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Brouwer’s Café, a seminal Seattle bar that helped put many upstart breweries on the map, will close June 29 after 19 years in Fremont.

The reasons for the closure are familiar in the hospitality industry: the rising cost of beer, food and labor, along with shortages of servers and foot traffic, said Nat Pellman, Brouwer’s general manager.

Brouwer’s, which announced the closure on Facebook over Memorial Day weekend, debuted March 24, 2005, with a jaw-dropping, two-story, cellarlike barroom that became a destination bar not just in Seattle, but across the state and beyond.

The Brouwer’s collection extends from lambic beers from the famed Cantillon Brewery in Belgium to saisons from the cult Floodland Brewing in Seattle.

During the late 2000s, when Pliny the Younger became the most sought-after ale in North America, Brouwer’s had kegs of the triple IPA squirrelled away.