The best of the Northwest -- beers that is
New England is one of the meccas of craft brewing, but we get stiff competition from the Northwest. Sadly for us, a lot of those great Northwest beers are made by brewpubs and small breweries, so the beer stays in the upper left corner of the country.
Happily for us, every November some of the Northwest brewers, such as Dick Cantwell of Elysian Brewing Company in Seattle, with Kim Jordan of New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins, Colo., (below) send kegs of their wares to Redbones BBQ in Davis Square for the restaurant's Northwest Fest.
There was a brewers' dinner last night (which has been sold out for weeks), but the beers will be rotating through the taps for the rest of the month. Try Cantwell's Prometheus Stolen Fire IPA, full of Northwest hops -- Chinook, Centennial, Cascade -- but really nicely balanced. And don't miss the deep, dark Boundary Bay Imperial Oatmeal Stout. It's a huge beer with raisin and other dried fruit, caramel, and coffee flavors.
If you make it to Redbones and find any other Northwest beers that you think are great, please let us know. They only stay on tap for a few days, then the rotation changes, so it's hard to keep up. And once they're gone, we won't see them again. At least not until next year.
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As a Seattlite who was living in Boston (but who is now back in Seattle), I have to say this was one of my favorite events of the year at Redbones.
When they had their NW beers flowing, I was over there almost every other day.
In the recent Food Issue of The New Yorker, there is an article on Dogfish Head brewery. For fans of craft beer, this is an interesting read.
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