Peaks & Pints leaned toward skiing long before we could legally lean toward beer, back in our Hudtloff Jr. High days in the 1970s, when the Clover Park School District bundled us into pre-dawn buses headed for Crystal Mountain. We boarded with sack lunches and gear made entirely from indestructible nylon — fitted jackets, technicolor pants, and skis as wide as fence posts that demanded whole-zodiac determination just to turn. We swear we skied uphill, both ways, through headwinds, into blinding sun, and loved every second of it. Today, we get to pass a piece of that winter magic forward: from 4–8 p.m., Peaks & Pints donates 15 percent of proceeds to Hunt Middle School’s Ski & Snowboard Club, helping fund their five-week mountain program at Snoqualmie Pass. In their honor, we’ve built a winter-themed beer flight — Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Hunt Ski Bus — where grownups can toast the next generation of skiers while the kids stay home waxing boards and dreaming of powder days still to come.
Peaks & Pints Hunt Middle School Ski Bus Flight
Kulshan Last Chair IPA
6.5% ABV | West Coast IPA | Bellingham, WA
Instead of easing in politely, Last Chair IPA drops straight into that golden, end-of-day hush when the mountain empties out and every turn feels like it belongs only to you. Kulshan threads citrus brightness, berry sparkle, and tropical ease through a lean resin spine, crafting a West Coast IPA that drinks like the final, perfect run you stretch just long enough to hold onto the light.
Rainy Daze Frosty Chairlift
6.9% ABV | Winter Warmer | Silverdale, WA
Frosty Chairlift ambles in with the playful menace of every winter dare gone sideways — a reminder that cold metal and curious tongues have never been allies. Pine, cedar, and brown-sugar warmth mingle in a malted embrace that turns even the chilliest chairlift into a slow-motion hearth. Skip the frosted glass; let Rainy Daze‘s beer’s own internal glow thaw whatever winter tries to steal.
Grains of Wrath Frost Hammer
7% ABV | Helles Lager | Camas, WA
Grains of Wrath Frost Hammer glides in with the serene confidence of a lager that won gold for simply being truer than true — soft as first light on fresh snow, warm as the breath rising off a just-opened loaf of bread. Floral notes drift through like alpine air stirring wild bouquets, while a faint shimmer of honey rounds the edges in a way that feels almost meditative. Smooth, balanced, and quietly complex, this helles doesn’t shout winter; it evokes it — a crisp, contemplative lager that clears the mind the way a long exhale does on a cold morning.
Bale Breaker High Camp Winter IPA
7.3% ABV | Winter IPA | Yakima, WA
High Camp draws its soul straight from the lodge that crowns White Pass at 6,500 feet — that mid-mountain sanctuary where frost-pink faces gather around steaming bowls of chili, boots unbuckled, goggles fogging, hearts still buzzing from the last run. Bale Breaker translates that moment into malt and hop: chocolate-tinged warmth beneath Cascade, Centennial, and Mosaic, all drifting together in a pine-and-grapefruit glow that feels equal parts alpine air and lodge firelight. It drinks like stepping inside after carving fresh tracks — a winter IPA steeped in mountain breath and mid-run magic.
ScuttleButt 10 Degrees Below Ale
7.4% ABV | Imperial Dunkelweizen / Winter Warmer | Everett, WA
Rather than roaring, 10 Degrees Below murmurs — a deep, wheat-rich winter ale brushed with cocoa and a shy curl of orange peel. ScuttleButt steers this into the realm of comfort, a beer that feels like thawing your fingers by a lodge window while snow ghosts past outside. It’s winter’s gentler side, a reminder that warmth sometimes arrives in malt form, and that even Frosty deserved a moment’s mercy.
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