I do my mail order from Steinbart's. I've had better luck with them and have used them for 12 years, now. Kelso is pretty good, I stop when visiting family. Astoria LHBS isn't bad, just never what is needed in stock.
A lot of grain and hops crosses the docks in Vancouver, you would think that some of these LHBS would buy stuff locally, not re-packaged stuff that has to be shipped out then back in.
Ed
I'll check out Steinbart's. Hard to beat morebeer, but I'll check it out and see.
In Longview / Kelso I used to use "your homebrew". Good people and a young store that needed support but they were lacking and I hear they are now gone.
Hop-and-grape looks good but every time I contact them to see if they have what I want, they either don't get back to me or they don't have what I want.
Astoria is a cool store. They have decent beer on tap and a good selection of bottled beer that's hard to come by. Unfortunately they have very limited grain and yeast selection and they keep their hops in a box on a shelf rather than in a fridge. Not ideal. I did buy my portable draft system hardware from them though.
Still, it's located a couple doors down from another entertaining drinking establishment that I may need to go to this weekend. If I'm over there I'll stop in to the homebrew store just because.
