Basketball’s March Madness is weeks away, but first-round action in Brewing News’s third annual National IPA Challenge tips off a week from this evening in Syracuse, NY.

A total of 128 IPAs are entered in the Challenge, which is a single-elimination, head-to-head competition. Elimination rounds will take place at beer festivals in February and March, and the champion IPA will be crowned at the Festival of the Suds in Atlantic City on March 20.

You can follow the action with Brewing News’s huge printable bracket sheet, which also doubles as a shopping list if you’re an IPA fan like Paul.

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