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from pike brewing: WOMEN IN BEER  Pike Brewing Company will again present Women In Beer on May 11 from 6-9 pm. Don't miss this event, always one of the highlights of Seattle Beer Week. Mark your calendars now for this celebration of women in their current and historic roles in the production, preparation, and marketing of beer, wine, spirits, cider, and artisan food. The event benefits Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest. Last year 300 guests attended and we heard from many that it was their favorite, and one of the busiest Seattle Beer Week events.   BOOST YOUR BREWSTER The first beers were brewed by priestesses thousands of years ago. Beer goddesses reign supreme in early mythology, and it was a nun who gave us hops. Ale wives were the first brew pub operators, yet as soon as beer became industrialized it became masculinized, that is, until the craft beer renaissance. On March 8th, women around t...

i love a beer pairing dinner! (okay, i pretty much always love it when someone else cooks and there's beer!) i went to cork & fin's beer pairing dinner last wednesday night featuring six courses of delicious food and six wonderful brews (including a cask) from moon under water i got to tap the cask! my first-ever cask tapping!  and i didn't even fuck it up! course one: SEAFOOD SCOTCH EGG Caviar, Micro Greens, Saffron Oil ‘Pots Pils Unfiltered’ Pilsner course two: SALMON ‘PASTRAMI’ European Style Sausage, House Mustard, Pickles, Rye Bread ‘Tranquility’ India Pale Ale course three: SAVOURY DOUGHNUT Pork Belly, Crackling, Sauce Mornay ‘The Victorious’ Weizenbock   course four: PANKO FRIED OYSTERS Local Oysters, Frites, Stout Tartar Sauce C & F – Moon Oyster Stout course five: POT PIE Oxtail, Braised Vegetables, Puff Pastry Single Moon Batch Red Wheat Wine Ale ‘Year 1’ ...