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Anheuser-Busch has announced that it’s buying Seattle’s Elysian Brewing, both the brewery as well as the four Seattle brewpubs: Elysian Capitol Hill, Elysian Tangletown, Elysian Fields and Elysian BAR. The East Pike locale, which opened in 1996, was the company’s flagship brewpub. According to a press release from Anheuser-Busch, Elysian’s co-founder and CEO Joe Bisacca, who will continue to work with Elysian, said “For two decades, we’ve welcomed guests into our brewpubs and served them creative and impeccably crafted beers. After a lot of hard work, we’ve grown from one Seattle brewpub to four pub locations and a production brewery. With the support of Anheuser-Busch, we will build on past successes and share our beers with more beer lovers moving forward.” Financial details of the transaction or planned changes have not been divulged. For more information, check out the Capitol Hill Blog. Is the beginning of the Starbucks-ization of Seattle’s beer scene?
Grand Central Baking which is capitalizing on the Hawks Super Bowl run with the bizarrely named ‘12th Man Loaf.’ Is it bread? Is it a swingers party dance contest? What’s a ‘Man Loaf’ anyway and why do I want the 12th one? The bakers are in self-proclaimed ‘Yeast Mode’ bringing you this football-shaped batard complete with ‘12’ stenciled in flour beginning on Friday, January 30th through Super Bowl Sunday. The bakery is encouraging advanced orders as many are expected to want their very own loaf of 12th man for the big day.
Mezcal has been well publicized over the years as that Mexican spirit with the little worm floating in the bottle. For years, people would say ‘don’t eat the worm’ as a warning of bad things to come. Well things have changed in the production and quality of mezcal and Mezcaleria Oaxaca is celebrating this fine beverage with a visit from sixth-generation mezcalero Asis Cortes who will be leading a class and tasting of artisanal mezcals at the restaurant on Monday, February 2, 2015 at 4pm. Cortes will cover everything from the agave cultivation through the production process culminating with a tasting of artisanal mezcals from Oaxaca’s Santiago Matatlan region. Tickets are $30 and to reserve a space you can email mezcaleriaoaxaca@gmail.com.
