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by Ron Swarner - Sep 7, 2025
Peaks & Pints Sunday pFriem Fruited Lambic-Style Flight with Kandi
Peaks & Pints doesn’t host concerts, but when we do, they're an orchestrated…
by Ron Swarner - Sep 6, 2025
Peaks & Pints New Fresh Hoptoberfest Beer Six-Pack: 9.6.25
Peaks & Pints New Fresh Hoptoberfest Beer Six-Pack: 9.6.25 Saturday’s New Beer Six-Pack…
by Ron Swarner - Sep 6, 2025
Peaks & Pints Saturday Bottle Logic Flight
Bottle Logic Brewing has never brewed politely. Since 2013, the Anaheim crew has…
by Ron Swarner - Sep 5, 2025
Peaks & Pints Fresh Hop Friday Flight: 9.5.25
Every September, the Pacific Northwest forgets how to breathe politely. The air smells…
by Ron Swarner - Sep 5, 2025
Mashing-In News: Homebrew & Fresh Hop Competition Seasons
Mashing-In News: Homebrew & Fresh Hop Competition Seasons GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND!…
by Ron Swarner - Sep 4, 2025
Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack Thursday Sept. 4
Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack Thursday, Sept. 4 Today’s New Beer Six-Pack…
by Ron Swarner - Sep 4, 2025
Peaks & Pints Nature Conservancy Flight
There are beer fundraisers, and then there are beer fundraisers in costume wings,…
by Ron Swarner - Sep 4, 2025
Mashing-In News: Seattle Fresh Hop Fest, Vice Beer 3.0
Mashing-In News: Seattle Fresh Hop Fest, Vice Beer 3.0 GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET…
by Ron Swarner - Sep 3, 2025
Peaks & Pints Back-To-School Flight
Every September, Tacoma wakes to the clang of school bells, and today it’s…
by Ron Swarner - Sep 3, 2025
Mashing-In News: Grit & Grain Double Episode, Final Rare Beer
Mashing-In News: Grit & Grain Double Episode, Final Rare Beer GOOD MORNING, SOUTH…
by Ron Swarner - Sep 2, 2025
Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025
Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025 Today’s New Beer…
by Ron Swarner - Sep 2, 2025
Peaks & Pints Trappistes Rochefort Flight
Labor Day is done, the grills are cold, the fireworks ash, the workweek…
by Ron Swarner - Sep 2, 2025
Mashing-In News: Ezra Meeker Hop Museum Beer, Untappd Mania
Mashing-In News: Ezra Meeker Hop Museum Beer, Untappd Mania GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET…
by Ron Swarner - Sep 1, 2025
Peaks & Pints Fresh Hoptoberfest Flight
Every September, Tacoma becomes a strange kind of altar — not to school…
by Ron Swarner - Sep 1, 2025
6-Pack of Things To Do In Tacoma: Sept. 1-7 2025
6-Pack of Things To Do In Tacoma: Sept. 1-7 2025 Because this week…
by Ron Swarner - Sep 1, 2025
Mashing-In News: Fresh Hoptoberfest, Outer Planet To Close
Mashing-In News: Fresh Hoptoberfest, Outer Planet To Close GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND!…
by Ron Swarner - Sep 1, 2025
Peaks & Pints Fresh Hoptoberfest: The Ninth Pour
Peaks & Pints Fresh Hoptoberfest: The Ninth Pour And lo, the saga continues.…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 31, 2025
Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Sunday, August 31, 2025
Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Sunday, August 31, 2025 Today’s New Beer…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 31, 2025
Peaks & Pints Proctor Pumpkin Pandemonium Flight
Every October, Proctor forgets its tidy porch-light manners and detonates into a pumpkin…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 31, 2025
Proctor Pumpkin Pandemonium
Proctor Pumpkin Pandemonium Every October, Proctor becomes a kind of living pumpkin patch.…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 30, 2025
Tacoma Silent Trees: Kwanzan Cherry Tree Speaks on North Eighth
Tacoma Silent Trees: Kwanzan Cherry Tree Speaks on North Eighth "I have watched…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 30, 2025
Peaks & Pints Flight To Bellingham
Bellingham doesn’t just sit quietly at the top of the map; it hums,…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 29, 2025
Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Friday, Aug. 29
Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Friday, Aug. 29 Today’s New Beer Six-Pack…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 29, 2025
Peaks & Pints Flight To Phoenix
