Tokens of affection

Tue., June 20, 2017

By Rick Bonino boninobeer@comcast.net

We already told you that several Inland Northwest breweries brought home medals from a beer competition at last weekend’s Washington Brewers Festival .

And several of them also had good success selling beer during the annual three-day event at Marymoor Park in Redmond, which featured 128 breweries from throughout the state.

Paradise Creek, whose popular Huckleberry Pucker sour propelled it to a second-place finish in last year’s token count , came in seventh this year – one spot behind Iron Goat, which repeated its Top 10 showing.

Waddell’s (14th), Ten Pin (19th), Twelve String (21st), River City (22nd), No-Li (26th) and Steam Plant (27th) also placed among the top 30.

Arlington’s Skookum led this year’s list, followed by Black Raven (Redmond), Triplehorn (Woodinville), Postdoc (Redmond) and Heathen (Vancouver).

Other area breweries pouring at the festival included Orlison, Riverport and first-timer Young Buck.

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "On Tap." Read all stories from this blog

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