Diamond Knot Brewing Company is a

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and operator of alehouses in

Mukilteo, Washington Mukilteo ( ) is a city in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. It is located on the Puget Sound between Edmonds and Everett, approximately north of Seattle. The city had a population of 20,254 at the 2010 census and an estimated 2019 ...

, USA.

History

Diamond Knot Craft Brewing was established in October 1994 by two

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employees. The two handled all production and distribution in the evenings over the first four years out of subleased space in an alehouse. In March 1999, the alehouse was acquired. It was improved to increase capacity to about 1,200 barrels a year. The brewery was not able to meet demand. Capacity was quadrupled in 2005 with the opening of a facility.

Beers

According to ''The Seattle Times'', the brewery is "widely regarded as producing some of the best, most innovative beers in the region". The India Pale Ale is the brewery's flagship beer. Diamond Knot has also produced a stronger "Industrial XIPA". The

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is another popular selection.

Locations

Diamond Knot is the first microbrewery in Mukilteo and the oldest in

Snohomish County Snohomish County () is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. With a population of 827,957 as of the 2020 census, it is the third-most populous county in Washington, after nearby King and Pierce counties, and the 75th-most populous ...

. The original alehouse features stone grill cooking. In addition to the Brewery & Alehouse on the Mukilteo waterfront, the company operates the Brewpub @ MLT in Mountlake Terrace, WA and also the Production Brewery & Taproom in at the company's headquarters.

Personnel

The brewery was established by Bob Maphet and Brian Sollenberger. The two met at a beer club organized by Boeing employees in

Everett, Washington Everett is the county seat and largest city of Snohomish County, Washington, United States. It is north of Seattle and is one of the main cities in the metropolitan area and the Puget Sound region. Everett is the seventh-largest city in the ...

. They kept their day jobs and annual production originally was limited to about 600 barrels. In November 2009, Sollenberger died in an accident at home due to an accident in the wee hours of the night Sollenberger was a Boeing Engineering Manager for the

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. Another aerospace engineer, Andrew Ong, co-founded 2Brothers Brewery near

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, Australia, after receiving hands-on experience at Diamond Knot. Bob Maphet died on November 10, 2021, after a prolonged illness and complications from surgery.

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