soon, Aslan will be able to give the Seattle community access to a wider selection of seasonal offerings, barrel projects, and specialty can [...]
Bellingham, Wash. - December 18, 2018 - On Wednesday, December 19, Bellingham breweries Boundary Bay Brewing Co. & Wander Brewing are each releasing Resilience IPA, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company’s nationwide fundraising brew. Sierra Nevada Brewing Comapny created the recipe for Resilience IPA and invited the craft beer community to brew and [...]
Pint Points Aslan has started a new program. Buy 1 pitcher of Classic Light and they'll get one tree planted. Drink for trees people! Aslan releases it's Blueberry Dojo bottles today @ Aslan Depot. It spent 15 months on blueberries! Twin Sisters Brewing Company and Beer Garden Bellingham's next cidery, Herb's [...]
Pint Points Happy International Beer Day!! Grab your passport and get out there and celebrate. Bellingham's newest hot beer location has officially opened. Bellingham Beer Garden and Twin Sisters Brewing are open. Details here. Bellingham Cider Company has adds brunch to it's menu starting this weekend at 10am Kulshan Brewing started [...]
Bellingham's beer scene has grown leaps and bounds over these past four years. Each offering it's own unique aesthetic, ambiance and surroundings. It's been a blistering pace of brewery after brewery. Followed by our recent splurge on the missing link of cideries, that round out our city's tap selection. But our [...]
Coming this Friday, August 3rd exclusively to The Aslan Depot. Return of the Mack - West Coast IPA 6.0% ABV // 50 IBU // 1.058 OG medium body + dank + crisp This is your classic West Coast IPA without the cloying caramel malt. Mashed with only the finest North American 2 [...]
BLAINE, WA, August 10th and 11th — Bellingham fine dining restaurant Hundred North and Belgian style farmhouse brewers Atwood Ales are partnering to bring the Pacific Northwest its own field dinner, in the style of chef Jim Denevan. Field dinners were conceived to bring diners away from restaurants and to integrate [...]
Whatcom Center for Early Learning will present the 1st annual Bacon & Kegs Festival at the Depot Market Square on Sunday, August 26. The festival will feature beer and cider from PNW breweries, bacon-inspired foods from local vendors and live music from Baby Cakes, Lost at Last and Lindsay Street. Wondering [...]
Pint Points Twin Sisters Brewing is now open! Open everyday from 5pm to 9pm pouring their first three new beers. Go welcome them to the community! They'll be on this fall's Tap Trail Passport. Bellingham's Brewery onslaught continues! Hoppa Brewing, is finalizing a lease in the Roosevelt neighorhood. We'll share the [...]
Coming this Friday, July 20th exclusively to The Aslan Depot. Coastal Pils - German Style Pilsner 4.8% ABV // 40 IBU // 1.046 OG light body + zesty bitterness + crisp Brewed in similar fashion to the northern German style pilsner, we named this beer Coastal Pils as a nod to [...]
Chuckanut Brewery celebrates ten years of brewing beer with its 10 Days of 10 Years of Chuckanut beginning Friday July 13 through July 22. Each day there will be a special activity to help honor each year Chuckanut Brewery has been in existence! Chuckanut Brewery’s history has been rich and heavily [...]
In case you weren't aware, Bellingham's craft beer community brews some of the best beer in the world. This year's World Beer Cup continued to prove that to everyone. Every two years the World Beer Cup is hosted held at the annual Craft Brewers Conference (CBC.) The Craft Brewers Conference [...]
BELLINGHAM, WA, March 28 - Twin Sisters Brewing Company announces their entrance to the Bellingham beer community with the release of three collaboration beers with local Bellingham breweries. Twin Sisters Brewing Company has collaborated with Menace Brewing, Aslan Brewing Company, and Chuckanut Brewery. Join each brewery for a collaboration brewers [...]
BELLINGHAM, Wash. – Melvin Brewing, independently owned by the best snowboarders in craft beer, has partnered with the nation’s leading snowboard media company in a new way. In collaboration, The Snowboarder’s Journal and the Bellingham Melvin Brewing team have gone into the Whit Room and come out with a new Belgian-style [...]
