Fremont Brewing Closing After Positive COVID-19 Test

SEATTLE, WA — Fremont Brewery will be closing their beer garden and their production brewery for the foreseeable future after one of their employees tested positive for the coronavirus.

The brewery says the employee worked in their Urban Beer Garden, and had been asymptomatic but recently tested positive for the virus. As soon as the employee received that positive test result they told the brewery, and Fremont Brewery chose to close up shop. The employee in question had last worked at the beer garden on Tuesday, June 9.

While the garden and production line are closed, all the brewery's employees will be tested for the coronavirus, and will need to present a negative test to be allowed back to work. The brewery is also stressing that their employees have been strictly following coronavirus safety guidelines: wearing masks, frequently sanitizing surfaces and practicing physical distancing where possible. During the closure the brewery says it will use the time to re-sanitize all of their brewing facilities.

It's unknown how long the brewery will be closed, but they say they'll only reopen "when it is deemed completely safe and prudent to do so."