Washington IPA Challenge Results

You can read all about the final results at Seattle Beer News. Here’s our synopsis.
In the officially judged competition, Firestone Walker Union Jack IPA took top honors. Big Time Brewing’s Scarlett Fire IPA came in second place. For the Imperial IPAs, it was Marin White Knuckle Imperial IPA taking top honors.
In the Customers Favorite competition, it was the Hop Bomb IPA from Rock Bottom Bellevue that won by a landslide. Hop Bomb got twice as many votes as the second place finisher. Northern Lights IPA took second place and Boundary Bay IPA came in third.
For those of you who were there, and are wondering, the list of beers (by number) is below. Note, this is not the finishing order, this is the order they were in for the tasting.

  1. Boundary Bay IPA
  2. Black Raven Trickster IPA
  3. Schooner Exact 3-Grid IPA
  4. Big Time Scarlett Fire IPA
  5. Harmon Pt. Defiance IPA
  6. Diamond Knot IPA
  7. Rock Bottom Hop Bomb IPA
  8. Elysian Immortal IPA
  9. Walking Man IPA
  10. Pike IPA
  11. Northern Lights IPA
  12. Iron Horse IPA
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