San Francisco, CA & Blaine, WA, January 19th, 2018 – Two members of Atwood Ales Farm Brewery in Blaine, WA were in attendance at the prestigious, 8th annual Good Food Awards, in San Francisco, where the brewery was selected as a Good Food Awards Winner for their rhubarb sour ale, Rhuty. [...]
Boulder, CO • December 13, 2017 – Strong brewery growth, increased beer tourism and the launch of the independent craft brewer seal—with more than 2,700 craft brewers signed on—were all part of a watershed year for craft beer in 2017. The Brewers Association (BA) —the not-for-profit trade association dedicated to small and independentAmerican brewers—looks back on [...]
To mark the release of the 2017 Bootlegger Barrel Series, Boundary Bay is hosting a 1920s themed release party on December 21, from 6 to 9 pm in the Mountain Room. The Bootlegger Speakeasy will feature historical trivia by The Good Time Girls, and Boundary Bay Catering will provide complementary [...]
Josh Smith of Atwood Ales continues to release a wide variety of unique offerings. Josh and Monica are in the midst of a remodel of expansion of their farmhouse brewery. We're excited to see what comes next! From the press release La Frite ABV 8.6% Potato Saison 750ml Bottle Conditioned & [...]
The whacked out down-to-earth globally local beer brewing circus show known as Melvin Brewing is proud to announce the long awaited Melvin Bellingham taproom has now morphed into an official Brew Pub. And on Thursday, December 7, 2017, at the Melvin Bellingham First Brews Bash, you can come on by to [...]
Press Release It’s that time of the year...spookiness oh so near...so come visit Chuckanut for a delicious bone-chilling beer! Come out to Chuckanut Brewery & Kitchen, 601 W Holly Street, Bellingham, this October 31st for good beers, good laughs and an epic costume contest at 8:30pm. Both breweries, including the [...]
It's a rainy fall afternoon in Bellingham and you're feeling like cracking a good beer, but don't really have an interest in leaving your home. You've got things to do at your house and you'd just prefer to drink a good beer while you do those things. Your beer fridge is [...]
The 2017 Great American Beer Festival came to a close yesterday with the award ceremony on Saturday. For all those fanatics that watched it on live stream or followed online, you already know what's coming. For those that didn't Bellingham represented well at this year's event. Chuckanut Brewery pulled in [...]
Nearly everyone is at the Great American Beer Festival this week. There are endless beer competitions and Sip Northwest just released their 2017 Best of the Northwest. Between Aslan, Kulshan and Wander Bellingham brought home 8 total awards and "Double Golds" for Kulshan and Aslan. Here's Bellingham's award breakdown and [...]
Blaine, WA, October 2nd, 2017 – Atwood Ales Farm Brewery in Blaine, WA is set to release two fresh hops ales produced using hops harvested from their own hopyard, just hundreds of feet away from their brewhouse. Flashback to early September, when several groups of volunteers assisted the Smith family [...]
Stoup Brewing's Upstairs at Stoup taproom Differentiation in the craft world is what drives competition. It's integral to what keeps the industry evolving, shifting and improving. But every once in a while a brewery finds a synergy with another. This leads to collaborations and a strengthening of the [...]
Illuminati Brewing has announced it's open date. All three of their fermenters will be full by today and they might even have a beer on tap by Sept. 8th, next Friday. Owner Bill Kimmerly said that the soft opening will be Sept. 15th (Same date as the release of the [...]
We've decided that the natural evolution of Tap Trail is audio! The written word is covered with this website. The visual world is covered with our biannual map and passport (the new map hits on 9/15!), so it's time to put the audio world on blast. We've been recording episodes [...]
Melvin Brewing opened up with great fanfare a few months ago. Some may not know this, but Melving Brewing Bellingham (aka Melvingham) isn't actually brewing beer yet. Melvin beer is shipped in from their Wyoming brewery and the remaining taps are supplemented by key partner breweries. BUT that's all soon [...]
Pint Points Washington Collaboration Fest is on August 19th. A handful of Bellingham breweries are brewing up delicious goodness for it. Check the list here. Wander Brewing is releasing Yummy Bits on 8/15, next week, in cans and on draft. Double Dry Hopped IPA, brewed with Citra Hops and Peaches. Aslan [...]
