A Lantern shade of winter

More than 40 beers from more than 20 breweries are lined up for The Lantern Tap House ’s second annual Winter Beer Festival.

The heated outdoor tent is open from 4 to 10 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and noon to 10 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

Participating breweries include Alameda, Deschutes, Double Mountain, Elysian, Firestone Walker, Fort George, Full Sail, Hopworks, Iron Goat, Laurelwood, New Belgium, Ninkasi, No-Li, Paradise Creek, Pelican, pFriem, Port, Ramblin’ Road, River City, Sierra Nevada, Sockeye, Stone and Twelve String.

Beer selections will change daily in the tent, and at the bar inside. Highlights include 2012 vintages of Hopworks’ Abominable winter ale (Thursday-Friday) and Noggin Floggin barleywine (Saturday-Sunday); Iron Goat’s whiskey barrel-aged Goatnik imperial stout (Saturday-Sunday); the imperial version of Ninkasi’s Sleigh’r (Thursday-Friday); pFriem’s 2013 Christmas ale, a Belgian strong dark (Thursday-Sunday); and a cask of River City stout aged over whiskey-soaked oat chips (Saturday).

For $15, you get a commemorative 12-ounce tasting glass and five drink tokens (a 4-ounce pour costs two tokens; 10 ounces is four or five tokens, depending on the beer). Additional tokens will be available for purchase ($1 each), along with food baskets and snacks.

Music also is on the menu inside the Lantern, with DJ Lydell on Thursday starting at 9 p.m.; Seattle rockers Cloud Person on Friday at 10; local folkie Duke Hogue and rock/Americana stylists Marshall McLean Band on Saturday at 10; and the Celtic sounds of Floating Crowbar rounding things out on Sunday at 8.

And for some exercise, you can see how slow you can pedal a bike (provided) down a 20-foot track in the New Belgium Slow Track Bike Challenge on Saturday from noon to 3 p.m. Prizes will be awarded for the slowest times, and $1 from every 10-ounce or larger New Belgium beer purchased will go to Pedals2People , a local nonprofit that promotes cycling.