Stillwater Artisanal Ales has never played by your ordinary beer rules. It never wanted to. It’s the anti-brewery brewery, a roving, shape-shifting, saison-soaked fever dream led by Brian Strumke—a former electronic music producer turned fermentation futurist—whose beers are as nomadic, enigmatic, and strangely beautiful as the man himself. Strumke doesn’t brew beer so much as summon it, dragging Belgian yeast strains through minimalist label design and psychedelic sensibilities, guided by a relentless compulsion to turn hops into high art.

Which brings us, inevitably, to Seattle, 2018, and a fated meeting with Matt Storm—wood-fired pizza whisperer and the visionary behind The Masonry, where beer lists are curated like mixtapes and every pour feels like a secret handshake. In 2020, when the pandemic clipped the wings of Strumke’s wandering spirit, it also opened the door for something wild and hyperlocal: Fast Fashion. The concept? Small-batch beers, big energy, minimalist aesthetics, and Instagram as runway. No flagship. No filler. Just high-style, high-hype releases that sparked lines, loyalty, and a cult following that would make Supreme blush.

So today, Peaks & Pints honors this glittering, hop-forward movement with Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Fast Fashion Beer On the Fly—a to-go flight of rarefied, fashion-forward ales that taste like the cutting edge and smell like the future. Sip boldly. Dress accordingly.

Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Fast Fashion Beer On the Fly

Fast Fashion Hop Scran

6.4% ABV

Fast Fashion brewed a hazy IPA in honor on Belmont Station, the Portland, Oregon, bottle shop and taproom that’s celebrating their 25th anniversary this year. Hop Scran is double dry hopped with Phantasm, which is dehydrated and powdered Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc grape skins making a product rich in thiols that brewers could use to enhance the aromas of their beers. Fast Fashion also brewed Hop Scran with Nelson and Enigma hops from another New Zealand hop factory, Freestyle Hops. The result is vinous and intensely tropical.

Fast Fashion Real Talk

6.6% ABV

Another hazy IPA double dry hopped with hops from New Zealand, Real Talk is brewed with Motueka, Freestyle Waimea, and Idaho 7 on a base of Weyermann Pils, flaked oats, flaked wheat, and golden naked oats. Expect notes of guava, mango, pineapple, and key lime.

Fast Fashion Twisting My Melon

8.2% ABV

Twisting My Melon is a double IPA hopped with Mosaic, Segal Ranch Anchovy, and Citra Lupomax over 100 percent Admiral malt from Alameda, California. This is also the first beer brewed with Fast Fashion’s 2022 Mosaic selection for a hoppy, juicy hazy double IPA with notes of orange, mango, and pineapple with a funky floral/grassy finish…

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