Hop and Hound celebrates 1st anniversary this weekend

Published 4:17 pm Friday, June 5, 2015

Bothell bottleshop and taproom The Hop and Hound is celebrating its first anniversary over four days starting June 11.

Eric Schaffer opened The Hop and Hound, named after Schaffer’s coonhound Charlie, last June to bring good craft beer to downtown Bothell, and has found success. He helped start the Bothell Beer Fest and was appointed to the city of Bothell’s Lodging Tax Advisory Committee, which oversees and reviews how to appropriate funds the city raises through tourism.

Recently The Hop and Hound released its own app on iTunes and Google Play for updates on draft list, events and schedule of food trucks, which are on hand every Friday.

The anniversary celebration kicks off Thursday with the tapping of the official anniversary beer, a bourbon barrel Russian imperial stout called 7 Dog Years, that Schaffer brewed in collaboration with Nate McLaughlin from Justice Brewing.

“It’s an amazing imperial stout that was aged in a used Westland Distillery whiskey barrel that used to be a bourbon barrel in Kentucky before that,” Schaffer said.

The first 25 people each day to order a beer on draft will receive a limited anniversary pint glass.

Here’s a schedule for the anniversary weekend:

June 11: Tapping anniversary beer; food truck, The Grilled Cheese Experience, will be on hand after 5:30 p.m.

June 12: Anniversary beer, 7 Dog Years, bottled beer release; Postdoc Brewing cask beer tapped; food truck, Mr. Gyro’s, will be on hand after 5:30 p.m.

June 13: $1 off pints with Bothell Beer/Wine Walk wristbands; release of new The Hop and Hound T-shirts; food truck, Bread &Butter, will be on hand after 4:30 p.m.

June 14: All-day drink specials; $4 Kill the IPA Keg drafts; $5 glasses of Sunday Funday Sangria.

For more information, visit The Hop and Hound website at www.thehopandhound.com.