As the "unofficial" home of the Bellingham St. Patrick's Day celebrations, we've got a great weekend jam-packed with live music, beer, and dancing at the brewery! Join us on Saturday for music in the taproom from The Devillies (11 am) and The House Wrens (1 pm) with Irish dancers throughout the [...]
We're excited to announce that Bottle of Smoke is coming to Boundary Bay as part of our St. Patrick's Weekend celebrations! Music starts at 6 pm on Saturday, March 16th, featuring openers The Moving Hats! This show is open to all ages, with a $10 cover for adults. Tickets are available [...]
We're excited to announce that we'll be hosting a Holiday Market this Shop Small Saturday (November 25th)! We'll have 15+ local vendors at the brewery, selling a variety of goods from jewelry and art to clothing and edible goods! The market will run from 11am - 5pm on our covered [...]
In celebration of craft beer and Christmas, I reworked Clement Moore’s poem, “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” and modernized it to, “A Visit From St. Hipster.” ’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a beer was pouring, not even an ounce. The stockings were hung by the [...]
Christmas is rapidly approaching, but there’s still time to get that perfect gift for the beer lover on your list. Check out these ideas: DRINKING JACKET Hoodies are huge in the Pacific Northwest, but none of them are as functional as TV host Zane Lamprey’s Drinking Jacket (2.0), which is custom designed [...]
Some “beer purists” might eschew the use of spices in beer brewing, but spices have been used much longer than hops. By many accounts, beer was first made more than 9,000 years ago, but using hops in beer has only been traced back about 1,000 years. Before hopped beer, gruit beer (also grut [...]
Last weekend, after recovering from my Thanksgiving Day food coma and then my Black Beer Friday beer session, I woke up to my neighbor hanging Christmas lights. It’s official, I thought, ’tis the season for winter warmers and holiday beers. As the pumpkin beers, fresh hop beers and other seasonal offerings [...]
Most holidays pair wonderfully with certain beer styles. There are spiced beers and winter warmers for Christmas. Pumpkin ales for Thanksgiving. Dry Irish stouts for St. Patrick’s Day. Vienna-style pale lagers for Cinco de Mayo. And aged beers for National Grandparents Day (which is Sept. 13, in case you didn’t know). [...]
Hop heads rejoice, as today, Thursday August 6th, is IPA Day! Whether this has been marked on your calendar, or it has come as a surprise, I encourage you to get out and at least enjoy your favorite IPA on this day. The IPA spectrum is quite large now, we have [...]
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