Gallagher’s Where U Brew

This place is amazing. Friendly knowledgable staff. It’s a fun laid back atmosphere and the staff doesn’t hold your hands through unless you want it. Tons of beer recipes to choose from. I have been pleased with every batch.

We have been brewing and drinking beer at Gallaghers’ for a long time. It’s been a year, but we enjoy the new owners Tom and Marcie as well as the old «crew» (Chris, Andrew, Kate, and Riley). Good location and always a fun time and beer choices, while limited, are well rounded so everyone always has a beer to taste.

Love love this place! You can «home brew» without the investment, clean up or storage.
Make an appointment, grab your dog, grab a pint, pick a recipe, they’ll help you with the rest! Order delivery; pizza obviously. And enjoy the ride!
Gallagher’s owners and staff are top class! They make this a truly enjoyable experience!

Always wanted to brew your own beer but never knew where to begin? Gallagher’s is exactly where you want to begin. You pick the beer you want to brew (and believe me, they have a ton of recipes with multiple options for each style of beer), and the guys will set you up. You get what is essentially a recipe card and the ingredients you need, follow the steps, and let the yeast start working. Several weeks later, you come back to bottle your creation. Then comes the fun part: drinking your own beer!
This is a great place for groups looking for a bonding event, homebrewers, or just anyone who’s into beer and down to try something new. One tip is that you don’t need to be 21 to brew (since none of the ingredients for beer are alcoholic by themselves), but you do need to be 21 to bottle. It’s especially fun to bottle if you’re part of a massive group that brewed multiple styles of beers – there’s nothing stopping you from drinking and bottling, hehe.

Everything about this experience has been AWESOME! The guys helping out are incredibly friendly, the process to brewing your beer is made incredibly easy, everyone is very helpful, and it’s been a great time. Homebrewing enthusiast? Craft beer lover? Just want to go hang and an awesome place? Then get over here!
I’m already looking forward to my next brewing session here.

I took my husband here as a surprise for his birthday, and we both had a blast making beer as well as bottling it a couple weeks later. We even got to bring our dog. They recommend making a reservation ahead of time to ensure a spot in either the beer making area or bottling area without having to wait. Everyone who works here is extremely nice and helpful throughout the whole process. They have a bar area with six or so beers on tap that you can enjoy throughout the process. We ended up choosing a beer we enjoyed on tap to make over choosing one from their huge book of recipes. A full batch (132 or so 12 ounce bottles) is between $ 150-​$ 185 and half a batch is $ 100. If you don’t have your own bottles, you can purchase bottles for an additional cost.

If only this wasn’t an hours drive distance, because I could easily call this place my home away from home…
This little gem hidden in the factory district of downtown Edmonds is a beer lover’s place to be. Experienced, amateur, or new to the passion, Gallaghers is a great place to explore the science & art of craft beer making. The team there is friendly and more than willing to show you the ropes if it is your first time, hand you a beer, and let you become immersed in their culture.
I did a full batch of the winter warmer for my first go and it turned out great. Friends and family raved about it just as i promoted my experience in putting it together.
I will hopefully be returning to Gallaghers some time soon, thirsty, and eager to continue playing with my passion.

Love this place!
The guys that work there are always really friendly. They will take the time to walk you through and help you with anything and everything you need. This place was great because I even had my brothers bachelors party here which was great because after we all spent time hanging out making beer we then used it at the wedding to serve to guests. A great place for parties as long as it’s planned out in advance because you will need to leave the beer there for 2 weeks for it to ferment completely then also need to arrange a day for bottling which can be almost as fun as making it in my opinion.
While all this fun is going on honestly the best part is… you can do it all with a beer in your hand. Brew the beer, bottle the beer everything.

Had a great time making the Bearded Cannonball Stout (although we named ours «Emotionally Available Stout» in honor of a recent romantic breakup in our little group). Great fun, easy to follow directions and a wonderful staff that helps and jokes along with you. The beer turned out great and we’ll be back, (hopefully without the motivation of bad ex-​boyfriends).

This is a fun and unique establishment. If you’re not familiar with Harbor Square, it may be a bit difficult to find — essentially located in a business complex. I’m not sure how long they’ve been in business, and I really had no clue they were here until I was invited to join a group of friends for a brew party. We had a room reserved, and brought in our own food. It was a great night, and I’d definitely like to go back again to see what more they have to offer.

I went here to brew some beer as a birthday gift. I thought it would be good because this is a brewery afterall. It would be my first time brewing beer, so I thought they would do it right. Much to my shegrin the beer was flat. Now I am forced to either go back twice to make it right, or uncap and recarbonate myself. I will never go back to this place or recommend it to anyone I know. It would be much easier to do it myself. Not worth my time or money.

Pretty cool place! We haven’t been to many breweries that do a U Brew but this one seemed to be the most fun one! The facility looked great and everyone was very friendly and helpful. We didn’t do a brew ourselves but someday we will and this place is just as good as a candidate as any despite it being across town.
I had a really good amber beer here. It wasn’t as bready as I would have liked but it had a intriguing, subtle flavor to it which made it a good «go to» beer for this place.
We would love to come back and once we are ready to make the plunge towards brewing our own beer we might just be heading here!

