Holy Mountain Brewing is ready to hit the market, launch event planned for Oct. 14

It’s been a long time coming, but at last Holy Mountain Brewing finds itself ready to begin distributing beer. Seattle’s newest brewery plans to introduce itself with a kickoff event at the Pine Box on Tuesday, October 14th at 6:00 pm.

The wait is something that Holy Mountain thinks you should appreciate. In fact, that is part of the philosophy at Holy Mountain: they intend to rush nothing to market. Instead, they’ll lend much of their attention to carefully aged beers and apply slightly less focus to ready-to-drink ales, though they plan to make those too.

I’ve been saying it for years. What Seattle really needs is something that compares to Portland’s Hair of the Dog Brewing and Cascade Brewing. I’m talking about uncommon, barrel-aged beers of bold and unique character. While Seattle does indeed have some breweries working with barrels, we need a new brewery to step up and really make it a primary focus. I think the Seattle beer community is sophisticated enough to handle it. Holy Mountain Brewing seems to agree with me.

Here is the press release about the introduction of Holy Mountain Brewing to the local beer scene.


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(Seattle, WA) More than four years in the works, the first barrels have been filled at Holy Mountain Brewing Company, located in Seattle’s Interbay neighborhood. Focusing on hop forward, barrel aged, and yeast driven ales and lagers, Holy Mountain will launch its first beers into the Seattle market in early October.

In 2010 head brewer Colin Lenfesty and president Adam Paysse, both award winning homebrewers, rented an industrial space in SODO to expand their brewing efforts and prepare to open a commercial brewery. Lenfesty spent his days brewing professionally, and the two spent nights brewing pilot batches. Holy Mountain was born when the pair met Mike Murphy, whom Lenfesty knew from his day job, where Murphy ran the brewery’s sales operations.

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“I was blown away by the passion these guys had for styles that weren’t being offered in Seattle on a regular basis” said Murphy, most recently head of Sales for Westland Distillery. “From the start, we were all on the same page stylistically and recognized gaps in the local market that we thought should be filled.”

“We saw all these other breweries popping up, but we were really intent on having everything dialed in, so we just tried to stay patient,” said Paysse. “Once we decided to do Holy Mountain we spent the better part of two years running trial batches with saison and brett strains and dialing in our water chemistry, all while writing and rewriting a business plan.” The three hope that their extensive brewing experience and dedication to quality will set Holy Mountain apart.

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Drawing inspiration from both yeast driven continental beers as well as hop forward West Coast ales, Holy Mountain will focus on brewing seasonal releases, with the inclusion of barrel fermented beers, and the intent to create a prominent barrel aging program.

After months of construction the team is excited to be brewing. Said Lenfesty, “It’s been a long road of blood, sweat, plumbing, welding, and spreadsheets. We have a pretty incredible group of people behind us that have helped make this happen. We’re more excited than ever about what the future holds.”

Holy Mountain will produce beer in 20bbl batches, and will not feature a fixed flagship beer. The initial lineup will include The Seer – a hoppy farmhouse ale, The Goat – a rustic barrel fermented farmhouse ale, King’s Head – a double brown ale brewed with a generous portion of oats, and an aromatic fresh hop American Pale Ale hopped entirely with the new Equinox varietal, harvested on the autumnal equinox and used to brew the same day.

Construction is also underway at the brewery’s 1421 Elliott Ave W location on a 60 seat taproom. Designed and built largely by the three founders, Holy Mountain’s taproom will be open and spacious, with high ceilings and a large bay door opening onto the train tracks and Pier 90.

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4 thoughts on “Holy Mountain Brewing is ready to hit the market, launch event planned for Oct. 14

  1. Amen..I’ve said dozens of times to many a beer snob that what we need in this area is our own Cascade or Hair of the Dog. Thankfully, Fremont’s incredible bourbon barrel beers, Schooner Exact’s awesome sour beer program and Epic Ales wild yeast adventures are getting us in the ball park. We’re still not quite there though as these breweries aren’t as widely distributed as neighbors to the south. Hopefully Holy Mountain adds to our list. I’d kill for something like Cascade, Almanac or The Bruery up here.

  2. I know that often the eastside can feel like another continent and Redmond can feel like another world but don’t forget Black Raven and all of their one off’s and bold experiments.

  3. I chose my words carefully, not wanting to include anyone at the expense of excluding others. “While Seattle does indeed have some breweries working with barrels, we need a new brewery to step up and really make it a primary focus.” Of course Black Raven would be one of the “some.”

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