You've got more than 350 different brands of beer? Big deal. You've got 200 bottles of wine? Yee-haw. To make it in the heart of Georgetown's booze district [0], you need more than simple booze. You need a coin-operated elephant.
Full Throttle Bottles [0] has just such an animal. The specialty wine and beer shop has everything you could want to pour down your gullet, affordably priced and ready to move. And it also has a rideable elephant such as the kind one used to find grazing in front of supermarkets. Rides on "Tusko" cost only a dime, and if you leave the premises without springing for a ride on this possibly bibulous pachyderm, you're missing the point of Full Throttle, of Georgetown and very possibly of life itself.
But that's after you've perused Full Throttle's bottles, which is as impressive a collection of Northwest wines, craft beers (local and national), ciders (hard, sparkling and unfiltered) and meads as I've seen in this town, and even in some of my better dreams.
Their selection of brands is listed in full on their Web site [1], and is so long that it bleeds over the navigation bar at the bottom. In short, if they don't have it, either they can get it or give you a compelling reason why not.
A visit to the strip of Airport Way upon which Georgetown's bars reside is always a good idea; it's like a trip to the Museum of Natural Nightlife History, with its first-rate bars [1] and the dinosaur-like remains of the Rainier Brewery. Hell, it oughta be the state capitol. Now, thanks to Full Throttle Bottles, you can come home from Georgetown with several tall, cool souvenirs. And one elephant ride richer to boot.
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