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 [...]
I can’t agree with those who advocate never drinking alone. (Or, for that matter, with those who advocate never drinking before noon. Elizabeth Station opens at 10am, after all.) But it certainly is a lot more fun to have drinking companions, not least because it allows you to participate in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Pint Points It's Ski to Sea weekend. Find the weekend's best beers here. Structures Brewing is releasing an IPA in cans today hopped with Motueka and African Queen from South Africa. Read about AB InBev's purchase of South African hops and how PNW breweries are adjusting, here. Structures is also releasing [...]
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 Bellingham Beer Week 2017 was straight up on point and it sounds you agree. Our poll shows ~70% of you [...]
By far, the India Pale Ale is the most popular style of craft beer, and I don’t see its status changing anytime soon. Every so often, another critic claims this hop-craze “trend” will fade, and that it will be replaced by the rising popularity of light lagers or the surge of saisons, [...]
Oxymorons. What are some that you know well? Cruel kindness, disgustingly delicious, busy doing nothing. There are a few out there, but how about this one, coffee IPA. Two seemingly contradictory terms colliding in one unassuming can. Hotbox Coffee IPA comes to us courtesy of Longmont, Colorado's Oskar Blues Brewery. [...]
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 [...]
Happy Monday folks and welcome back for another Tap Trail Review. As it continues to warm, albeit slowly, I keep reaching for lighter and brighter offerings. Todays offering comes from Salt Lake City's Uinta Brewing. Back in Colorado I would find myself consistently reaching for their flagship Hop Nosh IPA, it [...]
The national craft beer scene has peaked from its once unstoppable momentum upward. With over 5,200 craft breweries in operation, we're entering a new era. The big movers in the market such as Stone, Sierra Nevada and many others, are slowing their volume, or even regressing. There have been layoffs and volume [...]
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 [...]
Bottleshops are the way we get exposed to so many new things and they keep our eyes on the horizon for what's new in the craft beer world. They are sort of a sudsy cornucopia for you to peruse through. Elizabeth Station is one of the region's premiere bottleshops, with [...]
Tap Trail held its first #snapsontap competition in December. It went so well, that we decided to team up with Elizabeth Station to make this a regular photo competition. Once every other month we'll be giving away a $100 gift basket of craft beer from Elizabeth Station. And you need to [...]
The owner of Elizabeth Station, Patrick McEvoy, one of the region's premiere bottle shops spent the last few weeks putting together their "Top 2017 Hopes and Predictions". We wanted to compile them here for you. Tell us what you think! #11: Founders Brewing Co. This prediction is easy. 6pks just arrived [...]
Elizabeth Station is kinda cool, kinda unique and they sell an insane amount of bottles and canned beer. They recently posted to their Instagram account their Top 10 sellers of 2016. I thought it was kinda cool insight into what you all buy, so I wanted to repost it here. [...]
As craft beer expands, so too does the distribution arms of some of the nation's most established breweries. Following suit, Founders Brewing is finally making its way to the Pacific Northwest in early 2017. In 2015, Founders Brewing finalised selling 30% of it's company to the Mahou San Miguel group of Spain. [...]
Hey, we're offering you a chance to win a badass hand-picked craft beer gift basket from the beer ninjas at Elizabeth Station by simply taking a photo. So here's how it works. Photos must be new (can't tag old photos.) Take as many awesome photos until 12/12 on the Tap Trail of you [...]
Bellingham Beer Week is fast approaching, celebrated here from September 11th through the 20th, it is chock full of fantastic events (we'll highlight some of these in the upcoming days), but the main attraction, the culminating event, the capstone course, is Elizabeth Station's SourFest. It will cap off beer week, hosted [...]
