Foggy Noggin Brewing

Olde Cruz - Barrel Aged English Strong Ale

2011-12-08T19:43:00.000-08:00

Early visitors to the Foggy Noggin tasting room remember our black lab Cruz, who would warmly great them every Saturday. He loved the tasting room and would never miss a day to participate in whatever was going on in their.

He also loved brew day - he would smell the first batch of the day and know when the spent grains were ready to be put into buckets. These buckets are picked up by a local pig farmer, but Cruz made sure he got his share first.

Cruz lived a long and wonderful life in the brewery and reached the age of 14 before his age caught up with him. Arthritis and old age got the better of him and forced us to make the difficult choice to put him down.

Labor Day (2010) weekend, we received a wine barrel from Tim Henley (Gordon Brothers Winery). This barrel has been in use for the winery since 2004. We filled it with a special 6 batch brewing of our English Strong Ale. It was on display in our tasting room and planed to release this rare beer (Olde Cruz) late in 2011 in collectable bottles.

Old Cruz sat proudly on display in the Foggy Noggin tasting room for 1-year. Patrons would show their respect to Cruz by rubbing their hands on the wooden barrel. Not sure if this is true, but we heard that you would receive good luck by rubbing the barrel.

The year gave us 4 seasons of cold and warmer temperatures and Olde Cruz was in the middle of everything. September 2011 marked the time to get Olde Cruz out of the barrel and bottled.

Label approval from the TTB (federal government) was next. We started this approval process in August and never thought we would have to go through what we did. 4 submissions later, it was approved and ready to bottle.

Bottling was now ready after we finally got the label approval. Assembling staff for this event over the Thanksgiving weekend was not difficult.

The result was 25 cases of what could be called "The Rarest Beer In The World." With only 25 cases produced this is going to be a beer that everyone will want, and only a few can get.

Lots of loving care was put into this beer to get to you.

And his is not easy work.

Thanks to all who helped us get this one-of-a-kind special beer ready to sell to you.

Olde Cruz will make it's debut for bottle sales - Saturday - December 10th @1pm at the Foggy Noggin tasting room. $15/bottle, limit 6 per customer, cash only.

Guy Fawkes Day - November 5th

2011-11-04T16:38:00.000-07:00

Remember Remember the Fifth of November...

Much has been written about Guy Fawkes, many various versions and often debated over several pints. His legacy will never fade and cause for celebration annually on November 5th. Even a famous movie http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/ V for Vandetta was made to cash in on his infamous cult interest. Whatever is true and really happened may never be told, but below is how we at Foggy Noggin Brewing (Bothell, WA) like to celebrate this festivus event.

In 1605, Guy Fawkes led a group's plan to blow-up the British Parliment, as known as the GunPowder Plot. The plot was discovered and halted before the destruction happened. This famous date of discovery and the punishment of the leader (Guy Fawkes) was on November 5, 1605.

Guy Fawkes was strapped to a wooden chair and had a bonfire erected to surround him. The fire was a public display to warn future copycats of the penalty associated with these types of actions.

Each year, since this date, English people hace celebrated this holiday. Children will make a "guy" and take him door-to-door in their wagons, collecting fireworks for the big day. Much like the American Halloween tradition. Then the families get together and build big bonfires and throw in their fireworks and "guys". As they "guys" are tossed into the fire, they yell "Burn, you bloody bastard!"

"Guys" today resemble somone in dis-trust with the British people, very common to be political figures.

Foggy Noggin Brewing - 2010 Guy Fawkes Celebration

This year, Foggy Noggin Brewing will be clebrating this in conjunction with our tasting room - Saturday - Nov 5th (1-4pm). Bring your (environmentally safe to burn) "guy" to our tasting room and toss into our burn pile, and receive a $1 pint of our newest seasonal release - Butch's Brew (English Nut Brown Ale). Limit 1 per person.

Foggy Noggin Fresh Hop Diablo de Sol - Batch #1

2011-09-13T19:25:00.000-07:00

The end of summer marks hop harvest season and fresh hop beers. One of our hoppier beers is Diablo del Sol (English Pale) and the perfect candidate to do a fresh hop version.

We planted 2 hop rhizomes (Centennial and Fuggle, Spring 2010). Our first year beared no hops. Above is what our early hop shoots looked like in May 2011.

The wet spring really got these hops ready for some aggressive growth once the weather warmed up a bit.

They quickly grew to the top of the time before July and started to flower.

August is when they really started to develop the hop cones and really taking shape.

Harvest day at the end of August and boy do they look and smell great!

Here is the addition of the fresh hop Fuggles, at the end of the boil. This beer will be released Saturday - September 10th in the Foggy Noggin tasting room (1-4pm)

Washington Brewers Festival 2011

2011-05-14T07:39:00.000-07:00

This is the granddaddy of all beer festivals. Washington Brewers Festival brings together more breweries from Washington State in one location than any other event. 3-days of fun (Fri, Sat, Sun) over Father's Day weekend.

