The Washington Beer Blog

Frühlingsfest is a German tradition. It’s a celebration of spring and beer. A sort of mini Oktoberfest. In recent years, craft breweries around Washington have…

The Washington Brewers Guild provides a wrap-up of the 2025 legislative session and how it did and didn’t impact breweries. For now, we dodged a bullet.

Seattle’s Lucky Envelope Brewing is celebrating its 10th Anniversary this weekend, and you’re invited. The brewery will release four anniversary beers. Other events happening in May, too.

Brick West Brewing in Spokane is happy to present the third Pilsner Picnic. They’ve invited several breweries to provide beer. Some are local Spokane-area breweries, others are from farther afield. In all, nine breweries will provide beer for the event.

Seattle Beer Week is rapidly approaching. The official SBW beer is now hitting the streets, T-shirts are available, and the events calendar is quickly filling up. More info in the story.

Watts Brewing introduces Hive Mind Pale Ale, a collaboration beer brewed with one of the brewery’s nearby neighbors, Woodinville Cut Shop. Designed to resemble an IPA, but with lower ABV and more restrained bitterness, Hive Mind Pale Ale packs a hoppy punch.

Two of the Pacific Northwest’s well-known and respected hop farms, Crosby Hops and Roy Farms, have announced a collaboration plan to serve small and mid-sized breweries.

This Thursday, April 24th, Beveridge Place Pub is turning over several taps to Boundary Bay Brewery as a way to bid the venerable brewery a fond farewell. You’re invited to come enjoy several of the brewery’s offerings, some familiar and some new.

Widmer Brothers Brewing brewed its first commercial beers 40 years ago in Portland. It’s been a long and eventful ride, but today the brewery that Kurt and Rob Widmer created lives on. A special series of beers will commemorate the milestone.