Another Public Service Announcement from Chuck’s

Thank you for all of your positive feedback on our post concerning kids and dogs in the shop, it’s greatly appreciated!  A few other issues have been brought to our attention by our neighbors concerning the increase in car and foot traffic in the area.  While having so much activity in the neighborhood has definitely helped to make it safer, it has also caused concern over parking and litter.

Residents of NW 86th street  east of 8th avenue are considering asking the city to implement permit-only parking due to the increase of customer parking on their block.  To alleviate this problem, we ask you, our customers, to please limit your use of 86th street for parking.  Try parking farther north, west of 8th avenue, or south of 85th street.  A small increase in your walking distance would make a big difference to our neighbors.   Also, please do not block driveways or alleys, even if you’re only parking for a few minutes!

Unfortunately, there is no way for us to add parking to our limited space and the only thing we can do is ask you to be more imaginative in your choice of parking spot.  Or, don’t drive at all – walk, bus, bicycle or whatever else floats your boat!

Another issue that has arisen is that of dog poop in the area.  Please clean up after your pets and refrain from leaving anything else behind during your trips to and from the shop.

Thank you again for your continued support and we’ll see you soon!

This Week at Chuck’s, May 20th

As Seattle Beer Week comes to a close, we are busy preparing for another busy week here at the Hop Shop! Here is a rundown of what we have going on.

We currently still have eight imperial stouts on tap, and a few more as backup, so we are still offering taster flights of both stouts and ipa. Theyy are $8 for four 2oz pours and $6 for four 4oz pours respectively. It’s a great way to diversify your tasting experience without getting too tipsy.

Tuesday May 21st at 7:30pm, we are hosting Blockhead Trivia night! A small entry fee per person gets you a chance to win prizes and bragging rights in our monthly random fact showcase. Space is at a premium, and typically fills up fast, so get here early!

Euchre League is also this week. Thursday the 23rd at 6:00pm, come down and try your luck at the Midwest card game for fun and prizes!

Here is a list of our food trucks for the week:

Monday night – Now Make Me a Sandwich
Tuesday night – Curb Jumper
Wednesday night – Streetzeria
Thursday night – Caravan Crepes
Friday afternoon – Evolution Revolution
Friday night – Where Ya At Matt
Saturday afternoon – Grilled Cheese Experience
Saturday night – Fish Basket
Sunday afternoon – Seattle Biscuit Company
Sunday night – Ezell’s Express

That’s right, we are hosting Ezell’s Express on Sunday night. They are a fried chicken chain of trucks dedicated to serving fast, good, and fresh food. I hope you are as excited as I am!

Make sure to follow us on facebook for updates on the foodtrucks.

Next week we will be hosting a charity tasting for North West Harvest with Woodchuck Cider Wednesday night. More details in next week’s post.

Cheers!

This Week at Chuck’s, May 13

It would appear the weather in Washington changes just as fast as our taplist. Hopefully the warm weather will be back soon, but until then come on in and stay dry with pint of good beer. Wouldn’t be Seattle Beer Week without the rain, right?

Here’s the list of remaining events for Seattle Beer Week!

Monday the 13th (today) starting at 4:00pm, we will be hosting Steve Dresler, head brewer of Sierra Nevada Brewing. He will be here to answer your questions and enlighten you on the world of craft beer. We will have a couple special kegs on tap from them. Come on by!

Tuesday the 14th, we are hosting Widmer and Full Tilt for a match made in Heaven! We will have four unique flavors of Full Tilt ice cream and will be pairing them with four awesome beers from Widmer. Get four different beer floats (kids scoop and 3oz of beer) for only $5! The rep for Widmer will be here as well to talk beer for those interested.

Wednesday the 15th is the big daddy of our events. We are hosting an imperial stout tasting event. Starting when we open at 10am, we will have 12 different imperial stouts on tap, and will be offering sampler trays with four different 3oz pours for $8. We have a couple kegs on stand by when the first ones blow, so hopefully we will be able to offer these guys through the weekend! Our preliminary taplist looks like this:

Great Divide – Belgian Yeti
Great Divide – Oak Aged Yeti
Great Divide – Chocolate Yeti
Great Divide – Espresso Yeti
Southern Tier – Oat
Stone – Espresso Imperial Russian Stout
Stone – Imperial Russian Stout
Boneyard – Suge Knite
Silver City – Imperial Stout
Midnight Sun – Moscow Rye Imperial Russian Stout
Lost Abbey – Serpent’s Stout
Oskar Blues – Tenfiddy

Any of these are subject to change, but this should be our opening lineup.

