Washington Beer Blog Reopening brewery taprooms – enjoying latest “open-air” seating guidelines By washingtonbeerblog on January 14, 2021 at 8:31 AM Business owners, do your own research. Nobody should take my word as gospel, but the latest changes to the state’s pandemic guidelines should allow many brewery taprooms and other beer-friendly businesses to reopen for “inside” seating. That is, assuming they want to reopen and can meet the latest, revised “open-air” guidelines. (Above: Airways Brewing – the brewery’s taproom, doors open wide.) “Open the pod bay doors, Hal” There’s a bunch of stuff to consider, but what’s new? In short, brewery taprooms with rollup doors or even a certain amount of open windows qualifies as “open-air” and could reopen at 25 percent capacity.