You can save $5 by buying your Saturday or Sunday tickets in advance. Foggy Noggin Tasting Room is our local source for these tickets, while supply lasts.

TICKETS NOW ON SALE

Friday

$15 advance tickets/at the door. (Friday advance tickets available online only)

Friday admission includes a tasting cup and FOUR tasting tokens

Designated driver admission is $8 and available at the door only

21+ only

Saturday & Sunday

$20 advance tickets or $25 at the door

Admission includes a tasting cup and SIX tasting tokens

Advance tickets are available online now

Designated driver admission is $8 and available at the door only

All Ages. Those under 21 admitted free (must be accompanied by a parent)

Tickets are good for one day only and non-refundable.

Buy advance tickets here now.

Advance ticket sales end on Friday, June 10th.

Parking Passes

On-site parking fee for Saturday and Sunday is $15 per vehicle (free on-site parking on Friday). Only a certain number of parking passes are available for each day. Non-refundable. Parking passes are good for one day only (Sat or Sun). No in & out privilege. Advance purchase required. Additional parking spots will be available only after vehicles with pre-purchased parking passes leave and release their spots. Disabled parking is free and there is a reserved disabled parking area close to the admission booth. Proceeds from on-site parking to benefit Saint Edward State Park.

Buy parking passes

Parking pass sales end on June 10th or when sold out.

Weekend Passes

Want to spend the entire weekend at the Washington Brewers Fest? Weekend passes are available at $40 and includes one ticket each to Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Weekend passes are available online for advance purchase only (not available at the ticket outlets or at the door). Weekend pass holders will be asked to wear a wristband throughout the weekend.

Buy weekend passes

Weekend pass sales end on Friday, June 10th.

Sign up for WABL now and receive extra bonuses!

2011-04-29T17:13:00.000-07:00

Preview article in May issue of Seattle Business Magazine. Pick up a copy soon at your favorite magazine outlet.

Nanobreweries starting to get some good press. Mentions of former Nano's, now micro's Schooner Exact and Two Beers. Discussion about Foggy Noggin, Epic and NW Peaks. Good read about some good brewers.

Foggy Noggin Brewing's - Our First Year

2011-03-17T19:53:00.000-07:00

Hard to believe it, but Foggy Noggin Brewing is getting ready to turn one-year old this weekend. What started as a dream and took over 2-years to conquer the many obstacles of permits and licenses, we made it and open our doors to the public on March 20, 2010. FogNoggers everywhere showed up in masses to see what this Foggy Noggin thing was all-about. We had over 300 curious visitors our first day and ran out of beer. This was just the beginning for the wild ride of our journey.

The video above is footage of our humble, but very proud, moment when we cut the ribbon and opened our tasting room to the public.

Our next challenge was to brew enough beer to attend the Washington Brewers Festival, over Father's Day weekend. We brewed all we could and took our 2 flag-ship beers (Bit O'Beaver and Christmas Duck) along with our Friday only beer (Kastrated Dawg) to this event. Again, we were amazed at the interest and attention to Foggy Noggin. We were shocked to learn that we served the 4th most amount of beer during the weekend. WOW!

We added three additional fermenters and started getting tap accounts. Foggy Noggin has had our beer on tap at 20 locations to date, and still growing. Invites to attend Brewers Events started coming in and we attended terrific turn-outs at: Malt & Vine (Redmond), Beveridge Place Pub (West Seattle), The Beer Authority (Lake City), The Green Frog (Bellingham), Diamond Knot (Mukilteo), Balefire (Everett). More are planned in our 2nd year already.

Each seasonal beer we introduced was hugely successful. Our tasting room began to be open most Saturday's, because everyone told us "I Want My Fn Beer!" We had another huge turn-out for the Open House '11, even though it snowed all day and the road conditions were very dangerous.

To celebrate the start of our second year, we brewed up a special beer. An English Old Ale, that plans to be brewed every year to celebrate this accomplishment. Watch the video to see the hands-on approach and care given to every bottle. This beer was bottled and will be available in very limited amounts - Saturday - March 19th @ 1pm.

Thanks to all you FogNoggers everywhere for a generous and warm welcome to the Seattle beer scene. We pledge to continue to bring you the finest hand-crafted English Styled Ales you can get.

Cheers and the best is yet to come.

Open House '11

2011-02-19T10:45:00.000-08:00

What could be better than visiting all the local breweries in the area on a Saturday? Now that you and I agree there is nothing better than this, Washington Beer is holding Open House '11 on Saturday - February 26th from 12 noon to 4pm. Open House '11 will keep you posted on which breweries are participating and what special events they each have in store.

Foggy Noggin Brewing is introducing the newest Foggy Noggin beer on this day.

