My latest article for The Bulletin was published on Sunday, as as promised, I wrote about Silver Moon’s F* Cancer program: Silver Moon Brewing Co. in fifth year raising funds for cancer research and awareness.

The F* Cancer program is in full swing until the end of August, and according to owner James Watts, “the campaign is going bananas this year! Beer is sold out in Northern California and Washington, Portland can’t get enough and Idaho seeing twice the volume as last year.” The brewery has been hosting events across the Pacific Northwest as well as in Colorado and will continue through the summer.

According to Finn Leahy, Silver Moon’s field marketing manager, the brewery has brewed 200 barrels of the IPA so far and is on track for more than double that amount. “I bet when it is all said and done we will brew another 300 barrels to make a total of 500 in a three-month window,” he said via email. To put that into context, one barrel equals 31 gallons, or about 330 12-ounce cans of beer. 500 barrels would yield over 165 thousand cans.

I’ve been drinking the beers the brewery provided me, and it’s a good, classic northwest-style IPA, nicely piney and citrusy. Nothing flashy, it’s “not a big and fancy liquid” as owner James Watts told me, but a solid and well-brewed beer. If you haven’t had any yet, go pick some up and help raise money to fight cancer.