![]() ![]() Scuttlebutt Brewing Company has been around since 1996, with their roots on the Everett waterfront. Today, I found three offerings from Scuttlebutt Brewing Company of Everett, Washington. They also occasionally carry offerings from smaller breweries from Asia, Europe and North America. This past winter, City Super was my source for Abbaye des Rocs Bruin and Speciale Noel, as well as the 2007 Golden Carolus Cuvee van de Keizer and a number of other beers that are not typically found in Taiwan. I’m quickly realizing that City Super is THE place to go to find some interesting selections of craft beer to try! While waiting for our order to be ready, I stopped into City Super to pick up some items for tomorrow’s dinner, and decided to take a quick peek in the beer aisle. ![]() It's unreliable.Today being Monday, I made my weekly pilgrimage to the Sogo in Tienmu to pick up Din Tai Fung’s Xiao Long Bao for take-out dinner. Scuttlebutt can be excellent, but I give it a poor rating because it may be awful on any given day. On a sunny day though you can't carry on a conversation over the truck noise and your beer tastes mostly like diesel exhaust. If the road is not busy, it's really relaxing. Just remember that it's on the corner of an intersection where lots of big pickup trucks, many of them diesel, turn to pick up or drop off boats. Patio: The patio can be really nice on a good day. I've had good and bad service on both busy and quiet days. I've also had servers that don't know what's on the menu, don't bother to listen (Diet Coke, not coke hold the mayo glass of water please?) The funny thing is there doesn't seem to be a correlation with how busy it is. Once it was excellent, the second time it was an oil slick with a total of two shrimp. I've ordered the Cajun shrimp linguini twice. The second time is was dried out and terrible. I've ordered the Philly cheesesteak twice. The question is with who's cooking in the back and the time until it's served. Menu: The menu has enough variety to please most people. I guess the best option is to ask for a sample, which they are good about providing. However, I know people who really like the same beer. The last beer I had at Scuttlebutt tasted like old coffee strained through a urinal mat. ![]() Beer: Beer is always a matter of personal taste. You don't know which it will be until you get there. I would eat there is you were just getting off a boat and we’re sunburned with a limited ability to taste due to extreme exposure to seawater. How many times can a brew pub make a second rate eating establishment? Well, for scuttlebutt - twice. The beer is good, but who cannot make a decent beer. Now the real reason to go there is the beer. The burger was nothing special with burnt bacon and a small shot of ketchup. The blue cheese dressing was in a one ounce serving shot glass. Cobb salad was on a small plate that didn’t fit the amount of stuff they piled on. The place in not visible from the road, and the inside looks like they took a layout from the Denny’s of yesteryear. Meth houses, jail, and a strange marina is more what I expect in Everett. I understand wanting to be down at the waterfront, but Everett is not know for it scenic waterfront. It is a strange thing to walk from the outside through the servers entrance on their deck from the awkward shaped parking lot. ![]()
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