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Chuck’s Hop Shop
He actually sort of looks like this. I can’t rave about this place enough. The worst part is that I can’t even really proselytize it properly. The conversation typically goes like this. Somebody:...
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Meet the Brewers
Rounding out Seattle Beer Week 2013 (now over a week old) was yet another event at Chuck’s Hop Shop. This one was all about Port Brewing/Lost Abbey, a brewery for which I’ve made no attempt to hide my...
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Backwoods for the Win
I like to think of myself as a rather well-informed beer know-it-all. I can rattle off dozens of breweries (and my favorite beer from each) situated in and around the Pacific NW. I am well-versed in...
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Fuckin’ Magnets, How Do They Work?
You may remember a while back I mentioned a certain project regarding beer and Girl Scout cookies. Round two (Beige Box) has officially been in the books for over a month but I haven’t written about it...
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None More Dark
Some Lotus-Eater on a rare snowy Seattle day. As best I can tell, it looks like the declaration of February as Stout Month started way back in 1993 by a Denver brewery I had not heard of until I...
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I Know It Don’t Seem Difficult
In lieu of an actual post I’ll just dump my live tweet session from last night’s Avery Brewing Expo at Chuck’s Hop Shop. I’m not sure if it’s an accent thing or what, but I couldn’t count how many...
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Over-Stimulation Is the Key
A definite downgrade from last year’s Best Beer Week, but I’ll give it a shot. Cot damn! SBW is practically here and I’m more excited than a kid on Christmas morning. I’d love to just take a two-week...
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Call me Ishmael.
I’m a simple man with simple tastes. I like bicycles, the Red Sox, cinema from Hollywood’s Golden Era, table shuffleboard, ’90s-era boom bap, single-player PC video games, xeriscaping, existential...
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Here a Chuck, There a Chuck
Have you heard of Chuck’s Hop Shop? Studious readers may remember I’ve mentioned it on occasion. They have ice cream. A food truck comes ’round on the reg. There’s chips and crappy salsa. Oh, and they...
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33 Bottles of Beer on the Wall
I went to a bottle share at Chuck’s on Sunday. I joined the wait list a couple of weeks ago and I wasn’t even sure if I’d be invited. I heard nothing until Friday evening when an e-mail was sent to...
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