Diablo del Sol – English Pale Ale

Sparky would be proud of this incredible interpretation of an English Pale Ale. This beer has a bold hoppy aroma that will warn you to apply sunscreen and put on your sunglasses. A huge amount of hops are added to the end of the boil to make this beer pop. Nice balance with a rich malty sweetness and floral aggressive hoppy pressence will have you thinking Spring is already here. ¡Salud!

Foggy Noggin Brewing - Named Best Nano-Brewery

2010-12-06T19:17:00.000-08:00

The Pour Fool: What to Drink from the World and the Northwest

http://blog.seattlepi.com/thepourfool/archives/230572.asp

"Best of the Northwest" 2010: The Finest Beers from our Corner of the Map!
In 2010, I tasted more beers from more regions and countries than any other year of my life. And out of that number, a shockingly small percentage was anything less than excellent. Seattle, Denver, Portland, Eastern Oregon, California, the East Coast, the Midwest, Texas, and even the Southwest - there's literally no part of this country that isn't producing innovative, thoughtful, delicious ales. I believe that, in decades to come, we'll all look back on this first decade of the 21st century as a Golden Age in the evolution of American beer. And many of its best breweries and most adventurous minds are right here in the Pacific Northwest. What follows below is, of course, just the opinions of one cranky, hyper-opinionated fifty-something guy with a long-standing love for British and Scottish ales and a growing impatience with wildly over-hopped, test-of-manhood IPAs. I look for quality first, second, and third, and quality is an all-encompassing concept. It's about balance, drinkability, grace, and good judgment - traits which are usually not the core values of today's younger beer lovers. Take this list, then, with an entire dairy-barn-sized salt lick and please note that, if your favorites aren't included, that does absolutely not mean that I didn't like them or intend any disrespect. Any list of any commodity produced by any critic is at the mercy of that writer's tastes, and mine is no different. Here then are The Pour Fool's suggestions for truly excellent beers you can seek out and try for yourself.

Best Brewery-Washington:

Walking Man Brewery/Stevenson, WA

Best Brewery-Oregon:

Deschutes Brewery/Bend, OR

Best Brewery-Idaho:

Grand Teton Brewing/Victor, ID

Best Organic Brewery:

Hopworks Urban Brewing/Portland, OR

Best New Breweries (2 years or less):

Upright Brewing/Portland, OR

Seven Seas Brewing/Gig Harbor, WA

Best Nano-Brewers:

Foggy Noggin Brewing/Bothell, WA

Beetje Brewing/Portland, OR

THE BREWS

Best Beers-Pale Ale:

Cascade Lakes Brewing "Pine Marten" Pale Ale

Deschutes Brewing "Lugnut" Pale Ale

Best Beers-IPA:

Laurelwood Pub & Brewery "Workhorse" IPA/Portland, OR

Two Beers Brewery "Evo" IPA/Seattle, WA

Best Beers-Amber Ale:

Mac & Jack's Brewing African Amber/Redmond, WA

Best Beers-Brown Ale:

Iron Horse Brewing "Malt Bomb" Brown Ale/Ellensburg, WA

Upright Brewing "Six"/Portland, OR

Best Beers-Double IPA:

Ninkasi Brewing "Tricerahops"/Eugene, OR

Hair of The Dog Brewing "Blue Dot" Imperial IPA/Portland, OR

Walking Man "Homo Erectus"/Stevenson, WA

Best Beers-Porter:

Flyers Restaurant & Brewery "Pacemaker" Porter/Oak Harbor, WA

Best Beers-Stout:

Ninkasi "Oatis" Oatmeal Stout/Eugene, OR

Best Beers-ESB:

Silver Moon Brewing "Badlands Bitter"/Bend, OR

Big Al Brewing "Brougham Bitter" ESB/Seattle, WA

Best Beers-Scotch Ale:

Boundary Bay Brewery Scotch Ale/Bellingham, WA

Best Beers-Imperial Stout:

Deschutes "The Abyss" Imperial Stout/Bend, OR

Best Beers-Strong Ale:

Deschutes Brewery "Jubelale 2010"/Bend, OR

Rogue Brewery "Double Dead Guy"/Newport, OR

Best Beers-Old Ale:

Upright Brewing "Billy the Mountain" Old Ale/Portland, OR

Best Beers-Barleywine:

Pike Brewing "Old Bawdy"/Seattle, WA

Best Beers-Wheat Beer:

Deschutes Brewery "Blackweiss"/Bend, OR

Best Beers-Lager:

Full Sail Brewing Limited #2 Pale Lager/Hood River, OR

Best Beers-Pilsner:

Silver Moon Brewing "Uber Pils"/Bend, OR

Best Beers-Bock/Doppelbock:

Fish Brewing "Detonator" Dopplebock/Olympia, WA

Best Beer-Red Ale:

Bend Brewing "Scarlet Red" Imperial Red/Bend, OR

Best Beer-Rye Ale:

