Biography

Established: 1995

Owners: Jonathan Tweten, Daniel Tweten

Head Brewer: Joe Heldt, brewing math wizard and fermentation whisperer

Location: 454 E Main, Puyallup, WA 98372

Specialty: Bold, modern brews crafted in a gravity-fed brewhouse inside a 1907 electric substation — history with a side of hops.

Five Notable Beers:
• Coco Loves Nitro Stout – a velvet-tongued, cocoa-drenched dream on nitrogen
• No Fruit Was Harmed IIPA – a cheeky slap of hops without the juicebox
• Ezra Meeker Fresh Hop IPA – brewed with valley pride and green-gold devotion
• Scottish Ale – malted poetry with a caramel brogue
• Bourbon Barrel Russian Imperial Stout – big, boozy, and brooding like a Dostoevsky hangover

🏆 Awards & Honors:

• 2013 Tacoma Craft Beer Festival – Dark Gold Medal Winner
• Best Brewpub in the West – 2000
(And more brewing acclaim bubbling on the horizon under Heldt’s curious, creative leadership)

⚡ Fun Facts & Glorious Lore:

• Born in 1907 as an electric trolley substation, this red-bricked beast later zapped the entire Puyallup Valley with power before falling silent in 1970.
• Saved from demolition and reinvented in 1995 by Dusty Trail (of Engine House No. 9 fame), it became a gravity-fed brewery — because sometimes beer should obey physics.
• The building is the first ever added to the City of Puyallup’s historic register.
• Today, it’s owned by the Twetens, who continue to serve global comfort food alongside fresh craft beer — all ages welcome, dog-friendly patio, crowlers to-go.
• New head brewer Joe Heldt brings a math teacher’s precision and a homebrewer’s soul to the beer program — delivering brews that are both calculated and unexpectedly magical.