Saturday, July 19th, 2025

Peaks & Pints Beer Flight: Cloudy With a Chance of Hops

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Saturday, July 19 Forecast: patchy morning gloom tapering into sun-splashed denial by 3 p.m., with emotional visibility improving considerably if enjoyed under a patio umbrella. Welcome to Cloudy With a Chance of Hops, our soft-focus meditation on haze, wheat, and that most Pacific Northwest of weather phenomena: the slow-rolling fogbomb. These are not beers that punch—they glide. No bitterness, no bar fights. Just five mist-kissed pours brewed for hammock lounging, ferryboat zoning, or staring at the sky like it owes you a better metaphor. This is your brain on soft light and Citra.

Peaks & Pints Beer Flight: Cloudy With a Chance of Hops

Lost Coast Tangerine Wheat

5.5% ABV

Here comes the sun—tangerine first, clouds later. Lost Coast’s Tangerine Wheat is not subtle, nor does it apologize. It arrives like a citrus cannonball into your wheat beer kiddie pool, all zest and zing and orange-blossom flashbacks from some mythical California boardwalk that never quite existed. The wheat is soft, yes, but not sleepy—it’s the trampoline that lets the fruit bounce higher. Spritzy, bright, and just tart enough to reset your afternoon, this beer tastes like summer took a deep breath, exhaled through a citrus grove, and landed in your glass.

Fort George City of Dreams

5.5% ABV

This is what happens when a pale ale gets lost in the mist, finds enlightenment on a mossy Astoria rooftop, and never looks back. Fort George’s City of Dreams isn’t a beer—it’s a maritime mirage wrapped in Citra hops and soft wheat lullabies. It floats, it glows, it purrs like an otter in a hot tub. Notes of tangerine chiffon, wet pine needles, and coastal breeze nostalgia swirl together in a pour so smooth, you’ll forget this isn’t a full-blown IPA. Ideal for foggy mornings, seafoam meditations, or quietly judging tourists at the tidepools.

Logan Brewing Jumbo Juice

6% ABV

Ah yes, Jumbo Juice—Logan Brewing’s vapor-soft remix of the cult Airways hazebomb that once made grown hopheads weep into their Teku glasses. This is your tropical layover, your citrus-slick tarmac of dreams, rebuilt by Logan with Citra and Apollo in a fog-drenched, low-bitterness haze so plush it practically hums ambient synth. It doesn’t shout, it murmurs. Think mango whipped through a creamsicle jet stream. Think peach skin and papaya light show. A beer made for mornings that can’t decide if they’re still dreaming.

Matchless Hazy River

6.2% ABV

Float gently, friends. Matchless Brewing’s Hazy River is not so much a beer as it is a tube ride for your synapses—easy, lush, and unapologetically unhurried. Brewed with Citra, Centennial, El Dorado, and that whisper-soft enigma known as Krush, this is where pineapple dreams and lychee daytrips get tangled in a slow-motion swirl of white grape and river mist. The haze is pillowy, the bitterness politely demure, and the entire experience feels like sunscreened jazz on a Bluetooth speaker drifting downstream. Ideal for cloudy-day escapism, inflatable flamingos optional but encouraged.

Larrabee Lager Kahuna Krush

6.5% ABV

This is not a beer—it’s a hibiscus-drenched daydream with a surfboard-shaped halo. Bellingham’s Larrabee Lager Co. drops into the hazy IPA scene with Kahuna Krush, a juicy, beach-towel-soft pour that tastes like peaches got lost in a mango grove and forgot to check the time. It’s tropical without sunscreen, hoppy without the hop slap, and breezy enough to make you wonder why we don’t all move to a place with ocean mist and 72-degree evenings. Pair with shoreline staring, open windows, and at least one irrational life decision.

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