Divey but great service - didn't get any food here but would go back for some cheap Seattle eats in a Georgetown! Definitely a good spot to grab a beer and some bar food. Huge shuffleboard table and lots of locals hanging out read more

This is working Seattle tavern from the past, George Town. I do love every minute. I will be back. Beer good, Seattle funk bar, lounge area, pool, and folks are even better.... read more

Great Watering Hole!!!!! Excellent people, great bartenders and good beer. When in Seattle go to Georgetown and drink at the 9lb!!!!

If you don't like this bar you probably love your job as a jr product manager at amazon and can go fuck yaself ya fuckin firefighter

The fave end point of the bar crawl in Georgetown. Killer decor, dark wood, leather booths, peanuts and half out tables in the summer. Plus heavy dark beers finish off an evening well. Did I mention the Good prices? read more

Great location, unpretentious place to have drinks and gab with friends.

Love this place, great local atmosphere and friendly bartenders.. stay away non-george-towner's, so we can keep it that way ;)

Great Place to grab a drink and kill at the shuffle board, pool, big buck, pga. Good beer selection, cute waitress but forgetful and food was cold. Thankfully the boss heard after the squeaky wheel squeaked and I got my dinner taken off the tab. Looked like a cute diner, good for the neighborhood. read more

I really enjoyed 9 LB Hammer, - really cool vibe, the dark wood, couple of video games and my personal favourite - Shuffle board (first time I've seen it). I'd just recently spent a couple of months in Seattle and found 9LB pound hammer to be the pick of the bunch! However, I accidentally left my driver's license there in return for shuffle pucks and have tried calling bout 5 times and sent an email to them to no prevail! I really need my drivers license and I'm travelling round America and gets tricky when I get pulled over! To get another license from New Zealand, will be about 25 hours of flying, 3 flights, 3 days travel and $1600... So 9LB Hammer, please reply to me via email as I'd love to arrange a way for a courier to pick up my license, so the highway patrol people stay off my back! Many thanks lloyd.aickin@gmail.com read more

Stopped on the way home for a beer. Neat atmosphere, friendly bartender. Good prices.

This place is funny. Just go. Real late. Get some food from the diner next door. You can cut through the back to order. This place used to be smellier and full of hippies but not so much anymore. Good mix. Good people watching. Good drinks. read more

Best bar in Seattle - a cross-section of all that is great about Georgetown, great music, peanuts, friendly, great bartenders, perfect atmosphere - I just wish they would bring the Tamale Lady back. read more

Great live music, bartenders were hustling and it was busy...will definitely head back.

Anytime I walk into a place and they are playing Minor Threat I know I am going to like it. This is a straight up old school bar. Went to get a couple of beers for happy hour. $5 Lucille IPA on draft and free peanuts to snack on. Good service. They also have a few pinball machines a pool table and a shuffle board table. Pretty great spot. read more

