While Fair Isle Brewing has distinguished itself as a proving ground for great popups, the Ballard brewery originally built its kitchen to host an in-house food program. Now it’s circling back to that original plan, with one hell of a partner. Fair Isle will soon turn its kitchen over, permanently, to Beast and Cleaver, the butcher shop with the soul of a restaurant. Beast and Cleaver’s sought-after burger will find a fixed home here, albeit in very limited quantities. This is great news, but I’m deeply interested in the rest of the menu, overseen by chef Jaimon Westing, who runs the ferment- and experimentation-heavy Amino popup. Westing describes this
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