Craft beer has been doing nothing but impressing us with it's booming market share, expanding reach and impressive growth. Anything with this much buzz behind it will naturally get a show out of it! Apparently, craft beer is no different. When you have your own show you know you've made it! The new [...]
The Brewers Association has listed it's top 50 craft breweries of 2014, based on volume.
Kulshan Brewing company's second brewery, K2, is opening up soon and we're all excited. Soon it will be the 5th largest brewery in Washington State. But it's massive capacity is balanced out by the craftsmanship of it's beer and the beautiful work from local artisans like Black Fin Design and Tricky Timbers. We brought you [...]
Thrillist has another awesome beer list. This time, they've ranked the best beer bars in the land. We've given you a sample of the list below. PORTLAND, OR APEX Located on the West end of the booming Division Street restaurant explosion, Apex is about as Portland as a beer bar gets. It’s strategically [...]
Interview by Patrick McEvoy, Bellingham Tap Trail Bottle Editor and owner of Elizabeth Station Fremont Brewing is one of WA's rising stars, and are imminently expanding. I chatted with owner Matt Lincecum about all things Fremont Brewing. Owner of Fremont Brewing, Matt Lincecum (via Seattle Times) PM: So, you [...]
Well played Budweiser...well played.
With St. Patrick's Day on March 17th, we want to give you a few stout beer options, other then Guinness, that are available on the Tap Trail. We all know you'll be stopping by Uisce Irish Pub for a proper St. Patrick's Day celebration, but try these out as well. As Aaron [...]
The folks at Chuckanut Brewery were among 24 breweries around the nation to sign the Brewery Climate Declaration. What exactly is that? When climate change disrupts the beer industry, it not only threatens our economy and jobs, it also threatens the future of great beer. By signing the Climate Declaration, these breweries [...]
The winners of the Best of Craft Beer Awards were announced. Congratulations to Kulshan Brewing Company for winning three awards! One (1) Silver Medal - Red Cap Ale Two (2) Bronze Medals - Dude Man Wheat Ale and Transporter Porter Click the image to enlarge it and see the winners. We're [...]
Craft Beer.com just launched a new website and they included a brand new Interactive Styles Guide. The website is run by the Brewer's Association. These are the folks who advocate for craft beer through legislation such as promoting the Small BREW Act, intended to lower taxes for small brewers. The styles [...]
You roll into your favorite brewery, hand over your growler and ask the beertender to fill it up with your favorite craft beer. You get home and, for some inexplicable reason, you only drink half the growler that night. The next morning you're off to work and when you get home [...]
I am a HUGE fan of 4W [Four Winds Brewery] , one of the best new breweries across the border (and one of the closest to us!) At the recent CAMRA Vancouver awards, the won gold for Best BC Brewery. I got a hold of Brent, one of the owners and [...]
Bellingham Tap Trail loves infographics because...well, why wouldn't we? We recently covered Belgian Beer 101, so let's look at Beer Geography 101. This awesome infographic from BrewDog tells you what each respective region's contribution to beer has been. Everywhere from Copenhagen to San Diego and, of course, Yakima Valley Hops. Once [...]
There are some pretty big acts being proposed in Congress right now each of them would have an impact on the cost of your craft beer and the cost of doing business as a small craft brewery. We've already described the Small BREW Act a while back, but here's a basic [...]
Full Sail Brewing of Hood River, OR has always been proudly independent. Read the labels: "47 Employee Owners." That might change if the current vote passes. Today votes are being tallied to determine if a the brewery will merge with a San Francisco based investment firm called Encore Consumer Capital. The investment firm [...]
Written by Patrick McEvoy. Owner of Elizabeth Station and the Bellingham Tap Trail Bottle Editor. He covers a variety of craft beer industry topics. My favorite craft beer event in the world is the Expo Cerveza in Mexico City. Ernesto Mora from craft brewery Central Cervecera in Mexico City was gracious [...]
