Did you know today is International Cake Day? No? You’re not alone. Every local baker we contacted was oblivious to the existence of this “food holiday.” But exist it does. After looking around online, however, the origin of this day is still a mystery to us as well, but there is plenty of information about cake’s history, which dates to ancient times. The word cake is derived from Old Norse “kaka.” Cake then was more like gingerbread due to the availability of refined ingredients. In Ancient Greece and Egypt, cakes were rather heavy and flat and eaten at the end of a meal with nuts and honey. Baklava anyone? During the Great Depression, it was necessary to provide easy, relatively cheap food to millions of Americans who were living in poverty, and the boxed cake mix was born. In modern day Peaks and Pints, cake is a beer flight. Drop by our Proctor District craft beer bar, bottle shop and restaurant and enjoy Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Cake Day.
Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Cake Day
Icicle Brewing Dark Persuasion
6.5% ABV
Icicle Brewing Co. sits in the Bavarian theme park known as the city of Leavenworth, which seems perhaps the most appropriate place for a brewery. Owner Oliver Brulotte, who has deep family roots in Washington’s hop farming history, basically launch the Wenatchee Valley’s craft-beer boom. The brewery draws their water from nearby Icicle Creek, a run-off from surrounded by numerous mountain ranges including the Stuart Range and Wenatchee Mountains. And, Icicle Brewing makes a liquid German chocolate cake, Dark Persuasion. Seriously, this stout tastes exactly like German chocolate cake, with strong chocolate and coconut notes, a touch of vanilla and a smooth finish.
Rogue Double Chocolate Stout
8.8% ABV
Rogue Ales‘ Double Chocolate Stout, which debuted for Valentine’s Day in 2001, is an oatmeal chocolate chip cookie and a chocolate truffle together in a bed that had been strewn with hops. Now imagine the imperial version. Rogue’s Double Chocolate smells like the inside of pain au chocolat thanks to ample bittersweet Dutch chocolate. Clocking in at 8.8 percent alcohol by volume and wearing a red 750ml casing, this 2010 World Beer Championships gold medal winner is a one-beer buzz.
Bottle Logic Jam The Radar
13.5% ABV
Remember the year your birthday involved a new, pink Barbie bicycle, complete with sparkles on the handlebars and that amazing chocolate raspberry cake? Well, flip the kickstand down and enjoy Bottle Logic Brewing’s Jam The Radar is a decadent bourbon barrel-aged dessert beer that drinks like the liquid form of its chocolate raspberry cake. Bottle Logic grabs their World Beer Cup Silver Medal winning Darkstar November Imperial Stout and finishes it with rich Filippino cacao nibs and a juicy combination of black and red raspberries.
Breakside Shasta Taffy
14.6% ABV
Marble cake is a swirled masterpiece of vanilla and chocolate — a true people pleaser. Shasta Taffy by Breakside Brewery, in collaboration with Portland’s famous Salt and Straw ice cream shop, is a rich bourbon barrel-aged stout with marble cake flavors — lots of chocolate malt expression and soft vanilla character from the wood.
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