Aslan Brewing now open (Bellingham)

Aslan Brewing in Bellingham opened to the public today. The paper has a slide show: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2014/05/19/3651278/aslan-brewing-opens.html . Wander Brewing opened their tasting room about three weeks ago. 2 other breweries, Stone's Throw and Gruff, are hoping to get open sometime this summer.

 

Look at the picture of the guy opening the door. Those lions are popping up around town already. They've been on tap around town for about a month now.

 

I don't think so, yet. But cans are definitely in their plans.

 

Plus, I wonder if, at some point, if they get large enough to gain wider attention, if the estate of C.S. Lewis will have anything to say about their name. After all, Magic Hat "owns" the digit 9.

 

On a side note (it's not worth its own thread), here's a quick video of the canning process for Boundary Bay's Ski to Sea ESB:

 

They'll be canning certain seasonals, generally the one's tied into an event. They canned the Irish Red as a fund-raiser for the Bellingham St. Pats Day parade, and they'll be canning the Traverse ale for the Bellingham Traverse race in mid-Sept. Other than that, I'm not sure what BB's plans are, as far as cans. BB's ESB (both the regular and S2S) are really more like hoppy Pale's (I call it IPA-Lite) than traditional English ESBs.

 

Yes, they've been in local bars for about a month now. They're new brewers, moving up from homebrewing, and I think they'll need some time to get used to their big system, and to tweak the recipes. I'm gonna give 'em a few months before I start judging them.

 

What? Ya get all up in my hizzy and don't let me know? I thought we were friends.