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Session beers? What are they? Why are they a thing? Session beers are a simple category, well at least they were for quite a while. At it's simplest a "Session Beer" is any beer with an ABV <5%, so that you may enjoy a few at a barbeque, on a boat, [...]
With all the new breweries popping up locally and regionally, it’s easy to get distracted and neglect the older, more established breweries. But that would be an unfortunate mistake. You really have to stay beer focused, and keep putting one foot in front of the other on the Tap Trail. Take Boundary Bay [...]
Greetings again all craft beer brothers and sisters, advocates and aficionados, I hope you all have been enjoying the bit of cooler weather we have received thus far this week. It's been a great, albeit a bit hot, summer thus far. Prime season for outdoor shenanigans: camping, fishing, sailing, hiking, golfing, [...]
Welcome back all you beer snobs, it's official now, "we're number one!" Let us first take everything with a grain of salt, and take a moment to revel in the local beer scene. With all the options available in Bellingham and the Northwest in general, I would claim we are one [...]
In 2007, I moved to South Korea with my then girlfriend (now wife) to teach English in South Korea as part of a post graduate school plan to travel and make money. It was an incredible experience. Part of my inspiration for going was my friend Jason DiGennaro. He was teaching [...]
There are so many opinions about what makes craft beer good and why. Craft beer is hot and it creates some strong opinions (just take a look at the discussions on our new online forum!) There some facts and objectives truths and a bunch of subjective tastes. It's always important to anchor yourself in [...]
Greetings beer nuts, aficionados, prospectors, advocates, and purveyors. Summer is in full swing and it's somehow nearly July in the Pacific Northwest! This weeks offering comes from an often maligned and certainly polarizing brewery — Lagunitas. Some will be die-hard Lagunitas fans for life, while others will scoff at each new release, [...]
Berliner Weisse is a very popular style this year along with Gose and the every present IPA. A Berliner Weisse is a white cloudy beer usually around 3% ABV that has a distinct taste of lactic acid, often making it taste sour. Aslan Brewing Company brewed up Disco Lemonade, their version [...]
Most beers are meant to be enjoyed fresh. Some, however, actually improve with age, similar to some wines. Various ingredients help to preserve beer and/or enhance its flavor over time, including hops, malt, alcohol, yeast, bacteria (i.e., lactobacillus and pediococcus), smoked malts and lactic acid. Different beers – and even different vintages [...]
When I lived in Richmond, Virginia, in the late ’90s, I frequented a small bottle shop that always stocked new and exciting beers. On one visit, the shop owner encouraged me to buy one of the bottles of Westvleteren 12 that he had recently brought back from Belgium. I had never [...]
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