Upright Brewing "Turkey on Rye"/Portland, OR

Best Beers-Wood Aged:

Full Sail "Top Sail" Bourbon Imperial Porter

Best Beers-Herb or Spice:

Elysian Brewing "Avatar" Jasmine IPA/Seattle, WA

Best Beers-Fruit Beers:

Bend Brewing Cherry Baltic Porter/Bend, OR

Best Beers-Nut Beers:

Black Raven Brewing Pecan Porter/Redmond, WA

Best Beers- Sour Ale:

Deschutes "The Dissident" Flanders-style Sour Brown/Bend, OR

Best Beers-Wild Ale:

Deschutes Brewery "BenderWeisse"/Bend, OR

Best Beers-Seasonal:

Deschutes "Jubelale"/Bend, OR

Pike Brewing "Auld Acquaintance"/Seattle, WA

Hopworks Urban Brewing "Abominable"/Portland, OR

Best Beers-Smoked Ale:

Big Al Smoked Porter/Seattle, WA

Best Beers-Ancient Recipe:

Hair of the Dog Brewing "Adam"/Portland, OR

Best Beers-Experimental:

Terminal Gravity Brewing Single-Hop Double IPA Series, Newport Edition/Enterprise, OR

Best Beers-Other:

Big Al Brewing Peanut Butter Stout/Seattle, WA

Best Beers-Attempts to Define Cascadian Dark Ale:

Deschutes Brewery "Hop in the Dark"/Bend, OR

Terminal Gravity Brewing CDA/Enterprise, OR

Widmer Brothers "Pitch Black"/Portland, OR

BEST OF THE BEST

Best Overall Brewery: Deschutes Brewery/Bend, OR

AND THE WINNERS ARE...

Billy the Mountain - The Abyss - Workhorse IPA

Top Three Northwest Beers:

Deschutes "The Abyss" Imperial Stout/Bend, OR

Upright Brewing "Billy the Mountain" English-style Old Ale/Portland, OR

Laurelwood "Workhorse" IPA/Portland, OR

Posted by Steve Body at December 4, 2010 12:09 p.m.

Special Project Annoucement - Olde Cruz

2010-09-06T16:31:00.000-07:00

Saturday marked the arrival of wine barrel from Gordon Brothers Winery (thanks Tim). We have been brewing on the side some of our Special Version of our English Strong Ale for this barrel. 60 Gallons were brewed, fermented and stored for weeks awaiting the barrels delivery. This is a very special beer that only produces 1/3 BBL output on each batch. Yes, this means we have 6 batches combined into this barrel for this unique, one-of-a-kind special brew.

Tim Henley (Gordon Brothers) told me this Hungarian Oak barrel has been used since 2004 for Cabernet barrel aging, but the last use was for a Merlot. Looks like the wine has penetrated over 1/2 of the wood and offers a wonderful wine aroma.

Filling the barrel was performed September 5th. Half of the barrel was filled from Glass Carboys, while the other half from Cornelius Kegs. The result, a happy filled keg of wonderful beer and lots of wine residue (wine and wine yeast) left behind.

This beer is big enough to handle the wine and the oak barrel, as it brings a 9.5% ABV full bodied Strong Ale back-bone to the table. Plans are to age this for a year to let the barrel and wine meld with the beer and create a unique finished product (called "Olde Cruz") proud to wear the Foggy Noggin brand name. This will be a very limited production. Very little of this will be kegged for limitied distribution and the rest be be bottled in a limited run of collectable bottles.

Visit our tasting room to view this barrel on display and make sure you rub the barrel, as legend has it to bring good luck to those who rub it.

Where Can I Get My Foggy Noggin Beer?

2010-07-27T17:34:00.000-07:00

As of August 25, 2010, we have beer available at the following locations:

Malt & Vine (Redmond) - Chief Lightfoot should be coming on tap very soon
Beveridge Place Pub (West Seattle) - Look for more beer to arrive next week
Courtyard by Marriott (Bellevue) - they currently have Christmas Duck on tap
Latona Pub (Greenlake) - they currently have Bit O'Beaver on tap
Main Street AleHouse (Bothell) - Look for more beer to arrive soon
Fiddler's Inn (Wedgewood) - Look for more beer to arrive soon
Nake City Taphouse (Greenwood) - Christmas Duck should be on tap very soon
Foggy Noggin Tasting Room (Bothell) - Currently has Christmas Duck, Chief Lightfoot and Civil War all on tap

Follow where our beers are on TapLister

Get Your Noggin Foggin!

Where In The World?

2010-07-27T17:28:00.000-07:00

The correct answer was Golan Heights (Israel). Congrats to those who got it right. Even those who didn't guess correctly can feel lke winners by heading over to one of our locations serving Foggy Noggin beers, or visit our tasting room.
Thanks for playing!

Where In The World Is Foggy Noggin?

