Thursday, July 10th, 2025

Peaks & Pints Beer Flight: Piña Colada Day, Mon Amour

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Today, Peaks & Pints casts off the blender and reimagines the piña colada as a five-beer flight of tropical fever dreams and tiki-transcendent delights. No cruise ship shame. No bar blender trauma. Just pineapple in exaltation, coconut in velvet devotion, lime and Tajín and marshmallow and graham cracker crust in glorious, fermented mischief. From key lime pie epiphanies to sour ale soul cleanses, from soft-spoken island wheat to a spirulina-soaked psychedelic smoothie that tastes like a piña colada drank too much sunlight and danced itself fluorescent—this is the colada deconstructed, refracted, and reborn in five pours of radiant paradise. Bring your thirst. Bring your chakras. Let’s Peaks & Pints Beer Flight: Piña Colada Day, Mon Amour.

Peaks & Pints Beer Flight: Piña Colada Day, Mon Amour

Sig Brewing Communication Is Key Lime

6.7% ABV

Imagine the piña colada ditched the blender and reinvented itself as a zesty, graham-crusted enlightenment. Sig Brewing’s Communication Is Key Lime doesn’t whisper—it winks, drops its towel, and cannonballs into your citrus chakra. A radiant medley of key lime juice, toasted coconut, and Sabro hop sorcery, this brew drinks like a key lime pie that took a detour through a South Pacific breeze. And yes, there’s a crust—graham crackers crumbled into the base like a sacred rite of dessert transcendence. Tropical? Obviously. Tart? Sublimely. Playful? Like tiki hour at a philosophy retreat.

Imprint Beer Co. Schmoojee Joose

6.5% ABV

This is what happens when the piña colada crashes a Miami art rave and drinks something glowing from a conch shell. Imprint Beer Schmoojee Joose doesn’t walk—it slithers, fluorescent and flirtatious, through the tiki-sour multiverse with a mouthful of rum-soaked pineapple, orange creamsicle bliss, and coconut velvet so plush it could swaddle your hangover. Add in a psychedelic splash of blue spirulina and a pulse of passionfruit voltage, and you’ve got a beer that doesn’t just suggest tropical escape—it hallucinates it. This is the one that turns the tasting tray into a lava lamp. Drink it slowly. Or don’t. Either way, it’ll taste like vacation kissed by neon.

Great Notion Double Pineapple Mango Shake

8% ABV

Imagine the piña colada took a sabbatical, grew a beard, and started painting murals in a Portland warehouse—this is that Great Notion beer. A double dose of pineapple and mango doesn’t so much blend as erupt into each other like lovers reunited on a tarmac, while vanilla and lactose swirl in like velvet backup singers humming sweet, creamy gospel. It’s hazy, yes—but also juicy, plush, and strangely enlightening, like discovering your chakras respond best to smoothie IPAs with 8% conviction and the aroma of tropical nectar shot through a cloud of West Coast defiance.

Prairie Artisan Ales Heatwave

6.7% ABV

This isn’t your resort-bar piña colada—it’s the roadside fruit stand version, blazing with sun, kissed with fire, dusted in Tajín like a sacred rite of passage. Prairie Artisan Ales’ Heatwave takes pineapple’s juicy grin and drags it through a citrus-lime vortex, then sets the rim on fire with chili and salt. The result? A sour ale that doesn’t just refresh—it demands a second sip before your tastebuds recover from the tropical whiplash. Think: a mango chamoy dream gone rogue, a popsicle on a dare, a beach bonfire in a bottle. It burns. It cleanses. It absolutely belongs here.

Maui Brewing Mana Wheat

5.5% ABV

Not every island beer needs to shout in mango-syrup tongues or roll out in a smoothie-glass chariot—some, like this soft-spoken wheat ale from Maui Brewing, prefer to whisper sweet pineapples into your inner ear while you sway slowly in a hammock of clove and banana. Brewed with Maui Gold pineapples and kissed by trade winds, Mana Wheat hums with sun-warmed fruit and wheatfield soul, finishing with just enough tropical tease to make you think, maybe I don’t need the umbrella… just the breeze.

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