Tap Handle #226: Baron Brewing/Northwest Brewing - Three Skulls Blood Orange Wit

I love this tap! It's very detailed and one of my favorite taps.

Baron Brewing was founded in 2003 in Seattle, Washington, by Mike Baker and Jeff Smiley. They wanted to be Seattle’s first brewery dedicated to producing German beer in accordance with the Reinheitsgebot  purity laws, using all-German ingredients. They took over the former Lunar Brewery in the south Seattle neighborhood of South Park. After 6 years, the German beer strategy wasn’t going so well; in 2009 Baron Brewing established Three Skulls Ales, and at that time launched a line of pirate-themed ales. To showcase their new beers they took over a former Tully’s coffee shop in the Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle’s north side and turned it into Pillager’s Pub.

In 2011, Baron Brewing announced plans to move to Chehalis, Washington, even obtaining a license for the new location and putting the old brewery up for sale. But the move never happened, and the Three Skulls brand was sold to Northwest Brewing (formerly Trade Route Brewing and Laughing Buddha Brewing).

Blood Orange Wit is a Belgian white with a cloudy orange-gold hue, and its flavor is dominated by a huge blend of different orange zests and hand crushed whole coriander. Weighted average on ratebeer.com is 2.75 out of 5.

The Three Skulls site still bears the Baron name but Northwest Brewing's webpage also claims the Three Skulls brand, so the link provided is to Northwest's site.

Northwest Brewing Official Website