A week before I was scheduled to leave for Norway, Reuben’s Brews announced the release of a new beer: Nordic Haze, a hazy IPA brewed with a historic Norwegian yeast. Clearly, it was time for the next installment of the Fremont Drinking Project.
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Trailbend Taproom
For the first outing in the Fremont Drinking Project, we decided to try one of the outliers, a place that is not on the Ballard Brewery passport because it is not a brewery – Trailbend Taproom.
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Fremont Drinking Project
When we bought our house nearly 20 years ago, Fremont was Seattle’s funkiest neighborhood, famous for housing artists who couldn’t afford Capitol Hill. Ballard was known for fishing boats and elderly Norwegians. Our house was in the awkward space between those neighborhoods, an area affectionately known as Frelard. We assured ourselves that we really lived in Fremont. But even then, things were starting to change, and we joked that in 20 years we’d be trying to convince people that our house was actually in Ballard.