
Mashing-In News: WSU Brew School, Pelican Fifth Coastal Nest
GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND!
Monday, July 7, 2025 — Ringo Starr turns 85 today!
Brew School Goes Hybrid at WSU
Washington State University Tri-Cities, located along the Columbia River in Richland and part of the WSU system, now offers an online brewing certificate program that combines virtual coursework with immersive, hands-on brewing camps in Yakima and Spokane—equipping students with both scientific knowledge and real-world experience under industry professionals, and opening doors to careers in the evolving craft beverage sector. (The Drink Business)
Pelican Brewing Flies to Rockaway Beach for Fifth Coastal Nest
Pelican Brewing, the nearly three-decade-old coastal titan of Oregon beer, is spreading its wings once more—this time to Rockaway Beach—where the legacy brand will open its fifth location this August in a newly renovated seaside taproom just a block from the iconic Twin Rocks and Highway 101, further cementing its reign as the signature brewery of the Oregon Coast. (The New School)
Last Rites for TRVE: Denver’s Heavy Metal Brewery Bows Out After 14 Years
TRVE Brewing Co., Denver’s doom-drenched temple of fermentation and heavy riffs, will pour its final pint on Saturday, July 12, after nearly fourteen years on South Broadway—a gut-punch announcement delivered by founder Nick Nunns, who called the decision “a fiery arrow farewell” to a brewery that made him “rich beyond measure and handshakes,” even if capitalism never understood the value of a well-timed blast beat or a transcendently funky saison. (Westword)
Why Trump’s Tariffs Are Harming the Craft Beer Industry
As aluminum tariffs, rising input costs, and retaliatory Canadian sales bans tighten their grip, small U.S. craft brewers like Chicago’s Spiteful Brewing find themselves caught in a high-stakes game of economic Tetris—sacrificing grain for cans, juggling storage and cash flow, and praying policymakers realize that what’s being crushed isn’t just metal, but the margins and futures of an entire industry. (National Post)
Brewing Legend Roxanne Westendorf Wins AHA’s Highest Honor
The American Homebrewers Association has named longtime Cincinnati brewer and community leader Roxanne Westendorf as the 2025 AHA Recognition Award Winner—its highest honor—for nearly three decades of contributions to the hobby and culture of homebrewing, from her early days with the Bloatarian Brewing League to her influential roles on national brewing boards. (Homebrewers Association)
NHC 2025 Heats Up in KC
The 2025 National Homebrew Competition Final Round and awards ceremony is heading to Kansas City, Missouri, where Boulevard Brewing Company will host the nation’s top homebrewers June 26–28 for judging, celebration, and a live-streamed toast to the craft. (Homebrewers Association)
Braille, Brew, and Breakthroughs
When Blind Industries & Services of Maryland asked Johns Hopkins mechanical engineering students to design a printer that could add braille to beer labels, the senior design class responded with a fully functional, open-hardware machine that not only punches braille into plastic labels, glossy mailers, and card stock—materials traditional printers can’t handle—but is also designed for blind or low-vision users to operate with ease, culminating in the production of 400 braille-labeled bottles of Blind Spot Kölsch for a Checkerspot Brewing and BISM fundraiser and delivering both the labels and the printer by semester’s end. (John Hopkins University)
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