Washington Beer News (2022)

I saw it in the Herald business section a few weeks ago. In that new building down by LFS on Roeder. Be nice to have a spot for a beer down there when I'm walking around the harbor.

 

El Suenito is coming right along, posted on FB yesterday that their concrete got poured on Wednesday. Getting ready to start framing and above ground plumbing and electrics.

The North Fork tasting room is still on hold. The biggest hold up seems to the fact that they're sharing the tasting room with Bellingham Cider, and the LCB hates when cider (which is considered wine by the LCB) and beer co-exist.

Darach is still mostly quiet, but did do a collab with Crucible for the upcoming Shawnfest (what's a Shawnfest, you ask? I dunno.) in Everett.

Gruff did a canning run yesterday, their first since The Before Times.

The new Wander-Otherlands collab, Terre de Soleil, a foeder aged saison, is quite nice, and you should drink it if you see it.

 

A nice little update On Cnut, and a couple of other beer tidbits here: https://www.cascadiadaily.com/news/2022/jul/06/two-counties-two-breweries-one-address/

 

Per a FB post, North Fork will be opening their Bham tasting room August 4th. Right near Otherlands, and the coming soon El Suenito. Not far from Stemma and K1.

 

Bellingham's "Irish" bar, Uisce, is closing, and the owners of Garden Path are hoping to open a bottle shop/lounge in the space. Great Northern Bottle Shop & Lounge has submitted for alcohol permits, but no date.

El Suenito/Frelard tamales are having a one day pop up at the new Ponderosa Books on Aug 27. They'll have tamales, and a Mexican Dark Lager they brewed with Thunder Island available.

 

Kendall with a preview of the new Hatback Bar across the street from Mariners Stadium: http://washingtonbeerblog.com/hatba...tov13GWp_-eK3fIREBW8P56PtWdRUMypYSSzyedVqCnGE

 

Stemma announced of FB that they've acquired the building across the parking lot from their current facility. They didn't announce any specific plans, but it's not hard to see a production space going in there. Maybe even move all the existing brew equipment over, and expand the current taproom?

 

Haz you dealt with the ushers at Mariner Stadium? Now that the GOMs! own that place, I strongly suspect it'll be the same customer training.

 

Our buddies up at Atwood Ales in Blaine getting some screen time from the big city: https://www.king5.com/article/enter...DUWXL6jVGale3FQmuyvgxRl37othbMciQ5HegZQGwcYhs

 

The Mariners ushers are rude and quite often power trip. I fully expect that attitude to carry across the street.

 

District has their new Ferndale tasting room/barrel facility open now. Will venture north and report back.