Call the cryptids, rouse the monks, and cue the lupulin gospel choirs — it’s FRENZ NIGHT at Peaks & Pints. Tonight, 5 to 8 p.m., we’re throwing a collaborative birthday bash for two Pacific Northwest beer icons and one old guy: Bale Breaker and Holy Mountain are unleashing their joint creation, Frenz West Coast Pilsner, at Tacoma’s official release party tonight with several Bale Breaker and Holy Mountain beers on tap. We’re pouring a five-beer flight that walks the stylistic tightrope from holy-lager clarity to citrus-snarling IPA wizardry, beginning with the elegant hush of Second Death Helles and ascending through the cryptid shimmer of Frenz, the forest-bathing benevolence of I Love My State Parks, the fang-flowered power of Serpents & Blossoms, and the grapefruit gospel of Westies With Our Besties. These aren’t just beers. They’re rituals in pint form. Come toast the collab, the birthday, the beauty of the brew — and bring your thirst, especially for Peaks & Pints Beer Flight: Frenz.
Peaks & Pints Beer Flight: Frenz
Holy Mountain Second Death
4.8% ABV
Second Death is Holy Mountain’s immaculate lager resurrection — a Helles-style hymn to simplicity so precise, so gleaming, it might just baptize your palate in golden silence. Brewed with 100 percent German pilsner malt and Tettnang hops, it arrives like a monk in moonlight: floral, whisper-dry, and quietly profound, the kind of beer that doesn’t shout but absolutely owns the room. At 4.8 percent, it’s the elegant ghost of summer beer gardens past, the crisp exhale between chaos and clarity, a clean-limbed lager that drinks like a riddle solved by thirst. No haze, no hype, just holy balance in a can.
Bale Breaker + Holy Mountain Frenz
5.7% ABV
Behold: a lager with the heart of a cryptid and the soul of a forest fire sermon. Frenz West Coast Pilsner — the latest mytho-hopped estate beer in Bale Breaker’s legendary Frenz series, where Yakima’s lupulin royalty join forces with their brewery brethren — finds the hop mystics at Holy Mountain summoning citrus spirits and pine ghosts into a gleaming pilsner shell. This isn’t your average crispy boy; it’s of golden equilibrium, dry and glinty as shattered glass under a Cascadian sunrise, hopped with Citra and the enigmatic HBC 1134 until your tastebuds hum like monk-throated thunder. Bitter in all the best ways, it pirouettes across the palate like a grapefruit orchard exorcism, whispering ancient lupulin secrets through a clean, crackery finish that lingers like a good spell.
Bale Breaker I Love My State Parks IPA
6.2% ABV
Grab your taster glass, breathe deep, and cue the bald eagle screech: I Love My State Parks IPA is Bale Breaker’s hoppy love letter to the mossy soul of Washington itself — a wildflower daydream forged from grapefruit rays, pineapple vapor trails, and melon-laced breezes that whisper, “You should be outside right now.” Brewed in league with the Washington State Parks Foundation, Yakima Chief Hops, and Cold Stream Malt, this crisp, dry, gloriously crushable IPA isn’t just a beer — it’s a pine-soaked promise to protect the places that make our hearts howl. A portion of the proceeds flows straight back to the trails, trees, and tidepools that deserve our devotion. Drink up. Give back. Go outside.
Holy Mountain Serpents & Blossoms
6.5% ABV
Serpents & Blossoms is Holy Mountain’s ode to duality — a West Coast IPA that bites and blooms in the same breath, like citrus venom dripping from a Zen garden fang. At 6.5%, it glides in sleek and resinous, all pine-slick swagger and bitter orange peel resolve, then unfurls into a marmalade glow so precise it feels like monks forged it with mandolins. Built on a base of pilsner malt and just a whisper of wheat, this beer doesn’t so much drink as it slither-dances across the palate, leaving a trail of crisp incantation and lupulin poetry. It’s clean. It’s dangerous. It’s citrus enlightenment with a snarl.
Bale Breaker Westies With Our Besties
6.5% ABV
Oh, you glorious West Coast marvel, you bitter symphony of friendship and fruit. Westies With Our Besties IPA is Bale Breaker’s 6.5% ABV lupulin love letter to its Central Washington brewing kin — a grapefruit-slicked, pineapple-peached, pine-pricked fever dream of collaborative mischief brewed under the sacred sun of Yakima. Born of the Washington Brewers Guild’s hop-happy plot to unleash seven regional IPA riffs across the state, this one crackles with citrus zest and dry-witted bitterness, like a sharp-tongued oracle in a flannel robe. It’s pilsner malt and white wheat wrapped in dank friendship, crisp as high desert air and snappy as a beer geek’s retort. Raise it high, toast your besties, and let the Westie do the restie.
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