The 9th Annual Bellingham Beer Week celebration is scheduled for April 17th - 25th, 2020. All businesses and individuals looking to get involved in this year’s festivities can learn more by visiting https://bellinghambeerweek.com Bellingham Beer Week is a 9 day event celebrating the amazing craft beer community in Bellingham, Washington. [...]
Pint Points Join Stemma Brewing for a Whatcom Creek restoration party on November 17 from 10 am to 1 pm! Space is limited to 20 volunteers and there will be celebratory beers from 1-4 at Stemma after as well as an awesome raffle. Thanks for doing your part for the environment, [...]
Pint Points Thousand Acre Cider House has a weekend long cider release of Schilling's chai spice infused cider (Chaider) both on draft and served mulled! It's super delicious and the perfect fall treat, so make sure you stop in for happy hour tonight, or just-because sometime this weekend. Tomorrow! Join Aslan [...]
Pint Points Join Overflow Taps for one of their greatest parties of the year– Soktoberfest! At 3 pm in their Barkley Village location, they'll be hosting a wide variety of German Oktoberfest inspired beers, games like stein hoisting, corn hole, ring toss and a costume contest. This events help collect [...]
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 [...]
Picture yourself in the Boundary Bay beer garden, also known as Bellingham's Backyard. The sun is shining, the corn hole is competitive and the beer is flowing. This time around, you have a raspberry saison in your hand, but it's so much more than a raspberry saison. Other than being [...]
It's award season, which means we get to bask in the glory of how amazing our town is when it comes to craft beer. It's clear that we live in a constantly growing US craft beer destination city, but seeing the breweries we know and love become recognized for the [...]
Bellingham Beer Week is our favorite week of the year. Your neighborhood breweries put together their best events and bring out the big guns on beer releases. It's a great excuse to come together with local beer drinkers and neighbors alike to enjoy a pint together and celebrate the very special [...]
Pint Points April 19-27th is Bellingham Beer Week! This is our favorite week of the year! You can find details on the Tap Trail website and keep your eyes out for a Beer Week Event Roundup next week. Your favorite local spots to grab a pint have a lot of special [...]
Pint Points Join Aslan and Kulshan for the release of Mountain Lion IPA on April 5th at the Aslan Depot. This is Aslan's first collaboration with a brewery in Bellingham proper, exciting stuff! There will be two packaged options available, don't miss it! Stones Throw hosts their 3 year anniversary block [...]
Each year, Bellingham Bay Rotary Club focuses on many philanthropic efforts. For the last 13 years, Brewers by the Bay, which began as a very small beer festival, has grown into one of Bellingham's favorite summer events and become one of Rotary's most lucrative fundraisers for the year. Breweries from Washington, [...]
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 [...]
Bellingham has been lucky enough to have a long summer. Sunny days with crisp air and virtually no rain fall have allowed locals to maximize their patio time, whether it be in Menace's beer garden, Elizabeth Station's patio, or the outdoor beer-drinking mecca that is Goods Local Brews. Open since late [...]
What an AMAZING Event! We heard this many times while selling through some old Tap Trail shirts at the finish line party for the 2018 Trails to Taps Relay in Bellingham on Sunday, October 21st. It really was a great event and it was truly amazing to see so many [...]
You probably aren't going to want to miss this one! While we'd love to tell you all about it in our own words, we think the info is best coming right from the source. Official Stones Throw Press Release Stones Throw Brewery is excited to announce the release of their bottled [...]
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 [...]
As the craft beer scene in Bellingham has grown, so have many of our palettes and the array of beer we enjoy on a day to day basis. The Pacific Northwest has earned the reputation of being IPA snobs, but many don't know that we are all expanding our horizons. For [...]
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 [...]
Beer drinkers in Bellingham travel far and wide for beer festivals throughout spring and summer. Lucky for us and our constantly expanding beer market, we don't have to wait a whole year to drink beer with our friends in Bellingham's own Depot Market Square. In fact, a month from today, you [...]
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 [...]
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 & [...]
There are a dozen qualities we look for in our search for Bellingham's Best Beertender; whether its a certain level of charm or an abundance of beer knowledge, just to name a few, your favorite beertender probably fits the frame perfectly. The beer drinkers of Bellingham have spoken this year, [...]
Bellingham is arguably at it’s best during fall. Clear, sunny days and leaves crunching under our feet make the dropping temperature more bearable. There’s something to be said for the beginning of a season where dark beer and comfort food become a priority, and two local businesses are ringing it in [...]