Thursday is our Schmaltz brewing night. Starting at 5, we will have four beers on tap from them, and will be offering taster trays of them all. The representative will be there to answer questions as well.

Our food truck list for the week is as follows:

Monday night – Now Make Me a Sandwich
Tuesday night – Curb Jumper
Wednesday night – Streetzeria
Thursday night – Caravan Crepes
Friday afternoon – Evolution Revolution
Friday night – Where Ya At Matt
Saturday afternoon – Grilled Cheese Experience
Saturday night – Fish Basket
Sunday afternoon – Seattle Biscuit Company
Sunday night – Jemil’s Big Easy

Please note our policy on children and dogs. We are a restaurant, please treat us as such. Have respect for your fellow patrons and keep your dog or child under control while visiting. Thank you.

Hope to see you soon!

Creating a Safer and Happier Chuck’s

Hi folks,

Now that Chuck’s has become such a popular destination, it’s time we had a talk about your kids and dogs in the shop.  It has come to our attention that some of our customers have been made uncomfortable by the lack of control of both and we’d like to take this opportunity to lay out our shop policies.

Dogs are welcome as long as they are well-behaved and on a leash at all times.  Dogs that are barking in the shop will be asked to step outside.  Any dog not on a leash will be required to either be leashed or leave.  This is for  the safety of your dog, other dogs, our customers, and our staff.

Kids are always welcome in the shop, because after all, being a family place is what made Chuck’s what it is today.  But, unsupervised children can cause a stressful and uncomfortable situation for both our customers and our staff.  Children should be kept under the direct supervision of their parents at all times, both inside and outside the shop.  This is for their safety, as there is a lot of commotion and it can be very crowded at times.

Thank you for your cooperation with these policies and we hope to see you in the shop soon.

Happy Beer Week!

This Week at Chuck’s, May 6th

Seems like summer is here. Now is as good a time as any to make use of our outdoor seating. Come by and grab a pint!

Wednesday we will be warming up for Seattle Beer Week with a mini Ballard Brewery get together. We asked all the Ballard area breweries to bring their best beer, and invite them to stick around and talk to patrons. No better way to support the booming beer scene than drinking local, right? We will be offering flight trays with four samples of beer from each of them (price to be determined), so come stop by and check it out.

Thursday we invite you to come visit us for our Sam Adam’s beer night. We will have four beers from them on tap: India Pale Lager, Grumpy Monk Belgian IPA, Honey Queen Braggot (hybrid between beer and mead), and a Maple Pecan Porter. We will again be offering taster trays (again, price pending). If you were quick enough to RSVP, we will be having the Utopias tasting up front, where you will get to sample all the draft beers as well as Utopias and Angry Orchard Iceman. Please show up around 5:30, we will begin at 6:00pm.

Our events for the rest of beer week are as follows:
Monday the 13th, come meet Sierra Nevada’s head brewmaster Steve Dresler!
Tuesday the 14th, Widmer and Full Tilt Ice Cream paring!
Wednesday the 15th, Imperial Stout tap takeover!
Thursday the 16th, Schmaltz Brewing night!

Here is our food truck schedule for the week:

Monday night – Now Make Me a Sandwich
Tuesday night – Curb Jumper
Wednesday night – Streetzeria
Thursday night – Caravan Crepes
Friday afternoon – Evolution Revolution
Friday night – Where Ya At Matt
Saturday afternoon – Grilled Cheese Experience
Saturday night – Fish Basket
Sunday afternoon – Seattle Biscuit Company
Sunday night – Jemil’s Big Easy

This Week at Chuck’s, April 29th

Hello hopshopper! We hope you are ready for another action packed week. Here’s the rundown on what we have going on this week, and a little bit more on our beer week events.

Wendesday the 1st, we are hosting Reverend Nat’s Cider for a good cause cider tasting. You may have seen the new swingtop bottles in the cider section. They will be here Wednesday from 6:30 to 8:00 to raise money for the Program for Early Parenthood Support (PEPS for short), so stop on by, donate, and try out some cider!

All of our spots for the Sam Adam’s tasting event are full, but we do have a waiting list in case anyone drops.

