With 550 different bottles of beer on its shelves and 21 taps, The Beer Shoppe can appeal to the most discerning of craft beer snobs.Ī unique place to stop in Yakima is Yakima Valley Hops, one of the largest online hop sellers in the nation. If you’re looking for a hard-to-find bottle, wander over to the straightforward named The Beer Shoppe. The drinks menu has specialty cocktails and wine and a tap list jam-packed with local beers, including hard-to-find ales from places like the aforementioned Varietal Brewing. Just down the street, Crafted, a hip eatery and bar, serves an ever-changing menu of locally sourced food. Cowiche Canyon Kitchen + Icehouse is a restaurant/bar with an extensive tap list of local beer and wine, upscale pub grub and knowledgeable staff. One other brewery that attracted big crowds at the recent Fresh Hop Ale Fest, Varietal Brewing, is slated to open a taproom in early 2018 in Sunnyside.īesides breweries, Yakima has plenty of other craft beer-focused eateries, taprooms and businesses. There’s a huge playfield for dogs to run and the Hattens love them, having put on the annual Brontoberfest in mid-October that includes a dog costume contest and wiener dog races for the past few years.Ī number of smaller breweries also are worth checking out, including Hop Nation Brewing and Berchman’s Brewing in downtown Yakima and Cowiche Creek Brewing in Cowiche. Order the gourmet bacon cheeseburger pizza and a pint of gold-medal winning Thriller Pillar Porter.īring Fido as well.
There’s plenty of room to stretch out in one of the brewery’s two inside dining areas or the giant patio outside. The same year that Bale Breaker opened, Mike and Annette Hatten opened Bron Yr Aur Brewing in Naches, about 20 miles northwest of Yakima. Order a Top Cutter IPA, sit outside on the patio and gaze at the long-angled poles and bines of the hop fields as folks play cornhole on the lawn. Founded by fourth-generation hop farmers in 2013, Bale Breaker runs a 27,000-square-foot facility smack dab in the middle of a working hop field in Moxee, just outside of Yakima. The state’s first and largest American Viticultural Area, Rattlesnake Hills AVA, has more than 17,000 acres of vineyards, and is one of a number that also include Red Mountain, Snipes Mountain, Horse Heaven Hills and Naches Heights.įor a place that grows 75 percent of the hops used to make beer in the U.S., it only makes sense.Īny self-respecting craft beer fan should start their Yakima journey at Bale Breaker. Yakima has a richer tradition of wineries than breweries. As the rest of the state and nation underwent a craft beer craze, Yakima remained a one-brewery town until Grant’s Brewery Pub closed its doors for good in 2003.
But after Bert Grant opened the first microbrewery in America since Prohibition in Yakima in 1982, things went quiet here. 1 producer of hops in the nation, Yakima is known for hops and helping American brewers bring robust flavor to their beers. The Fresh Hop Ale Fest, one of the largest beer festivals in the state, has made its curtain call and Yakima’s annual lovefest to the green, cone-shaped flower that mesmerizes Northwest beer drinkers has packed up for the year.īut craft beers are still pouring strong in Yakima. The fresh hop beers aren’t so fresh anymore. The newspaper will instead be printed in Walla Walla by the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin.YAKIMA - Most of the hops have been harvested. The newspaper was printed in Yakima until 2021, when The Seattle Times Company announced it would sell the Herald-Republic 's headquarters and printing plant. It is now part of The Seattle Times Company, which purchased the paper in 1991. Harte-Hanks sold the paper to an affiliate of MediaNews Group in 1986. Harte-Hanks bought the Herald-Republic in 1972 from the Robertson family. The newspaper traces its roots to the late 19th century. It is Washington state's seventh-largest daily newspaper. The Yakima Herald-Republic is a newspaper published in Yakima, Washington, and distributed throughout Yakima, Kittitas and Klickitat counties as well as northwest Benton County.
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