Dear Beer Friends! Here is our latest on our new reality!

Hey Beer Friends – what a week we have all had.

We want to let you all know that we have always valued the health and safety of our employees and our guests and will continue to do so. We are unsure of the days and weeks ahead but what we do know is that we and our team will be here for you. We are open regular hours - modified as of March 17 (OPEN 3 to 8 pm for TO-GO BEER ONLY!), and we have some great beers on tap (we could all use a cold one right about now!?!).

We know that during this time small businesses will be hit the hardest so here are some things that you can do, if you can, to help support any small brewery/taphouse/pub/restaurant in our community. Things that you can do at this time: support all of us by coming in …if you’re healthy and feel comfortable doing so, grab beer and cider to go, purchase a gift card for future use if you are not going out at this time, purchase merchandise and sport your craft beer/Vancouver pride!

Thank you for always showing up for us. We are grateful for all of your love and support and inquires and for always being RAD! Mike & Kimberly

2020 The Draft Society Beer Club - Sign Up for The Draft Society!

Announcing….

The Draft Society 2020 Membership Sign-Up Starts January 1, 2020!

The Couve’s Premiere Beer Club

Vancouver Wa Beer Club

Get Discounts, Exclusive Perks, and Meet Rad Friends!

Draft Society Members Receive…

• A special member glass, either giving you happy-hour pricing OR a bigger pour (depends on beer and what the original pour is!).

• 10 percent off merchandise and all to-go beer

• Monthly Society Meet-Ups - Second Wednesday of Every Month

• First dibs on beer at Final Draft Beer Events

• Society Launch Party on Wednesday, February 12, 2020

• End-of-Year Members Party in December 2020.

Why be part of The Draft Society?!? Because The Draft Society is a rad group of beer friends who love beer, love exploring beer, want to hang in community, want to not only receive perks but want to be part of something where they can explore craft beer, learn more about craft beer, and make connections with other beer lovers in Vancouver/SW Washington!

Early Bird Membership fee is $100 from January 1-8, 2020.

January 9-15, 2020 - $125 for Membership!

Limited Number of Memberships. Get yours early!

Annual Memberships go on sale January 1, 2020! We will be open 12-5 pm on New Year’s Day so you can get your membership!

Craft Beer & Writing | NaNoWriMo Location

Here at Final Draft Taphouse, we encourage people to tell stories, write stories, create stories, film stories, and/or share stories how ever you choose! The power of stories is great! Storytelling is the oldest form of making connections and making sense of the world around us!

Stories have always been naturally told at pubs, bars, and we are very intentionally about creating a taphouse where people can share their stories. One of the ways we do that is with our writing group Brews ‘N Write-In. On a monthly basis on the first Monday of each month, we host a Brews ‘N Write-In meet up event. Writers of all kinds are invited to come and write together while having a pint! It’s a casual setting but the writers write! We do this because we understand just how hard it is find time to write, so this write-in group is meant to encourage people to write and come together and meet other writers!

What do craft beer and writing have in common? Well, for one, they are two of Final Draft’s co-owner Kimberly’s loves! Second, they are both forms of art and bring people together! One thing that we are doing for the month of November is being a “Come Write In” Location for NaNoWriMo! One our your Brews N Write-In regular attendees/writers is a faithful NaNoWriMo writer and brought it up to the group a last year. Encouraging everyone to consider the challenge, several of the Brews N Write-In have decided to commit to writing every day in November.

Therefore, we have decided to become an official NaNoWriMo Location.

What does that mean for us? That means you are welcome to come and write anytime in our taphouse during the month of November. In addition, we have designated a few times for all of us to gather in the backroom for NaNoWriMo.

Those times are:

• Monday, November 11 - 6:30 -8:30 pm

• Thursday, November 21 - 6:30 - 8:30 pm

• Saturday, November 30 - 1-4 pm

We will have our specific Brews N Write In as we always do on November 4. We hope you will join us in writing whether it be just on November 4 or throughout the month. Happy Writing!

We're Turning TWO! I Save the Dates I July 26 & 27

Mark Your Calendars Beer Friends!!! 

We are turning TWO in July, and we're going to throw a party! Save the date for July 26 AND 27! 

We are so excited to celebrate our two-year anniversary with all of you. We're having TWO rad events, and here are more of the details!

Friday, July 26 - We'll be releasing our special TWO-YEAR Anniversary beer we brewed in collaboration with Brothers Cascadia Brewing! This will be a special, limited CAN RELEASE that you will want to get...a rad label included designed by our friend Jeremy Backer!

Saturday, July 27 - We're throwing a big ole two-year party this day/night that it will feel like Christmas in July! A bunch of crazy, awesome barrel-aged beers on tap, cake, giveaways, Santa is going to make a visit - even though he is very busy getting ready for the real deal Christmas, and we'll have beery christmas caroling led by our brew-loving ladies of Couve Brew Bevy!

We hope you can join us. One night, two nights, either way, we would love to celebrate with you and give you a HUGE THANK YOU hug, high-five or cheers! Because well, we wouldn't be two years old without all of you!

Vote for Us! Best of Clark County I Best Taproom

Thank you to everyone who nominated us for the Best of Clark County awards!

