Peaks & Pints will throw a Pray For Snow Party at our craft beer and cider lodge at Basecamp Proctor in Tacoma tonight. We need to pray for snow! The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its winter weather outlook, favoring classic El Niño conditions for Washington state. El Niño is a climate pattern associated with warmer-than-normal sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean. It generally leads to higher chances of warmer temperatures and drier conditions in the Pacific Northwest. Winter will be warmer and much rainier than normal, with below-normal snowfall. Ugh, we seriously need to pray for snow! Let’s all think about snow, snow sports, and drink beer together. Peaks and Pints invites you to group hug over this serious situation, check out the winter IPA Old Stove Brewing brewed for us, Warming Hut IPA, enjoy a three-year Alaskan Brewing Smoked Porter vertical on tap, and win some sway, including lift tickets to Crystal Mountain. Proceeds from the event will go the Crystal Mountain Ski Patrol. In conjunction with our Pray For Snow Party tonight, Peaks & Pints presents an all-day, in-house winter beer flight, which we’re calling Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Pray For Snow.
Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Pray For Snow
Wet Coast Holiday Jeer!
6.5 % ABV
Wet Coast Brewing’s winter ale is a full-bodied stout with big dose of molasses to provide notes of prunes and burnt sugar. They top it off with the addition of ginger, allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. The alcohol will come to your aid when you must battle the lady fighting for the last available Rainbow High Series 3 Sheryl Meyer Fashion Doll. Against your liquid courage, that lady has no chance.
Anderson Valley Nitro Winter Solstice
6.9% ABV
Anderson Valley Brewing’s Nitro Winter Solstice hits the nose with caramelized malty and spicy aromas redolent of cinnamon, allspice, black currant, black licorice. Pleasantly creamy, with a silky body, the winter warmer offers sweet caramel flavor with hints of seasonal spices and a clean, malty finish.
Bale Breaker High Camp Winter IPA
7.3% ABV
Named for the ski lodge atop of White Pass Ski Resort, High Camp IPA takes Bale Breaker’s signature hop-forward style to a darker side with the addition of chocolate malts for malty backbone of spice and chocolate. Dry-hopped with Cascade, Centennial, and Mosaic, the hop character in High Camp bursts with pine and grapefruit.
Hellbent All Spruced Up
7.5% ABV
Hellbent Brewing’s All Spruced Up Winter Ale is a traditional winter beer, dark in color, yet has a mild malty richness. The hops — Citra, Chinook, and Cascade — along with fresh spruce tips add a citrus floral and “candy-like” aroma. Expect smooth caramel and spice up front, with spruce on the finish.
21st Amendment Fireside Chat
7.9% ABV
In 2000, Nico Freccia and Shaun O’Sullivan founded 21st Amendment Brewery in the South Park neighborhood of San Francisco, California. As avid beer enthusiasts, Freccia and O’Sullivan were determined to establish an ongoing celebration of the overturned 21st Amendment to the Constitution and gave their brewery the amendment’s namesake to commemorate it. Their Fireside Chat winter ale give a nod toward Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Depression-era radio addresses. (Franklin Roosevelt won the 1932 presidential election based on his promise to repeal the 18th Amendment. He did so incrementally, beginning by legalizing the sale of beer, and ending with the 21st Amendment, the first and only time an amendment to the Constitution has ever been repealed.) On the nose, all the typical winter warmer flavors are accounted for: roasted malts, cinnamon, ginger, caramel, clove, and a smidgen of orange peel. Big notes of cinnamon and ginger lie in wait up front, with a touch of subtle orange peel and some clove with a big ginger sendoff, washing in some cinnamon, bread notes and subtle chocolate, too.
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