2010-07-18T20:47:00.000-07:00

Do you know where the Foggy Noggin t-sirt is? Try your guess on our poll.

Little Foggy Noggin Brewing Serves 4th Most Beer @ Washington Brewer's Festival

2010-06-26T07:10:00.000-07:00

In our first three months, since our Grand Opening, we continue to be surprised with the support local beer enthusiasts give us. We have been unable to keep beer in stock to allow pubs to carry our beer, so we expanded our capacity 4X. We attended our first beer festival, Washington's biggest event, The Washington Brewer's Festival and were shocked with the reception we received.

With 77 locations inside St Edwards State Park (Kenmore, WA) set-up to take your token for either a beer, wine or cider sample - Foggy Noggin Brewing (Bothell, WA) took in the 4th most tokens of all attendees. I don't have to tell you that Washington has lots of great breweries making great beers, but little Foggy Noggin (most of the people attending never had heard of us) getting 4th most?

What this says is Washington beer hop-heads, enthusiasts, geeks and freaks all have open minds and like to try new beers. Thank you to all who attended this event and ventured to our booth and sampled our beers.

We brought our two flagship beers - Bit O'Beaver (English Bitter), Christmas Duck (Porter) and Friday night only Kastrated Dawg (English Strong Ale). Since the Kastrated Dawg was only available Friday, there was some urgency about trying this beer. Additionally, we let our followers know that there were only three 1/6 BBL kegs of this and each was different than the other. We started with the regular version, then the oak aged version and finally the Lagavulin oak aged.

First beers served at the Festival Friday night? Foggy Noggin's Kastrated Dawg. The first person through the entry gate, ran straight to the Foggy Noggin booth and told us he wanted to get Kastrated. We had no choice to to comply with his request. He enjoyed the experience to much he made sure everyone else at the festival got in line for a Kastration experience.

Get Your Noggin Foggin!

Delivery of Walk-In Cooler

2010-06-01T19:13:00.000-07:00

We just took delivery of our new walk-in cooler. Hope to have this up and runing within the week.

Once we keg our beer, not we have ample space to keep it cool until we either tap in the tasting room or deliver to your favorite beer outlet.

It may be only 4x6, but it looks great from this view. You can gaze at this as you wait in line for a tasting pour or growler fill. How many kegs will this fill? I will let you know when we fill it up.

Foggy Noggin Growing Hops?

2010-05-23T10:49:00.000-07:00

What started as an idea in Hillsboro, OR in Karla's backyard (now Hop Farm), has moved north and in planted in the back of the Foggy Noggin Brewery. Karla planted one rhizome of Willamette last year and harvested one ounce. This was used in brewing out Kastrated Dawg (which will be available at the Washington Brewer's Festival (June 18). Kim planted two rhizomes this spring in the East exterior of the brewery. Centennial and Fuggle. From the looks of the pictures below, the Fuggle hops has the best start so far. Stay tuned for updates and more pictures.

New Fermenters Arrived!

2010-05-07T18:20:00.001-07:00

Custom made 1/2BBL fermenters from Elliott Bay Metals (Mukilteo, WA) arrived today. We ordered 3 and 2 arrived. These are expertly crafted fermenters and match the existing one we had. Perfect compliment to the Foggy Noggin Brewery. Look for more beer coming out of the brewery in the near future and more places to order it.

Get Your Noggin Foggin!

Foggy Noggin Gets Cool

2010-05-03T05:30:00.000-07:00

With warmer weather coming soon (we hope), we needed to install air conditioning (AC) in the brewery. Since we control our ferment temperature by the room, we heat in the winter and will need to cool in the summer.

This took all day Saturday to do. Thanks to a couple of real FogNoggers (Brady and Tom) to help get this work completed. Now it's installed and Foggy Noggin is ready to handle the hot days of summer.

Get your Noggin Foggin!

New Kegs Arrived Today!

2010-04-23T15:05:00.000-07:00

As we grow to meet the demand on our beers, we are converting to 1/6BBL sankey style kegs. Good thing I still have my old Checy Suburban to transport the kegs. Now I know how much capacity the Suburban has for cargo - 51 kegs.

Soon we will be able to provide your favorite beers (Foggy Noggin Beers) at your local favorite beer place. Start spreading the word that Foggy Noggin is your beer of choice and you want them to start carrying it.

Get your noggin foggin!

Foggy Noggin's 1st Brewers Event

2010-03-29T18:32:00.000-07:00

You came to the Foggy Noggin Grand Opening and are now hooked on our beers. Thanks for your support! You want more and we are completely sold out. How can you get more? Come to our first Brewers Event this Friday (April 2nd) @ Malt & Vine (Redmond, WA) http://www.maltandvine.com/. We will be there to talk to you about both our Bit O'Beaver (English Bitter) and Christmas Duck (Porter) which will be on tap and for sale in growlers. Event runs from 5:30- 7:30 pm.

