Seapine Brewing

Seapine Brewing 23Sep2016

Seapine is a short walk from Schooner Exact and is located one block west of 1^st Ave South on Utah Street. Seapine used to be on 4th Ave South across from Seattle City Light, and the move has been a serious upgrade.

The inviting entrance to Seapine

 The new Seapine space is less warehouse than barn. They have plenty of space for brewing capacity and have seemingly stepped up their brewing equipment to increase the brew length.

The view from inside the door demonstrating the barn like building and the large brewing capacity

The beer board demonstrated the greater capacity with an increased selection from what used to be three beers at the old place to over ten selections here.

Selections including the beer list

Seapine does not do flights of tasters, although you can have a sip of any beer to see if you like it. I picked two half pours (8 oz.) because I already had 20 oz. of beer in me from Schooner Exact and I had a long bus ride home ahead. I picked Ur-Pils, because lagers are difficult to execute, and Seapine IPA, because it is one of my favorites.

Ur-Pils on the left and Seapine IPA on the right

Tasting Notes:

Ur-Pils (5.5%, 35 IBU): Clear gold with a beery aroma. Dry (smidge residual sweetness), slight sulfur (entirely appropriate), bitter finish and a malty smoothness. This beer is a Czech style pils.

Seapine IPA (6.5%): Cloudy gold, hop and malt aroma. Sweet malty bitter hop flavor (Amarillo?). Fruity and juicy hop flavor dominates. The bitterness was definitely IPA level. Still one of my favorites.

Seapine has become more prosperous and has changed somewhat. When it was smaller, the welcome was friendly and intimate with only a handful of patrons at opening time on a Friday. Now the capacity has increased and more people were visiting early on a Friday afternoon. The bar tender was friendly and the public area vibe was good, so I was pleased for the change; especially because the beer selection has increased and the brewer has had a chance to exercise his creativity.

On the way home I caught the Light Rail into the bus tunnel and from there hopped the 15 Express back home. Joe Metro made the trip in less than an hour. I was home in plenty of time to prepare dinner.