If you live in Bellingham, there’s a high chance you have a liquid vice, whether it be one of the dozens of high quality coffee varieties offered around town, or the product of a booming craft beer scene. Between the dozen breweries and even more coffee shops, there’s a whole world [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Bellingham Sportsplex has been a staple for families raising kids in Bellingham for years. Offering soccer training, league opportunities, skating and hockey, the Sportsplex can be found full of kids pursuing potential passions and making the most of the community-minded space offered. Come Saturday, October 21 however, you won’t find [...]
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 [...]
Chances are good you know at least something about Oktoberfest. Even the most buzzed among us would be able to deduce that it’s some sort of German party, and of course everyone knows that its mascot is someone raising a liter-sized stein of lager, wearing either a dirndl dress or [...]
I can’t think of an industry that is more charitable or gives back more to its local communities than the brewing industry, and Bellingham breweries are as generous as they come. A few events this weekend are perfect examples, even though this is just a slice of what our local breweries [...]
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 [...]
Bale Breaker Brewing just announced plans to collaborate with four different breweries this hop harvest season. “Brewers from across the country are planning trips to the hop fields of Yakima Valley for our upcoming harvest,” says Jessica Hawkins, Bale Breaker’s marketing manager. "It's the perfect time to brew with some of [...]
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 [...]
The results are in and Bellingham Beer Week 2017 was absolutely sensational. This year's events were the most varied, well organized, thoughtful and reflective of our craft beer culture. Everything from Kulshan's Beer Olympics, to Boundary Bay Brewery's Cedar Dust Alley, to Aslan's Cornhole Championship, to everything in between was [...]
Chuckanut Brewery has world class lagers. This is known. They also have incredible food. Follow them on Facebook and you'll get an idea of what I'm talking about. Even better, stop in and grab a bite. So much of their menu is locally sourced. I recently had the tuna poke dish [...]
Nine days of Bellingham Beer Week starts on Friday, April 21st. Seems like a lot of days, doesn't it? When you take a look at the Bellingham Beer Week events calendar, you might rethink that. There are more than 50 events spread across 9 days. Even with a well planned [...]
Our email list is the first to hear about new local brewery openings, breaking news, exclusive gear deals & general craft greatness. Infrequent and always full of beer. Sign up here. Pint Points It's National Beer Day! Raise a pint of beer...to beer, I guess. It's basically like every day for you, but [...]
Happy Spring folks! We're officially out of Winter, at least as far as the calendar is concerned. The rain and cold may continue, but I wanted to reach for something bright and vibrant in hops of encouraging the weather to do the same. Hopworks in Portland is going through a [...]
I woke up to one of my favorite things, a text from someone in our craft beer community. It was from Bryan Krug, Brewer at Boundary Bay Brewery. Krug said, "I have a tasty morsel for you!" OOOO! I love morsels. He went on to describe what can only be called a [...]
Happy Monday! We've got a freshly released hoppy treat to sample today. Fort George has long been a staple in my fridge, their Three Way IPA is always a treat, Suicide Squeeze is one of their rotating IPA releases, along with Magnanimous, Overdub, and Fresh IPA. These beers are always heavily [...]
Led with the help of Janelle Pritchard, Stones Throw Brewery is raising money for the Pink Boots Society and hosting a "Big Boots Brew Day." A team of women in the local craft beer industry have collaborated on a beer recipe and will be brewed at Stones Throw Brewery on [...]
Many of you know what Bellingham Beer Week is right around the corner, April 21-29. You may ask why we moved it to April. Well, take a look at who else in our region does awesome beer weeks in spring: Seattle, Portland, and Victoria, BC. We just wanted to be [...]
Registration is open for the second annual Pacific Northwest Homebrewers Conference (PNWHC) March 17-18 in Vancouver, WA. The regional conference welcomes homebrewers from British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and beyond to expand their brewing skills through two days of educational seminars, networking opportunities and evening tasting events. The PNWHC [...]
Wander's new Belgo-American IPA is a clean, crisp, and refreshing beer. Don't let the classic copper American IPA color fool you...the Wander production crew made this brew mild enough to crush but nuanced enough to sip and ponder. It's got a creamy head that I wish lasted a bit longer [...]
Good evening and welcome back to another installment of Tap Trail Reviews. We've got a fun one today and one that has brought a prediction to fruition. Firestone Walker has long been one of the greats and one of the pioneers in Barrel Aged Beers. Their Parabola is repeatedly ranked one [...]
2017 might be Bellingham's year of the can. There seems to be one or two new canning releases nearly every week. Wander Brewing, Structures and Kulshan Brewing have made canning a pretty important part of their distribution strategy. Wander just released it's Shiny Objects Double IPA. Structures' most recent aluminum [...]
