Local beer, weird history, real nightmares.
SHEattle on Tap moves from what is in the glass to stories that turn dark, strange, local, or both. The speakers trade life updates, beer notes, and researched cases without sanding off the messy reactions.
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SHEattle on Tap is a true-crime and weird-history show built around two familiar voices, a drink in hand, and a willingness to let the conversation wander before it lands somewhere unsettling. The speakers identify themselves at the top of multiple episodes, then ease in through beer choices, work stress, COVID-era anxiety, cold weather, recording glitches, Patreon talk, or whatever else is sitting in the day. It is casual by design. The recent episodes show a show that can move from an Evil Twin sour or an Athletic Brewing IPA into stories about missing women, haunted Seattle architecture, Washington-linked killers, local fraud, adult-industry fame, and a severed-leg dispute that became documentary material. Seattle matters here. Georgetown, West Seattle, Rainier beer history, local power outages, neighborhood familiarity, and repeated reminders to drink local beer give the show a grounded regional texture rather than a generic crime-feed feel. The crime material is often heavy. The speakers discuss murder, attempted murder, missing-person investigations, possible trafficking, cancer-fraud allegations, domestic fear, and serial-killer cases, but the delivery keeps returning to ordinary friendship rather than courtroom formality. That is the central tension of the show. It can be funny, scattered, blunt, and openly spooked while still making room for victims, families, and unresolved questions. Some episodes lean into the local oddity of a place like the Georgetown Castle. Others follow darker public cases, including the Happy Face Killer and stories connected to vulnerable women. The beer segment is not a decorative intro; it is part of the show’s social rhythm, a reset before the nightmares arrive. The conversation also shows the strain of making the podcast during a turbulent period, including a finale-of-sorts announcement about stepping back for mental health, family, and other life demands. That gives the archive a lived-in quality. Nothing sounds overproduced. The rough edges are part of the appeal, from tangents and nervous jokes to sudden emotional pivots. SHEattle on Tap suits a listener who wants true crime with local specificity, informal chemistry, and occasional haunted-history detours. Its differentiator is the way it holds Seattle beer culture, neighborhood memory, and grim storytelling in the same hand.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants true crime filtered through informal friend chemistry, Seattle references, and beer-table candor. It fits best for someone comfortable with dark cases presented in a blunt but conversational style.
What sets it apart: SHEattle on Tap stands apart by tying crime and odd history to local texture: Georgetown, West Seattle, Washington cases, and the ritual of talking drinks before the story turns. The show feels less like a scripted dossier and more like researched storytelling between people who keep reacting in real time.
Two female bartenders in Seattle, talking about beer, drinking beer, and telling stories of true crime and weird history.
A beer and a West Seattle cancer-fundraiser fraud make a stranger pairing than you expected.
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A finale-like hiatus announcement leads into a West Seattle cancer-fraud story about false pretenses and local trust.
Courtney Jacobson and Ashley Toten give the episode the unsettled shape of a finale, meeting in person to explain that Seattle on Tap is going on hiatus after launching shortly before COVID and trying to keep moving as life kept happening.
A missing-person episode where odd account activity, family concern, and an active search sit within the wider crisis of missing Indigenous women.
This Patreon installment follows Marilyn's disappearance through one especially unsettling digital detail: a few short, odd replies from her account that her family says do not sound like her.
A Georgetown mansion turns local history into a haunted question, with beer nearby and nerves running high.
Seattle's Georgetown Castle gives the episode a firm hook as Courtney Jacobson and Ashley Toten follow the local landmark, also known as the Gesner Mansion, into its haunted reputation.
A divorce, a paid-off house, and a threat that follows Susan beyond Mike's conviction.
A stray exchange about vaccine side effects opens into a much darker story: Mike's alleged effort to have Susan killed while their divorce was still unresolved, with Ed Haffey offered $50,000 to carry it out.
A casual season opener moves from beer and holiday chatter into vulnerable victims, possible crossover, and unsettling theories about protection.
Season three begins in a loose, conversational mode, with Courtney Jacobson and Ashley Toten marking episode one through beer talk, holiday downtime, family and friends, and a welcome pause from detailed murder research. That relaxed opening does not stay light for long.
Murder cases, staged with a wicked grin.
ABC Audio's Theranos fraud series that also introduces its other true-crime podcasts.
LA Times reporter Christopher Goffard traces con man John Meehan's fraud, abuse, and its Bravo TV adaptation.
Courtney Jacobson and Ashley Toten open Seattle on Tap by calling the episode a "finale of sorts" and announcing a hiatus for mental health and family reasons.
SHEattle on Tap's Patreon episode pairs a 10% hazelnut double brown ale from Listerman Brewing Company with two unresolved stories, Kimberly Bearclaw Iron and Peter Bergman.
Jack Owens Spillman the Third, the Werewolf Butcher, is tied to the Eastern Wenatchee murders through a bloody ski mask, a knife from Rita Huffman's kitchen, and a jailhouse confession that leads police to Penny Davis's grave.
Seattle on Tap opens with Courtney Jacobson and Ashley Toten comparing booster-shot side effects and pairing Allagash Brewing Company's 8.4% Fox Leap Sour Cherry Ale with Black Raven's Feather Weather mocha stout.
Seattle on Tap opens with Courtney Jacobson and Ashley Toten comparing an Evil Twin Lemon Meringue Sour and a Beer Tree Brew Tropical Trees IPA while they say they recorded ahead of January.
Seattle on Tap's second-year finale pairs Courtney Jacobson and Ashley Toten's beer tasting with true-crime accounts of the 1981 Wonderland murders and the 1929 Lawson family killings.
SHEattle on Tap hosts Courtney Jacobson and Ashley Toten discuss Athletic Brewing’s alcohol-free Run Wild IPA before covering Washington murders associated with the Tube Sock Killings.
Seattle on Tap’s “2-29.
Courtney Jacobson and Ashley Toten pair beer tasting with Roslyn, Washington history, including its 1910 population of 3,126 and cemetery divided into 26 sections.
Courtney Jacobson and Ashley Toten combine beer reviews with a true-crime account of the Hampton Roads Killer in southeast Virginia.
Two Seattle bartenders discuss beer and share true crime and weird history stories.
Two female bartenders in Seattle discuss true crime and weird history while drinking beer.
Two Seattle bartenders discuss true crime and weird history while drinking beer.
Two Seattle bartenders discuss true crime and weird history while drinking beer.