There are breweries, and then there are brewing ecosystems — strange, brilliant gravitational fields where the country’s most fearless beer-makers orbit, collide, and occasionally detonate into something transcendent. The Twelve Percent Beer Project is firmly the latter. Born in New Haven as both production house and distribution brainstem, it quickly evolved into an unlikely cathedral for America’s nomadic brewers: Van Ewing, Abomination, Evil Twin (via North Haven), Fat Orange Cat, Hoof Hearted, Tox, Little House, Omnipollo when the mood strikes — a traveling circus of alchemists who needed stainless, support, and a stage big enough to unleash their most unreasonably ambitious ideas. Instead of taming them, Twelve Percent handed them fermenters, encouragement, and a wink that basically meant: go ahead, blow the doors off.
What emerged is less a brewery and more a creative commune with floor drains. Triple IPAs rise beside imperial stouts thick enough to block out the sun; gingerbread ales get folded into existence like runaway holiday miracles; hop-saturated beasts loop endlessly through dry-hopping cycles that would make lesser mortals faint. Every tank seems to hum with shared rebellion. This is what happens when you gather brewers renowned for ignoring restraint and tell them, “Yes. More. Stranger. Keep going.”
Which brings us to today’s lineup — a five-beer fever dream that captures the Twelve Percent philosophy in full technicolor. Here is haze as gospel, fruit as weapon, spice as incantation, hops as séance, and darkness as scripture. From Van Ewing’s citric sermon to Hoof Hearted’s neon delirium, from Little House’s cookie-spiced mischief to Tox’s spectral juice-bomb and Evil Twin’s iconic night-black benediction, this flight does not whisper or wait politely. It arrives smiling, overloaded, and gloriously unreasonable — exactly as Twelve Percent intended.
Here’s the gospel. …
Peaks & Pints Twelve Percent Beer Project Flight
Van Ewing Can I Get a Witness?
10% ABV | Triple Hazy IPA | New Haven, CT
Van Ewing’s Can I Get a Witness? strides into the flight like a preacher who traded the pulpit for a nebula of Freestyle hops and decided salvation should taste like citrus-soaked velvet. Brewed under the wonderfully unhinged umbrella of the Twelve Percent Beer Project, this triple hazy IPA glows gold and fragrant, swirling with Nelson and El Dorado flashes — lemon zest, white-grape hush, peach fuzz, a grassy halo — all drifting over a pillowy body that drinks far too smooth for its celestial ABV. Soft bitterness murmurs beneath the glow, as if to remind you enlightenment can be juicy, radiant, and just a little dangerous. This isn’t haze asking for a witness; it creates one with every sip.
Hoof Hearted The Astro Turf of Hair
10% ABV | Triple Hazy IPA | Marengo, OH
From Hoof Hearted Brewing comes The Astro Turf of Hair, a neon fever dream in triple-hazy form — sunglasses on, subtlety off. Their riot of New Zealand hops (Nectaron, Riwaka, Kohatu) detonates into mango brightness, passionfruit crush, peach-fuzz static, and a sly herbal zap that tilts the room just enough to make you grin. The mouthfeel is lush but strangely weightless, floating in its own soft, gold-lit haze while the ABV quietly sharpens its claws. Beneath the fruit-glow is a whisper of bitterness that taps your shoulder to say, very gently, “Maybe slow down.” Wild, luminous, gleefully excessive — a beer that saunters into the Twelve Percent lineup and immediately asks who wants to get weird.
Little House Double Gingerbread Cookies
10% ABV | Imperial Scotch Ale w/ Gingerbread Cookies, Ginger, Vanilla & Cinnamon | Higganum, CT
Double Gingerbread Cookies from Little House Brewing arrives with the attitude of December’s most mischievous houseguest — boots dripping snow, tin of cookies in hand, ready to perfume the whole room in holiday warmth. A Twelve Percent collaboration through and through, it folds actual gingerbread cookies, fresh ginger, vanilla, and cinnamon into a malty Scotch-ale base until it drinks like a dessert that wandered out of the kitchen and into a bourbon-scented dream. Aromas sway between cookie-tin spice and caramel glow; the sip is thick, indulgent, and deeply comforting, rolling with toffee, sugared ginger heat, and a velvety finish that feels like sinking into a warm blanket. Festive decadence doubled — memory, mischief, and miracle in one pour.
Tox Brewing Poltergeist
10% ABV | Triple New England Hazy IPA | Brewed by Twelve Percent Beer Project | New Haven, CT
Poltergeist from Tox Brewing Co. doesn’t enter so much as drift — a spectral triple hazy, straw-yellow and deceptively innocent, brewed by Twelve Percent as a mash-up of the brewery’s Digitox and Double Apparition. Lemon zest and mango lead the haunting, followed by orange pulp, overripe peach, pineapple, and that unmistakable white-grape Nelson shimmer. Galaxy, Citra, Nelson Sauvin, and Mosaic swirl through a silky body that hides its ABV like a ghost under a bedsheet. Smooth, saturated, and hauntingly persuasive, Poltergeist taps the glass from inside and dares you to follow it deeper — not for the timid, perfect for the thrill-seeker.
Evil Twin Even More Jesus
12% ABV | Imperial Stout | Queens, NY (via Twelve Percent Beer Project, North Haven, CT)
Evil Twin’s Even More Jesus was born from founder Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø’s infamous email exasperation (“Jesus… even more Jesus”) and instantly became scripture. What pours out is thick as midnight syrup, laced with chocolate ganache, roasted coffee, bruised plum, and muscovado shadow. It moves slowly, richly, coating the glass like a blessing you suspect you may not deserve. The finish lingers in dark velvet layers, unconcerned with your earthly limitations. Among the Twelve Percent pantheon, this stout sits near the altar — volcanic, reverent, and impossibly indulgent.
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