Northwest Brewing Company

We used to love this place. Not sure what is going on but they had one person working on a Saturday. This has happened more than once. Go to Half Lion brewery in Sumner if you want good service!

I moved about a mile away from this place about a year ago. I’ve tried going there on 3 separate occasions, all of which were on a weekday afternoon. Each time I experienced TERRIBLE service. I come in and sit down and the waitresses literally look right at me and then wait 5 minutes to come over and ask what I want, even though there is hardly anyone else in the bar. Its unfortunate because their beer is awesome, but I am not wasting any more of my time trying to give my money to a business that employs people who treat customers like they are a bother.

Northwest is located in a dinoy little strip mall on the south end of pacific. Immediately upon walking in we were greated by the bartender and felt welcome. The tap room is located right next to all of the brewing so it is fun to see everything in action. The beer is fantastic. I would recommend the hoppy bitch to everyone!

You can’t go wrong by coming here. All of the beers are delicious. I always stop by to get a couple of growlers filled, and to sip on something.

Recently moved down from Seattle… the best beer in the area! No thrills, fancy décor, cheesy trucker hats or souvenirs, just really good brew with high alcohol content.

Located in an industrial area you find this tiny brewery. It smells like hops and you can watch the beer being made. They have by far the best beer in the area. Their hoppy bitch IPA is a classic PNW IPA, and the root beer is even better. It is well worth the visit.

Having a brew here on a spring afternoon can’t hardly be beat. Garage doors up, brew flowing, and lots of people celebrating the sun! Hoppy Bitch IPA is great! And the popcorn’s not bad either (but I am thirsty for another brew). Enjoy!

Limited food, (Popcorn, Sausage, and Bagels) and some of the best beer hereabouts.
CrazyBitch, HoppyBitch, RoadTrip are a few. The wide variety of beer is still being explored. Growlers without jug $ 15 /​with jug $ 10. Music sometimes, but always friendly service and always the best tasting brews. A warehouse brewery. But definitely a must stop for the beer.

What a hidden gem. The beers are spot on. They also let you bring in food. They have TV and plenty of seating. The beers are spot on and tasty. The bartenders are great and attentive.

Good beers, their flagship Hoppy Bitch is a great IPA, at decent prices…$ 4.75 for a pint and growler refills for $ 10. Small warehouse atmosphere.

The Crazy Bitch is better than the Hoppy Bitch. I had the hawk beer mixed with the mango and it was pretty good. Definitely stop and get a brewski, watch a game, eat some popcorn and enjoy your afternoon!

The brewery was clean and neat. Caitlin was nice and took the time to answer questions about what we were tasting. It is not usual to find as many beers that I like in one place but, I found four.

Nice bartenders, great selection of beer. When we and here there was a local «crazy» guy, interesting… Just one of those times you have to drink your beer and listen in on the wild story that’s being told.

This is a no frills brewery, that’s for sure! Good thing the beer is good because I probably wouldn’t step foot in here otherwise. Staff is very attentive and friendly. The beer is ice cold and as tasty as ever. It smells similar to what Enumclaw smells like, felt like I was in a barn hanging out with some livestock! I wasn’t used to it because most breweries do their brewing behind glass windows so the smell of the hot hops was a shock! Regardless, it was a fun experience and we shall be back! Wish they had better food choices though.

A bit of PNW in a glass! Lovein it. Great atmosphere… friendly bartenders… excellent beer… will be back soon ty!

Great brews, true brewery atmosphere in the warehouse.
I did not try the food, but the menu we got had over half of it blacked out. I wouldn’t come here for dinner.
Service was good and friendly. I’ve never been there on a Friday or Saturday though.

Used a Groupon to try out this place for the first time. Their beer was excellent (and I’d come back for that) but it was obvious food was not high on their priorities. Warehouse décor, pub grub menu. We were done with our first beer (~20 min) before the waitress ever came back to take our order. By then we were fed up and just left with our growler of beer. Recommend u go for the beer only.

Arrived here after I landed at McChord Air Force Base inviting my cousin here. It was so hard to find it because it’s in the end of an industrial area or warehouse that looked like long-​term storage and was surrounded by tractor trailers.
I appreciate the ambience and the selection of strong brews with the exception for the mild hefeweizen. The IPAs, the porter and the bourbon barrel stout was no joke, though. I enjoyed my visit thoroughly.
Before I left, I bought the signature Hoppy Bitch and gave it as a gift to my Tim, the owner of Pleasure House Brewing after finding out he likes hoppy beer.

This brewery is located where a lot of breweries are located – in a warehouse, so don’t be surprised. The beer is always good. My favorites are the ginger pale ale, the mango hefe and blood orange pale. Sometimes they are out of certain ones, but they also have them in bottles if you want to buy there as well. Worth a stop by.

This is a small brewery with a tasting room that feels like it’s still kinda in the start-​up phase. These guys have been around for almost a decade, but they’re changed their name twice – you might remember them as Laughing Buddha, or as Trade Route. They’ve always been interesting, and I don’t know the details about their latest incarnation as NW. But they’re still keepin’ on.
You have a bit of a drive ahead of you, depending where you’re coming from. They’re in Pacific, which is about as far south as Federal Way, though it’s down in the valley a couple miles from I-​5. About 30 minutes from Seattle, total. You work your way into a series of low warehouses off one of the main cross-​valley roads. Most of the warehouses appear to be light industrial or storage, but these kinds of buildings are great for production breweries – NW is certainly not the only one housed this way. There’s plenty of parking, especially on weekends (they seemed to be the only place open in the business park). You can’t really see the joint from the road, but there’s a huge flashing red OPEN sign in the window, which you can see from the parking lot. By this point, you probably know you’re on way here, but the giant sign is a nice confirmation.
Inside, there’s a long bar with plenty of stools, and a couple dozen tables with chairs. There are coolers in back with bottles to go, and there’s a single restroom with a huge utility sink in it. Across from the bar, there’s a low partition wall topped with glass. Though this, you can see half a dozen brite tanks and the rest of the brewhouse, right there. Presumably you could come here during the week and watch them work, right from your table.
Everything here is nice enough for sure, but there are plenty of reminders you’re in a working brewery. I love that, personally. You can bring anyone here, though – it’s not an industrial setting, even though they make the taproom just nice enough without overly investing in it. It’s a working setting.
They make their own lineup of beers, and they also tap and bottle the old Three Skulls line of beers. Baron used to make the Three Skulls stuff, but Three Skulls now seems to be a part of the NW beer family. You might have tried Hoppy Bitch on tap in Seattle from these guys, maybe seen the bottles. Joker and some of their other beers make it out of the valley sometimes too. The beers here are hit and miss, but they have some good ones – Hoppy is a solid PNW IPA, heavy on the resiny bitterness.
The food is minimal. Free popcorn, and they have chips and salsa. You can bring in outside food if you like. The service is super nice, they answer questions and make sure to give you full pours. Very charming staff. They do a fair bit of growler and to-​go business, and have a flat screen tuned to the game if you want to hang out and tip a glass or two. For the beer hunter, I’d say come on in and have a sampler.