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Frequently Asked Questions Updated 01/17/2025

Please feel free to email if your question isn't answered here. If you haven't purchased bottles from us before the first question is a quick guide on how things work to help demystify the process (it's pretty easy). Bottles are available directly from us in Seattle and our only real rule is that you have to pick up yourself (no proxies). We do sometimes (usually once a year around July) have charity fundraisers to allow folks who aren't local to get access to beer, so if you aren't able to easily make it to the brewery please join the mailing list and keep an eye out.

    • We don't operate a taproom, we are focused on making barrel-aged and bottle-conditioned saison which we believe are best from the bottle.

    Our brewery is run by a small team, and because of the time it takes to make the beer the way we sell bottles might remind you more of a small winery than most breweries. We have online sales for pick-up at the brewery in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. We do not have beer for sale on-site.

    Our online bottle sales are every other month (during odd-numbered months) and are announced to our mailing list. To purchase bottles you must be signed up for that list.

    Each release is a set of usually 3-4 bottles available to be picked up over several days/weeks at the brewery. If you miss the pick-ups for that release we can offer extended cellaring until the next release, but we cannot cellar beyond that. Usually that is 12-14 pick-up days over 4 months on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. We are a very small operation and do not have bottles out for pick-ups on days other than what are listed in the Sale emails.

    When it's time for a sale we send out two emails. First we send an Advance Notice email that tells everyone when the pick-up days will be for the upcoming sale. We send this email ahead of time so that anyone who wants to take the time to read it can do so without worrying they are going to miss out on the sale. The second email we send is when the sale goes live. While bottles are usually available for several hours, they do tend to sell out the same day as the release. During the early years it's true that the sales would sell out within minutes. We've focused on putting all of our production efforts towards growing the public sales so that they last a bit longer. If you miss a sale, don't worry, there will be another one in two months.

    Pick-ups are usually the last weekend of odd-numbered months and the following weekend. We don't allow someone else to pick up for you (proxies).

    Occasionally we do charitable benefits to allow proxies for those who aren't local, if you are interested in that just stay on the email list and keep an eye out. There are other benefits of these fundraisers, frequently we also allow first-dibs (ie: early access) to sales for locals, and we also have a small public shipping club for those in Washington/Oregon. So if you aren't online often enough to frequently catch public sales, or if getting to the brewery is difficult but you are in WA/OR where we can legally ship, please also watch for the spring/summer fundraiser email.

    • We are a very small brewery and we sell beer direct. We don't distribute, and we are legally constrained on where we can ship to. If picking up at the brewery isn't an option we have for a long time done a few things to try to spread the beer around. Most of this is focused on our annual charity fundraisers. We don't usually post these on social media, mostly because I don't like Zuckerberg and I think there's a lot of performative posing on instagram in particular.


    The next fundraiser will be in June, we will send an email to everyone on the list about it. We usually offer a bunch of perks for those who donate to the organization we choose to help support.


    In 2024 these included: membership in the public shipping group, which ships a subscription of bottles to anyone in Oregon or Washington. OR the ability to have a local Oakworks bottle club member proxy for you, this isn't a blanket proxy for public sales, we do specific sales for the proxy group. OR if you are local you can get first dibs (ie: early access) to the public sales, and that includes often getting extra bottles.

    If you aren't local this is a really good way to try to get access to the beer. We don't allow blanket proxies for public sales because the public sales tend to sell out as-is, and I don't want to make it harder for locals to get the beer.

    • Pick-up days for each sale are given ahead of time in the Advanced Notice of Public Sale email and again in the Sale email. Please pick up during those days. If you have an emergency and miss the pick-ups entirely we can offer you extended cellaring. If so PLEASE pick up at the next release. If you don't purchase that next release you can still come in, just make an appointment with the link in the sales email and tell us you have cellared bottles when you are in.

    VERY IMPORTANT: when you come in let us know if you have cellared bottles. The releases are all on separate lists.

    We don't need an email if you are picking up at the next release, but if you are going to miss two releases and have an emergency please email us asap. After the next release is over we bundle up any abandoned bottles and donate them, we unfortunately don't have the space or time to store bottles indefinitely.

    Please remember that we can't issue refunds. Unlike most bigger breweries with taprooms we can't easily sell beer that is abandoned, so we donate them to charitable causes/raffles.

    • Email info at floodlandbrewing dot com with questions and we'll do our best to respond in a timely manner, but please be aware we aren't a big company with sales and support. We don't monitor or respond to DMs on instagram.

    • Floodland doesn't have a taproom, our focus has always been on bottle conditioned beers, which we think are the best expression of the work we do. Bottles are available from us every other month via online sales for pick-up in Seattle (we're in Fremont near Wallingford/Stone Way). Sign up for the sales list by registering at http://floodlandbrewing.com and please see the first question in this list for a little primer on how to buy bottles (it's easy).

    Other than directly from us, our bottles are currently also available on-site at Houlme on Orcas Island, the new restaurant from our friends Jay and Jocelyn who used to run Hogstone. https://www.instagram.com/houl...


    Bottles are also available for on-site enjoyment in Seattle at TOMO https://tomoseattle.com/ and on Lopez Island at Ursa Minor http://www.ursaminorlopez.com/

    On rare occasion we have beer available on draught at other spots, usually The Masonry on Queen Anne as it's our favorite beer bar in Seattle. If so we usually post about it on instagram.

    • If you purchase public bottles sales from us they are for pick-up at the brewery in Seattle (we're between 99 and Stone Way on the eastern side of Fremont). Each sale we send two emails letting you know what the pick-up days and hours are so you can plan ahead.


    We do a small amount of shipping to Oregon and Washington, because we have such a small staff and shipping is very time-intensive we limit that as an option to donors to our annual charitable fundraisers, so if you are interested please join the mailing list and wait for one of those.

    • We are currently only drawing new members from those who donate to our annual-ish charity fundraisers. We don't post about those on social media, we send details to the mailing list when the situations arise.

    • If you have a login here you are all set (unless you have unsubscribed, in which case please just email us at info@floodlandbrewing.com and we'll send you a resubscribe link) http://floodlandbrewing.com

    • We have a bottle log on the site which lists most of the recent beers we've released. The old bottles.txt now exists as a google document at bit.ly/bottlestxt

    We mark fruit and honey refermentations as well as foraged/botanical beers based on the harvest year and saison based on the bottling year (some of the early beers were labeled by release year).

    • Pick-up days for this sale are listed in both the Advanced Notice as well as the Sale emails. Please pick up during those days.

    If you have an emergency and miss the pick-ups entirely we can offer you extended cellaring and you can pick up at the next release. If you don't purchase that next release you can still come pick up, just make an appointment with the link in the Sale email. We cannot cellar bottles beyond that subsequent release without contacting us.

    VERY IMPORTANT: when you come in let us know if you have cellared bottles. The releases are all on separate lists.

    If you have an emergency and are going to miss two releases but still want your bottles please email us before the next sale's pick-ups end. We don't need an email if you are doing extended cellaring and picking up at the next release, but if you aren't going to make those please email us asap. After the subsequent release is over we bundle up any abandoned bottles and donate them, we unfortunately don't have the space or time to store bottles indefinitely.

    Please remember that we can't issue refunds. Unlike most bigger breweries with taprooms we can't easily sell beer that is abandoned, so we donate them to charitable causes/raffles.