For those of you that like a little funk in your beer, the Brouwer's Cafe Sour Beer Festival kicks off tomorrow. Now, sour beer definitely is not for everyone. Okay, sour beer isn't for most people. Even the hardest of beer geeks likely said, "What the hell was THAT?" after having their first taste of a sour treat. One Seattlest recently described the Russian River Deviation (Bottleworks Anniversary beer) as tasting of human sweat,......

Starting tomorrow, the next month is going to be a whirl-wind of good beer: REAL Strong Ale Festival at Collins Pub - 2/22 to 2/28 Elysian Winter Beer Festival - 2/23 Barleywine Bacchanal at Beveridge Place Pub - 2/29 to 3/8 Hard Liver Barleywine Festival at Brouwer's - 3/15 Washington Cask Beer Festival - 3/22 Throw in the Seattle releases of Full Sail Bourbon Aged Porter(Mar 1), Oskar Blues Ten Fidy(Mar 1) and the......

When it comes to good beer, brews made in Belgium are usually the cream of the crop. So, no one should be surprised that American brewers often try to emulate their success by brewing their own versions of Belgian styles. And you know what? Some of them are fantastic (And some, not so much...) Starting this Friday at The Collins Pub, they'll be rotating about 15 taps of Belgian-style goodness brewed right here in the......

What would most modern-day companies do if they found out that a competitor had a product with the same name as their own? Most companies would sue the hell out of each other. Two breweries, Avery of Colorado and Russian River of California, have each distributed a Beligan style strong ale with the name Salvation for a few years. Should this be a problem? Should one of the breweries relinquish the naming rights? Um,......