It wouldn’t be December without a “Peanuts” special or a gift-wrapped tin of cashews in a Christmas stocking. The holiday season is when nut lovers come out of their shells. Sorry about that. But seriously. ’Tis the season for “chestnuts roasting on an open fire,” even though most people have never actually seen such a thing. Then, there are nutcrackers. Tacoma City Ballet‘s The Nutcracker is a glorious production filled with spectacular dancing, live orchestral music, grand scenery, and lavish costumes. Held at the Pantages Theater, Tacoma City Ballet’s historical recreation of The Nutcracker, which premiered in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1892, hits the stage at 2 p.m. Drop by Peaks & Pints before or after the Nut for a flight of holiday nutmeg beer we call Peaks and Pints 2024 Christmas Beer Flight: The Nut(meg)cracker.
Peaks and Pints 2024 Christmas Beer Flight: The Nut(meg)cracker
Wet Coast Holiday Jeer!
6.5 % ABV
Wet Coast Brewing’s Holiday Jeer! winter ale is a full-bodied stout with big dose of molasses to provide notes of prunes and burnt sugar. They top it off with the addition of ginger, allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. The alcohol will come to your aid when you must battle the lady fighting for the last available Rainbow High Series 3 Sheryl Meyer Fashion Doll. Against your liquid courage, that lady has no chance.
Grains of Wrath Hail Santa!
6.7% ABV
Santa Claus performs miracles and wonders every Christmas Eve. He can create and deliver virtually any present any child can imagine. He can fly through the sky and deliver these gifts to millions of children all over the world — all in one night. And not just any old presents but exactly the ones desired by each individual child. To accomplish this mission, he must have the ability to be present almost everywhere at once. Hail Santa! Grains of Wrath honors Santa with this spiced holiday ale made with cinnamon, allspice, ginger, nutmeg, and honey.
Evil Twin Our Most Popular Holiday Beer
8% ABV
Evil Twin Brewing’s Our Most Popular Holiday Beer is a Belgian strong dark ale brewed with cinnamon, nutmeg, and vanilla. It leads with a nose of fruit and holiday spices followed by brown sugar, toffee, hard candy and light pastry, which morph into date, raisin, fig, plum, blackberry, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, and ginger.
Abomination Fog Nog
9.1% ABV
Like many breweries, Abomination Brewing was started in a garage by friends Joe Feldman and Josh Arno. In 2019, they partnered with Twelve Percent Beer Project in Connecticut to brew and distribute them across the country, including Peaks & Pints in Tacoma, Washington. Their Fog Nog double dry hopped imperial milkshake IPA hits the nose with IPA characteristics, but also egg nog with its lactose creaminess and the spices, most notably nutmeg.
The Bruery 4 Calling Birds
11.1% ABV
If you’re counting, the lucky recipient ends up with 23 birds by the end of the popular holiday tune “The Twelve Days of Christmas”. And maybe more: some believe the “5 golden rings” is a reference to the rings of ring-necked pheasants. The original song had “colly birds” appearing on day 4 and subsequent variants said the birds were “canary”, “collie”, “colley”, “colour’d”, “curley”, “coloured”, “corley”, and finally “calling” when English composer Frederic Austin re-wrote in 1905. The Bruery thought, “if the birds were calling their favorite treat, we think it’d be gingerbread — which is why this gingerbread-inspired ale is the perfect addition to our 12 Days of Christmas lineup”. Using a festive blend of orange peel, allspice, nutmeg, and star anise, this Belgian-style dark strong ale makes for a perfect dessert (or lunch — it’s the holidays, we don’t judge.)
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