After we mentioned tonight’s annual Beer Church Turkey Bowl on WSB earlier this week, someone asked if the Beer Church was “faith-based.” We said no – but in a way, that was wrong. Kim Jones (above) and Kendall Jones certainly have faith in people’s generosity – and in their quest for a good time. So the annual Turkey Bowl honors both. The former, as evidenced here:

That’s some of the hundreds of pounds of food – to be donated to the West Seattle Food Bank – that had already arrived when we checked in earlier on tonight’s event at West Seattle Bowl. And as for the “good time,” the teams that came to bowl – and for the annual good-natured competition between local beverage purveyors/establishments – included this quartet from the Feedback Lounge (WSB sponsor):

We even found … an out-of-uniform Seattle Police commander:

That’s Capt. Joe Kessler, who led West Seattle’s Southwest Precinct till moving across the bridge to the sprawling West Precinct last year. The Turkey Bowl rolls on into the night; we’ll update this story when there’s a final tally from the Beer Church leadership on just how much their disciples brought to the party!

ADDED SUNDAY: Here are the results!

Last night we raised over $4k in cash and over 2k pounds of food (estimate) for the food bank. Exact totals will come from (WS Food Bank), probably on Monday. We had a total of 199 bowlers participate.

Once again, we had a couple of competitions going on within the larger event. Eight breweries and eight bars competed this year.
Naked City Brewing Co from Greenwood took home the Battle of the Brewers Trophy. Elliott Bay Brewery Pub took home the California Avenue Bar Brawl trophy, ending West 5’s three-year run as champs.

West 5 deserves big kudos for donating over 600 lbs. of food! Great work! Every year West 5 knocks it out of the park in terms of food donations.

Cheers,
Kendall and Kim Jones