Washington Cask Fest

This last weekend my wife, a couple of friends, and I went to the Washington Cask Fest to pour beer up in Seattle.  We brought a bourbon barrel aged IPA, a Irish stout, and a coconut brown ale.  It seemed like all of the beers where well received and I got a lot of return [...]

Iron Horse Brewing

Katy and I made another trip up to Ellensburg, WA yesterday since our last trip up for the Winterhop fest didn’t allow us to check out the town.  Ellensburg is the home town of Central Washington University, as a result the town really has that college town feel.  Katy and I really miss the college [...]

The Entrepreneur Within Us

I often ask myself late at night when I can’t sleep why I decided to leave my well paying job with full benefits and payed vacations for a job that is hard physically, pays little, and has absolutely no benefits.  Sometimes I’m conflicted, life as a brewer is hard sometimes, people come up to me [...]

Beer and Chocolate

Some time ago I got the idea to see if our local chocolatier, Baums House of Chocolates, would put our beer in their chocolates.  The idea really came from them since Rick at Baums had recently released a special wine chocolate with a local winery’s wine.  I had no idea how well this would go [...]

My First Beer Fest

I’ve been to a lot of brewfests but none as an official brewer.  The Winterhop Fest in Ellensburg Washington was my first appearance on the public stage as a representative of the brewery.  Overall I think the festival went really well, we had a constant line of people at our booth (as you can see [...]

Doing the brewing thing

Things have been kind of slow after the holidays, I’m not sure if people are doing the New Years resolution thing or if the general public is just poor from the holidays.  I actually got to brew today which naturally being a brewer is always a good thing.  It was stout today, just 10bbl total, [...]