No love for Non-Seattle breweries?

Walking Man

 

Bale Breaker isn't in Seattle, and they get plenty of well-deserved love around here.

After my upcoming visit to Bellingham, I'm sure I'll be sending love to even more non-Seattle breweries.

 

Living on past glories, I'm afraid. OP, lots of WA breweries get much love on these boards, it's just most posters here are Seattle area based, so that's what's right in front of them. I love Silver City. Skookum is one of my favorites. White Wall is a neat brewery too.

 

When? @TheBungyo and I will be happy to escort you about the City of Subdued Excitement.

 

I don't think I ever encounter anti-Seattle brewery sentiment. Engine House No. 9, Bale Breaker, Propolis, Structures, Airways, Skookum, Aslan and hell even Powerhouse in Puyallup are all making great beers.

Is this because of The Visiting Seattle thread or something? That thread is about visiting the city, not the state. Thus, the focus on Seattle. And the majority of us are from the Seattle area.

 

Don't forget Red Peak

 

I get what you are saying. The beer scene here can be a bit overwhelming. Brewers are constantly upgrading their concepts and gear and capacities and with new appreciators (such as yourself) checking out the scene daily, I don't think we have reached the tipping point yet. And I have been doing this for quite a few years.

Check out this site and get the app on your phone: http://washingtonbeer.com/

And that is just for the breweries. Pubs, bottle shops, growler fill stations, gas stations, laundromats, bookstores, bike shops....... you are not going to be very far from good beer.

Road trips will also take a new meaning.

 

Just a handful of Non-Seattle area (for me, Everett to Tacoma is "Seattle area") breweries that get my seal of approval: Anacortes, Silver City, Flyers, Skookum, North Fork, Sound, Propolis, Farmstrong, Iron Goat, Wander, Bale Breaker, Boundary Bay, Kulshan, Port Townsend BC, Chuckanut, Structures, Aslan, Icicle, Old Schoolhouse, White Wall, Everybodys, and Selkirk Abbey (we've adopted them from Idaho).

 

"Increased awareness" for the outstanding breweries beyond King County is a double-edged sword. Like you, I think they deserve recognition and want them to grow and succeed. At the same time, (relative) secrets are not kept for long these days, and we may all like the hidden gems beyond the beaten path less insofar as they become more widely known. It's a dilemma...

Seattle, based on recent evidence, is well on its way to becoming Chicago. Ought we really expedite the process by which all of Washington becomes Illinois?

 

Do you mean to say we've become FIB's? Perish the thought ... FWB doesn't cut it. No vowel.

 

Me too. Try Rainy Daze and Valholl when you are up near Sound. Downtown Bremerton is blowing up with new breweries. Marina Market for your whale needs. Pint Defiance in Tacoma when you are heading over the bridge. Collins Pub is your best ferry walk up. Altstadt when you want your Teutonic fix.

Don't be lonely. Just remember there is no good beer here in Kitsap County...... suffer like the rest of us :-)

 

I know what he means - it's the recent growing trend of breweries willfully inviting shit shows and feeding the hype train by releasing limited highly sought after releases on Saturday mornings (instead of the old peaceful way of Thursday's when we could delightfully stroll in and have a pint and purchase bottles). Even after all the discussion on this forum and elsewhere, I still do not understand what advantage this gives the brewery or it's customers. Oh well, it is what it is...

 

Think your local breweries don't get mentioned enough? Well, talk'em up! Advocate for them. Got a beer that people in other parts of the state need to try? Work out a trade. You can even go the @beertunes route and blast shotgun volleys of beer boxes all over the site. That certainly put Bellingham's beer scene (besides Boundary Bay) on my radar, and gave me a decent opening for spreading a little Iron Goat gospel as well.

 

Old Schoolhouse was really good if you are up in Winthrop, for some reason... But also this weekend I was able to go to a couple places in Seattle I was quite happy with. But I was only in town for about a day.

 

Maybe it's a Welsh "W," which means "FWB" would be pronounced "foob," or perhaps "fyoob."

 

FWB will always be "friends with benefits" in my mind.