Flagship February #6/Walking Man Brewing: Laid Back
These two titanic beers do what flagship beers are SUPPOSED to do: Tell A Story. State the Mission of their makers. Stand for Something.
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Flagship February/Iron Horse “Irish Death” (WTF is this beer?!?)
I’ve consumed a small lake of this stuff, over the twelve-ish years since it debuted and it wears about as well as any NW ale I’ve ever found.
Flagship February/Sound Brewery: Indiscreet
Beautiful luminous amber in the glass, as vividly flavored as a smorgasbord on a Tahitian beach, Monk’s is pretty much inarguably Washington’s flagship Belgian-style ale and it is UNBELIEVABLY delicious!
Flagship February/Snoqualmie Falls Brewing “Steam Train”: The Stealth Porter
This became Snoqualmie Falls Brewing’s flagship beer in the most natural way possible: by simply being among the best of this style ever made in the US.
Flagship February/Mac & Jack’s: #1 with a Bullet
It became a true American brewing icon; the first and only craft beer to literally outsell Budwesier, Miller, and Coors in its local market.
Sound Brewery and Double Mountain Bruts: NAILED It
Just this week, I got samples from two exceptional PNW brewers whom I would have probably chosen if someone had come to me and said, “Name a brewery in each state that you would bet money on making a great Brut.”
Pyramid “Yeah, Baby!”: The Name Says It All!
Pyramid “Yeah, Baby!” is an absurdly fine IPA, regardless of category, and gives all us fresh-hop freaks something we can geek out on during those dismal months of our beer year that are not September and October.
Deschutes The Abyss and The Dissident: Two Bottles of Hot Sex
The Abyss and The Dissident, 2018, are like bottles of delightfully naughty sex; like you just might enjoy either one enough that it would be unseemly to have anyone watching.
