Echoes Brewing: A Brewer’s Resurrection
I could go on about what I find when I do a tasting at Echoes but my real goal, here, is to encourage anyone who reads this to get the hell OUT of Seattle, once in a while.
I could go on about what I find when I do a tasting at Echoes but my real goal, here, is to encourage anyone who reads this to get the hell OUT of Seattle, once in a while.
If we value Small Businesses, as we all SAY we do in all our drippy Lip Service to Small Business Saturday, then that Saturday really HAS TO be every day.
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!
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.”
PROMISE YOU, if you go into Slippery Pig, you WILL taste that ONE (at least, possibly two) ales that will linger in your head for YEARS, the experience as fresh as when you first sipped it.
A 35K town with five bad breweries in it belongs on the list of “Waste of Gas and Time”, not in “Hidden Gems”.
There are a couple of posts coming up, here at the ol’ Fool Ranch, that are intended to give Continue reading
Mark Hood of Sound Brewery, in tiny Poulsbo, Washington, sent me home with a trio of bottles last week; a Continue reading