Someone last year or the year before for PAX Prime made a thread for all the breweries around Seattle.
I think someone made a google earth file at that time which loaded all the locations.
Well didn't see a thread started this year and I found a map I made on google maps.
This one is (PAX) Breweries In and Around Seattle:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=204247750336961172509.000467c20025053e1a837&msa=0&ll=47.631272,-122.31534&spn=0.043439,0.077162
Here is one (PAX) Breweries Near PAX:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=204247750336961172509.000467c2c1a15559b9854&msa=0&ll=47.625603,-122.339115&spn=0.086887,0.154324
Maps include:
Breweries located in the Seattle area (North from Everett, South to Tacoma?) and its distance from the Penny-Arcade Expo (PAX)
-Green is recommended.
-Red is more of a restaurant chain than a microbrewery.
-Yellow is questionable places, may not recommend.
-Blue is a brewery or brewpub with microbrews.
These do not include typical brewpubs, just the microbreweries and their pubs.
List:
Washington State Convention Center
WSC - PAX Location
Scuttlebutt Brewing Co
1205 Craftsman Way, Suite 101, Everett, WA 98201
(425) 257-9316
scuttlebuttbrewing.com
Diamond Knot Brewery Inc
621A Front Street
Mukilteo, WA 98275
(425) 355-4488
diamondknot.com
McMenamins Mill Creek
13300 Bothell Everett Highway
Mill Creek, WA 98012
(425) 316-0520
mcmenamins.com/millcreek
mcmenamins Six Arms
300 East Pike Street
Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 223-1698
mcmenamins.com/sixarms
McMenamins Queen Anne
200 Roy Street
Seattle, WA 98109
(206) 285-4722
mcmenamins.com/queenanne
Ram Big Horn Brewery-Northgate
401 Northeast Northgate Way #1102
Seattle, WA 98125
(206) 364-8000
theram.com
Ram Restaurant & Brewery
2650 University Village
Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 525-3565
theram.com
Pyramid Alehouse Brewery
1201 1st Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98134
(206) 682-8322
http://www.pyramidbrew.com/
Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery
1333 5th Ave # 100
Seattle, WA 98101-2664
(206) 623-3070
rockbottom.com
Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery
550 106th Avenue NE # 103
Bellevue, WA 98004-5084
(425) 462-9300
rockbottom.com
Rock Woodfried Pizza & Brewery
4010 196th Street Southwest
Lynnwood, WA 98036-6715
(425) 697-6007
therockwfp.com
Mac & Jack's Brewery
17825 Northeast 65th Street
Redmond, WA 98052
(425) 558-9697
macandjacks.com
Redhook Ale Brewery Inc
14300 Northeast 145th Street
Woodinville, WA
(425) 483-3232
http://redhook.com/
Big Time Brewery & Alehouse
4133 University Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105-6213
(206) 545-4509
bigtimebrewery.com
Ellersick Brewing CO Inc
5030 208th ST SW Ste. A
Lynnwood, WA 98036
http://www.ellersickbrewing.com/
Elliott Bay Brewery & Pub
4720 California Avenue Southwest
Seattle, WA 98116
(206) 932-8695
elliottbaybrewing.com
Maritime Pacific Brewing Co
Jolly Roger Taproom
1514 Northwest Leary Way
Seattle, WA 98107
(206) 782-6181
maritimebrewery.ypguides.net
Hale's Ales Pub
4301 Leary Way Northwest
Seattle, WA 98107
(206) 706-1544
halesbrewery.com
Pike Brewing Co
1415 1st Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101
http://www.pikebrewing.com/index_html.shtml
Gordon Biersch Brewery Rstrnt
600 Pine St # 401
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 405-4205
gordonbiersch.com
Big Al Brewing
9832 14th ave sw
seattle, wa 98106
http://www.bigalbrewing.com/
Issaquah Brew House
35 West Sunset Way
Issaquah, WA 98027
(425) 557-1911
rogue.com
Elysian Brewing Company
1221 E. Pike St.
Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 860-1920
elysianbrewing.com
Elysian-Tangletown
2106 North 55th Street
Seattle, WA 98103
(206) 547-5929
elysianbrewing.com
Elysian Fields
542 1st Ave South
