By dusk, Proctor’s heartbeat turns pumpkin-orange. The Tacoma Halloween Parade returns — bigger, louder, and gloriously unhinged. Between 26th and 28th, ghosts waltz with toddlers, skeletons syncopate with street drummers, and the air hums like a cauldron about to boil over. Sidewalks blur between costume and chaos; even the pumpkins look nervous.
Out front, Peaks & Pints answers the call of the weird with Scary Good — a flight for the wicked, the playful, and the faintly possessed. These aren’t beers for the timid; they’re liquid mischief: black as spells, red as sin, tart as midnight laughter. A toast to Tacoma’s collective howl — to witches, werewolves, and everyone still dancing under streetlights long after curfew. Grab a pour before the parade passes, then join the madness outside our door.
Peaks & Pints Tacoma Halloween Parade Flight
Rogue Ales Dead Guy Ale (OG Maibock)
6.8% ABV | Maibock-Inspired Ale | Newport, OR
Rogue Ales‘ Dead Guy didn’t start as a brand — it began as a toast. First poured for a 1990 Day-of-the-Dead party at a Portland Tex-Mex joint, its barrel-perched skeleton outlived the fiesta and became Oregon’s most recognizable ghost. Technically an ale, spiritually a Maibock, it drinks like malt’s greatest hits under candlelight: honeyed bread crust, toffee flicker, and a faint herbal breath of Perle hops. Pacman yeast keeps it dry and saintly — crisp enough for spring, sturdy enough for October. Oregon heritage in a pint; the beer that taught a generation that malt can smolder and even skeletons can have impeccable taste.
Mason Ale Works Bride of Dankenstein
7% ABV | West Coast IPA | San Marcos, CA
If Dankenstein’s Monster below is the roar, Bride of Dankenstein is the gasp that follows — equally alive, equally dangerous, but dressed in perfume and thunder. Mason Ale Works brews this as the sharper twin: a lean 7 percent West Coast built on voltage and vengeance. Pine resin and citrus oil coil through mango brightness and grapefruit bite, the bitterness clean as a lightning scar. It glows gold, humming with beauty right before the switch is thrown. The Bride doesn’t play second — she’s the storm reborn, proof that love and hops can both kill and resurrect.
Mason Ale Works Nightmare Juice
8% ABV | Hazy Double IPA | San Marcos, CA
Nightmare Juice drifts from the haze like a lucid dream gone deliciously wrong — pillow-soft terror dripping in mango, citrus, and neon fruit static. Mason Ale Works conjures this with double Mosaic and a séance’s worth of tropical voltage. It smells like candy and fog, tastes like orange creamsicle and blueberry flash before a pine-shadow bite reminds you the dream has teeth. It’s silk and chaos, the perfect potion for nights when Proctor Street glows and every pint feels one scream from ecstasy.
Mason Ale Works Dankenstein’s Monster
9.3% ABV | Unfiltered Double IPA | San Marcos, CA
Born under a full moon and probably to the hum of arcing wire, Dankenstein’s Monster is Mason’s hop experiment gone magnificently rogue. A sticky, resinous colossus stitched from Cascade, Chinook, Centennial, CTZ, and Simcoe, it bursts with pine sap, grapefruit pith, and faint diesel hum. Beneath it all, 2-Row and Golden Promise malt hold steady like scarred sinew, letting the bitterness snarl without collapse. At 9.3 percent, it doesn’t tiptoe — it stomps, leaving bootprints of citrus and static across your palate. A resurrection of everything wild and electric about the West Coast double, still crackling long after the glass is gone.
Abomination Trick or Treat Imperial Pumpkin Stout
14% ABV | Imperial Pumpkin Stout | North Haven, CT
Abomination Brewing doesn’t brew pumpkin beer — they conjure it. Trick or Treat is a haunted sermon in liquid black: roasted pumpkin caramelized to ash, cacao smoke curling through cinnamon, nutmeg, and ghosted vanilla. It hits the glass like a séance — thick, dark, whispering of chocolate syrup and sinful pie crust. The first sip casts a warm, spiced hex: velvety sweetness, bourbon-like heat, a teasing flick of allspice. At 14 percent, it’s decadent and dangerously smooth — the beer that tricks your tongue, treats your soul, and leaves you wondering whether the candle flickered… or winked.
LINK: Peaks & Pints beer and cider cooler inventory
