A toast to the most: Seattle Beer Week kicks off today
One of the Emerald City’s favorite sudsy past times is back, giving beer lovers an excuse to drink for 10 days straight. Close enough to a week—math is hard. Seattle Beer Week begins today!
What isn’t hard is attending one of the many events at one of the many locations—clocking in at 11am each day (10am on the weekends) and running into the wee hours of the night. Events include “all day tap takeovers” at bars, sour ale festivals, trivia nights, beer-dinner pairings (that usually sell out in advance), meet-the-brewer nights, “kegs and eggs” brunches, a Washington-only $3 pint pouring at Beveridge Place Pub and much, much more. To the tune of nearly 240 events total.
And, of course, Seattle Beer Week has its own official beer, done in a very politically correct fashion. Georgetown, Black Raven, Naked City, Schooner Exact, Pike and Elysian got together to brew the sixth Seattle Beer Week beer with six malts, six hop varieties “added in artful combination at six different times with six different house yeasts.” The result of this fraternization of these six breweries is a session IPA titled “Six Degrees of Collaboration.”
Put together successfully again by co-founder Ian Roberts (also owner of Seattle’s The Pine Box on Capitol Hill), be sure to memorize (or print out) the schedule, imbibe with an open mind and get home safely—Uber Seattle is giving $20 off your first ride with the code: SEABEERWEEK.
