Fremont Brewery (3409 Woodland Park Avenue N, which is half a block from Wallingford) is hold a grand opening party for their expanded space on Saturday, noon – 3 pm.
Fremont Brewing Company has expanded its tasting room, the Urban Beer Garden, and will host a Grand Opening celebration on Saturday, October 11. Festivities will begin with a ribbon cutting at noon and include free swag for the first 50 customers, a special tap list, food by Uneeda Burger, music by the Porterbelly String Band, and a children’s raffle.
“We’ve learned that if we keep adding tables, more people will keep coming so we wanted a bigger, more cozy tasting room, especially for the winter months,” explained Matt Lincecum. “We’ve been building for so long and now that it’s finally done, we want to throw a big party to celebrate!” The 3,000 square foot addition features an indoor stone fireplace and twenty additional taps offering both Fremont Brewing and guest beers. Expanded seating and additional registers will accommodate the increasing numbers of customers.
Founder/Owner Matt Lincecum will cut the ribbon and welcome the public and media.
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I will be pretty glad when the ridiculous hops fetishism calms down. It’s actually hard to buy non hoppy, bluntly, non IPA beers these days. Not to mention the fact that IPAs used to have a mild hoppy flavor, but now taste like carbonated hop juice. Reminds me of the garlic craze in the early nineties.
@frankie: Fremont brews around 10 beers, only two of which are IPAs, I believe. In fact, I’ve done my fair share of local brewery hopping (ha!) and have noticed more pilsners, ambers and pales on the lists than ever before.
Personally I prefer an IPA, and I think the fact that Washington state grows some of the finest hops in the world is the reason that our local IPAs are prevalent and hoppy.
There’s more to it than hops, though. The good IPAs are really deluxe brews, and all the hops just balance everything else. An extreme example at Fremont is the Brother, one of those deluxe IPAs that they serve in a goblet. Drink that stuff at the risk of spoiling your taste for ordinary beer. A watery beer with that much hops would be disgusting. Doesn’t the same thing happen in other styles? Like, take Lagunita Pils – whole lot more hops in there, than in a Stella Artois or something, no?
Happy they’ve expanded but kinda disappointed it wasn’t to add a small kitchen. Seems a bit weird to have a pub that big where you can’t even get some tots to go with your beer…
Isaac, they are a brewery, not a brew pub. A kitchen is a wholly different animal. Waaay more trouble and a completely different line of business. So, bring your own munchies!
Brewery’s are exempt from the ‘taverns have to serve food’ rule – strange but true. Your state liquor control board at work (speaking of state departments that need to be eliminated).
Also too bad they only serve beer, tasty as most of it is. But the new cider bar down the street is the same – and doing well.
I know most small brewery taprooms don’t have food, but most of the medium to large ones do have at least small bites. (Maritime, Naked City, Elysian, Schooner Exact, etc) When I saw they were doubling the size I figured they were moving to join that tier. Maybe they can get a food truck to park nearby like Reuben’s and Hilliards do…
They never will go big because ALL their beers are hoppy. Yes make hoppy beer for the hop nuts but they totally ignore non-hoppy beer lovers. And I am a bit of an expert in picking beers that are popular (I am old, have picked the peoples choice beer winner 8 years running at the Phinney Ridge beer fest of over 80 beers, and none of them were hoppy!)
And who was the people choice last year in the northwest? Silver city, my favorite brewery! Their ridgetop red ale is outstanding!
Is this the part where we complain that parking was removed in order to expand the beer garden?
Love this place. Best apples.
@9: I’m pretty sure parking has more than quintupled since Fremont Brewery expanded. And the best thing is, it’s all bike parking!
This is rad! I love you guys! I always wondered over after watching a football game at the Dock and loved the little place…
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