#Great notion brewing ballard Patch

In the future, maybe we can even create mobile taprooms. To do that, we can create our own taprooms, or even ship it. From the beginning, our business model has been to sell our beer direct to customers. In the mean time, plan a trip to Seattle.Paul Reiter: We started talking about Seattle a couple years ago.

#Great notion brewing ballard Patch

If there is a patch of earth that has more breweries per foot than this section of Ballard, I challenge you to find it.

It actually breaks up that long slog between Urban Family and Lucky Envelope, and only adds about 150 feet to the whole affair, so make sure you don’t miss it. In this case we’ve almost missed (6) Wheelie Pop. Oh crap! If you’re like me-poor with directions in the best case-you might have missed one. 54 miles, but on the other hand you’ve had no fewer than eight beers in half a mile and you’re in no condition to drive home. Or possibly stand up. You could try to get back on foot (7 mins), or perhaps more sensibly take an Uber. You could walk, but by this time in your crawl you’ve roamed 1,492 feet from your car. If you’ve parked your car back at Reuben’s, now you’ve got a dilemma. I assume you will have build a mighty thirst by this time, which is good, because you can have a pint of Yonder cider, which shares the space with Bale Breaker, while you’re there.īut a warning. If you’re up for an adventure, you can continue on through the wilderness another 300-odd feet to (9) Bale Breaker (42 seconds). From there you have another exhausting 528-foot ramble (1 min, 39 seconds) to (8) Fair Isle. This trek will take three minutes, depending on your diminishing coordination. From Urban Family, you must traverse four city blocks (roughly 1,000 feet) to arrive at (7) Lucky Envelope. I did stop into Stoup for a pint, and watched people wander out into the street as if the breweries were connected by a parking lot. Once you’ve finished your pint, saunter 29 feet to (5) Urban Family, watching for cars as you go. From Stoup, situate yourself so you can see Urban Family across the street. This puts you on 52nd St, where three breweries sit within a block of each other.įrom Obec, you’re less than three hundred feet from (4) Stoup Brewing (47 seconds). Once you’ve finished your second pint, walk 428 feet (58 seconds) around the corner to (3) Obec Brewing. It’s catty-corner from Reuben’s and you can wave at people drinking beers at the outdoor tables there-or wave back at Reuben’s once you’ve settled in at Great Notion. Depending on traffic, this may take up to 30 seconds. Start at (1) Reuben’s Brews and walk almost due west 63 feet to (2) Great Notion. So as a public service, here are your marching orders. I don’t know for a fact that the course described here is the most densely-packed half-mile of breweries in the world, but it’s definitely in the conversation. However, I did amble through the course and, like intrepid explorers of old, mapped out the terrain and route so you can try it yourself the next time you’re in Ballard. I am in Seattle to gather info about a future Sightglass article on Reuben’s tenth anniversary, and I’ve tucked in side trips to Metier and Machine House, all of which precludes this old man from attempting this crawl himself.

In two cases, you can sip a beer from the patio of one brewery while gazing across the street at another. But thanks to Covid, it’s been a minute since I’ve been back to Ballard and I failed to apprehend just how many breweries sit on a half-mile route. In 1995, Mike Hale chose Ballard for his Seattle pub, deepening the neighborhood’s cred in Washington brewing history. This history goes back to the dawn of craft beer, when Paul Shipman selected a transmission shop in the neighborhood to start the Redhook brewery.

Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood has for decades been a brewery-rich tract.