We beseech you to drink locally brewed beer at any of these 11 Seattle area watering holes.
Full Throttle Bottles
Bottle shops have always played an important role in Seattle’s craft beer revolution. Stores like Bottleworks (Wallingford), Stumbling Monk (Capitol Hill), and Chuck’s Hop Shop (Ballard and Central District) have spent decades improving Seattle’s collective beer palate by exposing drinkers to amazing beer. Georgetown’s Full Throttle Bottles (5909 Airport Way S) is a relative newcomer to Seattle’s bottle shop scene, but they haven’t wasted any time bringing in an incredible selection of local and imported beers, both in bottles and on 12 taps.
This mix is what makes shops like Full Throttle beautiful: You get to taste the best local beers while seeing how they stand up against out-of-town breweries. Among the current noteworthy offerings are a hazy IPA from Seattle’s Mirage Beer Company, a tart mixed culture beer from Portland’s Culmination Brewing, and a dry saison from Quebec’s Brasserie Dunham.
No traditional happy hour here, but the beer at Full Throttle tastes a little bit better between 11 am and noon, when the shop celebrates the German day-drinking tradition of frühschoppen (sharing a midday drink with friends), with $1 off every beer on tap.
