We’re honored to welcome this esteemed panel of beer professionals to judge Sip Magazine’s 15th Annual Best of the Northwest Beer Competition, with more judges still to be announced!
Competition Lead – Ezra Johnson-Greenough, New School Beer
JUDGES
Abigail Change – Founding Member, Flying Bike Cooperative
Adam Linden – Former Beer Buyer, Bartender
Andrew Bieber – Cicerone®
Andrew Pytel – Single Hill Brewing
Andrew Schwartz – Brewer/Co-Founder – Human People Beer
Ben Keene – Freelance Beer Writer
Bobby Wood – Advanced Cicerone®
Gary Bangs – Member/Owner, Flying Bike Cooperative
Isaiah Powell – Brewer
Jackie Dodd Mallory – @thebeeroness, Beer writer, marketer, photographer and author.
James Wagner – Founder, Eastside Beer Week
Jessie Polin – Cicerone®, Former taproom owner
Leslie Shore – Brewer
Lyra Penoyer – Certified Cicerone®, BJCP judge, WSET educator
Marley Rall – Beer Judge, Owner of Brewmaster’s Taproom
Michael Perozzo – Owner, Vice Beer
Mike Pearson – Founding member and VP of the board at Flying Bike Cooperative Brewery
Nicole Kasten – Brewery Consultant
Rikki Lee Welz – Associate Sensory Scientist, John I. Haas
Scott Howell – Logan Brewing
Shanleigh Thomson – Ingredient Sales/Journalist
Steve Little – Cicerone®
