Saturday, February 5th, 2022

Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: 450 North For 420 Northwest On the Fly

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Here’s the question: Are smoothie sours gateway “beers” to harder, more hyped substances later in life? Will everyone who drinks fruited kettle soured beers go on to become addicts and ruffians and Libertarians? Will they eventually ruin their lives via hard seltzers and hard teas and hard coffees and hard waters and other deranged demons in anything resembling dangerous or enlightening percentages, enough that we could finally declare, once and for all, that smoothie sours, or pastry sours as they’re also known, really do lead to destruction and not, as so widely presumed, merely to kinkier sex and fits of uncontrollable laughter and the consumption of fruit combinations you would never entertain otherwise? You already know the answer. Smoothie sours, with their big fruit flavor and soluble pectins, are not a gateway to a harder life. Not even a little. Which is not to say excessive smoothie sour drinking throughout one’s life is not a gateway to becoming, say, a bit of a slothful fan of unwashed dreadlocks and reggae festivals and 1 a.m. idling in the Memo’s Mexican Restaurant drive-thru lines. But that’s another topic. In the meantime, Peaks & Pints has received another round of 450 North Brewing smoothie sours — most of the drop donning marijuana-themed titles. Drop by our craft beer lodge, bottle shop, and restaurant in Tacoma’s Proctor District and grab our to-go flight of 450 North beers to enjoy on your couch later. It’s a flight we call Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: 450 North For 420 Northwest On the Fly.

Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: 450 North For 420 Northwest On the Fly

450 North SLUSHY XL Strawberry Cough

5.5% ABV

Fruited Berliner weisse conditioned on strawberry, raspberry, and apricot.

450 North SLUSHY XL Tropic Juice

ABV NA

Tropic Juice XL, cousin to Jungle Juice, is a fruited Berliner weisse conditioned on mango, pineapple, coconut, and kumquat.

450 North SLUSHY XXL Dexter’s Daboratory

5% ABV

Smoothie sour conditioned on strawberry, pink guava, passionfruit, and banana.

450 North Phoenix Tears

12% ABV

Double dry hopped quadruple IPA brewed with 15 pounds per barrel of Galaxy, Citra Cryo, Mosaic, and Amarillo, and a final dry hop of all Galaxy, for a hot, hoppy tear jerker.

450 North SLUSHY XL Pineapple Express

8% ABV

Fruited Berliner weisse conditioned on tons of pineapple.

LINK: Peaks & Pints cooler inventory