He’s been the man behind Keep It Like Vic Secret, What The Flocc, Big Tom Milkshake IPAs, Aroma of Tacoma IPA, It’s Always Sunny in Sigadelphia, There’s Always Money In the Snow Cone Stand, and Led Tasso among many other beers. He’s watched hundreds of soccer games on the big screen. He’s seen his fair share of face painters and fire dancers. He spent more weekends than he can remember at festivals and fairs — and he constantly battled the Joint Base Lewis-McChord traffic to make sure he would eventually marry his wife, Brittany. Jeff Stokes knows a thing or two because he’s brewed a thing or two. He homebrewed while earning a political economics degree at The Evergreen State College. He poured beer at notable Olympia craft brew houses Skep & Skein and Gravity Beer Market. He earned the founding assistant brewing position at Three Magnets Brewing, earning numerous medals with head brewer Pat Jansen, and eventually commanding the 3-Mag brewhouse. Today, he’s writing beer recipes and running the brewhouse at Sig Brewing in Tacoma’s Historic Brewery District. In Grit & Grain Episode 56, Stokes discusses his love for barleywine, those early days at Three Magnets, and what he likes and dislikes brewing at Sig.
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