Harmon Brewing wins Iron Brewer Competition 2014
No, I'm not on Harmon Brewing Co.'s payroll. The Tacoma brewery is making news left and right.I reported its Harmon Tap Room is integrating with its neighboring Hub restaurant.Then, I mention the...
View ArticleSouth Sound breweries win medals at 2014 Washington Beer Awards
Yesterday during the Washington Brewers Festival, Specialty Competitions LLC and the Washington Beer Commission announced the winners of the second annual Washington Beer Awards. Seventy-five...
View ArticleTwo South Sound restaurants earn Wine Spectator's 2014 Restaurant Wine List...
Wine Spectator has announced its annual Restaurant Awards, honoring exemplary wine lists around the world. This year, 3,748 restaurants have been named award winners, spanning 50 U.S. states and more...
View ArticleHarmon Brewing to open Hop Coffee during its Progressive Party July 26
Coffee-infused stouts are fairly common in the craft beer industry, especially in imperial stouts. It makes perfect sense to match roasted coffee with roasted malt.Harmon Brewing Company has taken the...
View ArticleWinners announced for Aroma of Tacoma home brewing competition
The first-annual Aroma of Tacoma home brewing competition is in the books. Saturday, July 26, before the big Harmon Brewing Co. Progressive Party at Harmon Tap Room and The Hub, around 30 home brewers...
View ArticleTWOKOI Japanese Restaurant Certified Sake Specialist Jeannie Han is still...
In 2010, a few days before the Weekly Volcano foodie and drinkie group Nosh League gathered at TWOKOi Japanese Restaurant and drank 10,000 gallons of sake, or so it felt, WV scribe Jennifer Johnson...
View ArticleBest Tacoma restaurants for locavores
When Weekly Volcano scribe Kim Thompson approached a locavore story for the greater Tacoma area, she got totally stoked. Sure, she had some reservations, but it wasn't like she'd asked me to go vegan....
View ArticleTaste Bates Technical College's national award-winning Snooty Chef Burger...
One of life's greatest mysteries is: "who has the best burger in all the nation?!" It's one of the grand questions of the ages and is put to the test time and time again with burger competitions.Bates...
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