If you’ve been around the block in the Bellingham brew scene, you know that each brewery has a style of their own. Aslan has a knack for citrus IPA’s, Wander has sour-ing down to a science, Menace’s Chili Bravo spicy brew is hard to beat. With so many breweries that [...]
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 [...]
Happy New Year and welcome to 2017, I hope you all have enjoyed the holiday splendor with family, friends, and good beer, I know I did. We've just closed out a fantastic 2016, replete with numerous new beers, and plenty of old favorites making their newest vintage debuts. 2017 promises to [...]
Welcome again to another Tap Trail review installment. It would appear imminent that Fresh Hop Season is upon us. The hops are being harvested and dumped into brews left and right. However, the first package on the scene this year comes from Two Beers. They are usually the first to the [...]
Welcome back again beer lovers, sippers, fanatics, dabblers, and dynamos. This past weekend saw one of six Beer Camp festivals come to Seattle. Complete with 100+ breweries from across the country, hundreds of beers. Good times were had. The culmination of this has been made available to nearly everyone through the [...]
UPDATE: Quiz has been updated on June 8th, 2017 Just how well do you know the Bellingham Tap Trail? Take our quiz, learn more about the Tap Trail, get your results and let us know how you did! Yep, you could cheat by Googling everything, or grab your Bellingham Tap Trail [...]
This Saturday, March 26, devotees of Orval Trappist Ale will convene in bars across America to celebrate one of the world’s finest and most unique beers. Orval Day was created by Merchant du Vin, a Seattle-based specialty beer importer since 1978, and it will feature celebrations in many cities, including Seattle, [...]
Not long after Anheuser-Busch purchased Elysian Brewing early last year, I learned about an Elysian brewer named Steve Luke and his plan to open Cloudburst Brewing. At first I thought it was one of those ship-jumping scenarios we’ve seen before, but Luke’s plans had been in the works well before A-B’s [...]
There are so many new breweries opening these days that it’s difficult to keep up with them all (and that’s a great thing). But when I heard about Optimism Brewing and its unique approaches, I put it high on my list of new breweries to visit. And after doing a hike in the snowy mountains near [...]
Happy beer week to everyone! It has been a blast thus far, with great events all over town. Chuckanut had a wonderful Oktoberfest on Saturday, and there has been ridiculously great beers flowing all over town. I wanted to share a review from a brewery that will be featured tonight @ Elizabeth [...]
Oskar Blues IPA you say? I thought they already had one? Well, yes and no. The flagship beer, Dale's Pale Ale, has long been argued and debated as to whether it is a true Pale Ale, or an IPA. It sits on the shelf branded as a Pale, but it comes [...]
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 [...]
Welcome back craft beer advocates and aspirants. I thought it would be fun to step a bit out of my comfort zone this week and try something truly unique and new. There is such a variety of beer available, that I sometimes have to try something crazy. Epic Ales, located in [...]
All things return from whence they came. Beer is no different and Pabst Blue Ribbon's recent move is a testament to this axiom. After years of brewing in various locations throughout the US and having it's headquarters in Los Angeles, Pabst Blue Ribbon will be returning to Milwaukee, where it began [...]
Up for review today, just in time to celebrate these warm temperatures, is a great farmhouse ale from Grand Teton Brewing. Synonymously called a Saison, these beers are hearty, often strong, bright and hazy ales. Classically these were brewed in the Winter months, and meant to condition in the Spring so that [...]
Vancouver BC's The Georgia Straight just launched it's Beer Issue. So. Much. Craft. Beer! Joe Wiebe is a regionally recognized figure in the craft beer world. We've told you many times about the amazing craft beer available from BC. There is absolutely no reason to not visit BC for a craft [...]
Structures Brewing is Bellingham's newest announced brewery. They are apart of the 12 active and planned breweries in our fair city. These 12 will give us more breweries per capita than Seattle Washington and push us towards further regional and national recognition in the craft beer world. Stuctures Brewing is owned by James [...]
Bellingham is on track to have 12 breweries by somewhere around February 2016. We have a population of 80,000. That means we'll have 1 brewery for every 6,700 people. Aslan Brewing Company Boundary Bay Brewing Chuckanut Brewing Gruff Brewing - (Summer 2015) Kulshan Brewing Kulshan Brewing #2 (K2) - (June 2015) Menace Brewing North [...]
Pedal Party Northwest ran their inaugural ride last Saturday. PPNW, is Bellingham's first multi-person bike. There are seats for 16 and 10 chairs to pedal from. The "bike" is steered separately and if you don't want to pedal you can sit in any of the non-pedaling chairs of the bench in [...]
Spring has sprung and beer festival season is just beginning along with it. Vancouver Craft Beer Week showed us what our friends to the North offer the Cascadia region. Now it's Seattle's turn. Seattle Craft Beer week started yesterday and will go until May 17th. The events list is massive and [...]
Patrick McEvoy, our Bottle Editor, recently got to interview the good folks at renowned Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project out of Denver, Colorado. Their beer is heading our way and this is great news for Bellingham. Look for it soon at Elizabeth Station! Here's the full interview: The only people I know [...]
Subdued Brewing is Bellingham's newest brewery, but it is a long way off from becoming a reality. Opening a brewery takes time. Just ask Fairhaven Stones Throw Brewing or Gruff Brewing. Permitting, funding and renovations all have to fall into place at the right time. Subdued Brewing is somewhere between permitting [...]
Aslan Brewing will be celebrating it's 100 batch of beer next Monday 4/20, 5pm. In celebration they'll be tapping their MegaThrust Triple IPA. You'll have a chance to join in the festivities and meet the brewers and owners. From Aslan Brewing Celebration starts at 5pm. We will be tapping the Megathrust and [...]
We've been following this story and have been in touch with the owners for a while. For now, take a look at Bellingham's next planned brewery, Subdued Brewing. We'll have a full interview with the owners in the coming days, so keep checking back in. Our email list subscribers will hear about it [...]
The popularity of IPAs are unmatched. They are, without a doubt the most popular beer [and most hated!] in the US. The growth of this style has been a major factor in the growth of the craft beer industry itself. IPAs are so loved the very use of "IPA" has led to [...]
Just received this press release from Colleen at Wander Brewing. Great things are afoot at Wander Brewing. Head on down there and take a peek at what's happening! --------------------------- BELLINGHAM, WA. (March 12, 2015) Wander Brewing is excited to announce our recent installation of additional cellaring tanks to expand our beer [...]
Bellingham loves food trucks! We've got an awesome selection of food trucks that have found a symbiotic relationship with many of our breweries. New legislation might even let our food trucks serve Tap Trail suds directly from their trucks. Seattle is on a whole different level of food truck-dom as the [...]
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