Ah yes, the West Coast IPA—our shimmering, pine-scented inheritance. Bitter and bright, lucid as gospel truth, hopped like a fistful of electric citrus hurled through a pane of nostalgia and wild ambition. Today, Peaks & Pints invites you to worship at the altar of clarity and bite, to remember a time when IPAs weren’t afraid to be loud, lean, and a little dangerous. This is not haze. This is not pastry. This is resin, reckoning, and rebellion in a glass. The Pacific spine distilled into golden armor. We recommend sipping slowly, speaking less, and letting the sunshine in through Simcoe-stained taster glasses. Stop by Peaks & Pints today for our Thursday beer flight called Peaks & Pints Beer Flight: West Coast IPAs.
Peaks & Pints Beer Flight: West Coast IPAs
Georgetown Juniorzafa
5.3% ABV
Raise your taster glass to Juniorzafa—a sly grin in Georgetown Brewing session IPA form. Think of this as Bodhizafa’s younger, scrappier sibling—same hop swagger, lighter on the ABV, but still packing a punch. It’s hopped with Citra, Mosaic, and Chinook, unleashing a bouquet of pineapple, grapefruit, mango, clementine, and a whisper of pine over a golden, oat-smooth canvas. It’s the beer you chase on a sunny afternoon when you want flavor without the commitment—a palate wiggle, a high-five, a sip that says, “I’m light, but I still got game.”
Loowit Brewing Warlock IPA
6.2% ABV
Invoke this one carefully, dear palate, for Warlock doesn’t merely pour—it summons. Loowit Brewing channels a piney incantation straight from the fog-draped Cascadian wilds, casting Saaz, Nectaron, and Strata hops into a shimmering cauldron of citrus hexes and tropical mischief. Dry? Oh yes—like wizard sarcasm. Bright? Like a flash of arcane light in a dim tavern. This West Coast IPA isn’t just a beer, it’s a level-up in lupulin, a charisma-saving throw of zesty spellwork that leaves your mouth tingling with resin and just enough berry-laced shadow to whisper, “Roll again.”
Russian River Blind Pig IPA
6.25% ABV
This is the IPA that taught your palate how to swear. Blind Pig doesn’t whisper, it preaches—sharp-tongued, pine-laced, grapefruit-slinging gospel straight from the West Coast cathedral of Russian River. Born in the hop-forward wilderness of the mid-’90s, before haze was hip and bitterness was a crime, Blind Pig remains a snarling, resin-soaked relic of purity and precision. The malt? Minimalist. The finish? Dry as a Zen koan. It bites, it lingers, it baptizes your taste buds in citrus fire and pine sap and dares you to come back for more. Respect your elders—especially the ones with tusks and attitude.
Stoup Brewing Rainbow Bubbles IPA
6.3% ABV
Imagine if a Pride parade and a hop field had a beautiful, glitter-streaked baby—Rainbow Bubbles would be its name, and it would absolutely outshine its playgroup. Stoup Brewing’s shimmering West Coast IPA skips across your palate like a citrus-drenched unicorn on roller skates, dry-hopped with Mosaic, Nelson Sauvin, Hallertau Blanc, and HBC 630 to summon tropical fruit, white grape, and a kiss of gooseberry on the wind. The pilsner and wheat malt base is barely there, just enough to support the sparkle. It finishes dry, crisp, radiant—a love letter to inclusion, to hop science, to joyful excess—and yes, it is very crushable.
Grains of Wrath Wastelandia IPA
6.8% ABV
Raise a chalice to Wastelandia, the IPA that feels like stumbling into an oasis of grapefruit and orchard fruit in a dusty post-apocalypse, then proclaiming, “I’ll rip this place apart.” Brewed with Craft Coast Beer & Tacos, it kicks off with grapefruit, then drops in surprising strawberry, cherry, peach, passion fruit, and orange blossom notes over a crisp, dry West Coast bitterness. And here’s the kicker: Grains of Wrath is hosting the Legends of the West Beer Fest on Saturday, July 12, 2025, at their Washougal spot—an invitational lineup of West Coast IPAs from 30 breweries, including Wastelandia front and center.
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