Our neighbors to the South held their 3rd Annual Tacoma Craft Beer Fest yesterday, our own Dikla attended and reports back on an afternoon of beer tasting out in the sun. more ›

Pulling in to Santa Rosa, I was a bit taken aback by the main drag through town being closed for a “Cattle Drive” which involves a head of cattle being driven through town. As cow pies were being hosed off the streets and the dust cleared, I finally made my way into Russian River. I just had to do the tasting flight, which consists of a dozen beers. It was pretty fun to try a bit of all the beers on the menu, and it gave me a good idea of ones I wanted to try a full pint of later on. Three different IPA’s were being served: Russian River IPA, Pliny the Elder, and Blind Pig IPA. Also being served were a white beer, a stout, a blonde, and three different barrel aged sour ales. more ›

It seems like every week I hear of a new brewery opening up in our area. Even with the inordinate amount of beer I drink on a weekly basis, I simply can’t try all the new stuff fast enough. I do give it my best effort, mind you, but with a chef’s schedule, there just never seems to be enough time in the day for drinking my favorite beverage. more ›

If you have been in Seattle for any length of time, you have surely seen the “Waiting for the Interurban” sculpture on 34th Avenue in Fremont. This cast aluminum piece, done in 1979 by artist Richard Beyer, depicts a row of people (and a dog) waiting for the Interurban bus. The sculpture is most famous for it being the frequent target of so called “art attacks” in which people will dress the statues in costumes of various types. Sometimes, the costumes are so well done that it may be difficult for a newcomer to even recognize them as being statues. This sculpture provides the namesake for Fremont Brewing’s Interurban IPA. more ›

Editor's note: You may recall Rich Coffey from our recent profile. It's fair to say Rich knows a lot about beer--he's a certified Cicerone (the only one in Washington state, in fact). Hence it is my great pleasure to introduce his new weekly beer column, "Here's to Beer!" more ›

• Seattle Opera must have been on a high note on Friday, when they were awarded a $500,000 grant to debut the new American opera Amelia in May 2010.
• We welcome the handmade chocolates (hellooo, raspberry-wasabi dark chocolate truffle!), traditional German treats, and delicious ganache-filled confections from Madison Valley's Suess Chocolates & Pastries, the newest chocolate shop on the block. If one truffle isn't enough for you, there are truffle-making classes too.

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Before we moved our worldly possessions across Elliott Bay to West Seattle, we'd never visited that neighborhood's Beveridge Place Pub. And we'd never tasted 3-Grid IPA, an excellently hoppy product of that neighborhood's Schooner Exact Brewing Co. Now that we pose as West Seattle regulars, we recognize both pub and brewer as priceless neighborhood gems; there's no better place to kill a few (happy) hours, and no finer micro-local IPA. more ›