Some stories whirl in on broomsticks, some ride in on bubble-light, and some — the good ones — arrive cloaked in improbable emerald glow and a morally complicated friendship. Wicked For Good opens at the Blue Mouse Theatre today, a return to Oz told through the cracked mirror of the so-called “wicked” witch and her glitter-drenched, morally smug foil. It’s the story you think you know, except sharper, funnier, sadder, and infinitely more interested in the tender, stubborn places where two strange girls hold each other up against a world that has absolutely no idea what to do with them. Flying, falling, defying inevitability — all of it wrapped in that soaring Broadway thrum and the kind of heart-tugging spectacle that leaves you blinking hard as the lights rise.
And the best part? The Blue Mouse is so close to Peaks & Pints it might as well be the theater’s backstage exit — a mere 30 broom-lengths from our front door. Which means today’s Great Notion beer flight can serve as your pre-funk courage, your post-funk teary-eyed debrief, or both if you’re feeling properly theatrical. You can wander into the world’s tiniest movie palace with blueberry muffin aromatics still clinging to your scarf, or you can stumble out afterward and let a tropical IPA remind you your heart is still (mostly) intact.
So in honor of witches who refuse to behave, friendships that outshine prophecy, and the simple fact that nothing pairs with musical catharsis quite like Great Notion’s fruit-soaked sorcery, we’ve assembled a lineup designed for pure Oz-adoring indulgence. These are beers that shimmer, crackle, brood, and belt — a flight stitched together like a spell cast by someone who wants you to feel everything.
Follow the hop-lit yellow brick road. Step into the flight. And maybe let yourself be changed… for good.
Peaks & Pints Wicked For Good Great Notion Beer Flight
Great Notion Blueberry Muffin
6% ABV | Sour Ale w/ Blueberries
The glass arrives smelling like someone enchanted a bakery at dawn — warm crumble, tart blueberries, a little steam still rising from imaginary oven doors. Great Notion has a way of turning nostalgia into liquid mischief, and this one hits like a spell you didn’t expect: bright acidity swirling around jammy fruit, a soft vanilla crumble echo humming underneath. The whole sip feels like biting into a storybook pastry stolen from a witch’s windowsill — sweet, sour, innocent, guilty, a little impossible. If Wicked had an aroma, it’d be this: childhood temptation dressed up in purple.
Great Notion Candyman
6% ABV | Fruited Sour w/ Cotton Candy & Berries
A pastel carnival of aroma rises instantly — spun sugar, berry fizz, a faint electric shimmer that feels a little like magic and a little like trouble. Great Notion’s confectionary instincts play out in waves: tart fruit, soft sweetness, a cotton-candy whisper that dissolves on the tongue like a disappearing act. It’s joyful, dramatic, unapologetically whimsical — the Technicolor burst right before intermission, the moment in Wicked when glitter and heartbreak collide. This is dessert as spellcraft, illusion as flavor.
Great Notion Unbalanced Breakfast
7.7% ABV | Fruited Sour w/ Blueberry, Coffee, Maple
The first swirl is pure chaos — blueberry burst, diner coffee steam, maple syrup haze — a breakfast scene remixed by a mischievous sorcerer. Great Notion leans fully into the absurdity, layering tart berry brightness over savory roast and sticky sweetness in a way that should not work but absolutely does. It lands like a narrative twist you did not see coming: bold, weird, funny, enchanting, and surprisingly cohesive. A little sweet, a little sour, a little bitter — the full emotional arc of Act II, bottled.
Great Notion Army of Dankness
7.2% ABV | West Coast IPA
A piny, resin-soaked gust hits first — like someone just opened a backstage door straight into an enchanted forest. Citrus pith snaps forward next, followed by a dank herbaceous wave that feels like the IPA version of a sly grin from a character with questionable alliances. Crisp, bright bitterness keeps everything sharp and theatrical, the kind of West Coast IPA that strides confidently into the spotlight and absolutely refuses to play a minor role. If any beer in the flight is ready to sing about moral ambiguity, it’s this one.
Great Notion Double Stack
11% ABV | Imperial Breakfast Stout w/ Maple Coffee
Warm pancake steam, campfire coffee, and maple syrup swagger rise from the glass like a breakfast spell gone delightfully rogue. Great Notion layers roasted malts, espresso bite, and sticky maple sweetness until the beer drips with over-the-top decadence, the kind that makes you write unplanned sonnets in the margins of your Playbill. Thick without apology, sweet without shame, it drinks like a potion brewed in Elphaba’s cauldron on a particularly indulgent morning — dark, velvety, enchanting, and entirely too charming to trust.
LINK: Peaks & Pints beer and cider cooler inventory
