The first and only Advanced Cicerone in Washington state and assistant sensory scientist at John I. Haas Farms in Yakima, Ellensburg resident Rikki Welz brings her hop lab to the Grit & Grain Podcast. Employed...
Ben Chase is known for many glorious things in the Northwest beer world. For instance, when he pulls up to a brewery to grab beer for his Rainier Growlers, he’s often picking up beer for...
Stillwater is the brainchild of Baltimore native Brian Strumke, whose past life as an internationally renowned electronica DJ and producer led him down a path to crafting some of the world’s most unique and highest-rated...
During Prohibition, a rumored blind pig called “The Skoog” poured beer and liquor for Tacomans who, first, could find the speakeasy, and second, knew the password or secret phrase. The Grit & Grain Podcast has...
Russ Heaton opened Doyle’s Public House in Tacoma’s Stadium District at 3 p.m. Monday, April 17 2006. Heaton’s passions continued with the addition of the largest whiskey collection in the state in conjunction to his...
If you ask Ken DesMarets, and we did, which number is greater — the number of breweries he has received a paycheck from or the number of nicknames he’s been called, Kenny T Beerman or...
E9 Brewing Sales Director Donovan Stewart is known by several names — Don, Coach, Don of Time, Donnyllama, and Snake Lix, just to name a few — but World-Wide Don could work too. Donovan has...
Whether it was the hotel rodeo party that banned him from the rodeo circuit and a U.S.-Canada border town, or his back injury sustained building fancy things for fancy people, Chris Miller gave it all...
When you begin to homebrew the day homebrewing was officially legalized in the United States (Oct. 14, 1979), live on a sailboat while hand building a brewery in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, then open Maritime Pacific...
Trevor Nichol is a jack of all trades, master of all. When he’s not mountain biking, forging knives, or designing, installing, troubleshooting and repairing automation systems for commercial and industrial applications, Trevor Nichol masters beer,...