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 382-4498
elysianbrewing.com
Baron Brewing
1605 S 93rd St, Bldg E Unit L
Seattle, WA 98108
(206) 764-1213
baronbeer.com
Baron Brewing Pillager's Pub
8551 Greenwood Ave N Ste 5
Seattle, WA 98103
Harmon Brewery Co & Restaurant
1938 Pacific Avenue
Tacoma, WA 98402-3110
(253) 383-2739
harmonbrewingco.com
Black Raven Brewing
14679 Northeast 95th Street
Redmond, WA 98052
(425) 881-3020
blackravenbrewing.com
Georgetown Brewing Co
5200 Denver Ave S
Seattle, Washington 98108
(206) 766-8055
georgetownbeer.com
Let me know if I can improve this list or if there is any feedback and I'll update the first post.
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By the way, Baron Brewing (currently yellow) does some very respectable beers and has the coolest growler bottles in town. They have a pirate-themed brewpub in Greenwood called Pillager's Pub. Recommended gaming hangout: big tables and good lighting, with a great game store on the same block.
Black Raven Brewing.
14679 Northeast 95th Street
Redmond, WA 98052
they are shaping up to be the Seattle area's Russian River. (if you know anything about beer you should recognize that name. if you don't, russian river makes some of the best craft beers in the country, and are awesome experimenters)
there's no food, it's just a taproom. it has awesome gigantic wooden tables and is all around amazing.
on the negative side, it's usually pretty crowded, especially over the weekends.
if anybody gets some sort of crazy brewery crawl together, i am so down with that.
also, Mac and Jacks African Amber is the beer of choice around here. gotta have a mac n' jacks when you're down in the area. also, the mac and jack's brewery has a free brewery tour every sunday at (i think) 4pm.
downside is that it's also on the east side. upside is it's pretty close to black raven!
most of all, most of all
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Here's the problem though: for most folks attending PAX, especially folks from out of town, taking a pilgrimage en mass (or hell, even just a small group) all the way out to Redmond just for beer (even if it is very good beer) is going to be very impractical. Not impossible, just not very likely.
If a brewery crawl is going to be done, staying within the Seattle metro area is probably best.
What would be a good Seattle brewery crawl?
Pike, Pyrmid, Elysian, Big time, Maritime, Hales? McMenamins, Rock Bottom, Ram, Gorden B's?
And Baron is still 'Questionable'? I suppose I can't disagree with that, since last time we were there playing Catan, it was filled with a bunch of folks in full pirate regalia. SCA maybe? They'd surely give it questionable status.
The maps should have two locations for Baron- one I've not heard of and the other is the Pilager's pub. Pilager's shouldn't be questionable.
Add to list (that I can think of off the top of my head):
Fremont Brewing
3409 Woodland Park Ave N
Seattle, 98103
http://www.fremontbrewing.com/
Two Beers Brewery
4700 Ohio Ave S
Seattle 98134
http://www.twobeersbrewery.com/
Odin Brewing
9130 15th Pl. S. Suite F
Seattle, WA 98108
http://odinbrewing.com/
I'm actually not sure what the status of Odin's tasting room is, if it exists yet or not.
That said however You don't have to go down to clear down to South Park if you want to try Baron biers as all of them are on tap at the Pillagers Pub in Greenwood (which is across the street from Naked City). If you're gonna go up north to that area, there is a German pub called called Prost, which has primarily German biers but with the added bonus that you can order them in Liters or Boots. There food is pretty good as well. Also in the area is UBER and Duck Island Ale House though really, those are just bars that always have excellent taps.
Anyways, my Buick can seat five. Six if someone wants to ride bitch between myself an the front passenger.