In 1996 the idea of craft beer in the Northwest was just catching on. That year they sold 170 barrels worth of beer. Their first brew house had two 20 barrel fermenters and one 20 barrel bright tank. Scuttlebutt brewed its first batch of beer as a company on Independence Day, 1996. Junior’s favorite is the Charlie Noble IPA. Senior’s favorite drink is the 10° Below Ale. Two generations of beer lovers who talk enthusiastically about their product and believe in it. He sits next to his son, Scuttlebutt general manager Phil Bannan Jr., who wears a Scuttlebutt baseball hat and t-shirt. He wears a belt buckle that says “Got Beer?” Phil Sr., the Bannan patriarch and company owner, seems reserved at first, but a few minutes into conversation his sharp sense of humor emerges. “‘You ought to do this professionally, they said.’ I thought about it and finally said ‘let’s jump in,’” Bannan Sr. ![]() Soon clusters of five gallon buckets filled the Bannan kitchen. Bannan Sr’s home brewing operation quickly scaled up. His friends were impressed with the results. Scuttlebutt Brewing, now a large regional company offering over twenty styles of handcrafted beer, started humbly with a gifted home brew kit on Father's Day, 1990. If you'd like to partner with Live in Everett to reach our audience, please inquire here. If you veer East off the trail near the northern end, you can make it to Snohomish, home of 6 impressive breweries who have joined forces to make a beer map with a free pint glass.Editor's note: the following article is partnered content. From there it is just a short jaunt into downtown Everett where At Large Brewing and Scuttlebutt complete the #DrinkLocalEverett punchcard. The trail eventually leads all the way to Everett where it passes right by Lazy Boy, Middleton, and Crucible, 3 breweries that form a power triangle of awesomeness. If you instead advance north on the trail you pass by Edmonds which is secretly home to great breweries like American and Salish Sea and the insanely famous Gallaghers' You Brew. If you make it south enough to reach the end of Fremont Ave, you aren’t far from the Ship Canal Trail which connects you to another dozen breweries and the Cycling Cicerone punch card. While riding Fremont Ave, you are mere blocks away from four breweries in Greenwood including Washington Beer Talk breweries Lantern and Flying Bike. Just make note that Google Maps seems to think that riding on Fremont Ave is impossible even though it’s actually quite ideal for bikes with cars not being allowed to drive straight through, leaving the route mostly open for us 2-wheelies. Since the trail is split into two sections, North and South, with a large no-bikes land where Seattle owns the real estate, Fremont Ave makes a good stand-in for the Interurban if you want to connect into the dozen breweries around Ballard and Fremont. The Interurban-Burke Gilman Connector trail is a vague network of unfriendly-to-bikes streets marked by vaguer signs that make up the merest sliver of the realization of the glimmer in the eyes of a bike-loving city council member. At this point in the trail, non-useful signs can be found littering the city that point* you towards the trail representing at least an awareness that Seattle is the only city along the route not to pitch in to build it. The luxurious paved pathway occasionally ends and is replaced by bike lanes on shared use roads for minor stretches especially in the area around Seattle where the city council can’t be bothered to drop thin another dime on bike infrastructure. While it has its flaws, I still consider it to be one of the most useful trails in town. Built in the nineties long after the original rail line closed down in 1939, it does a pretty good job of bridging the gap between the major city centers north of Seattle. ![]() The Interurban Trail is part of Rails to Trails. It turns out that it connects 3 different punch cards together where you can earn free swag including 2 different pint glasses and a t-shirt created by yours truly. It’s worth giving that little bike path a little more attention since it makes so many breweries accessible by bike. In this weeks Washington Beer Talk, I mention the interurban trail.
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