The Washington Collaboration Festival is coming on August 19th and Bellingham breweries are well represented. Brewers from Aslan, Boundary, Kulshan, Melvin and Wander are teaming up with other Washington breweries to produce some awesome brews. If some of you are wondering, "Yes, Melvin is a Bellingham brewery." David Meadows will [...]
Pint Points There's another brewery opening up in Bellingham in late 2017 to early 2018. It's in the Sunnyland neighborhood in a very cool location. We're waiting to release full details on request of the owner, but we'll have an interview and more coming soon. Standby! Tap Trail is hiring. Check it [...]
In Bellingham, craft beer is killing it. It's growing, breweries are flourishing and things are looking up. Across the US though, outside of our secluded and protected waters, craft beer isn't flowing with the same fervor. The Brewer's Association released a midway 2017 report on how craft beer is fairing. [...]
Melvin Brewing burst on the Bellingham craft beer scene earlier this summer and it's been a whirlwind of dank IPAs and Kung Fu ever since. The brewhouse doesn't arrive until this fall when we'll be introduced to head brewer Dave Meadow's Scandinavian inspired brews. Until then you can still get [...]
Press Release Due to recent environmental disturbances the Jackass Penguin, native to South Africa, is now an endangered species. Confined to the southern waters of Africa the Jackass Penguin is considered a reflection of the overall vitality of the ocean. Jackass Penguin is an India Pale Ale with a beautiful balance [...]
Press Release I am saddened to inform you that Maggie’s Pub will be closing its doors next month. Our last day will be Saturday, August 12th. I recently received notice of a substantial increase in our rent. Unfortunately, this left us with two options; either move or close. As many of [...]
Pint Points Get ready for the Recreation Northwest and Fairhaven Stones Throw Popup bar in Fairhaven today! Schweinhaus is hosting a Ballast Point tap takeover tonight. Seattle's new Floodland Brewing sold out their Bottle Club Signup in under 60min. Read more about them here. There's a new Food Truck coming to the [...]
Bellingham's Rotary Club will host the 11th Annual Brewers by the Bay event at the Depot Square this Sunday, July 23rd 1 - 5pm. Depot Market Square is located right across the street from Boundary Bay Brewery. There are 31 different breweries and 74 different beers. $25 in advance, $30 [...]
Homebrew recipes for breweries are being unlocked around the US as breweries offer up their once tightly held secrets in the midst of high tap turnover market. The Homebrewers Association just released the Top 50 Commercial Clone Beer Recipes - one for each state. This includes Pliny the Elder. From [...]
DESCRIPTION Raspberry Radler is inspired by traditional German ingenuity; a concoction of half beer, half sparkling fruit juice with a thirst-quenching reputation. The Oregon raspberry puree complements the tart kettle-soured base beer. This radler is brewed with 100% Skagit Valley Malt and hopped with Aged Styrian Bobek and dry-hopped with [...]
Pint Points Next week Wander Brewing is releasing a collaboration with Redhook Brewing called Numbers before Names Belgian IPA. Brewed with a bunch of experimental hops. Redhook is celebrating its opening of the Capital Hill brewery in Seattle by collaborating with some of the region's breweries. They have also done a [...]
BELLINGHAM, WA (July 6, 2017) – The weekend of July 21st – 23rd Recreation Northwest, Stones Throw Brewery and Outbound are partnering to host a pop-up beer garden to support the Fairhaven Park Trail and Wetland Boardwalk project. The event will be hosted in the recently renovated garden “Behind the [...]
Boundary Bay Brewery has been releasing a number of awesome beers recently, including their collaboration with Gruff Brewing Neighborhood Watch. They've been venturing into new territory, with input from their Director of Quality Bryan Krueger. He's been introducing some great mixed culture beers into the rotation of Boundary's Bootlegger Serieis. [...]
Pint Points Boundary Bay Brewery released a very limited release bottle, as part of their Bootlegger series called Ekstatik Nostratik. It's brewed with locally harvested rhubarb, strawberries and raspberries. Than aged for two years in barrels. Only 25 cases were brewed. In case you didn't know, Tap Trail runs Bellingham Beer [...]
Skookum Brewery out of Arlington, WA is one of the fastest rising breweries in our region. At this year's Washington Brewers Festival, Skookum beat out 130 other breweries to receive more tokens - beers poured - than any other brewery. They also won two silvers. People want what they have. [...]
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