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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The resurrection of craft beer – after its Prohibition-induced death – is still in the fairly recent past. Fritz Maytag bought Anchor Brewing Company in 1965, Jack McAuliffe started New Albion in 1976, and Sierra Nevada brewed its first batch of Pale Ale exactly 37 years ago, in November of 1980. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
You can find it at the brewery for $9.99 per six pack. Also, Haggen Food, Co-op and more places soon! Press Release Boundary Bay’s summer seasonal, Citraweisse, is now available on draft and in 12 oz. cans. Citraweisse is a kettle-soured Berliner-style weiss brewed with 100% local Skagit Valley malt. A [...]
Press Release Bellingham, Wash. – May 17, 2017 – Boundary Bay Brewery’s family-friendly beer garden weekly event lineup brings live music, comedy, BBQ and more to celebrate the summer season in Bellingham! DJ Willdabeast kicks off opening night of the DJ Dance Party on Wednesday, May 17 and on Thursday, May [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
For a while Boundary Bay has had 9 taps. Each one pouring award winning beers to thirsty folks. Well, that's all changed! They just added five more taps to bring their total to 14 taps. If you include their cask offerings, add two more taps for 16. No doubt the number [...]
You've got 4 days to get your last minute gifts for friends and family...not to mention yourself. Lucky for you, you like craft beer and craft beer bottles make the perfect stocking stuffer, or extremely visually obvious wrapped gift. Even luckier, both Boundary and Structures Brewing are releasing bottles this [...]
The 2016 Bootlegger Barrel Series will be released at the Winter Solstice Bottle Release Party scheduled for 6 p.m. on Wednesday, December 21 in The Mountain Room at Boundary Bay. […]
One of the defining features of the American Craft Beer scene these last 20+ years has been brewers willing to color outside the lines. Sometimes, they barely stay on the page, random mixtures of pigmentation everywhere, seemingly a blur. For example, the current hot trend of American Orange Ales. Called [...]
On a cold dreary day, a bowl of French Onion Soup can seem like a ray of sunshine in the abyss. There's the toasty cheese on top, delicious caramelized onions, buttery garlic croutons, and rich, hot broth that's certain to chase the chill away. But it's August, you say, why [...]
Welcome to Bellingham Brewed Reviews, where we review ONLY beers brewed in Bellingham. Opinions held here are not necessarily those of Tap Trail. On a similar theme as our most recent review, today we are visiting another Single Hop brew. The soon-to-be 21 year old Boundary Bay Brewery has been [...]
Tap Trail breweries have been representing their brewing chops, big time this past year. Wander and Boundary are no exception, if not the rule. Boundary's name seems to be popping up at a few more competitions this past year and Wander continues to enter into competitions. Both Wander and Boundary won awards [...]
Boundary Tap Room as seen from Railroad Ave. Boundary Bay Brewery and Bistro is the largest individual brewpub in the United States according to the Brewers Association’s 2015 statistics. Each year, the Brewers Association (BA) (a trade organization for the craft beer industry) releases annual production statistics for [...]
Welcome back masters of malt, guzzlers of Gueuze, sippers of Stout, to another installment of Tap Trail reviews. As much fun as it's been getting down on some spectacular beers from all over the land, we wanted to take another look back at the wonderful homegrown scene we've got here in [...]
Janet (middle), Ed to her left and Boundary Brewer Aaron Jacob Smith to Ed’s left. In 2008 Boundary Bay Brewery submitted it’s Imperial IPA to a competition in the GABF called the Alpha King Challenge. The Alpha King Challenge is sponsored by the Hopunion Each [...]
Today is a special day, for we have before us a super local Barrel Aged beer to sample. As many of you may know, on Friday Boundary Bay offered a unique glimpse into their barrel-aging project: The Bootlegger Barrel Series. Tapping exclusive barrel aged variants of Cedar Dust IPA, Scotch Ale, Cabin Fever, and [...]
Photo via Kulshan Brewing There's been a rash (ew. wrong word?) of local beer releases lately. North Fork surprised us with their Electric Berry. Let's not forget Structure's releases...of everything on Wednesday. Wander just released their Barley Humbug Winter Ale. Kulshan released their annual Russian Imperial Stout. Chuckanut Brewing is [...]
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