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With Bok a Bok-Stoup link, you can now order Korean fried chicken to your Capitol Hill beer hall table

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You can now order food that will be brought to your table inside one of the great hangout spaces on Capitol Hill.

Yes, Stoup Brewing Capitol Hill has invented… the restaurant.

It’s more fun than that.

Thanks to the new partnership, you can order from nearby Bok a Bok and have your Korean fried chicken delivered to you at the E Union beer hall with QR codes with promised “secret deals” on the Stoup tables.

As an added bonus, according to this post to the CHS Facebook group, the food will be brought over to the brewery across the couple blocks of Pike/Pine by a Bok a Bok employee and not a delivery driver. Meanwhile, Stoup Capitol Hill’s schedule of food trucks including Birrieria Pepe El Toro, Bella M’Briana, El Gran Taco, MexiCuban, and Tummy Yummy Thai is still in rotation.

Meanwhile, you can also still order Bok a Bok at its 10th Ave counter or inside The Runaway bar.

The pairing marks a new connection for Bok a Bok which moved into the neighborhood next to Neumos in 2017. Stoup, meanwhile, celebrated its 2023 move into the neighborhood by releasing its first Capitol Hill-brewed IPA earlier this winter.

Stoup Capitol Hill is located at 1158 Broadway.

 

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The Last Drop: One of Capitol Hill’s favorite coffee spaces is now dedicated to beer

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A popular Pike/Pine cafe space has cracked open a new life as a Capitol Hill beer hall and bottle shop.

The Last Drop has expanded from its Maple Leaf neighborhood roots and is now open on E Pike in the former home of Alaska-based coffee company Kaladi Brothers.

The new beer venue includes plenty of tables and chairs with creations from multiple breweries on tap plus bottles and cans for purchase. It fits into the area’s beer community just a little more bottle shop than the Pine Box on the Chuck’s end of the beer bar spectrum. Continue reading →

CHS Pics | Stoup Brewing celebrates Capitol Hill Magic Hazy IPA, its first brew at Broadway and Union

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Stoup Brewing has made its first Capitol Hill beer.. The decade-old Seattle microbrewery that expanded onto the Hill last year with its acquisition of the neighborhood’s Optimism Brewing held a party Thursday marking the release of its new Capitol Hill Magic Hazy IPA.

“We went through a whole lot of it last night which we must say felt pretty damn good,” Stoup posted about the fun. Continue reading →

The Last Drop opening new beer shop and tap hall on Capitol Hill

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The Maple Leaf original (Image: The Last Drop)

With plans for a preservation minded redevelopment of the block now fully paused, Seattle bottle shop and beer hall The Last Drop is growing onto Capitol Hill after years serving the Roosevelt, Ravenna, and Maple Leaf neighborhoods.

The new Last Drop expansion from Seattle beer and pub entrepreneur Seth Howard is set to open soon in the 500 block of E Pike taking over the two-level cafe space left empty by Kaladi Brothers Coffee’s 2023 exit.

The Last Drop opened in the Maple Leaf neighborhood in 2011 and features beer on tap as well as a bottle shop featuring local craft brewers and imports. Howard is also part of ownership behind 2nd Ave’s Collins Pub and the College Inn Pub in the U District. Continue reading →

As Stoup parties for its 10th year of Seattle beer, Capitol Hill brewery ready to begin production

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Stoup Brewing has only been part of the Capitol Hill beer community since August but it will celebrate a major milestone here this week. It was ten years ago that Stoup was born in Ballard.

Meanwhile, another important milestone for the Stoup Capitol Hill brewing facility and beer hall will come in November. Continue reading →

Stoup Brewing Capitol Hill has changed the taps and is now open at Broadway and Union

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Stoup Brewing Capitol Hill is now open and pouring its beers in the former Optimism beer hall and brewery at the corner of Broadway and Union.

The Ballard-born brewery completed its move-in last week and has been getting comfortable in its new location. It isn’t yet putting the 20-barrel brewing facility to work pending license updates but Stoup beers created on NW 52nd St are on tap, the food truck schedule is back in motion, and the 16,000-square-foot has new signage and a few Stoup touches in place.

“We are proud to also note that Optimism’s taproom crew is moving forward with us so familiar faces will be pouring our pints,” Stoup’s Lara Zahaba tells CHS.

The brewery also remains a cashless venue.

CHS reported in June on the plan for Stoup to take over Optimism Brewing and create its third taproom along with adding the new production capacity to its science-based approach to beer brewing. Owners Troy Hakala and Gay Gilmore debuted Optimism in November 2015 as a one of a kind, full-powered beer brewery built on the bones of the neighborhood’s auto row history in the heart of Capitol Hill. Hakala and Gilmore have retained ownership of the building and now count Stoup as tenants — and shepherd’s of the urban brewery and its space in the community. Continue reading →

Industry giant Anheuser-Busch parts way with Redhook — and its Capitol Hill BrewLab — in $85M deal with ‘global cannabis-lifestyle’ company

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The Redhook Brewlab is the last physical vestige of Seattle’s “first microbrewery” (Image: Redhook)

In a summer of beer-soaked merger and acquisition on Capitol Hill, a deal with much larger implications than a neighborhood brewery is also going down.

