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A Rocking Release from Winemaking Supergroup Charles and Charles

Most supergroups will gouge you with ticket prices, but this one delivers the year's best value wine yet.

06/12/2014 By Sean P. Sullivan

Opening Dispatch

Damn the Weather Is Imminent in Pioneer Square

Duck hot dogs. Spot prawn crudo. A rum and coke for the discerning farmer.

06/12/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

Behind Bars

Five Questions for the Bartender: Sun Liquor’s Eli Hetrick

"Honestly, how often do you just want to draw Angostura penises on top of your sours? Come on."

06/09/2014 By Caroline Ferguson

Wait, What?

Bellevue Brewing Company Debuts Medina Malt Liquor

The brewery's summer seasonal offers a history lesson on this oft-misunderstood beverage.

06/05/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

Pour

A Drinker's Guide to Five Promising New Breweries

And they're not all in Ballard.

06/02/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

Hopped Up

San Francisco Beer Bar Toronado Is Expanding to Seattle

With 40 taps, "unhealthy farm-to-table food", and a fixture from Seattle's beer scene at the helm.

05/28/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

Bar Watch

Schilling Cider House Is Coming to Fremont

One of the familiar faces in Seattle cider is opening a bar that's part tasting room, part cider library.

05/21/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

Oeno Files

Washington's Négociant-Style Wines: Quality and Value

Few have mastered this quite like Trey Busch's Renegade Wine Co. and Modern Wine Project. Drinking these bottles feels a little like stealing.

05/08/2014 By Sean P. Sullivan

Expansion Mode

Oliver's Twist Expands to Magnolia

This seems like a lovely match.

05/07/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

Hopped Up

Per Usual, Seattle Beer Week Has Some Amazing Events

Celebrity cats, Skee Ball tournaments, and crock pot cookoffs. Oh yeah, and there's tons of beer.

05/07/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

On the Menu

More Details on the Menu at Damn the Weather

Details involving "active garnishes" and a gentleman by the name of Jay Kuehner.

05/01/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

Pour

French Wine Sans Snobbery

A night at Le Caviste, downtown’s new wine bar, is like a drinker’s semester abroad.

05/01/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

Booze News

Drinking Games Can Be Craft Too

A Portland artist releases a deck of cards featuring sketches of local breweries.

05/01/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

Coming Soon

Downtown's New Elysian Bar Sounds Pretty Damn Great

The hiring of Murray Stenson was the first clue that the brewery's latest project isn't a pub.

04/14/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

Oeno Files

Rhone-Style Wines Are on the Rise in Washington

This collection of grapes drive some of the state's most compelling wines. Here are 10 bottles that demonstrate what all the fuss is about.

04/10/2014 By Sean P. Sullivan

Pour

Wine, Elevated: Gruners Grow Here

Turns out you can grow cool-weather grapes like gruner veltliner in Washington.

04/01/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

Hopped Up

Two Beer Anniversaries = Two Anniversary Beers

The Pine Box and Standard Brewing are marking some milestones this week with hurry-up-and-get-them special releases.

03/19/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

Apple Cup

It Will Soon Be Legal to Fill a Growler with Cider

Which means it's even easier to get acquainted with all the great apple beverages happening in our state.

03/11/2014