If you're looking for a fun way to pregame your next ball-sport event or just need to kill a few hours, Flatstick is a great way to do it. Their happy hour is pretty solid, too. It's a collaboration between the Ballard brewery and Funkwerks, a famous sour brewery in Fort Collins, Colorado. It was dry, tart, and tasted like late summer sunshine.
Full disclosure: I used to work at Humble Pie Rainier Ave S , so I am not impartial, but even if I had never been paid a dime by this wood-fired pizza spot, I would still put it on this list because it is simply one of the best happy hours in the city. What makes this little pizza place with only a few taps such a big deal? Let me explain: First, beer and pizza is the best combination in the world. Beer cuts through the greasy cheese of pizza, and eating pizza lets you keep drinking more beer.
Back and forth, back and forth. Second, Humble Pie's happy hour allows you to have both of these things for absurdly low prices. Seattle's rent is too damn high, but Humble Pie's happy hour almost makes it okay. And while they only have four taps, they keep their beer lines filled with some of the best kegs in the city. It was fruity and herbal, one of the best hoppy beers made in Seattle.
My friend had Stoup's Berliner Weisse, a clean and tart wheat ale that's both simple and delicious. One of the greatest things about beer in Seattle is how down-to-earth craft beer is here. Craft beer on the East Coast is viewed as a specialty product, often served with an air of exclusivity and geared directly to affluent to year-olds.
In the Emerald City, people of almost every age and economic group know and appreciate craft beer, and the best beer is often served in the least pretentious environment. Which is exactly what Bad Jimmy's Brewing is—the least pretentious and most unrefined place to get great beer in Seattle.
There are only four employees, so the guy pouring your beer is also likely the owner, brewmaster, and accountant, and the beer they pour is wonderfully unique and filled with their distinct point of view. Most of Bad Jimmy's beers showcase additional ingredients beyond beer's basic four ingredients, with ales like the Strawberry-Mango Hefeweizen or an IPA brewed with passion fruit showing how adjunct ingredients, when used thoughtfully, can make great beer.
Their styles run the gamut with something to make everyone happy. Lester Black is a staff writer for The Stranger, where he writes about Seattle news, cannabis, and beer. He is sometimes sober. Dear Stranger readers: YOU are an essential part of what we do. Thanks, we appreciate you! Happy Hour Guide Oct 11, The College Inn has a solid tap list that regularly features Chuckanut Pilsner, giving you a nice hoppy lager bier reason to visit this landmark.
Though it looks unremarkable from the outside, pull open the big wooden door at Brouwer's Cafe N 35th St in Fremont, and you'll find yourself in the middle of a medieval dungeon of fucking amazing beer.
The light is low, there's a second-floor cabaret-style balcony looking onto the entire first floor, and behind the bar sits 64 taps and refrigerators filled with that aforementioned beer. Though it's only about 15 years old, Brouwer's feels like a beer monastery, likely because their amazing Belgian beers are served with such reverence, the whole place feels religious.
They take their beer seriously here, and while sour and tart Belgians dominate the menu, Brouwer's also serves some of the best lager and IPA in the city. If Brouwer's is the stodgy parent of Seattle's beer scene, showing us how and where to drink and appreciate fantastic beer, then the Masonry is the irreverent, cheeky cousin slyly getting you to chug Solo cups full of rare lambic at your grandfather's funeral.
The Masonry has fantastic beer, and they just don't give a fuck about anything else. This pizza-and-beer place in Lower Queen Anne 20 Roy St and Fremont N 34th St serves amazing wood-fired pies, natural wine, and show-stopping beer.
The guy behind the Masonry, Matt Storm, has an unnatural ability to persuade the best breweries in the entire country to send him kegs of their exceptional beer. Plus, the highly acclaimed Jolly Pumpkin makes the Masonry's house beer, the dry and earthy Turbo Bam.
I'd never heard of Collins Pub Second Ave until I saw a tweet during last year's Seattle Beer Week that was the beer world's equivalent of a mic drop. The Pioneer Square bar announced they'd be tapping kegs of Cascade Brewing's Spiced Apricot Sour and Russian River's Supplication Sour, incredible beers that are hard enough to find in a bottle from this year's vintage.
I don't know what the Collins Pub owners had to do to get those beers, but I'm thankful they decided to share them with Seattle. And even when it's not Seattle Beer Week, the pub keeps great beer flowing through its 20 taps. Naming your bar "Ballard Beer Company" takes some guts—no mediocre bar would suffice as THE beer bar of Seattle's greatest beer neighborhood. The cleanly designed space has ample tables and seating—including a little patio where you can watch Ballard's endless parade of dog walkers—plus there's a huge projector screen for watching sports and, most importantly, the tap list leans heavily on beer actually made in the Ballard neighborhood.
Oh, and they have a great happy hour. It was pleasantly tart, juicy, and full of tropical fruit flavors, perfect for the 85 degree day I was experiencing at the time. If you're looking for a way to sample from a variety of Ballard breweries without marching up and down Leary Way, head to Ballard Beer Company, get there before 4 pm, and you'll save some money on the beer, too.
There's its convenient location halfway up Capitol Hill, an easy climb up from downtown, or an easy descent from Volunteer Park. There's the historic charm of it being in an old funeral home, which hosted Bruce Lee's funeral in There's comfortable booths and plenty of other seating. And there's one of the best curated beer lists in the city. Their plus taps always feature some of Seattle's finest breweries, consistently including hard-to-get kegs like Holy Mountain, Cloudburst, and Machine House, as well as a smattering of great out-of-state and even international beer.
Plus, for whatever reason, a lot of beer from California's Firestone Walker Brewery. For directions to Collins Pub, click Maps and Directions or visit their website. Check Out Nearby Places. For more information, visit Washington Dance Club during business hours or call For more information, visit The O Lounge during business hours or call For more information, visit 8th Street Sports Bar during business hours or call For more information, visit Time Out Sports Bar during business hours or call For more information, visit Dino's Pub during business hours or call For directions to Dino's Pub, click Maps and Directions or visit their website.
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