The headwaters of the Skagit River lie in the mountains of British Columbia. Ultimately, that is the source of the river’s bounty. Fair Isle Brewing recently teamed up with other members of the Washington Brewshed® Alliance to create a beer that celebrates the bounty of the Skagit River. Today, at its taproom in Seattle, Fair Isle Brewing releases Diane, an Imperial Saison. The beer was created to draw attention to an important issue and support efforts to Save the Skagit. Currently, officials in British Columbia are considering permits that would allow […]

Lots of breweries have found ways to adapt to our pandemic-affected world, adjusting and changing the way they’d always done business to meet the new, unprecedented challenges the situation presented. For Fair Isle Brewing in Seattle, which opened just weeks before the world flipped upside-down, the survival plan included Tavour, the local company that specializes in shipping craft beer nationwide. The state’s mandates caused Fair Isle to shut down its taproom, but they continued to sell beer to-go, and however else they could, like selling it via Tavour. While folks around Seattle were just […]

Kiwis are the size of a large hen’s eggs, brownish-green, and fuzzy. They grow in places like New Zealand and California. That’s a kiwi, right? Think again. Kiwi fruit is a different animal. It possesses some of the same flavor characteristics but is the size of a grape, not fuzzy, and thrives in environments like the one we have here in Western Washington. Fair Isle Brewing in Seattle wants you to know about kiwi fruit (aka kiwi grape or kiwi berry). In particular, Ananasnaya Kiwi, which is what they used to create Ana, a […]

Fair Isle Brewing of Seattle just introduced the first beer in a series of oak-aged, fruited farmhouse ales. This one is called Tove and it was fermented on blackberries. It is available to go at the brewery’s taproom in Ballard. Order it in advance online here for pick up at the taproom (walk-ins welcome too). Here is the release announcement from Fair Isle Brewing: Tovean oak-aged ale refermented on blackberries 6.7% ABV || 375mL bottlesBATCH: ONE || PACKAGED: DECEMBER 2019 Tove is the first beer to be released in our series of fruited […]