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SEATTLE – With Belgium’s national football team now in the Pacific Northwest<\/a> for FIFA World Cup<\/a>, one Capitol Hill pub is offering fans a chance to connect with the country’s brewing traditions.<\/p>\n The Belgian team is using the Seattle Sounders’ training facility in Renton as its home base throughout the tournament.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, inside Capitol Hill’s Stumbling Monk, owner Rob Linehan continues a decades-long focus on Belgian beer culture.<\/p>\n Rob Linehan, owner of the Stumbling Monk in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. (FOX 13 Seattle)<\/p>\n A Belgian beer destination in Seattle <\/p>\n Tucked away on a Capitol Hill corner since 1998, the Stumbling Monk is filled with bottle caps, barrels and beer memorabilia.<\/p>\n Linehan described it as a “unique little space” and noted that it was never intended to be a sports bar.<\/p>\n The pub specializes in Belgian beers, a passion Linehan has had since he first visited the country on a backpacking trip.<\/p>\n Linehan said he believes Belgium produces some of the world’s best and most interesting beers.<\/p>\n For a country of its size, he said, Belgium offers an impressive variety of brewing styles, from barrel-aged lambics to beers brewed by monks in abbeys.<\/p>\n Continuing a family legacy <\/p>\n For Linehan, the business is also a connection to his family’s history.<\/p>\n He said photographs displayed in the pub once hung in his grandmother’s pub in Ireland.<\/p>\n According to Linehan, his grandmother operated her own pub for 68 years.<\/p>\n That experience helped shape the Stumbling Monk, which he said was influenced by Irish pub culture while maintaining a focus on Belgian beer.<\/p>\n Bottle of Westmalle, a “Trappist” beer produced in a Catholic monastery in Belgium. <\/p>\n No watch parties planned <\/p>\n Linehan said he plans to attend Belgium’s match against Egypt next week, but fans hoping to watch games at the Stumbling Monk may want to make other plans.<\/p>\n He noted that the pub has only a small television and that watch parties are not in the works.<\/p>\n Still, visitors can stop in for a Belgian beer and experience a piece of Belgium without leaving Seattle.<\/p>\n MORE NEWS FROM FOX 13 SEATTLE <\/p>\n 21-year-old charged with human trafficking at Bellevue, WA ‘OnlyFans house’<\/a><\/p>\n Troopers arrest teens for climbing Tacoma Narrows Bridge<\/a><\/p>\n Seattle nurse, US park ranger dies on duty climbing Mount Mckinley in Alaska<\/a><\/p>\n 2.9 magnitude earthquake strikes near Oak Harbor<\/a><\/p>\n Kittitas deputy arrested: Sheriff announces felony charges<\/a><\/p>\n No phones allowed for Phoebe Bridgers concert in Seattle this fall<\/a><\/p>\n 22-year-old crashes into Kitsap County deputy’s patrol car<\/a><\/p>\n To get the best local news, weather and sports in Seattle for free, sign up for the daily FOX Seattle Newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n Download the free FOX LOCAL app for mobile in the Apple App Store<\/a> or Google Play Store<\/a> for live Seattle news, top stories, weather updates and more local and national news.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this story comes from original reporting by FOX 13 Seattle reporter Lauren Donovan.<\/p>\n FIFA World Cup<\/a>Capitol Hill<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE – With Belgium’s national football team now in the Pacific Northwest for FIFA World Cup, one Capitol…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,12758,12756,144,12757,1711,12755,1849],"class_list":["post-20110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-capitol-hill","tag-king-county","tag-news","tag-seattle","tag-us","tag-wa","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116723063625133346","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/stumbling-monk-3.jpg\")
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