This weekend has some of the best annual events we know of — all happening at once! On that list is the insanely popular Lagerhead Festival at No Boat Brewing in Snoqualmie. The 3rd annual celebration of all things cold-crashed has seen the number of attending breweries triple since it started, including many you might not be as familiar with.

This week, our best buddy, fellow lager lover, and Rainier Growlers bar manager, Ben Chase, took a break from planning their own 12th annual Christmas in July Barrel Aged tap takeover event to hang with us to go over a few of the attending breweries, talk about a few favorite lager makers, and tell you all who to look for at Lagerhead.

Hey, speaking of festivals… Don’t forget to grab your tickets to Grainmaker in Spokane on Aug. 7.

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Alright, Grit & Grainers! Please email us at cheers@gritandgrainpodcast.com with your comments, opinions, and favorite lagers. You can subscribe to GGP on YouTube, Amazon, Apple Music, Spotify, Google Play, and iHeartRadio, and please leave us a review. Be sure to also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

If this podcast is not what you expected, please alter your expectations. No such thing as a bad time to visit Tacoma. No such thing as too much barleywine. Tune in next Friday for more sweet chatter. Cheers!

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It’s crazy to think we are one episode away from 200!

To celebrate the occasion, we got together with The Pink Boots Society and Georgetown Brewing, put together a special collab beer, and released it for this special doubleheader episode.

Long-time Georgetown brewer and Research and Development Brewer Matt Edwards and Pink Boots Society Seattle Chapter Leader Ali Himmel-Smith came to hang on the mic and drink a few pints of our beer, “More Me, Less You.”

Tune in to hear about Matt’s origin story in the beer world, Ali’s move over to draft line cleaning and her venture into the wine world, and the dangers of being a farm hand.

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Alright, Grit & Grainers! Please email us at cheers@gritandgrainpodcast.com with your comments, opinions, and favorite Georgetown beer. You can subscribe to GGP on YouTube, Amazon, Apple Music, Spotify, Google Play, and iHeartRadio, and please leave us a review. Be sure to also follow us on Facebook and Instagram.

If this podcast is not what you expected, please alter your expectations. No such thing as a bad time to visit Tacoma. No such thing as too much barleywine. Tune in next Friday for more sweet chatter. Cheers!

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Washington Wild Brewshed Alliance Director Chris Chappell returns to Grit & Grain to explain what happens when the forests, rivers and public lands that make great beer possible suddenly need the beer industry to return the favor. The conversation moves from efforts to sell federal public lands and weaken the Roadless Rule to the nearly 90 breweries and beer businesses using their collective voice for conservation, including the Public Lands Pub Ale, No Boat Brewing’s massive Lagerhead festival and Watershed Pub’s wonderfully civic-minded Convergence series. at Watershed Pub.

Along the way, Chris makes the case that conservation doesn’t always need to feel like homework. Sometimes advocacy looks like a brewer signing a letter. Sometimes it’s a neighborhood pub gathering people around a cause. Sometimes it’s breweries pouring lager to protect clean water. And sometimes the most effective doorway into complicated public-land policy might simply be a pint and the question of where its water came from. Because beer begins long before the mash tun — upstream in forests, snowpack and watersheds — and protecting those places ultimately means protecting what eventually winds up in our glasses.

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Alright, Grit & Grainers! Please email us at cheers@gritandgrainpodcast.com with your comments, opinions, and what you think is the most underrated watershed in Washington. You can subscribe to GGP on YouTube, Amazon, Apple Music, Spotify, Google Play, and iHeartRadio, and please leave us a review. Be sure to also follow us on Facebook and Instagram.

If this podcast is not what you expected, please alter your expectations. No such thing as a bad time to visit Tacoma. No such thing as too much barleywine. Tune in next Friday for more sweet chatter. Cheers!

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