Unfortunately, that number is shrinking by one. Last summer, Bell’s added eight new states to its distribution network - Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Jersey and Colorado - bringing its distribution footprint to 40 total states in addition to Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. The Michigan-based brewing company actually started out as a homebrewing supply shop in the early ‘80s that eventually started selling its own beer and has grown into the seventh biggest craft brewer in America by sales volume, according to the Brewers Association’s 2017 list (the latest figures). 4 in Zymurgy magazine’s 2018 Best Beers in America survey (that’s a homebrew mag). Its Two Hearted Ale and Hopslam, for instance, were rated No. They have three other new beers scheduled to come out between now and March 2019.Bell’s Brewery is one of the biggest and most respected craft brands in American beer. Scuttlebutt wants modern beer drinkers to know that they’re not the “old man on the block.” The artwork for the Pineapple Hefeweizen and Sundiver IPA was done by Seattle-based design outfit Blindtiger.Ī lot has changed in craft beer since 1996. Scuttlebutt’s recently undergone a rebrand and the art on their newest cans. We have to stay relevant to the consumer.” “I get excited to see the experimental batches we’ve been working on. “People come into the restaurant, they look at our tap list and say ‘What do you have that’s new?’” said Bannan Jr. They’ve started canning beers and are experimenting with introducing new flavors on a regular basis. The company is in a good place now and that’s allowed them to prepare for the next step. said about the development on the Everett Waterfront. “This area is really going to come alive,” Bannan Jr. Today the restaurant is a popular spot for young families, beer connoisseurs, and people who like to eat and drink and have a good time on the Everett Waterfront. When the company moved from the fish processing plant to their new location on the corner of Craftsman Way and 13th Street, they tripled their square footage and went from 17 employees to 77- all within a 30 day period.īusiness has been booming since. “The community has been kind to us and has supported us,” Phil Sr. It was cutting edge at the time-something so hoppy was considered by most beer fans to be a wild departure from the norm.Įverett natives embraced Scuttlebutt from the beginning. On the walls hung promotional t-shirts with the company’s tongue-in-cheek slogan: “The liver is evil and must be punished.”Ī couple of years later the company introduced an IPA. Bannan Sr.’s son-in-law was the first brewer. The first Scuttlebutt brewpub opened in an old fish processing plant on the pier of the Everett Waterfront. To get a decent craft beverage or experience any sort of quality nightlife, young Everett-ites had to drive to Seattle. “22 years ago there wasn’t a lot for young beer fans to do in Everett,” Bannan Jr. “By contrast, today there are over thirty within a twenty mile radius of Everett.”Īverage beer drinkers of the 1990s favored “industrial”, yellow-colored beer. “There were maybe three craft breweries in the region, outside of Seattle,” said Bannan Jr. 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. Editor's note: the following article is partnered content.
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