From Bryce Eddings,
Your Guide to Beer.
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The Woodinville Brewery

Their Woodinville location is beautiful. The grounds are the most attractive I’ve seen for a brewery. It looks more like a winery. In fact they are right across the street from Chateau Ste. Michelle. The Forecasters Pub attached to the brewery is clean and inviting with a sort of a nouveau tavern feel. There is also a spacious deck out back where one can relax with a beer or a meal served at the pub.

They give tours of the brewery daily. Here are some pictures I snapped of their brewing facility.

Beer Tasting Notes and Reviews

Redhooks ales are pleasant enough though not that exciting. I won’t go so far as to say that the cries of sellout in the mid nineties were warranted because they are still superior to the light lagers produced by the megabreweries. But in today’s craft brew landscape Redhook’s motto, “defy the ordinary,” seems a little antiquated. One of the biggest problems is that they use one type of yeast for all of their beers. There are many craft brewers that do this and their product suffers for it. If Redhook were to diversify a bit and use different strains of ale yeast, they could bring a lot of character to their beers, the lighter ones especially. Here are my reviews of the individual brews that were on tap when I visited.