Redhook Brewery
In 1981, Paul Shipman and Gordon Bowker opened Redhook in a renovated transmission shop in Ballard, Seattle, using second-hand and makeshift equipment, with Charles McElevey as the first brew master. The first Redhook Ale was poured a year later at Jake O'Shaughnessy's, a pub in Queen Anne, where its fruity taste earned it the nickname "Banana Beer". In 1987 the brewery moved into a former trolley-car barn in Fremont, and in 1996 it added a production brewery in Woodinville and a sister brewery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Woodinville was announced to close in 2017. Today Redhook, a subsidiary of Tilray Brands, still names its Big Ballard IPAs after the neighborhood where it began.
Beers by Redhook Brewery
7 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Redhook Brewery brew within a single family — the differences sit in how, not what.
Across these 7 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one. 2 of them come through every single beer.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Hazy Big Ballard Imperial IPA
Their beers place in the Top 71% of the catalogue on average, across 7 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Redhook Brewery
In 1981, Paul Shipman and Gordon Bowker opened Redhook in a renovated transmission shop in Ballard, Seattle, using second-hand and makeshift equipment, with Charles McElevey as the first brew master. The first Redhook Ale was poured a year later at Jake O'Shaughnessy's, a pub in Queen Anne, where its fruity taste earned it the nickname "Banana Beer". In 1987 the brewery moved into a former trolley-car barn in Fremont, and in 1996 it added a production brewery in Woodinville and a sister brewery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Woodinville was announced to close in 2017. Today Redhook, a subsidiary of Tilray Brands, still names its Big Ballard IPAs after the neighborhood where it began.
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