August 29 isn’t just another date on the slow-burn desert calendar — it’s…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 29, 2025
Mashing-In News: Drink Beer For Science, Hops For Habitat
Mashing-In News: Drink Beer For Science, Hops For Habitat GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 28, 2025
Hops For Habitat: Drinking For Conservation Returns to Peaks & Pints
Hops For Habitat: Drinking For Conservation Returns to Peaks & Pints There are…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 28, 2025
Peaks & Pints Garden Beer Trivia Flight
Thursday, August 28, the W.W. Seymour Conservatory stops being just a botanical jewelbox…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 28, 2025
Mashing-In News: Top 10 Sports Bra, New NA IPA With a Cause
Mashing-In News: Top 10 Sports Bra, New NA IPA With a Cause GOOD…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 27, 2025
Peaks & Pints San Diego Beer Flight
San Diego didn’t just join the craft beer revolution — it lit the…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 27, 2025
Mashing-In News: Tacoma Beer Changes, Colleges brew
Mashing-In News: Dr. Pat passes, Tacoma beer news GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND!…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 26, 2025
Peaks & Pints Tuesday Dolcita Hop Flight
Hops are usually patient creatures, coaxed and crossbred for a decade or more…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 26, 2025
Mashing-In News: Gordon Bowker Dies, Alchemy Cider Opens
Mashing-In News: Gordon Bowker Dies, Alchemy Cider Opens GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND!…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 25, 2025
Peaks & Pints Monday Finnriver Cider Flight
Let’s kick off your Monday with Finnriver Farm & Cidery — a cidery…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 25, 2025
Washington Trails & Taps Weekly Recap: August 18–24, 2025
Washington Trails & Taps Weekly Recap: August 18–24, 2025 Late-summer rhythms continue to…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 25, 2025
Mashing-In News: Fresh Hop Season, Midwest IPA
Mashing-In News: Fresh Hop Season, Midwest IPA GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Monday,…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 24, 2025
Night Pint: Six Strings and Seven Percent — A Sacred Pour
Blues Vespers, hosted by Pastors Dave Brown and Dave Wright Tonight, Blues Vespers…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 24, 2025
Peaks & Pints Sunday Jester King Flight
Some breweries build stainless temples; Jester King Brewery built a farm. A real…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 23, 2025
Peaks & Pints Great Notion Beer Flight
Great Notion is the brewery that looked at Portland’s damp evergreen skyline and…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 22, 2025
Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: August 22, 2025
Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: August 22, 2025 Today’s New Beer Six-Pack…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 22, 2025
Peaks & Pints Secret Tacoma E9 Flight
Chris Staudinger has finally cracked open Tacoma’s vault with Secret Tacoma, his mischievous…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 22, 2025
Mashing-In News: Viking Beer Fest, Beer & Blues
Mashing-In News: Viking Beer Fest, Beer & Blues GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND!…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 21, 2025
Peaks & Pints Omnipollo Barrel-Aged Pastry Stouts Flight
Once upon a Stockholm whim, brewer Henok Fentie and artist Karl Grandin decided…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 21, 2025
Mashing-In News: Oktoberfest Northwest Turns 20, Burke-Gilman Brewing Turns 7
Mashing-In News: Oktoberfest Northwest Turns 20, Burke-Gilman Brewing Turns 7 GOOD MORNING, SOUTH…
by Ron Swarner - Aug 20, 2025
Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: August 20
Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: August 20 Today’s New Beer Six-Pack is…
Hoppy Holiday Food Drive 2021 a success
[caption id="attachment_38893" align="aligncenter" width="1400"] Odd Otter Brewing brought in the most food for the Emergency…
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