Puget Sound is a craft beer paradise with a hole at the center of the scene: There’s no local easy-drinking macro-style lager. Pacific Northwest staple Rainier Beer isn’t brewed or owned locally. Olympia Beer’s Tumwater brewery closed in 2003 and the beer itself was discontinued by Pabst in 2021. Drinkers who want a basic, no-frills beer have to consume something produced by a conglomerate, and bartenders have to pour those products.
If there was a locally produced lager with a Rainier-like quality, brewer Chris Smith says, bars would offer it, because both residents and visitors “like to drink local.”
Smith and his partner at Lowercase Brewing, John Marti, are
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