Announcing Foggy Noggin Growler Exchange Program

2010-03-25T20:10:00.000-07:00

By popular demand, we are staring a Growler Exchange Program. We will take advance orders each week, up to 10pm each Friday for growler orders. They can be picked up Saturday between 10 am - 12 noon.

Details:
If you already own a Foggin Noggin Growler and it is in near mint condition (no scratches, all the printing is in tact) we will trade that growler for a new pre-filled growler for $10 (cash).

If you don't have a Foggy Noggin Growler yet, we will sell you a pre-filled growler for $15 (cash). You can trade it the following week.

We will not be filling any growlers on these exchange times.

How to participate:
E-mail us @ foggynogginbrewing@comcast.net your order, prior to 10pm the Friday before you want to pick-up the beer. Currently we have limited amounts of Bit O'Beaver and Christmas Duck. Bring your cash during the Saturday pick-up time (10 am - 12 noon). Take the beer home and enjoy!

Any questions? Please e-mail us @ foggynogginbrewing@comcast.net

Grand Opening Today @ Foggy Noggin Brewing

2010-03-20T07:37:00.000-07:00

Tasting Room ready to pour.

Look at all our great merchandise. You would look great wearing that hat.

Great Article on Foggy Noggin Opening!

2010-03-18T22:03:00.001-07:00

http://wine-beer-washington.com/announcements/foggy-noggin-grand-opening-320/

Preview of Foggy Noggin Glassware

2010-03-16T18:21:00.000-07:00

Foggy Noggin Tasting Room Set To Open

2010-03-16T10:27:00.000-07:00

What you have all been waiting for is almost here. The first day of Spring is coming Saturday – March 20th. This means winter is over, temperatures warming up, longer days and the grand opening of the Foggy Noggin Brewing tasting room.

Grand Opening – What does it mean?

We will have the tasting room open from 1-4PM on March 20th, 2010. Here beer enthusiasts (with ID to prove they are over 21) will be able to sample our two flagship beers – Bit O’Beaver and Christmas Duck. These beers will be available for sale by the growler (1/2 gallon glass container). If you have a growler, you can bring it and we will fill it for $10 (cash), or you can purchase a Foggy Noggin growler for $5 (cash) and have it filled for $10 (cash). We will have a limited amount of T-Shirts, Sweatshirts, 20 oz. pint glasses, 4 oz. taster glasses and hats for resale. All sales are cash only.

Since we are located in a neighborhood location, it is critical that everyone obeys the speed limit and does not block any driveways. We need to be courteous beer enthusiasts to make sure our neighborhood continues to support the brewery. There is no consumption allowed in the tasting room, which means no public bathrooms, no pint sales. This is truly a taste and beer to go operation. Let me thank you in advance for your support in observing our request.

Where is Foggy Noggin?

We are located at: 22329 53rd Ave SE, Bothell, WA 98021. We are approximately 3 miles East of Canyon Park.

How Frequent will the tasting room be open?

We don’t have a good handle on this at this time, sorry. It is impossible to anticipate the demand of our beers. Each time we are open we want to have enough beer to meet the demand, as much as possible. We will use our blog and twitter accounts to get this information out. Right now, I think we will be open one (1) Saturday each month.

A peak inside the mother of all breweries!

2010-03-10T20:23:00.000-08:00

Great Press for Foggy Noggin

2010-02-28T09:13:00.001-08:00

http://wine-beer-washington.com/announcements/good-things-come-to-beer-lovers-who-wait/

Foggy Noggin Grand Opening Set

2010-02-27T13:52:00.000-08:00

Hey FogNoggers

As February comes to a close and we quickly approach the unveiling of the Foggy Noggin Beer line-up, it is time to provide a bit more update on our progress.

January 23, 2010 marked our first commercial brew day, with a ½ BBL brewing of Bit O’Beaver (English Bitter). We have brewed 2 successful batches of Bit O’Beaver and 1 of Christmas Duck. We are brewing every week now and hope to be able to keep up with the demand. The date March 20th for our grand opening is set. Address and directions will be sent in the March 2010 update and posted on our web-site.

Grand Opening – What does it mean?

We will have the tasting room open from 1-4PM on March 20th, 2010. Here beer enthusiasts (with ID to prove they are over 21) will be able to sample our two flagship beers – Bit O’Beaver and Christmas Duck. These beers will be available for sale by the growler (1/2 gallon glass container). If you have a growler, you can bring it and we will fill it for $10 (cash), or you can purchase a Foggy Noggin growler for $5 (cash) and have it filled for $10 (cash). We will have a limited amount of T-Shirts, Sweatshirts, 20 oz. pint glasses, 4 oz. taster glasses and hats for resale. All sales are cash only.