There's a lot of lousy music in the world so it's refreshing when you find a place that plays good music. Well, this isn't that place and this is the best part of this review. 9 LB is trying so hard to be hip, ironic, disaffected, blue collar, and grimy but it's all just a lousy veneer trying to cover the pathetic crowd of tech geeks and nerds pretending to be blue collar. They drink crappy beer and pretend it is good or cool and eat the lousy peanuts that are soft and stale tasting. It gets worse. The bar staff is surly at best, incompetent and dishonest at worst. On three separate occasions my bill has been inflated by one beer. Each time the bartender has been informed, she has become angry or even confrontational. The third (and maybe not the last, I want to see if it happens again) time was a spectacular display of behavior. After ordering a beer and a BLT, the bartender said the total was $14.98 and asked if I would like to leave the tab open, I agreed. When I finished my sandwich and ONE beer, and after waiting about 20 minutes to catch her attention, I told her I was done and would like my check. 10 minutes later after catching her attention again (she had forgotten to get my check, probably due to her casual conversation with the tragic off-duty surly/burly barmaid with the tattoos) she said that she thought I had cashed out a long time ago. Keep in mind that I am sitting at the bar, no more than 10 feet from her at most times and more often than not only 2 or 3 feet away. She reluctantly went to find my credit card and close the tab. Upon running the card she presented me with the bill for $19.85. When I questioned the bill she snapped at me and insisted I had two beers and a BLT. I had ONE beer, for real. She then put her hand on mine and indicated that in the future I should use the ATM to get cash so we could avoid the confusion. I asked her to take her hand off me and I suggested that maybe she could enter the amount right so we could avoid the confusion, pointing out that this was the third time they had inflated my bill by one beer. She promptly told me to sign the bill and 'get out and never come back'. I asked for a proof of credit for the cancelled transaction and, after a few exchanges she told me to get my 'drunk ass' out of the bar - remember, I had one beer. I had a few choice words for her. A second barmaid, after being informed of the situation via a whispering session, chimed in by saying 'I remember the last time you were in here' - I cut her off before she could finish by telling her that I had never seen her before in my life which is true. She told me that I should just leave and never come back, I told her she should just leave and never come back. I left with a fitting salute. My feeling is that they could be running a scam where they inflate credit card bills and then pocket some cash that would be offset. Maybe not but if not, I've never seen a place where all the bartenders are so consistent in their incompetence and then angry with the customer for pointing out the error. Don't get me wrong, I like a good poop-hole of a bar but this is just a poop-hole. Plenty of other places to go so don't waste your time in this pretentious, trying too hard, Seattle-rich-kid-pretending-to-be-street-by-drinking-PBR dump. read more

Don't ever forget your card...A: they will run up a hefty tip when they close you out (is that even legal??) B: the bitchy bartender the next morning will accuse you of trying to dodge paying the bar tab, which I'm still trying to wrap my mind around since YOU HAVE MY CREDIT CARD. I suppose there is a reason she's scheduled to work the morning after the NFC Championship game. read more

Erin is one of my favorite bartenders on the strip. You can find him in the cozy book room on Fridays and Saturdays.

i just moved to Seattle four months ago. All i brought with me was some clothes and a few hundred LPs . i walked into the 9 Lb wearing some of the clothes. now i just needed a place for the records. I ordered a drink and asked the bartender who did the booking. She told me Scott did the booking and he usually had his friends Dj. i saw scott was busy talking to people so i just sat there sipping my drink. Half way through my second drink Scott got up to use the restroom. on his way back i stopped him and explained my situation. that was four months ago. i Dj there for the fifth time july 14. I play all kinds of music. indie , new wave, punk, post-punk, pysch, hardcore, cheesy shit, old school rap, etc. I am always well received by the crowd and the bartenders are really nice(with a slight attitude, which is appreciated) come down on a Friday or Saturday and i may be djing. Or come down anytime, have some peanuts and a beer, and just have a good time. read more

This is one of my favorite "proper boozers." It's just a bar bar. No gimmicks. No type of crowd. No 'signature cocktails.' The people who go here are people who just want a place to grab a beer or drink. The music is always good, there's free pool, lots of free peanuts and a very comfortable atmosphere. The one downside is that parking can be a little rough--especially on a weekend night because there are so many other bars and restaurants nearby. read more

Cheap, down to earth, lots of locals. Pool table is good for a bar table, and free. Lots of pool playing regulars and it's easy to jump in on games. I saw a review about a person of color feeling discriminated against, seems odd as there are usually people of all sorts here. Staff is down to earth, direct and do their job well, as should be in a local dive bar. I love this place. read more

In Georgetown, this is "The Bar" in the best sense of the word. After the closing of Planet Georgetown (AKA Uncle Moe's) just off the business strip of AWS, this is longest open (8 years?) bar on the street, and now seems like it's been there forever. Originally a departure from the working class watering holes in the 'hood, it was a hipster destination with it's familier Comet Tavern setup. Now, with a nod to the Comet in a painting on the east wall, it's appealing to the younger and older crowd in the 'hood and will always be the liveliest spot on any given night. Highlights include free pool and shuffleboard. Every Georgetown Brewing beer on tab. Good selection of sub-premium beer, Hamm's, Oly, Rainier, PBR, etc... No TV in the main bar, but there is one hidden in the Book Room for a secret fix. Always open until 2 AM. Good times and plenty of local color! read more

