Bundle Up For A Winter Fundrasier

On Saturday, November 13th, from 6-10 pm we’ll be hosting a fundraiser in our Beer Garden for the Alpine Safety Awareness Program !

All ages are welcome at this event and the cover is $10 per person or $30 per family.  Your cover price includes live music by BentGrass, Ahi tacos and a “not so silent” auction for outdoor/ski/snowboard gear.  50% of the auction proceeds will benefit the Turk Family whose 12 year old daughter has diagnosed with an agressive form of leukemia this summer.

The Alpine Safety Awareness Program (ASAP) is a community-based effort that uses local resources to teach alpine safety skills to children and adults throughout the Pacific Northwest. They aim to save lives and reduce injuries by proactively increasing alpine safety awareness.

The Alpine Safety Awareness Program was founded in Bellingham, Washington in 1999 by a local ski patroller after several preventable deaths occurred in the backcountry of the North Cascades mountains. The curriculum is based on the Canadian Avalanche Association and their Snow Smart program with the goal of saving lives by preventing future avoidable accidents from happening.  Since 1999, they have reached more than 30,000 students and adults through their programs and they continue working to make safety a habit among all winter outdoor enthusiasts!

This fundraising event will be held outdoors in our Beer Garden so dress warmly!

 

One Big Brew Ha Ha!

Join us in the Beer Garden this Saturday to celebrate Whatcom County’s beatufiul places and the Whatcom Land Trust!  Over the past 25 years, the Whatcom Land Trust has preserved over 10,000 acres of land right here in Whatcom County.  Join them as they celebrate their anniversary this weekend in our Beer Garden with live music, BBQ, entertainment for the whole family and more!

The fun starts at 3pm and the family-friendly portion of the event lasts until 7pm with entertainment by Bentgrass, the Whatcom Storytellers Guild and the Youth Improv.  After 7:00, the fun continues with performances by the Second Story Players and the End of the Road String Band.  There’ll be BBQ, brats and a special Stew Brew that we’ve created right here at Boundary Bay Brewery in honor of stewardship!

The cover is $10 and all proceeds go to support the Whatcom Land Trust, so come have fun and know that you’re supporting a great cause while doing it!  The Whatcom Land Trust is working hard to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.  Joining us at the Brew Ha Ha this Saturday, October 2nd, is a great way to help ensure the important work that they’re doing

Alpine Safety Awareness Fundraiser

It’s time for the 10th Annual Alpine Safety Awareness fundraiser!  This Saturday, in the Boundary Bay Brewery beer garden, for dinner (all you can eat fish tacos!), live music by Bentgrass and a silent auction/raffle from 5:30pm to 10pm. Pay attention all you winter sports lovers: this is a great opportunity to get some great deals on winter gear AND raise money for a cool organization at the same time. Plus, our winter seasonal beer Cabin Fever will be on tap so you can celebrate the coming of winter RIGHT!

The Alpine Safety Awareness Program (ASAP) is a community-based effort that uses local resources to teach alpine safety skills to children and adults throughout the Pacific Northwest. We aim to save lives and reduce injuries by proactively increasing alpine safety awareness. Since 1999, we have reached more than 30,000 students and adults through our programs. Our goal is to make safety a habit among all winter outdoor enthusiasts. The Alpine Safety Awareness Program was founded in Bellingham, Washington in 1999 by a local ski patroller after several preventable deaths occurred in the backcountry of the North Cascades mountains. The curriculum is based on the Canadian Avalanche Association and their Snow Smart program with the goal of saving lives by preventing future avoidable accidents from happening.

Bentgrass is a Bellingham string band that plays traditionals, originals and unusuals!  They play superb bluegrass loaded with quick-picking songs and energetic, fun original tunes and, somehow, the sound that Bent Grass achieves really brings you back to a time when things were a little slower and simpler.

Join us this Saturday for great local music and IN support of a wonderful local nonprofit organization founded right here in our own community! This is an all ages, family friendly event. Tickets $10.00 each, $30.00 for families. Dress warm (you’ll be in the beer garden)! If you can’t attend Saturday’s fundraiser, but would still like to help, donate here!

Oktoberfest at Boundary Bay!

As we know, all good things must come to an end and, unfortunately, the season of events in the beer garden has come to an end.  It did, however, go out with a bang!  For the final event of the season in our beer garden we had our own Oktoberfest celebration.  The garden was full of Fall revelers and people getting in to the spirit of things!  Ralf supplied us with authentic Bravarian pretzel treats and, as is our Oktoberfest tradition, we tapped a Firkin keg that, this year, held Havest Ale that had been fresh hopped with hops from our very own garden.  Here’s a couple of our favorite pics from the Oktoberfest celebration:

Looks like a fun time was had by all!  Don’t miss out next year on our Oktoberfest party in the beer garden.

Oh, and while I began this blog by saying the Oktoberfest marked the end of the season in the beer garden…well, all rules have exceptions, don’t they?  While the season is, for the most part, over…there are three events that came in just under the deadline and will stretch the season of garden events just a little longer.

The first of these events is on Saturday, October 4th when the Soundwaves Surfrider Benefit Concert is happening from 2pm until midnight.  The Northwest Straights chapter of the Surfriders Foundation is holding a benefit concert and fashion show in the beer garden.  The fashion show by Georgie Girls is at 7 pm and there will be a raffle to win a Gabe Kling autographed custom surfboard.  There will be music by The Surf Messiahs, Boris Budd, Vox Solis, North by Northwest, Vaughn Kreestoe, Voodoo Grace Notes, Pau Hana Brothers, Kreg Presley, and Sweet Beets.  All ages are welcome until 10 pm and the cover is $7 ($5 for 10 and under).

On Sunday October 5th, we’re going to have an art exhibition and a live art show down in the garden starting at 3 pm.  Don’t miss this unique, exciting opportunity to watch an amazing artist create right in front of you!  This art show is going to be from a Seattle artist named Solace who makes great urban, graffiti inspired art.  He’ll be working with acryclics and spray paint in the garden on Sunday.  Trust me, you do not want to miss this!  Check out this gallery on myspace of Solace’s work.

And finally, on Saturday October 25th, there will be a fundraiser in the beer garden for the Alpine Safety Awareness Program (ASAP).  This is an all ages community event featuring live music from BentGrass, all you can eat fish tacos, and a live auction of outdoor recreational equipment.  All money raised during this evening of fun pays for the insurance that ASAP must purchase to offer their free youth and adult awareness programs.