What you might not have heard yet is that we want to change our brew day hours. You might be saying, wow Jerry, a painting. Brewing is a very hot process, and giant kettles of boiling grains heat up the place so quickly that we often have the back door propped open a bit as well. As such, we have to close the front of the house so that we can spread out our equipment and have adequate elbow room – not to mention, we need to focus! We also spread things out a bit to disperse heat. With the quantities of beer that we brew, it is not possible for us to do so in the tiny space where we store all the kettles during open hours. Of course, the primary function on brew days is brewing beer. Neither of the observations above would be entirely incorrect, but perhaps it is time to explain what goes on during brew days a bit more-and how that might be changing in the near future! You may have also noticed that we currently don’t offer tours of our brewing facilities, and if you peek around the bright tank room, it may appear that we brew in a tiny corner no larger than your kid’s bedroom. If you drive by, it might look like we have just torn apart the front of the house, replaced the tables with kegs, and are sitting around drinking beer or writing in notebooks-a bit strange, yes. Everett still allows pasties, but has clarified that drive-through businesses are public places, where the caressing or fondling of the genitals or breasts is considered lewd conduct and can be prosecuted.As many of you have observed, we are closed Mondays and Tuesdays for brewing. The city of Lynnwood has updated its laws to require employees to wear more than pasties and a G-string, and Yakima in central Washington directed its city attorney to draft similar laws. That would mean tougher zoning restrictions and rules requiring customers to all be adults. Snohomish County north of Seattle last month began requiring coffee stand employees to wear at least the equivalent of a bikini or face regulation under adult entertainment ordinances. But communities have changed their laws in recent months in response to growing complaints that the bikini baristas aren't actually wearing bikinis anymore. The bikini shops have always stirred up controversy, with some cities threatening to shut them down unless their employees covered up. They're typically stand-alone shacks along roadsides or in parking lots, often noticeable for their come-hither signs - 'some like it hot,' for example - and a long line of pick-up trucks at the window. There are now dozens of such shops in the region, with names like Brewlesque, Twin Perks and Java Juggs. The bikini barista trend emerged in recent years as some espresso stands sought to stand out amid the heavy competition for coffee business in a region that is home to Starbucks. 'This is not Malibu Barbie standing at a coffee stand selling coffee,' said City of Everett spokeswoman Kate Reardon.

But cities are now taking a closer look at the 'sexpresso' stand craze after police investigations revealed that some baristas were serving coffee with a side of something not even legal at many strip clubs.

Peek a brew