It’s been a whirlwind of 18 years for Fort George Brewery. The Astoria, Oregon, brewery launched with an actual whirlwind; this month, it created a whirlwind with its flagship Vortex IPA. For April 2025, they are celebrating Vortex Month, a great time to revisit or try all-new versions of the now classic Oregon Northwest IPA. You can try them at Peaks & Pints in Tacoma’s Proctor District today. We’re offering a flight of Vortex IPA, Double Dry Hopped Vortex, Cryotex, and this year’s new Vortizafa, in collaboration with their friends at Georgetown Brewing. In celebration of Vortex Month and the launch of the new Vortizafa, Peaks & Pints presents the all-day flight of Fort George Vortex variations — plus a citrusy lager palate cleanser — for flight we’re calling Peaks & Pints Fort George Beer Flight: Vortex Month.

Peaks & Pints Fort George Beer Flight: Vortex Month

Fort George Vortex IPA

7.7% ABV

In 2006, Chris Nemlowill and Jack Harris flew to Virginia Beach, Virginia, to salvage an 8.5-barrel Saaz brewing system and drive it across the country to install it in their soon-to-open Fort George Brewery in Astoria. While traveling with the equipment strapped to a flatbed, they met up with a tornado that nearly spread the brewery across a Nebraska cornfield. This became the inspiration behind the name Vortex IPA. With a hearty 7.7 percent ABV, unfiltered, unpasteurized organic malt spine that makes way for Simcoe, Apollo, Comet, and Chinook hops, this Northwest IPA has a medium body with a resinous mouthfeel, more grapefruit than pine, and finishes with lingering hop bitterness. This beer is straight-up delicious.

Fort George Double Dry Hopped Vortex 2025

7.2% ABV

Caught in a tornado in the Midwest while hauling their original brew system cross country from Virginia, it made sense for Fort George Brewery to whip up Vortex IPA. Fort George has dubbed April Vortex Month — a celebration of firsts and bests and the wildness of the natural forces that could have crushed them before they even launched. In celebration, they doubled the dry hop to produce a fiercer, bolder, wilder version of Vortex IPA. This version of the sessionable Northwest IPA handcrafted in Astoria, Oregon, is brewed with Simcoe, Comet, Comet CGX, Chinook, Chinook Cryo, and Mosaic Cryo

Fort George Sudachi Ace

4.9% ABV

Tart and refreshing, summery international-style lager brewed with Amarillo/Sorachi Ace hybrid hop Amarachi, Saphir, and CTZ extract plus Japanese sudachi fruit for a balanced, citrusy lager.

Fort George Cryotext 2025

7.2% ABV

This month, Fort George switched up their beloved Vortex recipe to produce a wild, fruity, futuristic version of their year-round favorite pint with Chinook, Chinook Cryo, Ekuanot Cryo, Simcoe, Simcoe Cryo, Citra, Citra Dynaboost, Krush Cryo, and crispy lager yeast for extra flavor perception.

Fort George Vortizafa

7.2% ABV

Imagine if the best-loved IPA in Washington state met up with Oregon’s most prolonged standing, year-round, best-selling Vortex IPA. They meet in the stands at a college football game halfway between Astoria and Seattle, and by the end of the third quarter, they’re shaking hands and cracking cans. And the cans they crack are Vortizafa. Part Vortex, part Bodhizafa, all Simcoe, Comet, Chinook, and Citra. Bright, silky, positively citrusy, brewed with the power of two Georges: Fort George and Georgetown.

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