Sure, you like beer — but have you ever worn it? Wrapped your entire being in it and then spend three days at a convention devoted to it? That’s what the country’s most dedicated beer…
In the late 1980s, Tony Lawrence arrived in Bend, Oregon, for the snowboarding at Mt. Bachelor, but stayed for the dish pit at Deschutes Brewery. Head brewer John Harris knew Lawrence was more than a…
Broadcasting from the Red Room in the historic Parkway Tavern on the North Slope of Tacoma, Washington, this is Mashing In with Matt & Ron. Spend an hour with us Mashing In the hottest and…
Mike Husaker drove thousands and thousands of miles to become a gold medalist brewer. He took all the crap jobs and low paying gigs to take his chemical engineering degree and 10 years of homebrewing…
After many years in the wine and beer distributing business, Charles and Rose Ann Finkel opened Pike Place Brewing in Seattle’s historic Pike Place Market neighborhood in 1989. While working tirelessly to guide and grow…
In the late 1960s, Oklahoman Charles Finkel thought the beer and wine scene sucked in his home state. He headed west as adventurists do landing in Washington state where his passion for all things fermented…
Bremerton in the house! Grit & Grain Podcast sat down with our friend Paul Whitcomb of Silver City Brewery. Whitcomb grew up in Bremerton homebrewing with his dad when they weren’t attending every beer festival…
“That’s what got me excited. The options people have and the new audiences that can be drawn in to drink beer. Not for the sake of getting drunk, but just that community around beer,” says…
What craft beer and comedy have in common is that artists drive them both. Michael Dempster is such an artist. Many years ago, Dempster left Gig Harbor to write comedy for various mediums on the…
Stuff a napkin in your front shirt collar and put down that menu because the Grit and Grain is serving up some Doug Ellenberger this week! In 2001, Ellenberger packed up his 1987 Volvo Station…