Fremont Brewing

Fremont Brewing's Urban Beer Garden is the rare taproom where a non-drinker has a genuine choice rather than a single token can. Five alcohol-free options are on the board, all brewed in-house, all printed at under 0.5% ABV, and — crucially — they span styles rather than repeating one. The Non-Alcoholic IPA runs Citra and Citra Cryo hops over 2-Row Pale and Carapils. The Hazy IPA uses Mosaic and Krush over wheat and rolled oats. The Dark is the one that surprises people, built on Crisp Brown, C-120, Munich, chocolate and black malts with Chinook and German Hallertau — a genuinely dark, roasty beer without alcohol, which is much harder to make than a pale one. The Lite is a Bohemian pilsner malt and Czech Saaz build for drinking all afternoon. And the Hoppy Spritz is not beer at all but hop water — carbonated water with Citra, Mosaic and Sabro — with no malt and no fermentation, so it is properly alcohol-free rather than merely low. You can order all five as a flight for $15, which is the single best way in Seattle to work out which non-alcoholic style you actually like. One caveat: a Non-Alcoholic Orange Wit exists on the brewery's website but is not on the current taplist here.

The judging backs it up. The line has taken silver at the 2026 North American Non-Alcoholic Cup for both the IPA and the Lite, bronze for the Hazy, and for the Dark a 2026 World Beer Cup bronze in Classic Non-Alcohol plus a 2025 Great American Beer Festival silver — that last one measured against the whole American brewing industry, not a specialist category. The beer garden itself is built for long stays and for people who are not there to drink: covered, heated outdoor seating, picnic tables inside and out, board games, free pretzels, a burger truck most afternoons, and an explicit welcome to children and dogs. It opens at 11am on weekdays and 10am at weekends. Two notes on the record. The brewery was founded in 2009 by Matt Lincecum and Sara Nelson, who is now president of Seattle City Council. And while its own pages still say family-owned, Seattle Hospitality Group — which owns Pike Brewing — took a controlling interest in April 2024.