Kirkland, Washington’s Chainline Brewing Company is opening the ‘Chainline Station’ a taproom with beer garden, coffee shop in a train caboose, and orchard trails nestled alongside the new Feriton Spur Park. This second location of Chainline may seem familiar to early fans of the 5 year old brewery as it’s virtually on the site of their original location which was purchased and raised for a new Google offices campus.

Chainline got started in 2015 as a small Czech built 10 hectaliter brewhouse with an attached taproom. Their emphasis is on making lean oand clean lagers and they have been awarded medals for them at the World Beer Cup and Best of Craft Beer Awards among others. They enjoy highlighting more obscure styles and techniques like Cerne Dark Lager and Polotmavy, but also were among the first to brew Hazy IPA’s in Washington.

When Chainline Brewing relocated their taproom to a mixed use development called Kirkland Urban Center in 2020 they also took the opportunity to upgrade their brewery. Moving their production off-site, they scaled up to a 20bbl brewhouse 4-vessel system with oversized whirlpool for mash mixing and decoction ability that along with their horizontal lagering tanks are taking their lager program to the next level. Now with the development nearly complete on their former land they found space to reimagine things and came up with the Chainline Station rural urban taproom against a bicycling corridor and new green area that restores historical elements like an old water tower and train tracks.

“We leaned heavily on the history and legacy of the railroads and trains that shaped early Kirkland to create a complete experience, from the depot building and water tower, to the centerpiece of the location, a real caboose that has been converted into a coffee house and taproom,” says Chainline marketing manager Eric Wallace. “The new Caboose will be nearly identical spot from our old taproom.”

Chainline Brewing says the upcoming ‘Station’ location will not replace their current urban taproom at 500 Uptown Court, Suite 210, Kirkland, WA 98033 and looks to have a very different feel by capitalizing on the adjacent walking trail by offering coffee and ice cream to passers by and their own beers to those seated inside or in the beer garden. The brewery is also working on a plan to collect fruits and vegetables grown onsite and distribute them to families in need around the Kirkland community.

Chainline Station will open in early 2022 and the Chainline Brewing beers are now sporadically available in Oregon through Day One Distribution.