Ballard’s Lucky Envelope Brewing announces plans, and beers, for its 6th-anniversary celebration
The crew at Lucky Envelope Brewing invites you to join them for the brewery’s 6th-anniversary celebration. The two-day event is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, April 30th and May 1st. Of course, an important part of the weekend, the Ballard-based brewery is releasing some special beers to mark the occasion. See the event and beer details below.
Co-founders and longtime friends, Barry Chan and Ray Kwan, left their day jobs in engineering and corporate finance to open the brewery back in 2015. Their approach to craft beer is inspired by a mutual love of great beer as well as their shared Chinese-American heritage.
Their approach is described as “Respecting beer in its purest form but refusing to abide by the limits of convention, Lucky Envelope strives to push the envelope with bold new concepts and innovative recipes influenced by community, culture, and curiosity.”
Since its inception, Lucky Envelope Brewing has won its share of accolades. Not just local awards, but the brewery has earned some impressive hardware at the most prestigious beer-judging competition in the country, the Great American Beer Festival. Perhaps even more important than all those awards is the admiration that Lucky Envelope has earned from both the beer-drinking public and its beer industry peers.
EVENT DETAILS:
Event: Lucky Envelope Brewing’s Sixth Anniversary Celebration
Date & Time: Friday, April 30th and Saturday, May 1st from noon-9pm
Beer Releases: Sixth Anniversary Juicy IPA, Lychee Sour Ale, Boysenberry Coolship Barrel-Aged Sour
Food Truck: Panda Dim Sum, Saturday, May 1st from 4pm-8pm
Logistics: The Lucky Envelope Tasting Room will be operating at COVID-mandated capacity with outdoor seating available for on-site consumption. Seating is limited and a table waitlist will be available on a first-come-first-serve basis.
Draft and packaged options are available for all three releases. Sixth Anniversary Juicy IPA and Lychee Sour Ale 4-pack cans as well as 500ml bottles of Boysenberry Barrel-Aged Coolship Sour will be listed on the webstore at 12am on Friday the 30th. A limited number of red envelope giveaways will be given out at noon on each day of the celebration.
Our staff will continue to serve delicious beer and maintain as safe an environment as possible with thorough sanitization practices and the enforcement of state mandated safety measures. We ask guests to be patient with our staff and respectful of the guidelines outlined for their visit to our Tasting Room.
BEER RELEASE DESCRIPTIONS:
Beer: Sixth Anniversary Juicy IPA, 7.3% ABV
Availability: Draft and 4-Pack Cans ($17)
Description: Celebrating six years in Ballard, Lucky Envelope Brewing presents a bold double dry-hopped Juicy IPA brewed with Idaho 7, Mosaic, and Comet hops that sing “Happy Birthday” to your taste buds with a punch of mango, tangerine peel, and pine.
Beer: Lychee Sour Ale, 6.0% ABV
Availability: Draft and 4-Pack Cans ($17)
Description: Hundreds of pounds of real lychee fruit finds its way into our delicious lactobacillus-soured blonde ale. Native to Southeast Asia, lychee adds delightful aromas of roses and pear with a mouth-watering juicy sweetness.
Beer: Boysenberry Barrel-Aged Coolship Sour Ale, 6.1% ABV
Availability: Limited Draft and Single 500ml Bottles ($12)
Description: 42lbs of boysenberries barrel-fermented with a blend of 24 and 18 month-old reserve coolship sour barrels to create a puckeringly tart and funky red sour with notes of dark tart cherries, blueberries, and jammy pink zinfandel.
