Washington Beer News 2020

What, just because if you posted a doctored photo criticizing the state in actual Nazi Germany you would have been silently disappeared to a concentration camp or worse, and your brewery would have been absorbed by the state? Details.

 

The anti kneeling shit is the craziest political stance of our times. People are really saying that asking cops not to kill innocent civilians is "anti-police"? What do they think the police's job is...

 

Apparently you are forgetting that kneeling during the anthem was perverted by right-wing media into a sign of disrespect toward the flag, the troops, America, apple pie, baseball, and Jesus. It’s all bullshit, of course, but that’s what it now signifies to about 40% of people.

 

I don’t know. I think the whole Nazi thing goes a bit overboard. I’m not personally offended by it but I think it does a disservice to victims of actual Nazis and their descendants. All Inslee is doing is trying to stop the spread of the virus, and this kind of crap doesn’t help. But the brewery certainly has the right to express their opinion, something actual Nazis (past and present) would never tolerate.

 

Actually I think I’d view it in a similar light, unless maybe it was used to protest actual ICE detention centers where it was directly comparing U.S. policy to that of Nazi Germany. But in general the whole “comparing your adversary to Hitler/Nazis” thing is intellectually lazy and dishonest. Similarly, I think mocking Trump for how he drinks water from a glass, or walks down a ramp, or even how he garbles his words is just taking cheap shots and is actually counterproductive. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to criticize the current administration without stooping to their level.

 

Stop it, both of you! You keep making levelheaded arguments for your perspectives and I don’t like changing my mind every few seconds like that.

 

Getting sorta back to beer, I've only had one can of that brewery's beer. It was spoiled by age and was packaged in an undated can. It wasn't going to take much to nudge me over to the side of not having their beer again, and now the owners have accomplished that.

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CD4pYjXgIQv/

i present to you pilsnerfest 2020. pilsners all day, absolutely no IPA, monster trucks are in, ice cold beers, let's do it folks.

 

No advanced CEO pack? I know that there are some grizzled veterans of the pils drinking industry here...

 

we've flirted with the idea of bottleshop-curated packages. would that suit your advanced-CEO grizzled-veteran desires? $1500

 

Damn, haven't heard Lazy Boy mentioned in about a decade. I had no idea they were still brewing.

 

I thought the same thing, but then they did a Strata Fresh Hop IPA last year that I thought was pretty damn fantastic.

 

In SE Washington news, more specifically Tri-Cities, more specifically Kennewick. Our city’s Mayor’s business Green2go Wellness (aka weed) has opened a “speakeasy” of sorts. There is a bookshelf door inside G2G that takes one to the beer. Supposedly you buy singles from the most sought out breweries.

Now you pay a premium for this. $10 a can (people gotta be “high” to pay that, right. Sorry, couldn’t resist). I looked over the list and the only “sought after” beer/brewery I recognized was Grape Lotion, er Great Notion. Not sure how the mayor was able to get Great Notion (did he drive down to Portland and buy a bunch of cases?), but he does have a pretty good variety of GN listed. Not sure on quantity.

https://prohibition.beer/

 

that's like $16/can in washington DC beer pricing.

 

They’re in Beacon Hill. Good food, meh beer but it’s getting better. I had a Guava Saison there in January that was pretty nice.

 

I think it's been two or three years since I was at Perihelion, but my memory squares with @distantmantra. I liked the place quite a bit. It was small, with a bistro feel, but totally unpretentious and no foody vibe at all. Yes, the beer was unremarkable, but that's in a town with good beer everywhere. The beer wasn't good enough to make you drive a long way (e.g. from Bellingham), but it was fine.

Digression: we used to visit Portland a fair amount. It struck me as we hit a lot of breweries or beer-centric restaurants, that everywhere in Portland, the food at the beer joints would be quite good. But in my own home town, Seattle, the combination was rarer. My favorite Seattle places either had no food at all (Beveridge Place, The Beer Junction, Fremont, Reubens, Cloudburst, Holy Mountain, Stumbling Monk, Über) or maybe a food truck or two (Chuck's CD). In Seattle, Perihelion stood out not because it was great, but because it seemed to care about both the beer and the food. There are a few other spots in Seattle that are like that: The Shambles, The Masonry. I thought Toronado Seattle was pretty good. But I can't even come up with five names.

Does anyone have an explanation of why Portland seems so much better?

 

Portland has one of the best food cultures of any US city. The sheer volume of delicious food options in that city is staggering.

 

First Structures beers for Year 2 sounds fantastic:

Feral Bones, an Imperial Stout aged in Weller Barrels for 16 months...then conditioned on Cacao, Toasted Coconut and a very subtle amount of Madagascar Vanilla. This is a better version than the cans. We are very happy about this iteration, compared to the previous canned version. 12%abv


Sunrise, an Imperial Stout. A blend of young Imperial stout cold conditioned in stainless steel and Imperial Stout from Weller Bourbon Barrels aged 16 months. Conditioned on whole Madagascar Vanilla beans, toasted Coconut and Coffee from our friend's farm in Guatemala, brought to the PNW by Onyx Coffee, and roasted by Steed Roasters. We are really excited about this beer. We will have a limited amount of beans of this coffee available from Steed Roasters.

 

I love how that guy snuck his business in before the conservative county commissioners (or was it the Kennewick city council?) made weed businesses illegal. Now he's in politics with the money he's made from it, and will absolutely not be making a push for his monopoly to come to an end.

 

Baileys taproom is permanently closing as well as upper lip

https://brewpublic.com/beer-news/ba...HflhuIVFZpMaLZgFK_sEyfPVjGvnY0X0yyhsxbXlB2oBA

 

i hope you're right John. You know that's a must stop for me when Monica and I venture out again.

 

Bummer. I only got to stop in there once or twice before Covid hit. Enjoyed both the food and beer I had. Seemed like they had potential to be a semi-regular stop.

 

I don't think I'd heard of this one.

 

Wow, now over $28,000 raised for The Angry Beaver in Seattle

https://twitter.com/wyshynski/status/1336493577891876864