Final Draft Taphouse is a craft-beer bar in Vancouver Washington featuring 30 rotating craft beers, craft cider and wine, and a small food selection. We offer the community an entertaining, welcoming, community craft-beer bar to gather to learn about and enjoy high quality, local craft beers while connecting with existing and new friends.
We are almost one year old already! Can you believe it? We can, barely! We would love to celebrate with all of you! Mark your calendars, save the dates!
This is a little gem of video that I made two years ago already! While it may be a few years old, it remains my love letter to American Craft Beer! Maybe Mike and I should make a new one soon cause well, we have a lot to be thankful for because of American craft beer and all the opportunity it provides us!? What do you think?
During the 2nd annual North Bank Beer Week (Sept. 22 to 30), we invited North Bank Brewers to come into the taphouse and tell their stories. As the (tap)house of stories, we believe in the power of telling stories to connect with each other, new friends, and the community. North Bank brewers shared about their breweries, how they got into brewing/came to open their breweries, and their thoughts on being part of the North Bank. Here is the collective story emerging of the North Bank craft-beer scene as told by 15 North Bank (SW Washington Brewers)!
We already knew we have found ourselves part of a very exciting time in this community because of craft beer but after hearing their stories, we are even MORE excited to be a part of it all! We look forward to watching it grow and being a part of its continual growth!
The 2nd annual North Bank Beer Week took place Sept. 22 to 30. And here at Final Draft Taphouse, we did several events including Brewers' Stories, our launch of Couve Brew Bevy, and a Trap Door/Wingman Brewers Collab beer release party! Throughout the week, there were many events around Vancouver and the entire North Bank celebrating all the goodness that is craft beer on the North Bank! Being part of the North Bank is something very special with lots of promise for the future of craft beer on the North Bank! We are excited to be part of the North Bank and part of this awesome craft-beer community!
We look forward to next year's North Bank Beer Week!
Here's an image recap of our North Bank festivities!
Brewers' Stories - Wally from Brother Ass Brewing
Brewers' Stories - Northwood Public Public House - Brewers
Brewers' Stories - Brothers Cascadia Brewers
North Bank Beer Week Swag!
Brewers' Stories - Gary from Trusty Brewing
Brewers' Stories - The Heavy Metal Brewing Co. Brewers
Brewers' Stories - Jesse from McMenamins on the Columbia
Brewers' Stories - Bolt from 54-40 Brewing
Brewers' Stories - Steve from Hill Billy Brewing
Brewers' Stories - Jeff from Ghost Runners Brewery
Now that we have our feet under us, we are celebrating in a major way from August 4 through 6. With one event each day and giveaways, we would love to see you and pour you a pint! Check out the event below! Hope to see you at one or ALL of them!
Friday, August 4 from 5 to 7 p.m. - 11 Vancouver breweries will be on tap and the brewers will be at the taphouse meeting and greeting and giving away fun swag!
On Saturday, August 5, we will tap our collaboration beer we brewed with Ex Novo Brewing. It's a sessionable - NE IPA made with mosaic and simcoe hops and dry-hopped with more mosaic, simcoe and a bit of cascade hops! It's super crushable and juicy. It's SIPA-ilicios! Come and see us Saturday and drink it up! Ryan Buxton, head brewer of Ex Novo, will be at the taphouse from 2 to 4 p.m. and we will be giving away some fun swag!
On Sunday, August 6 from 3 to 5 p.m., Steven Shomler, Author of Portland Beer Stories and creator of the Portland Beer Podcast will be beertending at our taphouse. He is a mentor, amazingly RAD human and a advocate and huge-supporter of all craft-beer and craft-beverage and food creations in Portland and beyond. Steven will be giving away two of his books and have more for sale.
In addition, we will be introducing our first storytelling event called Snaps & Taps. Photographer Jeff Hinds will be at the taphouse previewing a sneak peak of what Snaps & Taps will be like and sharing more about how to get involved with Snapa & Taps, a photography basics meet-up for craft-beer lovers!