Halloween is creeping around the corner like a Commerce Street guttersnipe in search of a bag of cans. Spooky, eh? It’s said there’s nothing new under the sun, and that timeworn chestnut proves particularly true every Halloween. For instance, if you under the delusion that you’ll be the only Trump out and about on All Hallows’ Eve, think again. While it’s bad enough that everyone and their mother dresses like a pirate, ninja or zombie during this time of year, copycat costumes tend to be in abundance during All Hallows’ Eve. In other words, we’re expecting to see multiple clones of Deadpool, Sabrina Carpenter and characters from Bettlejuice Beetlejuice populating all the big-time bashes taking place around the South Sound over the next 9 days. However, if you feel like your outfit isn’t up to snuff, you’re going to need a place to test it. In honor of Halloween, Peaks & Pints has scared up a flight of five Halloween-ish beers today that we call Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Spooky.
Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Spooky
Buoy Decapitator 2024
8.5% ABV
Blackbeard roamed the Atlantic from around 1716 until 1718, robbing ships from the West Indies to the Carolinas. He had a reputation for unbridled ferocity. Blackbeard’s reign on the high seas came to an end on November 22, 1718. Virginia Governor Alexander Spotswood sent a ship commanded by John Maynard down to the North Carolina coast to track down and kill Blackbeard. Blackbeard’s head was chopped off and hung from the bowsprit of Maynard’s ship. The pirate’s headless body was thrown overboard. Legend has it that the headless body swam around Maynard’s ship three times before sinking below the waters. Brewed with Blackbeard in mind, Buoy Beer’s Decapitator doppelbock offers big malt aromatics leading with toasty graham cracker, toffee, and fig. Smooth and sneaky, this doppelbock offers warming alcohol notes and subtle stone fruit esters, thanks to 8 weeks in bourbon barrels.
Monkless Four Devils
9% ABV
Devilishly smooth and light bodied, Monkless Belgian Ales’ Four Devils Belgian strong golden ale fits in the flight not only because of its name, but also its sweetness is more “treat” than trick.” The bouquet is sweet with a mild spiciness intertwining with a pleasant pineapple character. On the tongue, this classic dry golden ale is slightly fruity with a subtle earthy hop presence, and sticky-sweet across the palate.
Bizarre Hello Satan
4.9% ABV
Bizarre Brewing’s Hello Satan is the Seattle brewery’s first dive into the world of red ales. They brew this throwback red ale with English Maris Otter, Crystal malt, debittered black malt and a blend of Munich malts. Hello Satan is hopped in the kettle with Chinook and Citra and open-fermented with their house pub ale strain for malty and floral notes with a little bitterness.
Great Notion Little Haus of Horrors
9% ABV
A collaboration with Living Haus Beer Company, this hazy double IPA opens the door to two early-stage dry hops of Strata, Nelson Sauvin, and El Dorado hops alongside Phantasm powder. Expect powerful tropical fruit aromatics and notes of blood-sucking plant.
Nightmare Patricide
15.1% ABV
Nightmare Brewing owner Billy Powell brews exotic beers out of Farmingdale, New York, naming the delicious craft beers after forms of torture. For Patricide, he skips the torture and names the beer in honor of his father, a “tin knocker” most of his life. With a keen interest in history, true crime, and horror novels, he may have inadvertently inspired Nightmares cornerstones. Billy’s father was well liked by his peers and the pride he takes admiring his work is a thing of envy, which is why it only made sense to have the reaper holding the cable quick release to swing ductwork to remove his head on the can of Patricide, a imperial stout cold aged on toasted coconut, Ecuadorian cacao and Madagascar vanilla. Expect notes of caramelized hazelnuts, black forest cake, dry Port, black cherry cordial, and crisp fudge brownie edges with a
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