There’s something so sweet about sweet. The cavemen knew it; they were willing to risk limbs and other body parts not covered in hair to grab honey from beehives. Over many thousands of years, the preferred form of sweet evolved from honey to all kinds of confections, including craft beer. What is Valentine’s Day without a decadent candy beer? Peaks & Pints created a candy beer flight today. Some of the beers fall under the category of rich and sweet, like candy, the type you’d probably have just one of before moving on to something else. The others carry strong, smooth, savory flavor profiles, like chocolate cake, that satisfy the sweet tooth while maintaining drinkability. Depending on your palate, most might fall somewhere in between. Grab your Valentine and head to Tacoma’s Proctor District for Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Heart-Shaped Candy.

Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Heart-Shaped Candy

Urban Family Bearz vz Wormz

5.5% ABV

Inspired by gummy candy, Urban Family Brewing‘s Bearz vz Wormz tart and bright sour ale is made with raspberry puree and flavored with gummi bear, strawberry, and pineapple.

Prairie Tiny Esses

5.9% ABV

Riding your bike all over the neighborhood with your friends, having sleepovers in backyards, basements, tree houses, and Popping Skittles all summer. Prairie Artisan Ales offers the same Gen Z summer experience without the bikes and sleeping bags: Tiny Esses, their sour ale made with popular rainbow chewy candy bits of orange peel, lemon peel, lime, and Skittles. Expect electric lemon-lime to juicy strawberry, swirling into one intoxicating blend of sugary tartness.

Fieldwork Rainbow Parfait

6.4% ABV

Fieldwork Brewing‘s Parfaits is a series of tart beers in which we take a big and creamy base of Pilsner malt, flaked oats, and milk sugar, ferment and condition the beer on heaps of fruit until the beer is almost opaque, with color-looking akin to a melted crayon. A small vanilla addition plays with the milk sugar to create a whipped cream-like flavor profile and mouthfeel that is just big enough to compliment the fruit without overpowering or taking away from the real star of the pour. Think Hi-Chew Rainbow Sherbet candies.

Matchless Matchless Bar Peanut Butter

10% ABV

Matchless Brewing’s Matchless Bar is a decadent imperial chocolate stout aged in Westward Whiskey barrels and blended with vanilla beans and cocoa nibs. As the name suggests, this is what the brewery imagines the chocolate river in Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory would have tasted like … if it were made of chocolate beer. This year’s variant of their annual decadent imperial milk chocolate stout offers rich roasted, creamy peanut butter flavors.

Mason Ale Works Flat Black

14.5% ABV

In 2017, restaurateurs Grant Tondro, Zak Higson, and Nate Higson opened Urge Gastropub & Whiskey Bank in San Marcos, California, the coastal offshoot of their Urge American Gastropub in Rancho Bernardo. The kicker? They added Mason Ale Works for an elevated brewpub atmosphere. Eventually, they hired a former head brewer from San Marcos’ The Lost Abbey, Matt Webster, to brew beers that paired well with their food. The Mason Ale Works trio soon discovered their beers could stand alone. In 1921, the Peter Paul Manufacturing Company introduced the Mounds candy bar. The Mounds bar had chocolate on the outside and coconut on the inside. It quickly became the company’s best-selling candy. In collaboration with Moksa Brewing, their Flat Black Mounds-ish pastry stout is aged in Makers Mark barrels for 15 months. It consists of Guatemalan cacao, Madagascar bourbon vanilla, and hand-toasted coconut.

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