There’s something almost mythic about the way Lumberbeard Brewing brews — Spokane sunlight pouring through high windows, steam rising like prayer smoke, and head brewer Bret Gordon moving with the calm precision of a man who traded spreadsheets for stainless steel salvation. Born from the notion that joy should ferment, Lumberbeard has become one of Washington’s truest expressions of devotion: a family brewery grounded in local grain, humility, and the sacred belief that beer should taste like the place that made it. Their taproom hums with stainless and laughter, proof that even in this jaded world, craftsmanship still feels like faith.
And now that faith has wandered west — sleeves cut off, heart wide open. Peaks & Pints‘ new house beer, Lumberbeard Cut-Off Flannel IPA, was born in that Spokane brewhouse, half sermon and half stunt, stitched together from Tacoma mischief and Inland Northwest muscle. Brewed with Buzz Pale and Baronesse Munich malts from LINC Malt and charged with Simcoe and Chinook, it smells like pine needles colliding with citrus zest in a lumberjack daydream. It’s the official house beer of our ninth trip around the sun — an IPA with Northwest backbone, Spokane soul, and Tacoma swagger.
So before the anniversary Cut-Off Flannel IPA drinking begins — before The Barleywine Revue tunes up, before our house cider, Finnriver Buckhorn Cider, sparkles under cedar light — we toast Lumberbeard with a Thursday flight that shows the full length of their beard: hop thunder, dessert decadence, funked fruit, and barleywine bliss. Somewhere between Spokane steel and Tacoma cedar, the craft still crackles with magic.
Peaks & Pints Ninth Anniversary Thursday Lumberbeard Flight
Lumberbeard Lumberfunk Vol. 2: Razz & Riff
4.8 % ABV | Wine-Barrel-Aged Fruited Sour
Lumberfunk Vol. 2: Razz & Riff spins like a raspberry-stained record at golden hour — tart, soulful, and perfectly imperfect. Aged in wine barrels until the oak hums warm beneath the fruit, this mixed-culture sour flows with raspberry jam, gentle funk, and that tang of spontaneous genius. It’s melody made liquid: bright, smooth, and slightly unruly — a jazz solo in a glass that fades out just when you want one more chorus.
Lumberbeard + Varietal Beer Co. Thunderskunk
7.1 % ABV | Hazy IPA
When Lumberbeard and Varietal Beer collide, the clouds part. Thunderskunk lives up to its name — a hazy tempest of Galaxy, Mosaic, Strata, Southern Passion, and Southern Star swirling through oats and spelt. Tropical voltage crackles from every sip: mango lightning, pineapple ozone, peach static. It’s juice with muscle, weather in a pint, a beer that rolls in loud and leaves you glowing.
Lumberbeard Most Hopular
7% ABV | Fresh Hop Hazy IPA
Brewed with fresh Mosaic hops, Most Hopular hums with the green-gold voltage of harvest season: mango and peach tangled with citrus zest and a breath of pine still wet from the field. The haze feels alive, the malt soft as fog, the hops singing like they were plucked hours ago — which, frankly, they were. It’s that fleeting, electric moment when the Yakima Valley bleeds into the glass, when juice turns radiant and you remember that freshness, like fame, is beautiful precisely because it doesn’t last.
Lumberbeard Barrel-Aged Campfire Snack
12.7 % ABV | Imperial Pastry Stout
This is Lumberbeard’s decadent séance — bourbon, chocolate, and smoke whispering in the dark. After fourteen months in oak, Campfire Snack pours thick as midnight, stacked with marshmallow, graham, vanilla, cacao, and a hint of peanut butter sin. It’s nostalgia gone nocturnal, dessert reimagined as indulgent ritual. Every sip feels like firelight flickering on your tongue.
Lumberbeard Island Otter
15.6 % ABV | Barrel-Aged English Barleywine
Island Otter is English tradition gone tropical — a bourbon-barreled daydream steeped in caramel, toffee, macadamia, and vanilla. It’s slow, rich, and unashamedly opulent: all bonfire warmth and velvet gravity. Beneath the decadence lingers discipline — that quiet hum of barleywine lineage reminding you this isn’t indulgence for its own sake. It’s craftsmanship turned symphony, a beer that seduces the night one sip at a time.
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