Our rough draft list for our Imperial Stout event looks a little like this:

Great Divide – Belgian Yeti
Great Divide – Oak Aged Yeti
Great Divide – Chocolate Yeti
Great Divide – Espresso Yeti
Southern Tier – Oat
Stone – Espresso Imperial Russian Stout
Boneyard – Suge Knite
Silver City – Imperial Stout
Midnight Sun – Moscow Rye Imperial Russian Stout
Lost Abbey – Serpent’s Stout
Oskar Blues – Tenfiddy

We are looking to add a few more, so the list might change between now and then.

Due to Beer Week, we will reschedule Trivia and Euchre night. Trivia will be pushed to the third Tuesday (16th) and Euchre likely to the week after (23rd)

Our food trucks this week are as follows:

Monday night – Now Make Me a Sandwich
Tuesday night – Curb Jumper
Wednesday night – Streetzeria
Thursday night – Caravan Crepes
Friday afternoon – Evolution Revolution
Friday night – Where Ya At Matt
Saturday afternoon – Grilled Cheese Experience
Saturday night – Fish Basket
Sunday afternoon – Seattle Biscuit Co
Sunday night – Curb Jumper

We are doing a bottle launch for Double Mountain. Yes, they’ve finally started bottling. Come check them out in their 500ml bottles of IPA, Kolsh, Vaporizer, and Hop Lava. We will be celebrating with a couple special beers on tap: White Rider Belgian Pale, and Carries Ladd Porter, joining their regular lineup Hop Lava and Kolsh.

Cheers, and hope to see you soon!

This Week at Chuck’s, 4/22

This one should be action packed folks, we’ve got the happenings this week as well as a preview of the Seattle Beer Week events!

Wednesday the 24th, come join us for a good cause beer tasting with Snoqualmie Brewing to raise money for Child’s Play! Child’s Play is an organization that seeks to improve the lives of children in hospitals around the world through the kindness and generosity of the video game industry and the power of play. Snoqualmie will be debuting their Honey Ale, a collaboration with Salish Lodge and Spa, using fresh harvested estate honey. 

Here is our food truck schedule for the week:

Monday night – Now Make Me a Sandwich
Tuesday night – Curb Jumper
Wednesday night – Streetzeria
Thursday night – Where Ya At Matt
Friday afternoon – Evolution Revolution
Friday night – Caravan Crepes
Saturday afternoon – Grilled Cheese Experience
Saturday night – Fish Basket
Sunday afternoon – Seattle Biscuit Company
Sunday night – Jemil’s Big Easy

Now on to beer week!

As you know, Seattle Beer Week kicks off Thursday, May 9th and runs through May 18th. We have a slew of fun activities to share with you.

Wednesday the 8th we are having a pre funk for the week devoted to Seattle brewers with an event focusing on the thriving Ballard area. We will have kegs from each of the brewers in Ballard, and will be offering $4 flights of them. We should have a few of the brewers there representing their beer as well, so stop on by and talk beer with the makers of your favorite local beer!

Thursday the 9th we will be hosting Boston Beer Company (Sam Adams). We will be featuring four beers from them on tap: India Pale Lager, Grumpy Monk Belgian IPA, Honey Queen Braggot (hybrid between beer and mead), and a Maple Pecan Porter. But wait, there’s more! The first 20 people to sign up will get to take part in a tasting. For $20, you will be able to try 4oz samples of all of the beers on tap, as well as a 1oz pour of the 2012 Utopias and a 4oz pour of their Angry Orchard Iceman cider. We look to hold the tasting around 6pm. Please email us at Chuckshopshop@gmail.com with your name and phone number, or ask for the sign up sheet the next time you are in the store. Space is limited, so don’t wait!

Monday the 13th at 4pm we will be hosting Steve Dresler of Sierra Nevada Brewing! Come stop by, check out some cool beers on tap, and have a talk with Sierra Nevada’s head brewmaster before he heads over to The Burgundian.

Tuesday the 14th we will be hosting Widmer for a beer and ice cream pairing. Widmer is working with Full Tilt to make four flavors specifically for pairings. Come try four beers with four scoops of ice cream for $6

Wednesday the 15th is our Imperial Stout tasting. We’ve been saving back kegs for a while now, and are ready to put them on all at once. $8 will get you four 3oz samples of some world class dark beer. This isn’t one to be missed. 

Thursday the 16th we will be hosting Schmaltz brewing. Come meet the representative and try their Rejewvenator, Jewbelation Sweet 16, Lenny’s Rye IPA, and Messiah Brown ale for $6 a taster. 

Phew, that was a mouth full. Hopefully we will see you soon!