Wander

Post long run (gettin' back after it), the Morrison's, baby-faced Ryder & myself met for brews at Bellingham's newest brewery, Wander. The brew hall is industrial: concrete, wood plank tables, benches with rust-colored minimal metalwork. Ceilings are high, exposed, there are pieces of a multi-ton crane system once used to haul in boats. There's a rotating selection of 10 beers on tap; they'll host food trucks and offer outdoor seating.

From Left: Ryder, Scott the Fox, A. Morrison

You can do a hand-selected 5-flight beer tasting - you write your choices on a tab of vanilla cardstock, which they slip into the toolbox holding your flight. The gang and I tried the Bellinghamer Wee Heavy, WA Uncommon, Shoe Toss Rye IPA, the Correspondent, and the Global Mutt Baltic Porter ("Why the name? A Baltic Porter brewed with a lager yeast strain, coffee direct from the farmer in Brazil, fair trade cocoa nibs from the Democratic Republic of Congo, chocolate from Theo’s in Seattle, water from Bellingham, hops from Yakima, and specialty malt from Europe…the beer is a true Global Mutt!). Favored some over others. Unfortunately for me, the brewery will be less hop-focused. It was nice to have another place to go besides the ever-populated Kulshan Brewery or the sweet mind-sting of Boundary Bay.
 
Here's a writeup on Wander, written by the Washington Beer Blog.