We are honored to be in the finalists for Best Taproom and in such great company! 

Now is the voting time which goes until April 21! We would love your vote! 

To vote, go to the Best of Clark County website and click under the Food category for Taproom. Also, vote for all of your favorite businesses in Clark County. These awards help businesses a lot with spreading the word about all that we do!

http://www.bestofclarkcounty.com

Thank you in advance Beer Friends!

Introducing The Draft Society Beer Club!

Introducing….

The Draft Society

The Couve’s Premiere Beer Club

Vancouver Wa Beer Club

Get Discounts, Exclusive Perks, and Meet Rad Friends!

Draft Society Members Receive…

• A special member glass, either giving you happy-hour pricing OR a bigger pour (depends on beer and what the original pour is!).

• 10 percent off merchandise and all to-go beer

• Monthly Society Meet-Ups - Second Wednesday of Every Month

• First dibs on beer at Final Draft Beer Events

• Society Launch Party on Wednesday, February 13, 2019

• End-of-Year Members Party in December 2019.

Why be part of The Draft Society?!? Because The Draft Society is a rad group of beer friends who love beer, love exploring beer, want to hang in community, want to not only receive perks but want to be part of something where they can explore craft beer, learn more about craft beer, and make connections with other beer lovers in Vancouver/SW Washington!

Membership fee is $100 annually and renew each January. Limited Number of Memberships. Get yours early!

Annual Memberships go on sale January 1, 2019! We will be open 12-5 pm on New Year’s Day so you can get your membership!

Darts I Vancouver, Wa.

We now have dart boards installed in our backroom of the taphouse. Join us anytime to play a game of darts! These are the real-deal steel-tip darts too! We are working on creating a tournament night as well, so stayed tuned for that.

Darts can be checked out with our beertenders!

Craft Beer & Writing | NaNoWriMo Location

Here at Final Draft Taphouse, we encourage people to tell stories, write stories, create stories, film stories, and/or share stories how ever you choose! The power of stories is great! Storytelling is the oldest form of making connections and making sense of the world around us!

Stories have always been naturally told at pubs, bars, and we are very intentionally about creating a taphouse where people can share their stories. One of the ways we do that is with our writing group Brews ‘N Write-In. On a monthly basis on the first Monday of each month, we host a Brews ‘N Write-In meet up event. Writers of all kinds are invited to come and write together while having a pint! It’s a casual setting but the writers write! We do this because we understand just how hard it is find time to write, so this write-in group is meant to encourage people to write and come together and meet other writers!

What do craft beer and writing have in common? Well, for one, they are two of Final Draft’s co-owner Kimberly’s loves! Second, they are both forms of art and bring people together! One thing that we are doing for the month of November is being a “Come Write In” Location for NaNoWriMo! One our your Brews N Write-In regular attendees/writers is a faithful NaNoWriMo writer and brought it up to the group a few months back. Encouraging everyone to consider the challenge, several of the Brews N Write-In have decided to commit to writing every day in November. Therefore, we have decided to become an official NaNoWriMo Location. What does that mean for us? That means you are welcome to come and write anytime in our taphouse during the month of November. In addition, if we don’t have events planned, the backroom at the taphouse will be open to NaNoWriMo writers. In addition, we will have our specific Brews N Write In as we always do on November 5. We hope you will join us in writing whether it be just on November 5 or throughout the month. Happy Writing!

Thank you! NorthBank Champion Award

Thursday, Oct. 11, Northbank Brewers Alliance presented us with the ‘NorthBank Champion’ trophy. The trophy is an annual award honoring 3 local taprooms in response to a single question survey of the breweries: “Which taproom does the best to support SW Washington Beer?” Each brewery has 1 vote and the public Facebook vote accounted for 1.5 votes in the event of a tie.

We were completely surprised! Mike and I were both working behind the bar, and we starting noticing many of our craft beer friends (industry friends) were arriving. We were so grateful to see everyone but honestly just thought they were meeting up for meetings and/or pints together. About an hour into to noticing, next thing you know, Mike DiFabio of Fortside Brewing, a member of the NorthBank Brewers Alliance, came up to the bar with the trophy and made the announcement. We were totally surprised and taken aback. Everyone cheered, we said a few words and there may have been some tears along with it!

We are very grateful to be recognized by the Northbank brewers and North Bank craft beer community! We love this community and supporting local craft beer. We believe in SW Washington and what the breweries are doing to make this a great place to live, work, and share life with others. We work very hard running our taphouse and want to make it a place where everyone is welcome, and we can highlight local, independent craft beer! To be recognized for doing what you love is very rewarding! Thank you to everyone who voted for us! We are in very good company, and we are proudly displaying our award in our taproom!

2nd place was Hockinson Market joined by 3Peaks Public House and Taproom for 3rd. All three taprooms are engraved on the award for 2018!

Tonight with Cassidy! Features Ukes in the Couve

Craft beer and ukuleles!? We are all about it! Our monthly Ukes in the Couve jam session got a special visitor last night. Mckinzie of Tonight with Cassidy of KGW News showed up and shared the love for this jam sessions and our group Ukes in the Couve! It was a packed house last night, and we were stoked to share the jams with them LIVE! 

Check out the segment #TonightwithCassidy!