At times, Bill Arnott has found himself soul-searching, trying to work out whether it’s worth continuing the unique business he started a decade ago in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood.
“Just in a logical way,” he says. “Does it make sense to keep this going?”
It’s a question he asked himself during a pandemic that was tough on draft beer but positively brutal on Machine House’s cask-conditioned niche. And it’s a question he recently had to ask again when their landlords announced a significant rent hike—compelling either the search for a new home or an end to the adventure.