If you're reading this, you're most likely planning to be on the Tap Trail this weekend. Don't forget your Passport! The new map hits on March 1st and the current map is still good until April 1st! We've been getting emails, Instagram tags, tweets and Facebook messages from fans of the Tap [...]
Are you a home brewer or own a brewery? You might want to pay attention to trends. If you time it right you can meet demand exactly when it hits and have the next great trending beer. You can do that by following statistics and, no doubt, your own brewer's intuition. Statistics [...]
Well, it's been an awesome 6 months since the inaugural Bellingham Tap Trail map launched! Honestly, the first map was an experiment. We knew Bellingham loved craft beer, but we weren't sure you were ready for a beer map. You showed us you were! Since then, BTT maps have been everywhere. People [...]
There has been quite an uproar in the craft beer world lately. It seems craft breweries are being bought up left and right by Big Beer lately. All this consolidation and fervor culminated in a Budweiser Super Bowl ad mocking the craft brewing industry. This led to responses from craft beer. Basically, there's [...]
Today there are over 3,000 breweries. In 1873 there were over 4,000 breweries. US Population in 2015: ~318million. US Population in 1873: ~38 million. We have a ways to go to catch back up to 1873! Breweries since 1986 US Brewery Count By Category US Brewery Count 2012 2013 % Change [...]
A couple years back, while attending Sierra Nevada Beer Camp, I got a VIP tour of the brewery’s hop storage rooms, which are kept just above freezing. The crisp air was pungently spicy, minty and piney, making for an incredible olfactory experience. As we toured around, I was drawn to a [...]
Hill Farmstead Brewery of Vermont has been named the 2015 World's Best Brewery by RateBeer.com. Every year RateBeer.com compiles various lists of beer excellence. Both regionally and internationally. Rate Beer is home to more than 100 master beer tasters and countless cicerones. It is the most visited site for beer rankings [...]
RAAAAAIIIII-NIIIEEEEEEEER BEEEEEEEEEER might be finding it's way back to Seattle, real soon. In 1999 Pabst Blue Ribbon bought our beloved Seattle brewery and moved production of it's regionally and nationally renowned lager to California. I always wanted one of those giant Rainier Bottle outfits. Last summer, Pabst Blue Ribbon was bought out [...]
After hops are harvested in the fall, typically from August through September, they generally take one of two paths. Most of them are immediately dried in a kiln, and then the whole cones are compressed into bales or processed into pellets or hop extract. The remaining small amount is immediately sent [...]
12 Portland breweries will be partaking in a competition put on by county authorities to brew beer with treated sewage water. The competition is intended to showcase the various ways you can use recycled water with the intent of stirring discussion about long term water needs. From the article. "Is there another [...]
Bellingham is rich with breweries and tap houses. We also have a growing food truck scene. My unofficial count is somewhere around ~30 food trucks. Everything from ice cream, to BBQ, meat pies and pizza. Currently, only a fraction of these are being used at breweries. But there are more breweries on [...]
Five great beer films for you to enjoy during the rainy months. We're not going to attempt a ranking for these. They're all great films. I also tossed in some beer pairings from local breweries for each film. Have a film that didn't make our short list? Have a better local [...]
Canned beer has been with us for 80 trips around the sun now. Actually, canned beer was first proposed by a farmer in Montana in 1903, but it wasn't feasible at the time. It wasn't until 1935, two years after the 21st Amendment was ratified (ending Prohibition), that canned beer hit [...]
Porch Drinking.com has compiled a bunch of craft beer release calendars from all over the US. Everyone from Avery, Sierra Nevada, Cigar City, Southern Tier, Firestone Walker and everyone in between. See below for calendars from a select few awesome breweries. Mark you calendars! For the rest of the beer calendars head [...]
With every new brewery that opens in Bellingham, I hear the same question in one form or another: Can Bellingham support yet another brewery? My short answer is a resounding YES. What follows is my long answer. Currently, there are five breweries in Bellingham – Boundary Bay, Chuckanut, Kulshan, Wander, and [...]
