SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
Up the road and over the hill two miles East of Puget Sound’s Pike Street Market lies corner bar, SIX ARMS, one of approximately sixty Mc Menamin’s affiliates in Seattle-Portland vicinity, visited December ’09. Inside a beige brick building with carpeted floors, maroon walls, high ceilings, small loft, and wooden pews was right side bar with brassy stainless steel counters.
Salad, sandwiches, and burgers go well with lighter fare such as Cascade-hopped dry-spiced yellow-fruit-soured caramelized crystal-malted Hammerhead Pale Ale, orange-yellow-fruited grassy-hopped pale-malted Wheat Ale (add raspberry and it becomes Ruby Ale), and dry hop-roasted tea-soured cocoa-chalked molasses-sapped black cherry-tinged Porter (with its wavered stove-burnt coffee finish).
Better were woody citric-hopped dry-spiced alcohol-burnt India Pale Ale and lemony orange-fruited resin-hopped Pale Ale/ ESB mixer, I’m So Bitter. Standard-bearer Terminator Stout offered barley-flaked coffee-soured nut-charred chocolate-roasted cocoa-dried pleasantry, but wintry dunkelweizen seasonal Kris Kringle X-Mas Ale barely registered with its obscure fig-date wince.
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