The word “populuxe” is a portmanteau of the words “popular” and “deluxe” and that’s how you’ll describe the suds at Populuxe Brewing.​​

Co-founders Peter Charbonnier and Amy Besunder started Populuxe Brewing in 2012. Peter had been a home brewer for many years and as his brewing equipment began to outgrow their garage, they began to seek out a commercial space.They found a slightly larger garage within two blocks of their longtime home in Ballard and after 8 months of rushing home after work to do demo and construction, filling out paperwork with various government agencies, piecing together furnishings and basically DYI’ing together a brewery, they opened the doors to their nanobrewery. The entire project cost the couple less than $30,000.