Since we are located in a neighborhood location, it is critical that everyone obeys the speed limit and does not block any driveways. We need to be courteous beer enthusiasts to make sure our neighborhood continues to support the brewery. There is no consumption allowed in the tasting room, which means no public bathrooms, no pint sales. This is truly a taste and beer to go operation.

How Frequent will the tasting room be open?

We don’t have a good handle on this at this time, sorry. It is impossible to anticipate the demand of our beers. Each time we are open we want to have enough beer to meet the demand, as much as possible. We will use our blog and twitter accounts to get this information out. Right now, I think we will be open once a month, stay tuned. We will try to find a way for growler pick-ups on non-open weekends.

Foggy Noggin in the Press

We are having positive press from the local beer blog-sphere, as the Northwest eagerly anticipates the first pouring of our brews.

http://nwbeerguide.blogspot.com/2010/01/wa-foggy-noggin-brewing-jim-jamison.html
http://seattlebeernews.com/?p=1353
http://www.washingtonbeerblog.com/foggy-noggin-brewing-clears-another-final-hurdle/

Where can I get my Foggy Noggin?

We are also getting inquiries from restaurants, beer bars and beverage houses on how they can among the first to serve the Foggy Noggin Beer line-up. We are in negotiations with a couple of retail locations that we think lines-up well with our beers and will represent us well. Stay tuned for announcements on these locations.

Regular followers of Foggy Noggin will be able to e-mail pre-orders and schedule for pick-up of growlers, using our Fn Growler Exchange. We are considering home delivery service in the local Bothell area as well.

What is Foggy Noggin Brewing?

We are brewers of great English Styled Ales on a very small 1/2 BBL system. We are now one of the world's smallest production breweries. We take great pride in every batch to bring you consistent high quality brews year-round. While we get up and running, you will only be able to get our fresh beers at our tasting room, located at our brewery in Bothell, WA.

We will begin with our two (2) flagship beers - Bit O'Beaver (English Bitter) and Christmas Duck (Robust Porter). More beers are planned to be introduced as we grow.

www.foggynogginbrewing.com is live, we plan to make this a unique experience you will want to bookmark and visit often. You can follow us on twitter http://twitter.com/fognog. Here you will get updates on the brewery modifications and brew sessions. Our blog is update frequently and an excellent source for what is going on http://foggynogginbrewing.blogspot.com/. We are on facebook as well and another source for interaction with Foggy Noggin http://www.facebook.com/pages/Foggy-Noggin-Brewing/225240566671?ref=ts.

Spread the word and let your friends know about Foggy Noggin Brewing. To get future updates like this, have your friends send me an e-mail requesting to get on the Noggin News distribution.

Nice press release on Foggy Noggin

2010-02-27T13:48:00.000-08:00

http://wine-beer-washington.com/announcements/good-things-come-to-beer-lovers-who-wait/

Where Does Foggy Noggin spent grains go?

2010-02-23T11:13:00.000-08:00

Support our local farmer who recycles our spent grains .http://www.pasturedsensations.com/

Foggy Noggin in the Shawdows of Greatness

2010-02-23T05:34:00.000-08:00

Batch #3 In The Fermenter

2010-02-06T17:19:00.000-08:00

Great brew session today, with our #3 brewing (Christmas Duck), Visitors today included: Ken and Daniel, who are starting a new brewery in the very early stages (Tacoma), Clint, with Malt & Vine www.maltandvine.com/ (Redmond) - talked about potential distribution of Foggy Noggin Beers, and my good friend Chris. Matthew came mid-way thru the session to help clean the kettles.

Where in the World is Foggy Noggin? (Picture #2)

2010-02-01T21:14:00.000-08:00

Correct location: Strange Brewfest 2010 - Port Townsend, WA

Fun Times @ Stange Brewfest!

2010-01-31T19:02:00.000-08:00

Great fun in Port Townsend over the weekend at the Strange Brewfest. Long line formed in the rain as eager beer nuts had no idea what was in store for them.

Lots of interesting beers to try. Big Al's was probably the most popular with their Peanut Butter Imperial Stout and Winter Mint. Met lots of brewers and beer geeks. www.bigalbrewing.com/

Met a new brewery who is nearly our neighbor, 192. Good luck to them as they get started. www.192brewing.com/

Wondering if we will try to brew up a concoction for next years event. We have brain-stormed many ideas already.

Unusual Friday Brew Day

2010-01-29T18:25:00.000-08:00

Since we are headed to Strange Brewfest Saturday, we brewed Batch #2 (Bit O'Beaver) today. Another flawless brew session. Things are looking good. Had a couple of visitors. One was an interested Beer Nut, the other was there to price additional fermenters. Yes, we are not even open yet and considering expansion. We are gettin' our noggin' foggin!

First Brewing Done!

2010-01-23T14:23:00.000-08:00

First commercial batch is done and fermenting away. Bit O'Beaver - Yeah! Looks like grand opening to be March 20th. Stay tuned FogNoggers!

