Sometimes the Peaks & Pints’ Friday Beer Flight shows up like an unmarked mixtape with exactly five tracks—no title, no liner notes, just waiting for you to drop the needle and decide what it wants to be. You could call this one “The Lupulin Quintet,” or “Five Hops in Search of a Name,” maybe “The Cooler’s Secret Handshake,” or “IPA, Interrupted.” Perhaps it’s “Meadow Light & Boatyard Chaos,” perhaps just “Friday.” Doesn’t matter. What matters is five brand-new arrivals—fresh-picked whispers, clawed brawls, sleepless anthems, cosmic haze, golden fever dreams—and they’re yours to rename, remix, and drain as you please. Peaks & Pints pours the flight; you get to write the myth.
Peaks & Pints Friday New Beer Flight
Ilk Beer Fresh Hop Strata Pale (2025)
5.2% ABV | Fresh Hop Pale Ale | Olympia, WA
Olympia’s Ilk Beer proves fresh hop season doesn’t always need to shout—it can also hum, buzz, and strum like a porch guitar with a cracked string. Built on pale and pilsner malt with a touch of oats, this pale lets Strata do the singing: strawberry murmur, lemon spark, a sly wink of cannabis funk drifting through the glass. Light on its feet at 5.2 percent, it drifts across the palate like dusk settling over wet grass—clean, grassy, gently creamy—and disappears before you’ve even thought about pouring another.
E9 Brewing Puppies vs. Kittens
6.6% ABV | IPA | Tacoma, WA
Tacoma’s E9 Brewing turns hops into a sparring match with Puppies vs. Kittens, a double dry-hopped IPA laced with 2-Row, German pils, oats, and wheat. Citra Cryo, Simcoe Cryo, and Comet sharpen the claws: lime and grapefruit jabs, peach and apricot swipes, a dank pine growl lurking underneath. Fermented with E9’s Barbarian yeast for a juicy, slightly feral edge, it’s a massively hopped melee—IPA as tug-of-war, paws and claws tangled in haze.
Stoup No Sleep Till Ballard IPA
6.7% ABV | American IPA | Seattle, WA
Stoup Brewing’s No Sleep Till Ballard is a lupulin-soaked love letter to its salty-sweet, sawdust-and-coffee neighborhood, where the air still hums with industry but the hops shine brighter than gossip at the dive bar. Roy Farms Chinook and Centennial deliver pine and citrus lightning, while Vic Secret slips in pineapple and passion fruit to keep you wired until the fishing boats drift home. At 6.7 percent, it’s balanced like a punk band practicing in a boatyard—loud, lean, perfectly chaotic—Ballard in a glass, IPA as anthem, and absolutely no sleep required.
Fieldwork Brewing Space Maze
7% ABV | Hazy IPA | Berkeley, CA
Fieldwork’s Space Maze is a Strata-fueled haze rocket that bypasses mere fruit salad for a cosmic pantry: strawberry astronaut ice cream, passionfruit curd, smashed raspberries, mango puree, lime zest, papaya, and even a Riesling whisper floating in zero gravity. Sticky, juicy, gloriously dank, it drinks like the hop fields wandered through a head shop and came back smiling. Soft-bodied, low bitterness, lush with kaleidoscopic fruit haze—this wormhole is one you’ll gladly get lost in.
Breakside Fresh Hop Wanderjack – Strata (2025)
7% ABV | Fresh Hop IPA | Portland, OR
Breakside hauls its Wanderjack IPA straight through Coleman Agriculture’s just-harvested Strata fields, less than an hour from the brewhouse, and the result is a golden fever dream: strawberry jam colliding with mango rind, tangerine peel, and resinous pine. Each sip swings from tropical blaze to dank green thrum, finishing crisp and bitter as if the Northwest itself just sighed. At 7 percent, it’s fresh hop season cranked all the way up—Breakside style, with Strata conducting the beautiful chaos.
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