Drinking up winter

The Lantern Tap House is changing things up a bit for its third annual Winter Beer Fest .

Starting tomorrow, the heated outdoor tent will be open for three days, each featuring a dozen breweries: from Washington on Thursday, Oregon on Friday and the rest of the West (Idaho, Montana, California, Colorado and Utah) on Sunday. Festival-goers will be able to vote for their favorite each day.

Tent hours are 4 to 10 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, and 2 to 10 on Saturday. There will be music in the tent on Thursday (Andy Rumsey) and Friday (DJ Lydell) from 7 to 9, with the Marshall McLean Band playing inside the Lantern on Saturday starting at 9.

Admission is $15, which includes a commemorative tasting glass and five tokens; you get a 4-ounce pour for two tokens, or 10 ounces for five (extra tokens are $1 each). The glass is good for all three days, so you only have to buy more tokens after your first day.

You need a glass to get beer in the tent, and they tend to sell out before the weekend is over, so don’t wait too long. Pick one up in advance at tonight’s pre-party from 6 to 9 p.m. and get happy hour pricing on all beers at the inside bar.

While several traditional winter warmers will be on tap through the weekend, your choices will extend well beyond that, from stouts and sours to barleywines and bocks. Here’s the lineup (ABV/IBU in parentheses):

THURSDAY

Bale Breaker – High Camp Winter Warmer (7.3, 84)

Black Raven – Grandfather Raven Imperial Stout (9.5, 70)

Fremont – Bourbon Barrel Abominable Winter Ale (aka B-Bomb, 14, 65)

Georgetown – Elderfrost Winter Ale (8, 50)

Hale’s – El Dazzle Winter Stout (6.3, 35)

Iron Goat – Wind Apocalypse Belgian Dark, specially brewed for the festival (9.8, 39)

No-Li – Wrecking Ball Imperial Stout aged in Dry Fly wheat whiskey barrels over ancho chilies (9.5, 100)

Paradise Creek – Belgian Blood Orange Chocolate Stout (8, 20)

Perry Street – 2014 Barley Wine aged on organic cherries (10.2, 110)

River City – 2014 Doppelbock (8.3, 33)

Schooner Exact – Hoppy the Woodsman Winter Ale (7.5, 52)

Twelve String – Twelve Strings of Winter (7.5, 65)

FRIDAY

Beer Valley – Frozen Cones Winter Ale (7.5, 65)

Breakside – La Tormenta Dry-Hopped Sour (7, 22)

Crux Fermentation Project – Snow Cave Winter Ale (11, 20)

Deschutes – Super Jubel barrel-aged strong ale (10.4, 55)

Double Mountain – 2014 Chaos Reigns Imperial Stout (10.6, 100-plus)

Ecliptic – Frosty Leo Winter Ale (first keg released in Washington, 8.2, 65)

Fort George – Magnanimous Winter IPA (7, 70)

Hopworks Urban Brewery – 2014 Kronan the Barbarian Baltic Porter (9.2, 25)

Laurelwood – 2014 barrel-aged Bourbon St. Wencelas Doppelbock (9.3, 45)

Ninkasi – 2014 Imperial Sleigh’r Dark Double Alt (9, 70)

Pelican – Bad Santa Cascadian Dark Ale (7.5, 65)

SATURDAY

Big Sky – Ivan the Terrible Imperial Stout (9.5, 39)

Epic – Big Bad Baptist Imperial Stout (12.3, 60)

Firestone Walker – Velvet Merkin Bourbon Barrel Oatmeal Stout (8.5, 33)

Grand Teton – Whiskey Barrel Black Cauldron Imperial Stout (10.3, 47)

Great Divide – 2013 Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout (9.5, 75)

Lagunitas – Brown Shugga Strong Ale (9.9, 51)

New Belgium – Lips of Faith Blackberry Barley Wine (10, 50)

Payette – 12 Gauge Imperial Stout (10, 23)

Sierra Nevada – Narwahl Imperial Stout (10.2, 60)

Sockeye – 2013 Old Devil’s Tooth Barley Wine (11.6, 85)

Stone – 2013 Suede Imperial Porter collaboration with 10 Barrel and Bluejacket (brewed with calendula flowers, jasmine and honey, 9.6, 50)

Trickster’s – Soul Warmer Winter Porter (6.5, 35)