A City & its Brewery

So raise your glass and join the millions of voices worldwide as you say “cheers!” to your friends and neighbors. May the happiness our beer brings stay with you long after you depart our brewpub.

Bellevue’s Spring District sits on the former site of the Safeway distribution center. A living metaphor for the transformation of Bellevue from an unincorporated Seattle suburb to a bustling city in its own right, booming with entrepreneurship, culture and, now, its very own “districts.”

Construction of the Spring District began in 2013. From the very beginning, plans involved a brewpub as the heart and soul of this new urban village. Small wonder the developers chose beer as the community’s focal point. Beer is the oldest purposefully manufactured alcoholic beverage and every culture in history has brewed some form of beer. Indeed, only water and tea surpass it as the most consumed beverage worldwide. Beer is humanity’s drink and has substantial historical and cultural significance in the Pacific Northwest, an area renowned for hop production and pioneering breweries.

However, as breweries proliferated across the eastside in the 1990s and 2000s, the craft beer scene managed to bypass Bellevue. It wasn’t until December 12, 2012, when Bellevue’s first locally owned craft brewery served its first batch of beer. The Bellevue Brewing Company has been building its reputation ever since and has attracted a large local and regional following. It was the obvious candidate to move its operations to the Spring District. What better company to build Bellevue’s first urban brewpub than its first-ever brewery?

But it isn’t just its urban location that makes our Spring District Brewpub standout. Beyond its state-of-the-art production brewery, the taproom is serving beer from 1000L copper serving tanks (10 in total), a first for King County. We also boast a full-service dining experience, high-end local wines, a fully licensed cocktail bar and a 2500 sq ft beer garden overlooking a park. This combination can be found nowhere else in the entire state.

Our Spring District Brewpub offers a dining and drinking experience like no other in the area and will attract beer tourists and foodies from all over the world. However, our priority is our locals who will find quality, variety and camaraderie every time they cross our threshold. Beer is about fellowship and good times and that’s exactly what we try to represent at our brewpub.

While you are here, please take a look around and admire a decor that pays tribute to the local area with reclaimed Douglas Fir salvaged from historical buildings such as the old UW Police Station on Boat Street (note the steel rods still embedded in the wood tables in our snug) and from covered bridges in Sweet Home Oregon. Stop to admire the art in our gallery that pays tribute to our own history as beer makers and the historical photos of beer drinkers from as far back as the late 19th century when cameras were still a new technology. Finally, enjoy the view of our magnificent copper tanks suspended above our bar. Each one contains the equivalent of 20 kegs (a whopping 265 gallons) of beer.

We look forward to serving you.