Winter may dress itself in evergreen solemnity, but today’s Peaks & Pints Holiday IPA Flight laughs straight into the storm, tossing citrus sparks, hazy blizzards, pine-soaked chaos, and tropical holiday subversions into one gloriously unhinged seasonal parade. These are not polite December ales — they are glowing little renegades, each one sneaking holiday mischief into the glass: a pine-drenched classic turned electric, a cat-induced festive catastrophe, a “not coming home” postcard wrapped in tropical haze, a fog-nog fever dream, and a full-cream stumble into the snow. Sip them in order or jump around — either way, this flight offers the kind of winter wonderland that crunches, hums, glows, and absolutely refuses to behave.
Peaks & Pints Holiday IPA Flight
Reuben’s Brews Christmas Crikey
6.8% ABV | Holiday IPA | Seattle, WA
Reuben’s Brews slips a festive charge into its beloved IPA with Christmas Crikey, a winter-bright riff that takes the original’s citrus-and-pine swagger and turns the evergreen dial until it practically hums. Double dry hopping with an experimental variety lifts the aroma into full solstice mode — resin, grapefruit zest, spruce tips, a whisper of cold-morning electricity — all riding atop that clean, confident Crikey spine. It drinks like an ornamented West Coast breeze: crisp, pine-proud, citrus-lit, and just cheeky enough to feel like someone tucked a tiny Christmas miracle into your pint.
Gigantic The Cat Ate My Stash & Pissed On the Christmas Tree
7.5% ABV | Holiday IPA | Portland, OR
Gigantic Brewing’s annual mischief-maker tears into the holidays with a hop load so sticky, drippy, and pine-soaked it feels like someone liquefied the world’s rowdiest Christmas tree and dared you to drink it. Dank resin leaps out first, followed by citrus rind sparks and a deep evergreen roar that sweeps through the palate like a feline-fueled indoor catastrophe made strangely delicious. It’s loud, it’s unapologetically festive, and it leaves a trail of pine and laughter in its wake.
Evil Twin I’m Not Coming Home for Christmas
8.5% ABV | Holiday Double Hazy IPA | Queens, NY
Evil Twin turns holiday nostalgia on its head with this lush, double-dry-hopped hazy built on Motueka, Citra, and Idaho 7 — a tropical, citrus-lit postcard from someone who very much booked a one-way ticket somewhere warmer. Lemon and lime zest shimmer at the edges, pineapple swells through the middle, and passion fruit drifts lazily across the finish, all wrapped in a pillowy glow with only the faintest whisper of bitterness. It drinks like a tropical escape disguised as a holiday greeting — bright, juicy, and wonderfully uninterested in snow, sweaters, or coming home anytime soon.
Abomination Fog Nog (2025)
9.1% ABV | Holiday Double Hazy IPA with Lactose & Spices | North Haven, CT
Abomination Fog Nog drifts in like a mischievous holiday weather front that can’t decide between eggnog and haze, so it becomes both — a creamy, spice-lit swirl of vanilla softness, nutmeg warmth, and citrus-tropical hop glow folded into one decadent, double-dry-hopped sweep. The sip lands plush and festive, equal parts yuletide dream and hazy indulgence, the sort of pint that wraps itself around you like a holiday sweater and whispers: don’t bother with the carton, this is the nog you were really waiting for.
Abomination Wandering Into the Snow
9.1% ABV | Holiday Milkshake IPA | North Haven, CT
Wandering Into the Snow moves like a dreamstorm in a glass — thick, wintry, softly glowing — folding vanilla creaminess into a swirl of citrus-peel brightness and resinous hop drift that feels equal parts blizzard and dessert. Tropical notes rise like warm breath against cold air, while a subtle bitterness hums beneath the sweetness, keeping the whole thing grounded in seasonal mischief. It’s the kind of milkshake IPA that doesn’t just arrive; it envelops — a lush, snow-dusted reverie built for anyone who likes their winter wanderings a little decadent, a little strange, and utterly irresistible.
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