Friday, July 11th, 2025

Peaks and Pints Proctor Pride Beer Flight: Tacoma Pride

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So here it is, our final glittering toast of the season: Peaks & Pints Proctor Pride Beer Flight: Tacoma Pride—a kaleidoscopic quintet of beers brewed not just with hops and grain, but with purpose, protest, and the kind of incandescent joy that survives both legislation and hangovers. We raise our glasses not only to Tacoma Pride Festival, erupting in color and courage across the city this weekend, but also to our beloved friends at Proctor Pride, whose loud, loving presence in the neighborhood made our first two Pride flights in June possible and meaningful. This is the third and final Pride flight we’ll serve this year but make no mistake—our commitment to queer community, creative resistance, and flavor that refuses to behave is forever on tap. Come sip the spectrum. Love loudly. Tip extravagantly. And for the love of drag queens and daydrinkers everywhere, never underestimate the revolution you can start with a single, defiant pint.

Peaks and Pints Proctor Pride Beer Flight: Tacoma Pride

Postdoc More Love

5.9% ABV

Postdoc Brewing’s More Love doesn’t whisper, it insists—a hoppy, golden beam of citrusy defiance brewed not just with Mosaic and Amarillo, but with the radical notion that love, like beer, should be bold, inclusive, and poured liberally. It’s the kind of IPA that shows up to the party in glitter boots and a lab coat, thanks to Postdoc’s brainy pedigree, then promptly hijacks the aux cable with a disco remix of the First Amendment. Brewed for Pride and benefiting the Pride Foundation, this technicolor truth serum hums with grapefruit zest, pine-kissed intentions, and just enough malt backbone to remind you that love—real, big, weird, uncontainable love—tastes like joy, with a dry finish.

Stoup Rainbow Bubbles

6.3% ABV

Stoup Brewing’s Rainbow Bubbles is your glitter cannon of IPA joy—an effervescent hop hallucination brewed to taste like a Pride parade in full gooseberry-forward bloom. This isn’t some dank, brooding hop bomb skulking in a dark corner. No, darling. This is sunshine incarnate, all Hallertau Blanc sparkle, Nelson Sauvin flamboyance, and HBC 630 razzle-dazzle, riding a wheat-pilsner float through your mouth like RuPaul in a convertible. At 6.3 percent, it’s assertive enough to matter but crisp enough to guzzle with abandon while dancing, say, shirtless in a crosswalk. Brewed annually for Pride and poured in glorious solidarity with Seattle’s LGBTQ+ community, Rainbow Bubbles isn’t just beer—it’s a fizzy manifesto of joy.

Aslan B Proud

6.4% ABV

Aslan Brewing’s B Proud is not some polite nod to rainbows—it’s a full-on brass band flipping off apathy, thundering through your palate with grapefruit-pith swagger, pineapple comets, and a wheat-fueled belly that somehow feels like a victory lap. At 6.4 percent, it’s assertive enough to matter in the crowd but feather-light in its refusal to be a gatekeeper, exhaling equality with each sip. Brewed for its seventh Pride anniversary and pledged to uplift Queer youth in our region, this hazy IPA tastes like solidarity — bright, unapologetic, and deliciously subversive.

Stoup Paraderade IPA

6.7% ABV

Stoup’s Paraderade IPA is not just a beer—it’s a choreographed group strut down the main drag of your taste buds, glittered and grinning, hips locked in righteous rhythm. It’s your parade float’s engine and your post-march halo, all Enigma, Comet, and Chinook hops crackling like confetti in a citrus-soaked breeze. Bitter enough to sass back, smooth enough to keep the chant going, Paraderade delivers tropical bravado with a West Coast wink, the kind of IPA that insists every day be a loud, proud block party of radical joy and firm stances.

Urban Family Queen Cobra

6.7% ABV

Urban Family’s Queen Cobra slithers in not to bite, but to bask—lounging luxuriously across your palate like a velvet robe worn over absolutely nothing, humming with honeydew, overripe pineapple, and the suggestion of forbidden stone fruit rendezvous. At 6.7 percent, it’s no lightweight, but it carries its weight like royalty: soft, sultry, and just subversive enough to make the other IPAs whisper nervously in the cooler. Brewed for Pride and benefitting Lambert House’s work with LGBTQ+ youth, Queen Cobra is not here to roar—it’s here to reign, a hazy dream of solidarity and slow-burning sass, hoppy enough to be dangerous, smooth enough to seduce.

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