I guess I don't understand hipsters, or something. My idea of a dive bar is one where the beer is cold and the bartender actually serves you. 'Way too many poseurs on my first trip, and nearly got into a fight with this years' local on my second. Won't be a third. read more

Georgetown does blue collar dystopia best, and 9lb Hammer especially has the look - and feel - down. It's cavernous and drafty and there's always a lot of grungy bikes parked outside for our dystopian heroes to ride off on into the night. I've found it's best not to order anything too complicated here, but they have a good selection of beer on tap, so a pint of lager does just fine. read more

You'd think a bar would at least answer the f**king phone I needed to contact someone who number I didn't know so I called the place where he hangs out except they choose not to answer their phone. Pretty lame for a bar. read more

Shuffle board, a bunch of people drinking while playing board games in dark wood booths, a mix of 9-5ers, geeks, and hipsters, and a "bookroom" hidden in the back. Just a few of the reasons I love this place. read more

This place rocks. Great feeling to it, and it has Western Shuffleboard. Can't miss.

Free peanuts, cheap tallboys of rainier/pbr and strong pours. Maybe a little on the hipsterish side, but there are plently of real, non-hipster uniform wearing folks here as well. read more

I've been coming here for years. Great service and drinks. Treat yourself to a Bloody Maria. To the predator sitting/ standing at the bar, not ordering drinks, and hitting on everything with a vagina: stay the f*** out of our bar. Yes we told the bouncer and got you kicked out. Don't come back. read more

What a great dive bar. The food next door is great for late night eats, and the 9-lb Porter is amazing. Even the shuffleboard can be fun after enough porter. read more

The 9lb hammer is a fun little place in Georgetown. It has very similar qualities as the others bars and is all around a good place to hang out. The drinks are cheap and stiff and the bartenders are quick. A few times they had to look up what was in a drink we ordered but that's ok as they were a bit obscure. They have arcade games, shuffleboard, and a pool table (i think). One of my favorite things about this bar is the free peanuts you can eat while there. We usually eat at least one bowl which tends to lead to more drinks. One of my favorite bars in Georgetown! Worth checking out next time you are down there. They also are connected to the square not so dinning options have improved! read more

I love this bar but how dare you fire my favorite bartender!!!! You just lost out on my Saturday drinking money.

I'm a regular at the 9Lb. So that either says something (I like the place) or other (my view is totally skewed). The 9Lb is the center of me and my peops universe in so many ways. You would see us late afternoon and early evening on many a weekday, doing crosswords, getting caught up, chatting about everything, and getting "Hammered". A nicer and more diverse (and tightknit) group of yokes, I could never to hope to have found. It's special. The 9lb It has the appearance and feel of a cozy friendly warm place. But....you can't really "join" though... it takes years of bein' a peop before you become a part of the 9lb, and you enable the 9lb's special gifts to truly bestowed upon you. Because it's more than the old lamps, the comfy chairs..... Like any relationship, you get.... what you put into it. More than likely, you will never see us. Late night and on the weekends, we hand the 9Lb over to a different crowd. On Fridays, we'll stay a bit late so we can scarf down a Hallavah Falafel when the yellow truck is outside (also rated, conservatively, 5 stars.) The 9lb is everything you want someplace "real" to be... read more

A bar more fitted to the Georgetown persona and functionality you will not find. Filled with that dark wood feel and dirty rustic decor right along side ample seating and activities. You can take just about anyone here and have a good time. Between shuffleboard, the enchilada girl, pool table and the stack of board game(they have connect 4!!) you have plenty to keep yourselves entertained. The staff has that perfect level of feisty sarcasm and definitely know there way around your drinks. In itself it brings in all kinds: gear heads, suits, hippies long hair, short hair, half shaved heads it's prime people watching and conversation starting. My gripe is the neighborhood, parking can get hard to find and be careful, I've personally come out to my car to find a broken window and some stuff missing and the officer mentioned I wasn't the first. But I still go back, if you don't mind(or are in search of) the dingy dive bar scene this is it's epitome in Seattle. read more