Beer With a Washington Story

The Summer Washington Looked Up

In June 1947, something strange started happening in the skies over Washington.

Pilot Kenneth Arnold was flying near Mount Rainier when he reported seeing nine unusual objects moving rapidly through the sky. His account became national news and helped launch what would become the modern era of UFO sightings.

And Washington wasn't finished.

Just days later, reports of strange objects and unexplained debris near Maury Island added another chapter to the story. Whether you believe the explanations, the conspiracy theories, or something considerably more extraterrestrial, Washington earned itself a permanent place in UFO lore.

Evergreen Invasion Hazy IPA is our nod to that wonderfully weird piece of Washington history.

The Man Who Vanished Into the Northwest

On November 24, 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper boarded a flight from Portland to Seattle.

He handed a flight attendant a note, demanded $200,000 and four parachutes, and after receiving the ransom in Seattle, the plane took off again.

Somewhere over the Pacific Northwest, Cooper opened the rear stairs of the Boeing 727, jumped into the darkness—and disappeared.

The FBI investigation would last decades. Some of the ransom money was eventually discovered along the Columbia River, but Cooper himself was never conclusively found.

The press mistakenly called him D.B. Cooper, and the name stuck.

More than half a century later, nobody knows for certain what happened after he stepped out of that airplane.

Skyjacked Cascadian Dark is our tribute to one of Washington's greatest unsolved mysteries—dark as the forests Cooper disappeared into, with enough bright hop character to keep things interesting.