The images shown here are not final. The tables still have more design work and the wood slabs shown are not the finalized wood slabs that will be used. The Bellingham Tap Trail isn't just about beer. There is a design and feel to all of our breweries that give a unique experience [...]
Congress is trying to enact the bipartisan SMALL Brew Act. The bill would re-calibrate the existing taxes on breweries. Including decreasing the per barrel tax on those breweries that make less than 60,000 barrels per year. More on the bill below from the Brewer's Association: View image | gettyimages.com The Small [...]
This is a pretty awesome list of sweet beer gadgets. Everything from funky hipster beer lamps to bicycle bottlecap openers. We all love beer. But if you're a real beer lover, you love actual beer things. All things beer! Especially, DIY, antiquey, hipstery, beer things because that is vogue right now. [...]
Beer is booming and that is a good thing. But apparently, not so much for those trying to enter into the market and develop some catchy exciting names. Apparently, breweries and beers are running out of names of all things. 3,000 breweries in the US and they've all taken the top [...]
Update on 1/8/15 2:25pm: According to the owners the head shop portion of the business has been reformatted. They intend to have more seating dart boards and an open floor plan that allows for a family friendly restaurant. In our recent poll on which neighborhood should get the next brewery [tap house], Birchwood [...]
When you start piping beer underground through a city with special pipes that keep people from illegally tapping into them to fill their own growlers, you're in a SERIOUS beer city. Bruges is developing a massive beer pipeline that will take the place of hundreds of beer delivery trucks. From [...]
Image via Bellingham Home Brewers Guild According to the beer writer below, hops are ruining beer. In a region that is run by hops, this whole debate holds some interest for me. Yakima, WA produces about 75% of the nation's hops. SEVENTY PERCENT! "Hop Bomb", "Hop Head", "Palate Wrecker" are all [...]
These beer lovers took on the enviable challenge of hitting up 365 breweries in 365 days. They JUST finished their travels and their blog is an amazing compilation of beer detail. This is true Brewvana if I've ever heard of it! Looking over their "Year End Stats I noticed this: Most [...]
You've got 14 buying days until Christmas. We are inclined to lead you to beer-esque gift options. Your local breweries are chalk full of beer and beer swag for your loved ones. Wrap a bottle of beer from your favorite local brewery in a t-shirt, or sweatshirt. Top it with a bow and [...]
So much news comes our way and people talk about the next big thing. We'd like to know where you want your next brewery. From the neighborhoods listed below, where would you like to see the next brewery? Try not to just vote for your own neighborhood. Which neighborhood would benefit [...]
Somewhere in Bellingham, WA Kulshan Brewing Company is opening a beautiful beast of a brewery. They're calling it K2 and the name is fitting. Not only because it's Kulshan Brewing Company's 2nd location in Bellingham, it's also really big...like the mountain. 14,000 sqft with elements of I-beams, exposed wood, bolts, cement, [...]
So this just happened. Annheuser-Busch just bought 10 Barrel Brewing Company in Oregon. What do you think of this? Does this further dilute the craft beer industry, or is craft brewing safe? Odd timing considering our previous article, eh? Do you like the beers 10 Barrel puts out and do you [...]
Beer is pouring everywhere in Bellingham while the snow is piling up in the mountains. We've got 7 breweries with 2 more on the way. Our tap houses are bringing in world class beer and offering great eats alongside them. This time of year Mount Baker is becoming more obscured by the clouds [...]
This past week was controversial for the Bellingham Tap Trail. It started with a scathing review of Aslan Brewing's beer by the Bellingham Herald. The article was highlighted by terminology like "work in progress" and then evolved to much stronger language like "rotten lemonade" and saying drinking a bottle of ketchup might taste [...]
Jack Pflueger is owner of Stones Throw Brewing, one of Belligham's soon to be breweries. I wanted to learn what they're up to, so I dropped him some questions. Tony (brewer) and Jack from Stones Throw are great guys and we should be happy to have them in the community. Check [...]
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