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…
For nearly the past decade, Skagit Valley Malting has been providing brewers, distillers, and culinary artisans with a selection of single variety malts from Skagit Valley grown barley. Colin Harvin, who is the new Business…
From Tiny’s Organic farm hand to volunteering at Two Beers Brewing in 2009 to launching the first Seattle-based cidery since Prohibition and changing Washington state liquor laws, Eric Willard has also performed almost every job…
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…