9 things to know about Ballard’s Bay Area brewery, Lagunitas

A quick tour of Lagunitas' new Seattle, Wash. location in the old Hilliard's building.A Bay Area brewery open in Ballard? Yes.Lagunitas made that minor incursion into Seattle’s beer center in January. The big time Sonoma County brewer, half-owned...

9 things to know about Ballard’s Bay Area brewery, Lagunitas

A quick tour of Lagunitas' new Seattle, Wash. location in the old Hilliard's building.

A Bay Area brewery open in Ballard? Yes.

Lagunitas made that minor incursion into Seattle’s beer center in January. The big time Sonoma County brewer, half-owned by Heineken, opened the doors to its taproom quietly at the former site of Hilliard’s Beer.

Though the Lagunitas’ dogface is plenty familiar to Seattle beer drinkers, the taproom will highlight beers from the brewery that had been hard to come by away from the Bay.

Alyssa Pereira, a colleague at seattlepi.com’s sister site SFGate.com, has a few things Seattleites should know about Lagunitas. Check them out, as well as photos of the new taproom:

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The Lagunitas tap room will be open Wednesday through Sunday from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. It is expected to open a kitchen in coming weeks.

Seattlepi.com reporter Levi Pulkkinen can be reached at 206-448-8348 or levipulkkinen@seattlepi.com. Follow Levi on Twitter at twitter.com/levipulk.

 

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