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Roslyn Brewing CompanyBrewery Website: www.roslynbrewery.com Get to know the brewer: The Roslyn Brewing Company has been brewing hand-crafted and full-flavored beers in the old world tradition since 1990. Our beers are excellent, full-bodied, German-style lagers reminiscent of those brewed by the immigrant miners in our hometown of Roslyn, Washington at the turn of the century. We use only the finest ingredients, including malted barley grown in the Northwest, hops grown in the Yakima Valley, and ice cold snow-fed water from the heart of the Cascades, to produce a full-bodied brew with a flavor that some say has been missing in domestic beers since the enactment of Prohibition. |
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Sierra Nevada Brewing CompanyBrewery Website: www.sierranevada.com/ Get to know the brewer: Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. was founded with one purpose: to brew the finest ales and lagers. We follow traditional brewing methods, using only select malted barley, whole hop flowers, brewer’s yeast, and pure water. The quality of our ingredients and our devotion to the craft of brewing shows in the superior flavor, aroma, balance, and character of our ales and lagers. In 1979, Ken Grossman began building a small brewery in the town of Chico, California. Today, the Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is considered the premier craft brewery in the United States. And the beer? Critics proclaim it “Among the best brewed anywhere in the world.” |
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Georgetown Brewing CompanyBrewery Website: www.georgetownbeer.com/ Get to know the brewer: Welcome to Georgetown Brewing Company, a Seattle microbrewery and brewer of Manny’s Pale Ale. We’re a draft beer only production brewery, which means that all we do is make beer and fill kegs. Sorry, no brewpub, but we do have a retail shop where you can pick up kegs to go, growlers, and perhaps get a taste of our newest beer before it’s released. Or you could be social and get out to your favorite local watering hole. If they don’t have our beer on tap, let us know and we’ll do our best to pester ‘em into submission. Do we bottle? Not yet but we never say never. Right now we’re focused on doing one thing right… draft beer. Cheers! We’re Roger Bialous and Manny Chao… a couple of beer loving local boys who brewed up a pretty darn tasty beer in the garage (actually it was the back deck, but garage sounds better). We decided to chuck our jobs… all for beer. Yee-haw. |
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Yakima Craft Brewing CompanyBrewery Website: www.yakimacraftbrewing.com Get to know the brewer: Yakima Craft Brewing Co. is a microbrewery located in the heart of North America’s leading producer of hops, the Yakima Valley in the state of Washington. We produce high-quality craft ales and lagers with an emphasis on full-bodied taste and unique character. For a list of events and retailers where you can find our beer, check out our Find Us page. |
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Redhook Ale BreweryBrewery Website: www.redhook.com Get to know the brewer: Paul Shipman and Gordon Bowker actually founded Redhook brewery in Seattle in May of 1981. Why there? Why then? 1) The Pacific Northwest drank more draft beer than anywhere else in the country and 2) the import beer market was growing everywhere. In 1982, the first Redhook Ale was poured. Here’s to two blokes who took a chance and founded a brewery in an old transmission repair shop in Ballard. Here’s to what they dreamed up. A local beer with a unique taste and a strong European influence. A passion for the perfect pint, finally found. That original Redhook Ale was modeled after spicy Belgian ales. Redhook bought the former home of the Seattle Electric Railway as its new location in the mid 80’s. The 26,000 square foot building allowed the company to build a rather charming brewpub named the Trolleyman. |
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big al brewingBrewery Website: www.bigalbrewing.com Get to know the brewer: big al brewing is a production brewery located in White Center, Seattle. We’re a little different at big al’s, which is why we bring you new specialty brews every season in addition to our flagship ales abbey wheat and irish red. If your favorite bar doesn’t carry big al’s finest send us an email, and we’ll make sure they know what they are missing. Being a production brewery, we don’t serve food and you won’t find a fancy restaurant here. What you will find is amazing beer and a crew dedicated to brewing you the best beers locally. Come check out our tasting room where we have a comfortable bar downstairs and a couch filled room above (great for group functions). Don’t miss our outdoor (and a dog-friendly) beer garden. We believe that someday beer will save the world, we’re not sure how, but we’re doing our part. Cheers! |
