Here is a recap from our 2011 Brewers Festival experience, for your reading pleasure.
For all the info on times, tickets, and other such junk you can hit up the Washington Beer Commission site.
Below you will find my Picks of Beer Awesomeness for the Washing Brewers Festival coming up this weekend. For a complete list of beers being served up this weekend, click here.
* = Beer poured on Friday only (if you go on Friday, I highly suggest getting there early)
S = Beer poured on Sat/Sun only
! = Beer I will probably end up drinking based solely on its name
192 Brewing
Granny’s Apple Ale
7 Seas Brewing
Rude Parrot IPA (So excited that this will be pouring, one of my fave 7Seas brews!)
Airways Brewing (S)
Ol’ Wooden Hag IPA
Coconut Cream Ale (!)
Rotating Cask
American Brewing
Piper’s Scotch Ale
Anacortes Brewery
Cask IPA*
Barhop Brewing
PA 7
Predecessor ESB
Six Confessions Scotch Ale
Red Neck Logger
Big Al Brewing
5 Star Chile IPA (If this was MGD's blog he would triple bold and highlight this one)
Rat City Blonde
Brewer’s Select (By 'Brewer's Select' I hope they mean one of their sours...)
Big Time Brewery
Icculus Pale Ale
Homegrown IPA
Black Raven Brewing
Pina Colada IPA
Kitty Kat Blues*
Brickyard Brewing
Brickyard IPA
Masonary Stout
Diamond Knot Brewing
Possession Porter*
Dick’s Brewing (S)
Working Man’s Brown
Dirty Bucket Brewing
XXX-Tra Filthy IPA (!) (Extra filthy, just how I like it)
Full Nelson Black Ale*
E9 Brewery (S)
Dry- Hop Tacoma Brew
Golden Berry Hefe
Rowdy & Dick amber
Elliott Bay Brewing (S)
Organic Coffee Stout
Aussie Double IPA
Three Tree Imperial Porter
Elysian Brewing
Ruin: Rosemary Agave IPA
Great Pumpkin
Zephyrus Pilsner Cask
Fish Brewing (S)
Swordfish Cascadian Dark Ale
Leavenworth Blackbird Island Hopfenweizen
Flyers Restaurant and Brewery
Mile High Summer Rye
Pacemaker Porter
Barnstormer Brown Ale
Jet Fuel Coffee Porter*
Foggy Noggin Brewing
Chief Lightfoot (Saturday Only)
Little Chief (Sunday Only)
Big Chief (Imperial Irish Red)
Fremont Brewing
Kentuck Dark Star*
Gallaghers Where U Brew
White Knuckle IPA
Blonde in the Back
Georgetown Brewing
Craigalicious Black Lager*
Johnny Utah Session IPA (S) (!!!!!!)
Hale’s Ales Brewery and Pub
Wit (Chardonnay Barrel Aged)
Harmon Brewing (S)
Expedition Amber
Hood Canal Brewery
Big Beer Oatmeal
Issaquah Brewhouse
Frog in the Rye IPA
Rogue Chocolate Stout on Cask*
Kona Brewing (S)
Wailua Wheat (Scored a Kona beach towel last year through my powerful powers of persuasion, can't wait to see them again!)
Kulshan Brewing (S)
Bastard Kat
Good ol’ Boy Pale
Lantern Brewing
Sour Pale
North Sound Brewing
Bitter Rain
Oaked Hazelnut Goosetown Brown
Northern Lights Brewing
Solar Winds
Blue Berry Creme Ale
NW Peaks Brewery (S)
Redoubt Red
Black Blonde
Odin Brewing
Odin’s Gift- Juniper Amber Ale
Thor’s Limited Release
Paradise Creek Brewery
Dirty Blonde (!)
Paradise Hoe (!)
Hopocalypse Cascadian Black IPA*
Pike Brewing
Pike Space Needle Golden Anniversary IPA
Port Townsend Brewing
Peeping Peater Scotch Ale (!)
Ram Restaurant & Brewery
Cask Peachy Keen Pale Ale
Riverport Brewing
Bullseye P.A.
5/5 Pepper Beer
Schooner Exact Brewing
Seamstress Union Raspberry Wheat (Don't even get me started...)
West Point Pale Ale
Latona 25th Anniversary*
Raspberry Sour Brown (Sunday only.. 1/6 bbl)
Silver City Brewery
Ziggy Zoggy
Whoop Pass Double IPA*
Skookum Brewery
Katspaw
Snipes Mt. Brewery
Vaquero
Quinceanera* (We were on a blending panel at Snipes to help create this beer in the Spring, we might be helping pour it so come say hello!)
Trade Route Brewing
Midnight Ale
Beach Blonde
Ginger Pale Ale*
Twelve Bar Brews (S)
Wicked Riff
Supertonic
Turnaround Red
Pentatonic
Twelve String Brewing
G-String Blonde (!)
C#7#5 IPA
Drop D Stout*
Two Beers Brewing
Mango and Orange Infused Evo. IPA
Ginger and LiMe Infused Panorama Wheat
Cask Evo. IPA*
Widmer Brothers Brewing
Marionberry Hibiscus Gose
Wingman Brewers
Pomegranate P-51 Porter
Peanut Butter Coconut Porter*
the pissed liBEERian
Micah Sims of Big Al, Chad Roberts of Snipes and me enjoying ourselves at the 2011 Brewers Fest
