Some breweries chase trends; Fort George Brewery builds universes. From their Astoria stronghold above the Columbia’s restless mouth, they brew like interdimensional cartographers — each beer a new constellation, each pint a telescope aimed at some deliciously impossible world. Today’s flight drifts across those galaxies: a test batch disguised as a pizza-fueled prophecy, a Strata-drenched daydream thick with orchard haze, a West Coast anthem played loud enough to rattle the spruce, and two fresh hop symphonies that shimmer like alternate realities written in chlorophyll. This is Fort George at full creative voltage — equal parts mad scientist, cosmic poet, and eternal harvest pilgrim — where hops aren’t just ingredients, they’re coordinates on a map to flavor’s outer edge.
Peaks & Pints Sunday Fort George Beer Flight
Fort George Bagel Bytes 2.0 (2025)
7% ABV | Hazy IPA
Not every collaboration hides in plain sight, but Bagel Bytes 2.0 does — the second test batch for Fort George’s mysterious Pizza Pals 2025 project with an as-yet-unrevealed brewery that, fittingly, also worships at the altar of fire and dough. The beer itself feels born from that oven’s heat: a plush, radiant haze built on Breiss Pilsen, oats, and Crisp Chit malt, spiked with Citra in every elemental form — CO₂ extract, Dynaboost, Cryo dust — plus Krush, Ekuanot, Eclipse, and Simcoe. The experimental Magic J yeast adds the rest: mandarin glow, grapefruit perfume, and a wink of cantaloupe mischief. Smooth at 7 percent and slyly aromatic, it’s equal parts research, revelation, and inside joke — proof that Fort George can ferment collaboration into legend long before the collab is even announced.
Fort George Fresh Hop Sediments of Memory
6.8% ABV | Fresh Hop Hazy IPA
With Ruse Brewing beside them, Fort George plunges into the green subconscious. Sediments of Memory swims in more than 600 pounds of Strata from Goschie Farms — hops so aromatic they practically narrate the beer themselves. Strawberry pulp, mango thread, and lime zest drift through haze the color of peach nectar. Beneath it all, Citra and Simcoe hum like background static, and a bill of 2-Row, spelt, and oats lends slow-motion grace. You don’t drink this one; you drift inside it — a soft, glowing reverie of harvest and haze, where the air still tastes like the Valley’s sigh.
Fort George Island Towns IPA
6.2% ABV | West Coast IPA
Some collaborations hit like a cymbal crash — West Coast band meets West Coast brewer, pine meets power chord. Island Towns IPA is Fort George’s raucous duet with Seattle indie rock icons Minus the Bear, brewed in honor of the band’s 20th-anniversary Menos el Oso reunion tour. It’s a crisp, resinous anthem built on Rahr Pils, 2-Row, and Dextrin, supercharged with Chinook, Simcoe, and Amarillo, and sharpened by real spruce tips for that wild forest sting. The result rings with citrus and evergreen voltage — a pint that hums like feedback between the trees. A decade after sharing a vinyl with Fort George for Suicide Squeeze IPA, the band reunites not just on stage but in the glass.
Fort George Fresh Hop Mirrored Realities (2025)
7% ABV | Fresh Hop IPA
Mirrored Realities doesn’t pour so much as appear — a portal framed in foam. Fort George floods the hopback with 500 pounds of estate Comet, then braids in Waimea, Nelson Amplifier oil, Apollo extract, and Comet CGX until the pint hums with otherworldly charge. Grapefruit rind flashes against starfruit, diesel shimmer against meadowgrass, all balanced on crisp Pilsner malt and flaked wheat. The finish is radiant and ruthless at once — a West Coast IPA that peers back from the mirror and asks: how far are you willing to follow the glow?
Fort George Mosaic Architect Fresh Hop IPA
7% ABV | Fresh Hop IPA
Mosaic Architect is Fort George’s annual cathedral to its namesake hop — geometry rendered in green. Fresh Mosaic from Goschie Farms intertwines with its cryo twin, every sip an illuminated panel of blueberry haze, mango beam, and tangerine glass edged with chlorophyll. The malt base is nearly invisible, scaffolding built only to hold the light. It doesn’t just taste; it unfolds — an IPA of impossible symmetry and bright reverence, a living blueprint drawn in color and hum.
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