This last weekend I was hanging out with my friend Pygmy (no, she's not a roller derby skater and yes that is her real nickname) and some of her old high school friends from Wisconsin Gayle and Jack. We were talking about beer. They had traveled up Highway 101 from California and had stopped at various wineries and breweries along the way. They had a whole case of
Rouge's Double Dead Guy IPA which the brewery folks had said you couldn't get in Seattle yet. (Of course I'm pretty sure I've had it up here but probably just not this year's batch.) That then lead into talking about hops and how he wanted to grow his own hops and brew his own beer.
Hops. Washington state is the largest grower of hops in the country - more than 77% of US hops are produced there - 40% of the world's hops are grown in the Yakima Valley. I learned that at
Snoqualmie Brewery two winters ago (when a group of us went there instead of Leavenworth in the blizzard.)
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