Tacoma Arts Live, with help from the City of Tacoma’s Arts and Cultural Vitality Division, will host more than 100 local artists of all different mediums and disciplines under the historic roof of Tacoma’s Armory from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. This special event celebrates Tacoma’s rich artistic community while supporting our local economy. Peaks & Pints offers a flight of holiday beers to enjoy after Arts At The Armory — a flight we’re calling Peaks and Pints 2024 Christmas Beer Flight Dec. 7: Arts At The Armory.
Peaks and Pints 2024 Christmas Beer Flight Dec. 7: Arts At The Armory
Skygazer Watercolors Christmas Creamee
5.5% ABV
Smoothie sour beers (also known as pastry sours) are the evolution of the fruited kettle soured beers that made a resurgence and grew incredibly popular in the early part of the 2010s. Around the same time, brewers began to add non-traditional ingredients to traditional styles in an attempt to recreate baked goods and desserts in liquid form. At their essence, the common denominator is always extremely large amounts of unfermented fruit puree. By leaving the fruit unfermented, the brewer is essentially trying to make a beer that looks, smells, and drinks like a fruit smoothie from a juice café, but with alcohol. After that is achieved, there is a never-ending list of adjuncts and spices that can be added to create whatever flavor a brewer wants. Skygazer Brewing added gingerbread and marshmallow to tons of raspberry puree to make their Watercolors Christmas Creamee smoothie sour.
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.
Trap Door HoliDANK
8.5% ABV
Some people like bud, some people like beer, and some like both. Those who are a connoisseur of both have taken to attributing the term “dank,” a term that means pungent, funky, and odoriferous, to both good weed and very hoppy IPAs. Dank means an extremely overpowering odor that can smell like the citrus and pine flavors everyone loves, including Trap Door Brewing out of Vancouver, Washington. Their winter double IPA HoliDANK is dry hopped with classic dank hops Mosaic, Simcoe, Centennial, Chinook and Columbus for all the piney, floral dankness.
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.)
Prairie Christmas Bomb
13% ABV
Prairie Artisan Ales is owned by Krebs Brewing Company, which is the oldest brewery in the state of Oklahoma. The brand got its start in 2012 with its Prairie Ale and soon after created Bomb!, its flagship imperial stout. The Christmas Bomb! Imperial Stout is a holiday-inspired beer that takes Bomb! to the next level with cacao nibs, vanilla beans, coffee, chilies, and Christmas spices.
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