Brewer Hired for Lake City Pub
photo by Victoria Lakti
Elliott Bay is proud to announce that Bill Jenkins, soon-to-be-retired brewer at Big Time Brewing in the U-District, will be the new brewer at our Lake City brewpub.
Bill began home brewing in Seattle in 1990. His first brewing job was at the original Pike Place Brewing Co. in 1991. In 1995 Bill became the Assistant Brewer at Big Time and then Head Brewer in 1996. In 1997 he moved to Ireland to helped launch a brewery in Dublin.
Bill moved back to Seattle and back to Pike Brewing in 1998. He was briefly brewing at Big Time again as an Assistant Brewer before heading to Hale’s Ales, were he spent 3 years. Since January 2004 Bill has served as Head Brewer at Big Time. Obviously, this guy knows his way around breweries!
We are looking forward to Bill’s arrival at the helm in Lake City and to sharing the many fine beers he’ll be offering up to patrons of Elliott Bay’s first North End location. While the pub won’t open until later this year, during the intervening months Bill will spend time with his wife and two young sons.
We are very excited for the new brewpub (in our neck of the woods!)
Where is it going to be located in Lake City?
Yeah baby!! Best news I’ve heard all week. I’m looking forward to some of Bill’s creative, progressive, assertive, and interesting beers breaking into ebbc’s line of beers. Let him have his run! Buy him some wet Leonetti Cellars barrels and give him a handful of Brett!!!
12537 Lake City Way NE
Seattle, WA 98125
My husband and I are giddy that FINALLY a quality brew pub is moving to Lake City. We have been desperate for this to happen for years! Want to welcome Elliott Bay to our little \’town\’. We plan to be there at opening and as often as possible after that. We\’ll miss Hales, but not the trek to Ballard. Ya Hoo!
Great choice! Welcome to the neighborhood, Bill! When’s your first batch going to be ready?
Any updates on the Lake City site? We’re waiting. . .
Hope to be brewing before end of the year.
That’s wonderful news! We’ve been anxiously awaiting your arrival. A neighbor just called me, wanting a suggestion of a place to go out this evening and I thought how nice it will be to be when I can suggest Elliott Bay in Lake City. Keep us posted!
Do you have a actual opening date? We really need you guys in the LCW soon!
still in building-out mode. may be brewing before the end of the year, but full opening is not going to be before Q1_2012. check our Twitter feed @elliottbay_beer or Facebook page for updates and photos http://www.facebook.com/elliottbaybrewing