Recent stories by Rick

• Celebrating their craft

  Sept. 13, 2013 in Features on Page C15 Spokane’s fall beer festival has a new name to match its new energy. The former Spokane Oktoberfest is now the Inland NW Craft Beer Festival, returning to Riverfront Park on … 1

• Raise a glass to summer’s end

  Aug. 23, 2013 in Features on Page C15 With summer winding down, the calendar is filling up with outdoor beer events: • Laughing Dog celebrates its eighth anniversary with its annual barbecue, Saturday from noon-7 p.m. at the …

• Hoppy trails

  Aug. 9, 2013 in Features, Seven on Page C15 It’s been getting so you can’t keep all the local craft brewers straight without a program. Now, there is one. Today marks the official launch of the Inland Northwest Ale …

• Veteran infuses beers with military identity

  July 26, 2013 in Features, Seven on Page C15 The name of North Idaho’s next brewery may sound a bit wacky, but its inspiration is deadly serious. Mad Bomber Brewing is a project of Tom Applegate, a recently discharged …

• Leading with lagers

  July 12, 2013 in Features, Seven on Page C15 In Germany, beer purity laws stipulate that lagers contain only water, malted barley, hops and yeast. But when it comes to running a brewery, as Bernie Duenwald discovered, a fifth …

• A suds and spirits sampler

  June 28, 2013 in Features on Page C15 Beers from several area breweries will be poured at a pair of tasting events Saturday: • Budge Brothers, Iron Goat, No-Li, Orlison and River City, along with Alaskan and Budweiser, …

• Hopped Up gets tapped in

  June 14, 2013 in Features on Page C15 You might think Steve Ewan named his new Spokane Valley brewery Hopped Up for his love of hoppy beers. Or you might suspect it has something to do with his …

• Dinner’s brewing

  June 12, 2013 in Food on Page C1 Don’t just hand Dad a beer with dinner this Father’s Day – serve him some suds in his food, too. While still not quite so familiar as cooking with wine, …

• Local beers get cask treatment

  May 10, 2013 in Features, Seven on Page C15 When it comes to craft beer these days, “roll out the barrels” has a whole new meaning. Aging beer in barrels that previously held wine, whiskey or other spirits to …

• Boomers haven’t strayed from music that helped define generation

  April 29, 2013 in Features on Page C1 Almost 40 years ago, in one of its biggest hits, Fleetwood Mac sang: “Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow. … Yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone.” Today, fans of the band – which … 4

• Waddell’s Noble has a handle on craft beer industry

  April 10, 2013 in Food on Page C1 The beer business just keeps getting bigger and better for Michael Noble. Since Noble opened Waddell’s Neighborhood Pub & Grille in south Spokane with his partners in 2008, the number …

• Brothers bring outdoors theme to new brewery

  March 13, 2013 in Food on Page C1 From fishing to hunting, hiking to snowboarding, Jason and Ryan Wing are all about adventure. Now the Coeur d’Alene brothers are embarking on a new one: launching their own brewery. … 3

• A year later, Geno’s shines with varied menu

  Feb. 20, 2013 in Food on Page C1 It’s been more than a year now since Geno’s ran away and joined the circus. The old Geno’s, beloved as it may have been to its regulars, was a one-trick … 1

• CdA Brewing back as River City

  Feb. 13, 2013 in Food on Page C1 River City Brewing may be the Spokane beer scene’s new kid on the block, but it’s been around the block a few times. Behind the venture are the Spokane-based owners …

• Downsizing invites simplicity, savings

  Feb. 11, 2013 in Features on Page C1 Everything about the baby boom generation has been big: their numbers, their ambitions, their impact on society. But there’s one thing about the boomers that’s starting to get smaller: their … 4

• A taste of tea

  Feb. 6, 2013 in Food on Page C1 Maybe it’s time to turn over a new leaf when it comes to your cooking – a tea leaf, that is. Tea has traditionally served as an accompaniment to foods …

• New year brings new breweries

  Jan. 9, 2013 in Food on Page C1 Looks like the new year will bring even more new breweries to the Inland Northwest. Among the latest local projects to surface: 1

• Trickster’s treats

  Dec. 12, 2012 in Food on Page C1 For Matt Morrow, it’s like Christmas in … well, December. Morrow had hoped to have his Trickster’s Brewing Co. in Coeur d’Alene up and running by July, if not sooner. … 4

• Beer aficionados reap the benefits as retailers capitalize on liquor law

  Nov. 14, 2012 in Food on Page C1 The privatization of Washington liquor sales has been a mixed bag for seekers of spirits, with prices running higher than the state-store days. But beer drinkers are benefiting. Two retailers … 3

• Pot of gold

  Nov. 7, 2012 in Food on Page C1 As archaeological finds go, it was fairly significant – a piece of terra cotta pottery whose origins date back a couple thousand years, to Etruscan times. It was right there …

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