After a couple months of avoiding the elements, isn’t it time you get a little bit of exercise? Ice skating is the perfect way to get yourself off the couch and get the blood moving again. Experience Sprinker Recreation Center’s ice rink transformed into a winter wonderland with more than 35,000 lights, animated displays, cascading lights on ice, and falling snow with a giant lighted tree in the center of the rink. They’re calling it “Ice Lights”, and it’s open today from 10:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m., and again 6-9 p.m. You can also experience the thrill of driving bumper cars on ice. As part of your Ice Lights adventure, you can slide, spin 360 degrees, and bump your friends and family. Peaks & Pints created a flight of holiday IPAs to enjoy after the early or late sessions, which we’re calling Peaks and Pints 2024 Christmas Beer Flight Dec. 3: Ice Lights. You have no excuse now not to pry yourself away from the TV — even holiday programming.
Peaks and Pints 2024 Christmas Beer Flight Dec. 3: Ice Lights
Baerlic Yippie-Ki-PA
7.2% ABV
Baerlic Brewing brews down-to-earth beers made by down-to-earth guys. In 2014, then-homebrewers — Ben Parsons, a graphic designer, and Richard Hall, who earned his paycheck as a bike mechanic — took their work-a-day approach to life and transplanted it into Baerlic, which means “of barley” in old English. Tucked onto Southeast 11th Avenue in Portland’s Central Eastside — in the midst of one of the densest thickets of breweries in the city — the “stubbornly independent brewery and taproom” Baerlic Die Hard IPA, Yippie-Ki-PA, is brewed with enough resinous and dank pine to take down a terrorist with just enough malty sweet left over for the love of his life …Yippee Ki Yay Mother Gruber!
Evil Twin Before, During, and After Christmas Beer
8% ABV
“The first batch made of (Before, During, and After Christmas Beer) was in fact 10% ABV. That batch was made last winter and only sold in Europe. I then changed the recipe to 8% to lighten it and make it easier to drink. That is what the beer will be from now on and the bottles in the US are the 8% version,” explains Evil Twin Brewing founder Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø. A revamped edition of an original, this hazy, double dry-hopped double IPA has big juicy notes of tropical fruit and orange zest.
Fat Orange Cat Baby Elves
9% ABV
The holiday edition of Fat Orange Cat Brew’s Baby Kittens, Baby Elves is a big double IPA brewed with Galaxy, Citra, and Simcoe — just like Baby Kittens but with more hops. The Baby smells like orange and mango with a dankness and earth tones. On the tongue, expect rich, overripe, mango citrus balanced by sweetness and a sustained bitterness that adds to its complexity.
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.
Block 15 Hoppy Holidays
9.2% ABV
Brewed with a sleigh-full of Northwest-grown hops, sweet orange zest, and local spruce tips foraged by Block 15 brewers, hoppy holidays’ seasonal flavors of pine and citrus blend with a hearty malt backbone to evoke holidays of past, like opening a gift box of citrus under a holiday tree. Hoppy Holidays!
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