Anheuser-Busch In-Bev is shedding a batch of its lesser “craft” beer brands including Capitol Hill’s Redhook Brewery in the wake of plummeting sales at the global beer giant amidst an ongoing anti-transgender backlash against its top-selling Bud Light.

“Leading global cannabis-lifestyle and consumer packaged goods company” Tilray announced it is acquiring Redhook along with a collection of other AB In-Bev craft brands — Shock Top, Breckenridge Brewery, Blue Point Brewing Company, 10 Barrel Brewing Company, Widmer Brothers Brewing, Square Mile Cider Company, and HiBall Energy.

Analysts says the transaction is an $85 million deal and includes all of the companies’ existing employees and facilities.

It’s not clear what the future will be for Redhook and its small Capitol Hill brewery at the center of the Pike Motorworks mixed-use development but its new owner has shown a penchant for experimentation when it comes to cannabis and beverages.

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Bringing its ‘Beeriodic Table’ to Broadway and Union, Stoup taking over Capitol Hill’s Optimism Brewing

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Two Seattle breweries born just under 10 years ago are combining, bringing an end to Capitol Hill’s Optimism Brewing. But the woman-owned, scientifically-minded beer making will continue and the taps will still flow at Optimism’s auto row-era showroom transformed into a modern Capitol Hill beer hall.

Ballard-born Stoup Brewing and Optimism announced the planned acquisition and were busy telling employees and customers about the plans over the holiday weekend.

“We love that it is continuing. We built it as a place that we wanted to go to and it’s going to stay exactly as it is,” Optimism co-founder Troy Hakala said Monday. “And Capitol Hill is getting great Stoup beer.”

At Union and Broadway, new signs and a few changes will go up over the summer as the tap lines fill with Stoup’s creations and the production vats shift, but Stoup’s Lara Zahaba says the hope is for Optimism’s spirit to continue in the 16,000-square-foot brewery that has been lauded for its aesthetics and community-friendly design including spacious open seating and an impressively vast all-gender restroom.

“I hope the feelings will be very similar,” Zahaba said. “Really Stoup and Optimism have a lot in common. Locally owned, neighborhood breweries. Inclusive.”

“My hope is people will have that feeling of Optimism when drinking Stoup beers,” she said.

New beer, new signage, and a new color scheme are coming but the rest of the changes will be minimal — “We will Stoup-ify the space to a certain degree,” Zahaba quipped — for what has been a working recipe.

Craft beer looked very different, and had some misogynist and angry streaks when they started the brewery a decade ago, Optimism’s Gay Gilmore said.

“We tried to make it super approachable. I think a lot of craft is doing the same now. They figured it out.”

Gilmore says Stoup is part of that craft beer change. “Their values are just as inclusive as Optimism,” Gilmore said.

Under the planned deal, Stoup will take over the brewery and beer hall while Optimism founders Gilmore and Hakala will retain ownership of the 1920-era Maker Building they purchased after the Polyclinic shifted plans and put the property up for sale for expected redevelopment. Continue reading →

Eldest of Capitol Hill and Central District’s modern crop of beer makers, Standard Brewing turns 10

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This weekend, Standard Brewing turns 10 making the S Jackson brewery the eldest of the modern class of Central District and Capitol Hill beer makers.

Standard is celebrating with a “10 year banger” —

How did this happen?! Most of you never got to see us incubate in the back corner of our building. It seems pretty wild now to think about how we got our start, with a bunch of ramshackle equipment and duct tape. For those of you that remember our building being yellow and purple, with double deep parking spaces and a bar with space for 8, it seems like a lifetime ago. For all of you, and for everyone that has been a supporter over this hectic decade, March 18th and 19th is for you!

The weekend will include live music and special releases including a bourbon barrel-aged stout with Broadcast Coffee, a “Bee’s Wine” ginger beer, and a special “fermented pineapple” tepache beverage, along with guest bartenders and more surprises. Continue reading →

New pairing at Capitol Hill’s Redhook Brewlab as Chef Shota brings Kōbo and its Detroit+Osaka pizzas to E Pike

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Shota Nakajima is ready to help out his neighbor, bringing pizza with Detroit and Osaka roots to the kitchen of Capitol Hill’s Redhook Brewlab.

Kōbo will debut this weekend, taking over the menu of the E Pike microbrewery with Nakajima’s take on pizza pie and providing new energy that could help fill the beer maker’s tables and big street-side patio.

“I was fascinated the first time I saw Detroit-style pizza. Having trained in Osaka, which is known as the ‘starch city’ of Japan, I was inspired by things like Okonomiyaki and Takoyaki, which employ a starch base that is generally cooked over high heat in cast iron or black steel, with a signature crispy exterior and chewy interior,” Nakajima said in a press release on the new link-up.

“It was a natural step to utilize this similar ideology, and staying true to my culinary roots and training, employ the use of koji, nori, and mochiko flour to achieve both umami and a heavenly texture for our dough.” Continue reading →