In this piece — which is part one of ESI’s ‘Esports ‘n’ Beer’ series — we explore the fated partnership between North American org Evil Geniuses and renowned brewery Elysian Brewing, both headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
That Pacific Northwest (PNW) gem, Seattle, has long been both a mecca and port of export for nerdy cultural capitals.
Beer nerds the world over consume liberal amounts of hops grown in the nearby Yakima Valley; Washington State alone produced almost 70% of all North American commercial hops in 2019. Music nerds will be remiss not to recognise at least a handful of the rainy city’s iconic artists, in part thanks to the national treasure of a local radio station, KEXP.