Foggy Noggin in the News

2010-01-22T05:48:00.001-08:00

http://nwbeerguide.blogspot.com/2010/01/wa-foggy-noggin-brewing-jim-jamison.html

What Time Is It?

2010-01-20T18:58:00.001-08:00

Foggy Noggin Time! First pour from test batch #1 - Bit O'Beaver. Awesome!

3rd and final test batch brewed today

2010-01-14T20:44:00.000-08:00

Test brewing is done. All set to turn it on live. 3rd and final test batch (Christmas Duck) in the fermenter. Get ready you FogNoggers, we will be ready for tasting and growlers to go very soon.

Where in the World is Foggy Noggin? (Picture #1)

2010-01-10T10:25:00.000-08:00

Where in the World is Foggy Noggin? Picture #1

Correct location: Caesar's Palace - Las Vegas, NV

2nd Test Batch Fermenting

2010-01-09T17:37:00.000-08:00

Success brewing of our 2nd test batch today. Bit O'Beaver tasted great as we transferred 1st test brew. Looks like we are getting dialed in well. Maybe a 3rd test batch next week - Christmas Duck - before we go live.

Peak Inside The Brewery

2010-01-07T05:52:00.000-08:00

Lets take a peak thru the window on the first test brew session.

Foggy Noggin Brewing gets mention in Highlights for 2009

2009-12-31T05:49:00.000-08:00

Interesting article reviewing major happenings and events of 2009, with regards to beer of course.

Washington Beer Blog

A big story from 2009 involves the sheer number of breweries that opened, are poised to open, or are now in the works. It has been hard to keep track of them all, but we list them below in no particular order.

Fremont Brewing (Open in Seattle)

Pillagers (Open in Seattle)

Black Raven (Open in Redmond)

Odin Brewing (Seattle, unclear, but we’ve seen their beer out there)

7 Seas (Open in Gig Harbor)

MT Head Brewing (Open in Graham)

Foggy Noggin (Very near opening in Bothell)

Airways (Very near opening in Kent)

Palouse Falls (Open in Pullman)

Icicle Brewing Company (Planned in Leavenworth)

Grove Street (Open in Shelton)

Riverport (Opened in Clarkston in 2008, but took a while for the news to reach the coast)

Golden Hills Brewing Company (Open in Airway Heights)

Just last week we told you about four other brewing companies that were issued liquor licenses, though we have few details about any of those. (read it)

Another look at the view from the Foggy Noggin Brewery

View from Brewery

2009-12-28T19:07:00.001-08:00

First test batch of Foggy Noggin!

2009-12-26T10:02:00.000-08:00

Getting ready to fire up the kettles for the first test batch of Bit O'Beaver. Huge ceremonial gala, everyone is here - Matthew, Stephanie and Nicky. Good thing we added the rail on the stairs so there are no injuries today.

Passed Our Final Inspection

2009-12-23T06:51:00.000-08:00

Remember the date - December 22, 2009. This is the date Foggy Noggin Brewing passed our final building permit inspection. We are good to go and ready to start brewing our beers. Grand opening TBD - late Feb or early March 2010. Stay tuned.

Foggy Noggin Sailboats

2009-12-20T18:22:00.000-08:00

www.doggonesailboats.embarqspace.com

Maybe Next Year?

2009-12-06T18:02:00.000-08:00

Had fun at this year's Winter Beer Festival - Hope to have Foggy Noggin available next year.

Soon to be Home of Foggy Noggin Brewing

2009-11-29T21:10:00.000-08:00

As we prepare for our inspections (electrical, plumbing and final occupancy), hard to believe this will be the home of Foggy Noggin Brewing.

We hope to have all approvals to start brewing before the end of the year. Stay tuned for the grand opening in ealry 2010.

Turkey Bowl 2009

2009-11-29T21:06:00.000-08:00

Foggy Noggin Crew showing off their backside during the 2009 edition of the Turkey Bowl.

Backside = Good side

2009-04-17T19:09:00.000-07:00

The Foggy Noggers went bowling for Thanksgiving and showed off their new FN shirts. No one could leave until someone bowled a turkey (3 strikes in a row). Beer was plentiful and scores were relatively not embarrassing. More pictures here.

It goes without saying, we are a classy bunch.

Look! LABELS!

2009-04-05T16:44:00.000-07:00

Foggy Noggin is a new, proud member of the Flickr world. Check out our Flickr account to see pictures of Foggy Noggin events, brewing parties, growler adventures and labels. Interested in writing a review on Foggy Noggin? Feel free to access all of our high resolution images at our Flickr site for your publication.

Just today we've uploaded our label art on our Flickr account. Take a look!

Something is brewing

2009-03-17T16:21:00.000-07:00

The web site is soon to be realized.

www.foggynogginbrewing.com

It's still under construction, but add us to your bookmarks. Good things going live soon!