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Whitstran Brewing CompanyBrewery Website: www.whitstranbrewing.com Get to know the brewer: Whitstran Brewing is Prosser’s only micro brewery located at 1427 Wine Country Road. Although we have been brewing for years, we are just fermenting our first website. More to follow soon! |
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Big Sky Brewing CompanyBrewery Website: www.bigskybrew.com Get to know the brewer: We Make Water Fun. We have a pretty simple philosophy here at Big Sky Brewing, every day we strive to produce balanced, world class beers, while having as much fun as possible doing it. Big Sky Brewing Company was started by Neal Leathers, Bjorn Nabozney, and Brad Robinson. Brad and Neal had been homebrewers in Michigan since the mid 1980’s, and had moved to Missoula with a group of friends in the summer of 1990. In the early ‘90s they worked at Sportsmen’s Surplus and High Country Sports where they met Bjorn. One of Brad’s first nights in Missoula was spent at the old Iron Horse when it was attached to Bayern Brewing Company down at the end of Higgins Avenue. He was impressed by Bayern’s lagers, but felt that there was room in Missoula for a second brewery; and since Neal and Brad specialized in brewing English style ales he felt that an ale brewery would be producing very different beers than Bayern Brewing Company did. Neal agreed, and the two began to work on starting up a brewery. Where do the names come from? When we first starting looking at naming our beers, we knew that we wanted to use Montana critters as our theme. We had Bjorn’s Mom Jane doing artwork for us and we told her to paint a bear, a moose, a marmot, a buffalo, a fox, a mountain goat, etc. Then we would look at the paintings and try to come up with memorable names to go with the images. The most famous of our brands, Moose Drool, came out of that process. Bjorn and Brad were looking at Jane’s painting of a moose lifting his head from a pond with water streaming off of his muzzle. Neal walked past, and seeing the painting for the first time immediately suggested “it’s a moose, he’s drooling, let’s call it moose drool.” Bjorn and Brad loved the name which Neal immediately began backpedaling on worrying that it would be seen as distasteful to too many folks. Obviously, most beer drinkers love the name and the beer that goes with it! Recently we’ve backed off of the animal theme since so many breweries produce “critter beers,” but you never know what we will come up with next. |
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Alpine Brewing CompanyBrewery Website: www.alpine-brewing.com Get to know the brewer: We are a brewery in the Okanogan Valley brewing exclusively fine German-style beers. Guests in our brewpub have a front row seat to view our genuine German copper brewing kettles, which are unique in Washington. Alpine Brewing Company makes its home in Oroville, WA in Okanogan County. Oroville, named for the Spanish word for “gold”, was a pioneer town, a service point for gold miners, a railroad town, and servicing cattle ranches, farms, and orchards bearing many different fruits. It is also a border town. One of the first customs offices for a border crossing east of the Cascades was established in the center of what is now downtown Oroville. Today, visitors to Oroville can still strike gold, in the form of golden brews flowing from the taps of the Alpine Brewing Company brewpub. Each year, events like the the N.W. Ice Fishing Festival, May Festival, the circus, CAN-AM hydroplane races, Heritage Days and the Rendezvous Rhythm and Blues Festival draw visitors to the scenic town on Lake Osoyoos. |
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Watch for more brewery announcements for 2009 |
Also new for 2009, will be wineries!
Pacific Northwest Brewers or Wineries interested in representing your brand(s) in the 2009 Rails To Ales Brewfest, July 11, 2009, please use our contact form (mark the brewery/winery “Reason for Writing” category) to request an information packet. Brian Lee is the Brewery/Winery coordinator on this year’s Committee.








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