“Still to this day I would like to someday make the iconic beer,” says Shane Johns, brewmaster at E9 Brewing. “I think that any brewer that doesn’t want to say that they don’t want to…
E9 Brewing didn’t put Tacoma beer on the map, but it was the first modern-day brewery in the City of Destiny and its brewmaster, Shane Johns, is known worldwide as a mixed culture crackerjack. For…
For their pilot episode, Matthew McLaren, Sean Jackson, and Ron Swarner — three longtime members of the Tacoma beer scene — discuss their beer journeys, current careers, and their hopes and dreams for the Grit…