SUMMER MICROBREW FESTIVAL Beer Church Review by Kendall Jones Saint Edward State Park in Juanita, Washington was the scene of the event. Although the weather could not have been better on Saturday, on Sunday we were all reminded why Washington is known as the Evergreen State, as cloudy skies and occasional showers dampened the fun. There was no shortage of good beer, good music, and good beer-loving people. VIEW FULL STORY . . . Celebrator by Don Scheidt So far I'm liking the way summer is going here in the Pacific Northwest. The Washington Brewers Guild Summer Microbrew Festival started things off just fine at Saint Edward Park, on the northeastern side of Lake Washington, just north of Kirkland. Were there brewers? Yeah, there were brewers. VIEW FULL STORY . . . KUOW by Cathy Duchamp Craft beer connoisseurs gathered for a brew fest at St. Edward Park in Kenmore. In many ways it was a trip back in time, to the excitement of the early 1990's, when homebrew moved out of the basement and into local taverns. LISTEN TO FULL STORY . . . requires real audio or media player BACK to TOP

Guild Headline News    Washington Brewers Strike Gold at GABF 2000 and 2001 by Alan Moen Summer Brewfest Check out photos from the Guild's Summer Brewfest at St. Edward State Park, Kenmore, WA. WA Summer Brewfest click here for details. WA Cask Festival THE Washington specialty beer event

CASK BEER FESTIVAL

Seattle Weekly
by Roger Downey

Most beer today is an industrial product, pasteurized, filtered, manipulated to make it cheap and easy to ship, store, and consume. But next weekend, more than 40 Washington breweries will be offering Seattle beer fans an opportunity to experience beer as it was before railroads, refrigeration, and multinational marketing turned it into a product as standardized as processed cheese.
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Celebrator
by Don Scheidt

2000 seems to have been the year that the Washington Brewers Guild really came together in organizing public events. The Father's Day brewfest certainly got it all off to a good start this year, but even more impressive, if not quite as well publicized, was the first annual Washington State Cask Beer Festival.
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Willamette Weekly
by Abram Goldman-Armstrong

On Oct. 21, Seattle's Hale's Ales hosted the Washington State Cask Beer Festival. An eclectic array of firkins, casks, and converted pony kegs lined the bar, many of the brewers using simple gravity-fed taps.

The best thing about real ale is that it can never be mass-produced. You'll never see a cask-conditioned macro-brew. Cask-conditioning takes care and patience and can only be done by brewers who love the beer they make.
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Cask & Ye Shall Receive
by Alan Moen, NW Brewing News

On a cool and cloudy Saturday afternoon in late October, beer aficionados gathered at Hale's Ales Brewery in Seattle for a different kind of Oktoberfest. No oompah music, lederhosen, or dirndl-clad fräuleins accompanied this event - but there was beer, and beer aplenty. Nearly two dozen breweries from all over the state poured their real ales at Washington's first Cask Beer Festival.
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MISC. MEDIA

WASHINGTON BREWERS STRIKE GOLD
AT GREAT AMERICAN BEER FESTIVAL 2000
by Alan Moen, NW Brewing News

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Don't Tread on Me: Why Join a Guild?
by Dick Cantwell

Most states have brewers' guilds, I'm happy to say, and while I can't speak with any certainty on what exactly they talk about or how effective they are, I think it's encouraging that the perception of common goals has at least brought them all into existence. For we truly all have to hang together, to concentrate on what unites us rather than what shade of difference makes it absolutely impossible to sit at the same table and discuss things.
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Holiday Beer Tasting
Dick Cantwell, Kevin Forhan, and Doug Hindman

KUOW Radio 94.9 FM in Seattle invited a few Guild brewers into their studios on December 18, 2001 to share some of the season's holiday beers with the news staff and listening audience. Don't miss their interview and the Microbrew Polka as played by the Smilin' Scandinavians.
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