The former counter-style beer window at Chuckanut and its partial wall has been removed to open up a centerpiece taphall layout with a cool blue tiled back bar sporting 20 draft lines. Everywhere Beer makes far more than beer, like a colorful and opaque lineup of bright or thick hard seltzers, spritz, and slushies that would feel right at home at a poolside hotel bar next to the OC’s Disneyland Resort or Knott’s Berry Farm. Currently they are pouring some wild and playful stuff like the Banantha Milk, a Star Wars inspired Tattoine-style hard seltzer with coconut cream, banana, cacao, and blue spirulina; Jamaica Lemonade, agua fresca-style seltzer with hibiscus and lemon; Cucumber Calamansi Limeade agua fresca-style seltzer with cucumber and calamansi key lime; Painkiller super fruited seltzer with coconut cream, pineapple, and orange, spices; Every Other Day sparkling spritz with grenache & syrah grapes served from a slushy machine.
Beer nerds that crave perfectly executed examples of lagers and IPAs will find lots to love as well, though dark beer or malt-lovers will be disappointed. The opening draft list is sectioned into Light-Ish Beer, Hoppy Beer, Sour-ish beer, seltzers & spritzers, and guest taps. The hopheads will find equal parts hazy and west Coast, sessionable pale ale, and big double-dry hopped imperial-sized as well. We were pleased to find they offer 2 beers on side-pull Czech Lukr faucets and have a terrific German-style Helles lager called Beautiful Something, a Czech pale lager called Deep Breaths, also on the lighter and quaffable end of the spectrum a guest tap of Kolsch, and currently a Mexican-style lager. And if you enjoy a splash of fruit in your beer but don’t want to go full alternative beverage, check out the radler-esque grapefruit infused version of the helles Community Garden #15, or the spring sour ale Tomorrows Bloom with blueberry, pineapple, passion fruit, and cara cara orange.
