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Hilliard's in Ballard Has Great Beer in the Can

Hilliard’s in Ballard Has Great Beer in the Can

It’s not easy to distinguish oneself as a brewer in this microbrew-soaked city. But Ryan Hilliard is off to a good start before his Ballard brewery, Hilliard’s Beer, is even open. Hilliard, thanks to a relatively new small-scale packaging machine called the ACS 3.5 (by Cask Brewing Systems), is putting his prize-winning home brew-turned-professional-project craft…

Beer-Fuelled Memories of Seattle

Beer-Fuelled Memories of Seattle

Our Grey Matters columnist looks back on simpler, sudsier days

Drinking locally is a long-held tradition, though it has gone in and out of vogue. Washington was a major supplier of hops for beer and grapes for wine long before Prohibition, and during it, we avidly smuggled booze from Canada. One prominent bootlegger, featured in the new Ken Burns documentary Prohibition, which airs this month…

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