There are beer weeks, and then there is Bellingham Beer Week — that misty, slightly unhinged stretch of April when a college town with a philosopher’s shrug and a brewer’s backbone decides to turn the volume up just enough. It began without permission slips or corporate choreography, more a friendly uprising than a festival, a loose coalition of breweries agreeing that celebration should feel like a living thing. What followed was not tidy. It spilled. Tap lists bled into sidewalks, collaborations arrived like unexpected weather, and the whole town began to hum with that low, collective understanding that beer is not just poured, it’s shared, translated, passed hand to hand like a good story.

Now the week returns, April 10 through 19, stretching itself across Bellingham like a slow, bright tide. Doors stay open, ideas get a little weirder, and the line between plan and accident blurs in the most delightful way. Lager purists, haze merchants, barrel whisperers — all of them show up with something to say. It crescendos at April Brews Day down on the waterfront, where the whole scene gathers in one place and lets the energy crest. Which makes this flight less of a lineup and more of a snapshot: five beers pulled from a city mid-celebration, each one carrying a little of that coastal, creative, slightly scruffy soul.

Peaks & Pints Bellingham Beer Week Flight

Otherlands Beer Havel Forever

5% ABV | Czech / Bohemian Pilsner | Bellingham, Washington

Clean as a mountain morning with a soft crackle of noble hops, this Otherlands pale beauty hums with fresh bread, gentle spice, and a whisper of floral bitterness, the finish snapping crisp and refreshing without ever rushing—Otherlands Beer leans into old-world grace here, a quietly confident lager that lingers like a well-told story you didn’t want to end.

Kulshan Greenwood

5% ABV | Pale Ale 

Think citrus grove at golden hour — grapefruit pith, mango sweetness, a hint of papaya — everything lifted by a light malt frame that keeps it buoyant, and Kulshan lets it drift with easygoing, trail-ready confidence.

Stemma Rain or Shine Pale

5% ABV | Pale Ale 

Midway through, Stemma resets the rhythm with a brisk snap of lemon peel and soft orange, a touch of green hop bite adding just enough tension before it finishes clean, balanced, and quietly refreshing.

Structures Life of Leisure

5.8% ABV | Hazy IPA 

Here comes the plush — strawberry and guava lounging up front, a squeeze of lime cutting through just in time — and Structures Brewing shapes it into a vivid, easy glow that leans more toward harmony than excess.

Boundary Bay Scotch Ale

7.1% ABV | Scotch Ale 

Dark toffee, roasted malt, and that old caramel-walnut hush roll in first, rich but never clumsy, the kind of flagship that wears its years with grace — and what years they’ve been: after Boundary Bay lost its Railroad Avenue lease and closed the original brewpub in September 2025, Black Raven stepped in to keep classics like Scotch Ale alive in stores and pubs across Washington, while a downsized comeback called Boundary on State, complete with a nanobrewery and new life under the next generation of the family, is slated to open on North State Street in late April or early May 2026, which makes every sip feel less like nostalgia and more like Bellingham refusing, politely and stubbornly, to let one of its great beer stories end.

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