A Broadway beer-share: Stoup Capitol Hill makes room for Human People Beer

(Image: Human People Beer)

Sometimes the best way to make ends meet in Seattle is to share.

Human People Beer is teaming up with Stoup Capitol Hill in an arrangement to make new brews at its Broadway and Union tap hall and brewery.

The result will be more Capitol Hill-brewed beer for everyone.

“Our arrangement is called an alternating proprietorship, which is different than contract brewing,” Stoup’s Lara Zahaba tells CHS. “With contract brewing, we would be making beer for them with their recipes. In an alternating proprietorship, they are making their own beer on our equipment.”

The sharing agreement is an expansion of the collaboration Stoup and Human People Beer forged at Stoup’s Ballard facility. Zahaba says moving the brewery-share to Capitol Hill gives Stoup “much more capacity and flexibility” to host a beermaker roomie

The new arrangement is helping to keep Stoup’s Capitol Hill brewing facility busy and continues Human People Beer’s happily “nomadic” existence creating beers across the area.

“Human People is a small brewery, Bringing quality and ingredient-focused beer to those that seek it,” the company says about its brews. “Our beers are always aromatic, thoughtful, and extremely quaffable. To be enjoyed with friends, together.”

The new brewing arrangement follows the opening last summer of Human People Beer’s first taproom just west of Ravenna Ravine Park.

“The initial plan to open near the Lake Washington Ship Canal fell apart, sadly, but that did not deter these human people,” the Washington Beer Blog reported on the opening. “They began brewing beer, nomad style, with their many friends at other breweries, releasing the beers to a growing number of Human People Beer fans at pop-up events. And the beers were good! That’s been the story up to this point.”

Tim Kamolz, Mallorie King, and Andrew Schwartz, the partners behind Human People Beer, honed their craft at beer makers including Modern Times Beer and Admiral Maltings, WBB reports.

Meanwhile, another Capitol Hill microbrewery remains empty. Last June, CHS reported on the shutdown of a rare mix of mixed-use and beer-making as the Redhook microbrewery below Capitol Hill’s Pike Motorworks apartment development was permanently closed after eight years of production on E Pike.

So far, no beer maker has stepped up to claim the ten-barrel system neatly packed below floors of apartments on E Pike.

On 12th Ave, the neighborhood’s tiniest brewery has a new direction. CHS reported here last year as a new owner took over the neighborhood’s Outer Planet “nanobrewery.”

Elysian Brewing, meanwhile, remains the neighborhood’s beer old timer after parent company beer giant Anheuser-Busch to shuttered Elysian’s Georgetown facility and doubled down with an overhaul of the E Pike original.

The Capitol Hill beer mix with HPB and Stoup is happening two years after Stoup tapped its first Broadway-brewed beer after taking over the former Optimism Brewing brewery and beer hall that summer.

Optimism Brewery’s owners continue to hold the beer hall and brewery property.

The Capitol Hill hall created out of a auto row-era showroom and garage was the centerpiece of the 2013-founded Stoup’s expansion to the neighborhood, but the beer maker has also kept the building’s 16,000-square-foot, 20-barrel brewing facility busy.

Now Human People Beer will add to the flow of new Capitol Hill-brewed beers.

Stoup Capitol Hill is located at 1158 Broadway. Learn more at stoupbrewing.com/capitol-hill/.

You can visit Human People Beer’s cafe at 6105A Roosevelt Way NE. Learn more at humanpeoplebeer.com.

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