Tuesday, July 15th, 2025

Peaks & Pints Beer Flight Celebrating Flight

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On this day in 1954, a peculiar silver dart known as the Boeing 367-80 — the “Dash 80,” if you were lucky enough to be on the inside of Seattle’s holy sky-factory — lifted from the soggy, hopeful banks of Renton Field and tore a giddy hole through the sky. It was sleek. It was rebellious. It didn’t care if TWA gave it side-eye. It flew like the future itself, a jet-fueled middle finger to the era of sputtering propellers and stewardesses in girdles. And when Boeing test pilot Tex Johnson — all guts, swagger, and cowboy DNA — famously barrel-rolled the damn thing over Seafair like a gleaming, silver exclamation point, well, that’s when the jet age officially screamed into being. Pan Am called. The 707 was born. And now? We raise our glasses to the high-altitude audacity of it all. Behold, five beers — soaring, swooping, whispering the gospel of flight — in today’s Peaks & Pints Beer Flight Celebrating Flight. Prepare for takeoff. Tray tables up. Beer goggles on.

Peaks & Pints Beer Flight Celebrating Flight

Fasten your seatbelts. We’re pushing off from the gate (and nest!). …

Victor-23 Cooper County

5% ABV

Let’s get one thing straight: not all sky-hopping legends are hopped to high heaven. Victor-23 Craft Brewery Cooper County is a throwback, a quiet contrail across the clear blue lager sky. Named after the mythical air corridor where D.B. Cooper vanished into Pacific Northwest vapor, this American Premium Lager doesn’t shout — it glides. Crafted with pilsner malt and flaked corn, it lands with a smooth, dry body kissed by a whisper of sweetness, like a boarding pass tucked into your granddad’s leather flight wallet. A delicate lift from Adeena hops adds just the right edge of bitter to keep the story interesting. Naturally carbonated using the old-school German spunding technique, it sparkles with refined intention — the champagne of evasive disappearances and clean finishes.

Ilk Beer Company Pine Street Bomber

4.5% ABV

Born in Olympia but brewed for the concrete jungles of Seattle, Pine Street Bomber is less about altitude and more about attitude — a beer made for skaters bombing hills, not bombers dropping payloads. Ilk Beer crafted this piney street crusher for the crew at 35th North Skateshop, and it shows: this is a beer that ollies over expectations and tailwhips into a pinecone-scented breeze. Built on a deck of pilsner, wheat, and a dash of Vienna malt, it’s hopped like a half-pipe stacked with Centennial and Chinook, then dry-hopped with a nose-thrashing blast of Eldorado. It’s resinous. It’s crisp. It’s citrus-fruity in that wait-is-that-tangerine-or-just-speed kind of way. A tribute to the kind of flying that doesn’t need wings — just four wheels, a good push, and an aerodynamic tuck.

E9 Brewing Spaceships

6.2% ABV

Not all flights are jet engines and fuselages. Sometimes, it’s deep-orbit propulsion, psych rock at full volume, and Tacoma fog lit by the strobe of a distant, indifferent star. Enter Spaceships from E9 Brewing — an IPA that doesn’t so much launch as it phases through dimensions. It’s nebular, yes. Tropical fruit and ozone. Pine and papaya. But there’s something else here — something that smells like the inside of a cryo-chamber and tastes like mangoes ripened under the binary suns of Kepler-186f. This beer doesn’t just explore space — it questions whether gravity was ever real to begin with. Drink it and wonder where the hops end and the wormhole begins.

Black Raven x Bale Breaker Alpha Bird Cold IPA

6.3% ABV

In this airborne collaboration, the legendary Redmond-based Black Raven teams up with Yakima’s lupulin luminaries, Bale Breaker, to engineer an IPA that flies tighter than a Blue Angels diamond formation. Alpha Bird is crisp as a hangar floor, hopped to the gills with Chinook, Simcoe, and Citra, and dry as a desert flyover at altitude. It’s an ode to Cold IPA precision — fermented cool for snappy lift, then boosted into the stratosphere with a payload of punch-you-in-the-beak bitterness—a beer for the hophead pilot who calculates IBUs like G-force.

The Bruery 4 Calling Birds

14.8% ABV

All flights must land eventually, and what better final descent than a beer that croons like a Gregorian carol over a Concorde PA system? Brewed annually as part of The Bruery’s “12 Days of Christmas” series, 4 Calling Birds is a Belgian-style dark ale that tastes like a holiday feast snuck onboard in first class: cocoa, spice, dates, figgy pudding, reverence. It’s aviation’s lounge lizard — smooth, rich, and clearly the passenger who knows how to smuggle bourbon-soaked fruitcake through customs. At 14,8% ABV, it’ll tuck you in for a long winter’s redeye and whisper sweet nothings of altitudes past.

End of Flight
Please remain seated while your brain reorients. You’ve flown the friendly skies of fermentation, from sky-hag folklore to space-jumping IPAs. Welcome back to Earth, and may your next pint also defy gravity.

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