Washington Beer Blog

Emily Ritchie has served as Executive Director of the Northwest Cider Association (NWCA) for over a decade. This week, the NWCA announced that Emily has decided to step down, citing a desire to spend more time with her family. Starting August 1st, Jana D...

Like most savvy beer fans around the Pacific Northwest, when someone mentions Chuckanut Brewery, my mind goes straight to crisp, clean lagers that sparkle like diamonds in the sun. Sure, the same brewing chops that earned that lager-focused reputation are more than capable o...

Across the Pacific Northwest, harvest season means one thing to most beer-loving people: fresh hop beer. In recent years, the beer-drinking public has gone certifiably mad for anything brewed with hops still wet off the bine — and since we grow the vast majority of the nation’s hop crop right here in the PNW, maybe that obs...

Sometimes timing just works out the way it works out. With fresh hop season bearing down on us, you’d think this would be a strange moment for one of the world’s most prolific fresh hop beer producers to roll out a new year-round brew. But that’s the schedule

The Brewers Association (BA) shared its midyear industry survey this week. Honestly, I went in expecting b...