I received a gift of beer last Christmas from a fraternity brother and it was one of the best gifts I ever! Home brewing can be a pain at times (but most pleasant when everything is done!) due to storage space and time constraints, but Gallagher’s makes it really easy from brewing to bottling (I haven’t brewed beer since college). The hardest part of the whole process is deciding what kind of beer you want to brew! They have a large 3-​ring binder full of recipes on site, but they do have a list of their top 50 recipes online! Each recipe will have a corresponding description to its local/​national style brand. I went with one of my favorites — Mac & Jack African Amber (Gallagher’s name is Galley Mac).
I said earlier that they make things easy for the user here as long as you grasp two important concepts — basic reading comprehension (since you are reading this there should be no problem) and a keeping time. Once you decide on what beer you want to brew, you will be given a recipe card that lists all the ingredients that you will have to gather and set up at your brewing station and it tells you when to add those ingredients to the kettle. If you have any need of assistance, there are plenty of friendly brew masters there to help you out!
You will need to budget 1.5 — 2 hours to brew your beer/​wort. Afterwards, a brew master will help out with filling a keg for chilling. After that it is a two week wait and you get to bottle your beer! That’s it! A full batch of beer is 13 gallons which is roughly 75 22oz bottles of beer!
I need to get back and brew more beer!
To the best X-​mas gift ever! I think I drank too much!
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You will find that you will be sampling beers before, during and after your brew session. BEWARE!

This place is pretty interesting. I like the fact you can brew your own beer but it looks like you can only brew in large portions.

This place is really cool! They have everything you need to brew a batch of beer the easy way (while drinking a pint or two)! (I’ve tried brewing at home, and boy is it a pain!) They have water lines, giant barrels of malt & honey, hops, grains, and more! All you need to do is follow some simple directions and feel like a brew master! Unfortunately, I had a trip to Thailand planned and we didn’t follow through to do our bottling but the process looked easy enough. O’well. Maybe next time! I’m sure i’ll be back!

American Cannonball Stout.
this is such a fun place to stop by on a whim. there are serious brewers here. but for me, just a dilletante, i love walking in here and watching all the home brewers hanging out. there is beer on tap available in tasting size as well as full blown pints. the flavors change out often. this is a very educational place for me to learn about the various beers.

We made a whole bunch of beer and somehow it turned out really well! They have a lot of different recipes you may use. Plus, they provide all the ingredients. All we needed to do was measure and stir. Simple. Leave it there to ferment.
Two weeks later, it was bottling time. We sanitized a bunch of bottles and filled them right up. So easy!

Hubs and I went in for something different for a fun date night. Weird thing about us is that our «something different» usually ends up involving alcohol. Not necessarily drinking it but somehow using it or making it.
So, the guys at Gallagher’s could not have been more helpful, more cool, or more awesome. The process was so easy and everything was laid out in a way that made sense. You could tell that most of the people who work there are science geeks who enjoy beer or maybe beer geeks who enjoy science but I was getting a sciency vibe from a couple of them and they totally explained the science behind some of the process of both the beer making (hubs) and the cider making (way easy, no appointment needed, 10 minute add on, for me). And I really dig that!
In two weeks, Hubs and I will be going back for our second date night/​day there to bottle our creations. I can’t wait. We will definitely be going back to do the whole thing again. So many recipes to try and such a neat place. Try it if you’re thinking about it!

OMG where have you been all my life? I stumbled in to Gallagher’s website and was shocked to find out these guys have been in my backyard all along. We made an early morning Saturday appointment to brew and were greeted with a chill hoppy smelling paradise complete with the basketball game and some Pink Floyd playing. They help you pick a good recipe and then give you both a recipe and instruction card and a tour of where everything is. There were numerous guys on site to help with questions as we went along. They even seemed to sense when we needed a hand before we even had to ask. Brewing takes about 2 hours and then you come back in 2 weeks to bottle. There were some other brewers who were bottling their creations the day we were in and they offered to share some sips along the way. It was an all over great experience, very inexpensive, and super fun. I can’t wait to go back and bottle!

This is an awesome place to learn to brew. It’s a great setting for it – knowledgable, friendly, cool, helpful people, and all the equipment is right there. It’s a great business model that isn’t adopted many other places in town… if any, actually.
Now, to be clear, brewing is an art that’s very easy to learn, if tough to master. It’s like a well-​designed game that way – you can be having fun and succeeding pretty quickly, but sticking with it will really expand your skills. So if you’ve read up on it and you’re thinking it’s well within your grasp, you’re probably right. What can be a little daunting at first is just walking through the equipment, and maintaining a sense of just how crucial the cleaning all is. One nice things about Gallagher’s is that virtually all of the cleaning is done for you. You can focus on the fun parts until you’re fully up to speed.
Brewing is in many ways a social hobby. And I’m not talking about the tasting part yet at all – exchanging recipes, critiquing new recipes, hanging out on brew day, those are all great occasions to hang out with like-​minded souls. Gallagher’s builds that in for you by giving you some camaraderie and conversation while you’re getting up to speed.
But these are the benefits of any u-​brew place. And you could argue that joining a homebrew club would fit the same bill if you hit it off socially with your mates in the club. But Gallagher’s is always open, always there. No reason not to think about doing both.
What makes Gallagher’s cool specifically is that the staff are so nice, and you can relax and watch the game and have a beer from their tap lineup, which are their beers, and only pouring there. They will manage the fermentation and every other storage aspect of the beer for you until it’s ready to bottle (or keg) and take home. Can’t say enough good things about what these guys do for aspiring homebrewers and homebrewers with limited space.