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Lucky Envelope Brewing

Around this time last year, my husband and I embarked on a quest to visit all the breweries that had sprung up in our newly hip Frelard neighborhood. We called it the Fremont Drinking Project, and made it to approximately three places before we got busy and forgot about it for months. Then one day in September, we took advantage of a rare free afternoon to visit one of our favorite breweries, Lucky Envelope. Obviously, I didn’t get around to writing it up right away. Now, only a few months later, it’s almost hard to imagine walking down the brewery to casually sit around sipping beer. But those days will come again, and when they do, you can be sure I’ll be sipping from a Lucky Envelope.

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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.   

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