
Ah, Fort George Brewery’s 3-Way IPA — the lovechild of PNW beer-nerd polyamory and high-level hop diplomacy. Since 2013, this annual summer shapeshifter has swirled into our taplines like a lupulin-soaked emissary of collaborative intent. Each year, Fort George teams up with two West Coast breweries of exceptional repute — think Cloudburst, Ruse, Great Notion, Holy Mountain, Georgetown, Moonraker, Alvarado Street — to conjure a brand-new IPA built on beta batches, late-night hop debates, and a gleeful disregard for the status quo. One year it’s all Cashmere and California Common yeast; the next, it’s fruit-forward séances and experimental haze bombs scrawled with coded can symbols only the truly initiated understand. It’s not just a beer — it’s a rotating temple of hop wizardry, a summer sermon in 16 ounces, and a ritual reminder that the best things happen when three breweries walk into a brewhouse and say, “screw it — let’s make something that sings.”
And sing it does. Each 3-Way IPA isn’t merely a release; it’s a jazz trio in full improvisation — three breweries riffing off a shared melody, each hop addition a solo scribbled in lupulin and light. Fort George, ever the upright bass — steady, grounding, the heartbeat from Astoria’s fog-kissed coast. The guest breweries? Percussion and brass, woodwinds and guitar solos, sliding in strange and glorious directions. Crack one open and listen close: the hops are very much alive.
In 2025, Fort George dialed the collab knob to eleven with not one, but three takes on 3-Way IPA — a lupulin triptych forged in tandem with Mirage Beer of Seattle and Sunriver Brewing of Bend. There’s the OG West Coast version — crystalline and righteous with Krush, Waimea, and Nelson in full cryo-technicolor. Then there’s the Hazy: soft, lush, and mango-slicked, brewed for those who prefer their bitterness whispered and their juice turned symphonic. And finally, the West Coast Tropicál — a fruit-laced detour that swaps dive bars for tiki lounges, kissed with Bract 106 and guava mirth. Months of test batches led to this release, each beer a reflection of its creators, each pour a proof-of-concept for collaborative brilliance. These are not just IPAs — they’re seasonal theorems, liquid mixtapes, and love letters to the holy geometry of hops.
This Friday, July 25, Peaks & Pints throws down the lupulin gauntlet with all three versions of Fort George’s 2025 3-Way IPA, tapped simultaneously for your tasting enlightenment. West Coast. Hazy. Tropical. One flight. Three pours. Infinite implications. It’s a hop-drenched choose-your-own-adventure poured into the sacred geometry of a tasting tray. Join us for the Peaks & Pints Three 3-Way IPA Flight — a swirling, foam-capped symposium in which collaboration becomes ritual, and every sip is an argument for bliss.
Peaks & Pints Fort George Three 3-Way IPA Flight
Fort George 3-Way IPA (2025)
7% ABV
This one is clarity incarnate — the lucid dream of West Coast IPA perfection that somehow remembers every hop you’ve ever loved and reintroduces them at a rooftop dinner party with better lighting and no small talk. Fort George’s 3-Way IPA, brewed in harmonic convergence with Sunriver and Mirage, isn’t here to reinvent the form — it’s here to remind you what it was like to fall in love with bitter. It’s a crystal-clear crusade of Krush, Waimea, Nelson, and Strata (plus their cryo-boosted cousins), strung together on a malt canvas that’s all lean lift and zero interference. This isn’t just a beer — it’s a guitar solo in Simcoe, a bassline in gooseberry, and a snare crack of citrus zest, all played through a piney amplifier under a West Coast sun that refuses to set.
Fort George 3-Way IPA – Hazy (2025)
7% ABV
This tropical cartwheel is a slow-motion tumble through peach fuzz skies, mango breezes, and pineapple-slick dance floors. Dry-hopped into oblivion with Mosaic Dynaboost, Mosaic Cryo, Citra Cryo, Krush Abstrax, and a sly kiss of Chinook, it rides a pillowy base of wheat, flaked grain, and rice hulls like some beach-bound beer sorcerer who prefers juice to jam. What pours from the can is a glowing golden-orange cloud with a rocky halo and the perfume of grapefruit zest, diesel-dappled mango, and peach skins kissed by sunburnt pine. It’s not haze for haze’s sake — it’s a carefully choreographed fruit ballet, a lush hop fugue scored in seven percent major. Drink deep, darling. The tropics are humming.
Fort George 3-Way IPA – West Coast Tropical (2025)
7% ABV
The unbuttoned third act in Fort George’s triple-collab opus, where hops ditch their leather jackets and don floral shirts, barefoot and sun-drunk. Brewed with Mirage and Sunriver as the beach-fire jam session to the West Coast’s guitar solo and Hazy’s slow-jam glow, this tropicália version swings in on a breeze of Bract 106 — a mysterious New Zealand varietal that smells like lime rinds and cactus popsicles rolled in crushed seashells. Underneath? A pristine Pilsner malt base so clean you could shave in it. The top note? All tropical mischief: guava whispers, peach flirtation, and grapefruit spooning a mango. This isn’t just an IPA — it’s a hammock in a can, a salt-rimmed samba played on a citrus xylophone. And yes, those are dogs on the label, because joy should always have paws.
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