Middle Memorial Day Weekend weather forecast calls for 71 degrees and partly cloudy, dipping into the lower 50s tonight. Whether you’re pitching a tent at Ohanapecoch, glamping at Guemes North Homestead, or just hanging out in your backyard, the odds are there will be a fire to sit around after dinner. As you sit around your appropriate blaze, you’ll want something to drink. Peaks & Pints suggests five beers ready for a night of flannel, stories, and glowing embers, or just enjoy at our craft beer and cider bar, bottle shop and restaurant. Either way, Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Campfire Craft should satisfy. Cheers!
Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Campfire Craft
ForeLand Meadowscape Pils
4.9% ABV, draft
Based in McMinnville and Portland, this craft brewery specializes in small-batch, flavorful beers that showcase the beauty and bounty of the Pacific Northwest. With a focus on sustainability and community, Foreland Beer is more than just a brewery — they’re a destination for those who love good beer and great company. Foreland also specializes in pilsners — they have many, including the recently released Meadowscape Pils, which is on tap at Peaks & Pints. The low alcohol content, 4.9 percent ABV, allows you to enjoy the fire and friends without demanding your full attention.
Köstritzer Schwarzbier
4.8% ABV, can
In April 1991, the Köstritzer Brauerei, a subsidiary of the Bitburger brewery, shed its 1543 wardrobe and emerged as of one of the most modern breweries in Thuringia, Germany. In September 1993, it re-introduced the “original Köstritzer black beer,” a traditional bottom-fermented lager that contains a distinctive fine malty flavor due to the use of refined barley malt. It’s a delicious blend of light freshness with a smooth, sweet finish. For nights around the campfire in a hoodie, it must be Köstritzer Schwarzbier. This German schwarzbier is the absolutely perfect beer for campfires: light enough for a good session, while the chocolate and dehusked malts bring chocolate and coffee notes that pair great with s’mores and general revelry.
Belching Beaver Peanut Butter Milk Stout
5.3% ABV, draft – can in our cooler
Stouts complement the aesthetic of a campfire. A favorite addition to stouts is peanut butter, and Belching beaver Peanut Butter Milt Stout doesn’t disappoint. This San Diego-brewed, 2014 World Beer Championships silver medalist milk stout offers luscious, nutty peanut butter flavor alongside coffee creamer richness; slight coffee roast and peanut butter on our noses before a lightly roasted, bitter finish. The 5.3% ABV means you have a chance to make it to the barleywine in this flight.
Stillwater Pacific North Wild
7% ABV
Stillwater is the brainchild of Baltimore native Brian Strumke, whose past life as an internationally renowned electronica DJ and producer led him down a path to crafting some of the world’s most unique and highest rated beers. A homebrewer turned pro in 2010, nomadic brewer Strumke slapped his Stillwater sticker on many a brewery’s cooler around the world before the pandemic nudged him to place roots at the Talking Cedar Brewery in Thurston County, Washington. Aged in oak with wild yeast, Stillwater’s Pacific North Wild IPA offers vivid flavor and aroma compounds, notably esters, and tastes like candied apricots and oak with a dry, sparkling finish. Half of your campfire stories will, most likely, be about this beer.
Stoup Barleywine
12% ABV
A cool summer evening seems to be the perfect serving temperature for Stoup Brewing’s delicious barleywine, and it pairs well with the leftover chocolate from the s’mores. Peaks & Pints loves smooth, sweet notes of caramel, molasses, and toasted malts, and the 9-month barrel-aging adds another layer of flavor.
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