There’s a certain gravitational clarity to Double Mountain Brewery & Cidery — that rare Pacific Northwest outfit that never needed hype or theatrics because the beer has always spoken for itself, usually in a voice sturdy enough to echo off the basalt walls of Hood River. Founded in 2007 by Charlie Devereux and Matt Swihart, Double Mountain began with a mission so straightforward it felt almost rebellious: brew with intention, patience, and a stubborn refusal to cut corners. Cherry orchards became kriek country. Hood River sunlight became the soft hum behind every glass. The brewery grew not by shouting but by quietly earning its reputation — pint by pint, bottle by bottle, year after steady year.
Recently, an old Tacoma friend slipped into that orbit: Donovan Stewart — longtime E9 Brewing assistant brewer, sales mind, and beloved South Sound beer whisperer — now serves as a sales executive for Double Mountain. The move feels cosmically right. Donovan, who thrives where precision meets soul, joined a brewery built on exactly those values. If you’ve ever sipped an E9 saison he touched or fallen into a conversation with him about hop selection, you already know this pairing was inevitable.
Which brings us to today’s Peaks & Pints Wednesday Double Mountain Flight — a midweek pilgrimage into the brewery’s multiverse of fruit-fermented sours, alpine-bright ales, winter-lit hoppy reds, and roasted comfort poured straight from Hood River’s beating heart. These five glasses trace the shape of Double Mountain’s soul: orchard funk, cellar echoes, mountain clarity, holiday mischief, and a porter that feels like a hand-warmed mug in a cold room.
Settle in. Sip slowly. Let Hood River whisper its truths.
Here’s today’s flight…
Peaks & Pints Wednesday Double Mountain Flight
Double Mountain Peche Mode (2022)
8.7% ABV | Sour Ale with Peaches
Peche Mode (2022) slides into view like a peach-scented synth line from some lost B-side — glowing orange-gold, humming with orchard warmth, and carrying the soft voltage of a beer that knows exactly how to haunt a palate. Hood River peaches and careful aging wash the flavor in tart radiance and ripe stone-fruit hush, as if someone bit into a perfect peach while whispering vintage secrets into your ear. Clean, gently acidic, and just sweet enough to make lesser fruit beers feel embarrassed, it showcases Double Mountain at their most graceful and fruit-driven.
Double Mountain Devil’s Kriek
9.2% ABV | Belgian-Style Sour Ale with Hood River Cherries
Devil’s Kriek doesn’t walk into the flight so much as drift through it — a ruby apparition built from more than seventy pounds of Hood River cherries per barrel and a year of patient fermentation. Raspberry flash, cherry pulp, a brush of Brett funk, and an undercurrent of soft oak rise from the glass like a cellar door closing behind you. The tartness snaps bright and immediate before settling into layers of red fruit, tannin, and wildness that invite leaning closer. Feral yet elegant, glowing rather than shouting, it turns a tasting paddle into a small altar and your palate into a believer.
Double Mountain Kölsch
5.2% ABV | Kölsch-Style Ale
Kölsch brings a different kind of beauty — the quiet, crystalline kind. Pilsner, Munich, and Wheat malts weave a soft warmth under apple-like esters, while Kölsch yeast keeps everything airy and honey-brushed. Sterling hops flicker with Meyer lemon and herbal brightness, leaving a clean, refreshing finish that feels like stepping into clear morning light. Amid bolder personalities, this is the calm center: unfiltered simplicity, perfectly balanced, needing only attention and stillness to reveal its charm.
Double Mountain Fa La La La La
7.5% ABV | Winter India Red Ale
Fa La La La La brings a more mischievous energy — like a caroler who spiked the punch, ditched the sheet music, and decided pine resin and citrus rind were the only harmonies worth keeping. Built on Pilsner and Crystal malt and blasted with Centennial and Warrior hops, it glows deep red and aromatic: evergreen sap, orange marmalade, honeycrisp warmth, a little festoon of herb trailing behind like runaway tinsel. Juicy pine and bright citrus ride a malt body whispering toffee and dinner roll before fading into an evergreen-citrus haze. Festive, unruly, perfect for a Wednesday pretending to be a holiday.
Double Mountain Hey Porter!
6.2% ABV | Robust Porter
Hey Porter! settles in with the easy warmth of someone who has mastered the late-afternoon ritual. Roasted malt, hazelnut glow, cocoa hush, and espresso-like depth drift from its garnet-black pour, creating a beer that feels like slipping into a well-worn leather chair. Dry, steady, quietly confident, it never performs — it simply comforts. In a flight full of wild edges and fruit-bright peaks, this porter is the grounding force: unfussy, soulful, and capable of making an entire table exhale in unison.
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