99 Bottles

850+ BEERS! Great beer store with lots of domestics, imports, and Northwest microbrews...

by tifa at Citysearch

99 Bottles offers over 850 different beers -- domestics and imports, and lots of Northwest microbrews. Choose chilled beer from a 40-foot cooler, filled head-to-toe with beer (7 doors of USA & northwest brews; 7 doors of imports). There's also a door dedicated to hard ciders, and 8-foot-high shelves stocked with ambient-temp beer and a few meads. Preorder sixer-size kegs are also available, most have about a week lead time so order ahead -- check their Web site for details. All beer is priced by the bottle so you can buy singles or mix your own beer packs, which is wonderful. If I drank one beer a day, it'd take a few years to try them all!

99 Bottles also offers brewery t-shirts, lots of beer glasses, and gift cards!

99 Bottles beer tasting calendar:

- Wednesday night is $1 to sample the weekly pick -- generally a high-end expensive beer

- Second Tuesday of the month is style night...sample 6 beers for $5 (club members $2.50)

- Rotating days/times - generally twice per month features a special brewery guest with a line-up of 4 to 6 beers; these events vary from $1 to $5. Visit their Web site for the beer tasting calendar.

You can also sign up for "TheWeekly Brews" e-newsletter comes out once a week with beer tasting events, beer news, and a list of the new beers that arrived that week. The e*newsletter a great way to get notified of limited releases that may sell out fast! Cheers.

• Pros: All beer is stored under UV-filtering lights, religiously rotated, and maintained in a cool environment to keep beer at its freshest.
• Cons: Parking can be a bit tight during "eating hours" as several restaurants share the parking area (sushi, teryiaki, steak/burger)