Wet Head Brewery - Auburn

Great brewery! It is located in a neighborhood in a garage. They only have a one barrel brewing system but they had like 5 different beers on tap. I had the jalapeño blonde which was so good and wasn't overpowered by the jalapeño flavor. I also had a regular blonde which was also good. The space is small but they also have a covered outdoor space in front of the garage. The people here are really friendly from the people working behind the bar to the actual beer drinkers. I liked this brewery a lot!

This is one of those bootstrap success stories that are becoming more and more common in Washington state brewing. This guy for years was a homebrewer for fun, with a day job well outside the beer industry. He still has the day job, but he has ratcheted up his brewing capacity now because he's turned his homebrew operation into a commercial nanobrewery. He's running it out of his garage, but it's a very complete operation. It's just tiny. You're in a residential neighborhood in Auburn, surrounded on every side for a couple blocks by small houses from around WW2 vintage, maybe a bit after. There's some street parking, and you walk up the driveway and around the corner to a small human-sized door. Inside, there are half a dozen stools along a little bar, with fridges behind, supplies stacked in corners, and some cool brewing equipment by the window. There's a small but very functional restroom in the back. He's added lighting, signage, coasters, all kinds of stuff to bring the taproom functionality up to speed all the way. He even takes credit cards. The beers are solid, with a big emphasis on anglo ale styles--IPAs, porters, stouts, and so on. He is starting to experiment occasionally with a Belgian here and there, and even has a couple of local bourbon barrels ready to take a beer. The Parliament distillery farther down the valley provided the barrels. That's such a cool thing to see: very local breweries working with very local distilleries. Overall, he's making some solid beer and he's an incredible fun barman to hang out and chat with while you sample the wares. For us, 7 samples ran a little over $14. A couple of them were strong enough that this ended up being a pretty good serving. The beers are definitely worth a stop and a sample if you're in the area.

Bill makes a real good jalenpino beer awesome and taproom is really cool out of garage great local craft beer also love slaughter Amber great job

Billy was nice enough to give me a deal on some goodies for a charitable auction. The new swivel top bottles they are carrying are really cool and refillable. The beer is great, I usually go for the Amber or the Porter, but you should just go and try them all!

Excellent beers. Everything was between really good and excellent. Awesome concept--the neighborhood taproom. Friendly clientele, great community feel. I'll definitely come back!