If you’ve ever wondered at the appeal, the urge, the drive to attend Fort George Brewery’s Festival of the Dark Arts, if you’ve heard wisps of the mythology and the mystery and the epic weirdness or even seen a few pictures and wondered, you know, WTF, maybe I should dress like Jack Sparrow and make my way through 80 exquisitely unique stouts on a cold mid-February Saturday in Astoria, Oregon. You should. It’s astonishing how often you’ll reach bliss at the one-day stout craft beer festival. It almost matters not from which brewery room you inhabit — Festival of the Dark Arts is an equal opportunity soul enricher. In your admiration for the magical menagerie of art and macabre entertainment — the ice, glass, ink, and fire craftspeople — you’ll also taste the best in craft brewery-made stouts, including 20 or so from Fort George proper. If you didn’t have tickets to this year’s Festival of the Dark Arts, Peaks & Pints can, at least, offer you a taste of the giant stout festival as the touring Dark Arts roadshow ends at Peaks & Pints Feb. 27. Beginning at 6 p.m., we’re tapping 16 Fort George brewed stouts plus a few other tasty treats from the Astoria brewery. We also offer an all-day flight of five Fort George stouts — Peaks & Pints Fort George 2025 Festival of the Dark Arts Stout Flight.

Peaks & Pints Fort George 2025 Festival of the Dark Arts Stout Flight

Fort George Nitro Gilded Tiger

6% ABV

Fort George Sales Director Drew Worden imagined this golden milk stout with a creamy body and notes of coconut, vanilla, ginger, cinnamon, and turmeric.

Fort George Murky Pearl

6% ABV

Designed and brewed by Brandon Sharp, the Fort’s general manager, this oyster stout features oysters, Rahr 2-row, Grain Miller Flaked Rye, Simpson Caramalt (c15), Weyermann Chocolate Wheat, and Briess Black Barley for a highly roasty taste of the ocean.

Fort George Chocolate Kraftwerk

6.3% ABV

Imagine by Fort George brewer Lindsey Stark, this German chocolate cake stout is conditioned on more than 70 total pounds of candied macadamia nuts, pecans, coconut, and chocolate.

Fort George Nitro Nog Log

7% ABV

Imagined by Fort George brewer and Quality Assurance team leader David Plechl, this nitro eggnog stout is a small stout and an imperial stout aged in Basil Hayden barrels blend and then conditioned on cardamom pods and hand-selected, rum-soaked vanilla beans.

Fort George King Baby

7% ABV

King cake-inspired stout brewed with pecans, Madagascar vanilla, and Ceylon Cinnamon Pow Pow for notes of cinnamon roll, vanilla frosting, caramel, and pecan with a dense sweet finish.

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