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I believe I first heard of Bizarre Brewing from a Facebook page suggestion or poking around in Seattle searches with breweries. I went to their website and found out that a taproom was on the horizon but wasn't open yet. After that it kind of slipped my mind and I didn't keep track if a taproom opened or not. And that's a mark against me because the name of the brewery I could totally identify with since I consider myself bizarre.
When I got reminded of this brewery again and learned that a taproom opened on a free weekend I journeyed to the Interbay neighborhood to try it. Where this brewery is is where Urban Family Brewing used to be which has since relocated to the Ballard neighborhood to the major brewery sector there. But this part of Interbay could be considered a minor brewery neighborhood as there are three in close proximity to each other which would also include Dirty Couch Brewing and Figurehead Brewing. As far as eating goes in this area best hope the breweries have food trucks there.
I knew making my way to this brewery that I would be in a hopefully pleasant dilemma. I looked at their tap menu and saw so many unique and intriguing beers that I knew I would want to try a lot of different ones. I was hoping to get a taster tray but the set up here isn't like that. If you want a small pour and want to try several you do it by 8 ounce pours. So on we go to what I had and yes indeed it was a lot of different ones!
Between the small pours and taking some cans home I tried a total of nine different beers from this brewery. The fact that they were also doing some kind of lager fest with their own taps and guest taps only made my Achilles Heel ache all the more. Here are the beers I tried.
The first one I had was Inside a Broken Clock which was a pale lager which was very good but not necessarily one of my favorites out of the series I had. This was part of the lager fest that I was talking about.
Whistle in the Catacomb was the next one I had which was a dark mild beer. I rated this one very highly on Untappd! Wonderful features with this beer for flavor was roastiness, maltiness, earthiness and a smoked flavor.
The Sun Myth was the next beer up, a Czech Pilsner which I also really enjoyed(I enjoyed them all to make that clear) with the flavor features of dryness, bitterness, breadiness and citrus with a very crisp snap to it.
Teenage Jesus was the fourth beer I tried and was a bitter style beer. Not one of the my very favorites but extremely well made. This was a session beer type with flavors of biscuit, floral, nuttiness and bitterness in what amounted to a very well balanced beer.
No Moon on the Water was the next beer I enjoyed immensely. This beer was a stout that was nice and heavy which I was overjoyed to make an exception for because normally I like these beer types when it's cold outside but it was a warm day and this wonderful stout only had me enjoy the experience all the more. Flavor features with this beer was distinctive caocao flavor.
The cans of beer I brought home was a Kolsch by the name Television People. I gave this beer a perfect five on Untappd which is something I rarely do. Crisp, lemony, herbal and bitter this Kolsch totally blew my socks off.
Sing Swan Song was the next one which was a pilsner that Steve agreed on was super amazing. Aromatic, tropical, hoppy and dry is what you should expect to find with this beer.
Who By Fire was the next to the last beer we had and loved. This was an altbier that we liked a lot with the smoky, bready and surprise guest flavor of fig followed with a nice crispness.
Our final beer was Floating in the Light. This was a pale ale with a nice creative edge to it. Not only is it yeasty and floral but it also has grapes and a white wine flavor to it.
I could easily come back here in a drop of a hat as I feel like the recipes are more of the creative sort than many in the area(at least to me). The place was very popular and a line was always present to get waited on but they got people on their way fast.
And of course along with the cans I bought and took home I also had to purchase a t shirt too because I love brewery swag.