Many of our distributors have websites - you can find those on our distributor page.

A national listing of beer events, tastings, and festivals is here.

An archive of past issues of our e-newsletter is right here.

We keep brewery logos in vector format, available for download at our ftp site - right here. If you want digital photos of labels, bottles, glassware, or breweries please go here. (You will need a username and password, which you can get by contacting our office or your local MdV rep.)

Recipes! We keep great recipes made with beer right here. Also, Sean Paxton - the Homebrew Chef - has some fantastic recipes on The Homebrew Chef.

If you want to know more about what the terms Organic, Vegan, and Gluten-Free mean when applied to beers from Merchant du Vin, check out this .pdf of 75 KB right here.

Our friends at Pike Brewing, in the heart of downtown Seattle, are on the web right here.

Brewer Teri Fahrendorf keeps a listing of women who are professional brewers at the Pink Boots Society. The list includes Barbara Mueller of Pinkus Brewery and Catherine Maxwell Stuart of Traquair House Brewery.

Merchant du Vin's founder, Charles Finkel, is not only a beer guru: he's a skilled & trained graphic designer. The Charles Finkel Design website is right here.

If you have questions about organic certification, there is a wealth of information at the USDA's National Organics Program website.

A 2009 page-a-day calendar featuring great beers - including some imported by Merchant du Vin - is available now right here.

You can purchase soaps made with Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout; Lindemans Framboise, Peche, or Cassis; or Melbourn Strawberry Ale at Sacred Showers.

We have long been curious what beer would look like if photographed with a "reflected light differential interference contrast (DIC) microscope using a quartz compensating plate between the Wollaston prisms and polarizers." Well, Florida State University has satisfied that curiousity with this DIC microscope photo of Samuel Smith's Imperial Stout.

Beer Advocate and Ratebeer.com are great sites for beer information, events, food pairings, and consumer ratings.

Belgian Beer Me! specializes in Belgian beer tastings and is scheduling beer-oriented tours of Belgium. Also, look here for Belgian beer classes held in the Pacific Northwest.