Enrollment is now open for the National IPA Championship (NIPAC). Each year the Brewing News invites brewers from across the country to enter a competition pitting beers against beers in a tournament-style elimination taste-off. Five locations across the country host tasting events throughout February. This year the tournament makes its first stop on the West[…..]

Congratulations to Anthony Stone, the recipient of the 2012 Glen Hay Falconer Foundation American Brewers Guild scholarship. Anthony, one of the brewers at Boundary Bay Brewing in Bellingham, will attend the American Brewers Guild’s Intensive Brewing Sciences and Engineering course. This year the Foundation entertained the largest number of applications in the program’s history. The[…..]

— by Kendall Jones, Washington Beer Blog — American Brewing Company is now selling its beer online and shipping it across the country. There’s more to it than that, but the short version is that you can now send a case of Breakaway IPA to Uncle Bubba in Bakersfield or to Aunt Wilma in Walla[…..]

— by Kendall Jones, Washington Beer Blog — Last spring Big Al Brewing became the first Washington craft brewery to install a solar-thermal heating system. Big Al Brewing flipped the switch in June and started brewing with water heated (at least in part) by the sun. Net Zero Impact, a local solar energy solutions firm,[…..]

— by Kendall Jones, Washington Beer Blog — To accommodate a need for more space and increased demand for its product, 7 Seas Brewing is moving to historic downtown Gig Harbor. The new location is just one block from the waterfront in the Peninsula Shopping Center. Construction is already underway in the new 11,000 square[…..]