Bellingham, WA 6/12/2023
Garden Path Fermentation is excited to announce the opening of The Great Northern Bottle Shop and Lounge, located at 1319 Commercial Street in Bellingham, WA, this weekend. The Great Northern will feature both Garden Path and guest products available for onsite consumption as well as a broad range of bottles to go. The official grand opening date is Saturday, June 17 at 12:00pm.
Co-owner Amber Watts is enthusiastic about the grand opening:
“When we opened Garden Path in April 2018, our mission was twofold. We wanted to make beer, cider, wine, and mead using hyperlocal ingredients and native yeast, and we wanted to share our fermented beverages alongside those from producers who inspire us. Our brewery and taproom in Burlington features a curated selection of thoughtfully made beers and ciders as well as minimal intervention wines, including our own. We love to tell the stories behind them, and we’re eager to expand our customer base and share our enthusiasm.
The Great Northern will have 30+ taps of beer, cider, and natural wine, including a beer engine for cask ales and traditional side pull faucet for lagers. We will also have an expanded bottle selection, featuring many rare beers, traditional ciders, and a wide range of natural wines.”
Co-owner Ron Extract explains the move as a unique opportunity for growth:
“Having a presence in Bellingham will help us forge a stronger relationship with the city’s craft beer, wine, cider, and culinary communities and to be even more specialized in our retail offerings, bringing in direct shipments from out-of-state breweries and wineries and in time building what we hope will be among the best curated selections of lambic, farmhouse ale, minimal intervention wine, and traditional cider that can be found anywhere in the world.”
The Great Northern’s operating hours will be from 12:00pm – 9:00pm Wednesday through Monday. It is a 21+ venue, and leashed and well-behaved dogs are welcome. The Great Northern will not have food service, but customers are welcome to bring in outside food.
About Garden Path Fermentation
Located in the beautiful Skagit Valley in Northwest Washington, with its uniquely fertile soils and cool, temperate climate, Garden Path Fermentation is one of very few producers in the world that’s able to make beer, wine, cider, and mead, all using ingredients sourced from our own backyard, and may be the only one to do so using only native yeast fermentation.
In addition to the products that we make in-house, our onsite tasting room and bottle shop also features beer, wine, cider, mead, and other fermented beverages from small, independent, philosophically aligned producers from around the world, including many that cannot be found anywhere else in the region.
A garden path is a beautiful way to get somewhere you may not have expected to go. Our products—the results of careful selection, blending, aging and curation—will take you on what may be an unanticipated journey that we hope you enjoy!
Visit http://gardenpathwa.com for more information or follow us on Instagram and Facebook @gardenpathwa.