Westies With Our Besties Returns for 2025
On May 23rd, breweries across Washington will release the 2025 Washington Brewers Guild annual collaboration beer. Over 50 member breweries recently assembled at seven locations to create their regional versions of a West Coast IPA: Westies With Our Besties IPA. Washington’s beer lovers will find the beers at the participating breweries. To support the mission, find and drink the beer. Enjoy a pint at one of the breweries’ taprooms or grab some cans to take home.
It’s seven different beers—all the same, but each unique. Like the beers themselves, the label artwork for each version will vary slightly—variations on a theme, as it were. The collaboration project is a friendly competition, with each of the seven regional versions competing for the title of best collaboration beer. Last year, the Central Washington version, brewed at Icicle Brewing, earned top honors.
All of the beers benefit the Washington Brewers Guild, a non-profit trade organization dedicated to protecting and promoting the interests of the state’s craft brewers while strengthening the Washington craft brewing community. The involvement of a long list of supporting partners enables the Washington Brewers Guild to benefit from the project. Those partners provide the ingredients and product support needed to create a successful project. The goal of the Guild is to protect, support, and unite Washington craft brewers through legislative advocacy, education, and brewer community building.
Brewing Locations
- Northwest WA: Boundary Bay Brewery, Bellingham
- Southwest WA: Vice Beer, Vancouver
- North Seattle Metro: Stoup Brewing, Seattle
- South Seattle Metro: Georgetown Brewing Co, Seattle
- Western WA: Silver City Brewery, Bremerton
- Eastern WA: Lumberbeard Brewing Co, Spokane
- Central WA: Bale Breaker Brewing Co, Yakima
Participating Breweries
Central Washington
- Bale Breaker
- DruBru
- Icicle Brewing
- Iron Horse Brewery
- Single Hill Brewing
- Varietal Beer Co.
- Wheat Head Brewing Company
Eastern WA
- Badass Backyard Brewing
- Black Label Brewing Co
- Iron Goat Brewing
- Lumberbeard Brewing
- Precious Things Fermentation Project
North Sound
- Anacortes Brewing
- Aslan Brewing Co
- Barley Pop! Brewing
- Beach Cat Brewing
- Boundary Bay Brewery
- Crucible Brewing Company
- Garden Path Fermentation
- Haywire Brewing Co.
- Kulshan Brewing Co
- North Fork Brewery
- Rivertime Brewing
- Stemma Brewing
- Terramar Brewing
Southwest
- Fortside Brewing
- Irrelevant Beer
- Vice Beer
- Walking Man Brewing
- Well 80 Brewing Company
North Seattle Metro
- Burke-Gilman Brewing Company
- Distant West
- Fremont Brewing
- Formula Brewing
- Halcyon Brewing
- Lucky Envelope Brewing
- Métier Brewing
- Project 9 Brewing
- Remlinger Brewing
- Reuben’s Brews
- Rivertime Brewing
- Rooftop Brewing Company
- Sound to Summit
- Stoup Brewing
- Urban Family Brewing
South Seattle Metro
- Bickerson’s Brewhouse
- Georgetown Brewing Co
- The Good Society Brewery & Public House
- Flying Lion Brewing
- Formula Brewing
- Jellyfish Brewing Co.
- Logan Brewing Co
- No Boat Brewing Company
- Postdoc Brewing
- Resonate Brewery
Western WA
- Bainbridge Brewing
- Echoes Brewing
- Rainy Daze Brewing
- Silver City Brewery
To learn about other recent beer releases, visit our New Beer Releases page. To let us know about your brewery’s new releases, here’s how to reach out to us.
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