The Washington Beer Blog

April Brews Day: One of the state’s biggest beer festivals returns to Bellingham, one of the state’s best beer destinations. Saturday, April 26th.

The Beer Junction invites you to enjoy some fine Belgian and Belgian-inspired beers: Belgian Beer Week returns.

some Olympia lawmakers proposed a hike to the already high excise tax paid by Washington’s breweries. The Washington Brewers Guild calls it a 100% increase in the tax that a Washington brewery already pays on every drop of beer it produces.

Machine House Brewery of Seattle just announced the release of a new beer brewed exclusively (single hop) with a new hop variety: Zumo Single Hop Pale. That gives me a chance to tell you about a new hop variety.

Human People releases some beers at its pop-up shop in Ballard this Thursday and Friday. They’ve released beers this way for a while, and people love it. Now, you can find out for yourself.

Seattle’s Fair Isle Brewing invites you to a special guided tasting event with 3 Fonteinen, an esteemed lambic beer producer. The guest producer, 3 Fonteinen of Beersel, Belgium, is a traditional lambik brewery and authentic geuze blendery with over 135 years of experience.

San Francisco’s Fort Point Beer Co. and Sonoma County’s HenHouse Brewing Co. just announced that they’ve merged and are now operating as Fort Point HenHouse. Each brewery will remain an independent brand, but are now combined on the backend. 

The Brewers Association just released the list of the Top 50 Breweries in the US, based on production. Also, some insights about the state of the industry.

West End Beer Fest is a multi-brewery beer festival in downtown Spokane’s West End Brewery District. It’s an opportunity to wander from one brewery to the next and enjoy beers as part of one event. The event takes place on Saturday, April 19th.