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by Ron Swarner - Dec 16, 2025
Mashing-In News: Lowlander Opens, Vancouver Beer Hall
Mashing-In News: Lowlander Opens, Vancouver Beer Hall GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Tuesday,…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 15, 2025
Holiday Gift Emergency No. 8: Proctor Gingerbread House Competition at Columbia Bank + Double Gingerbread Cookies Scotch Ale
🚨 HOLIDAY GIFT EMERGENCY NO. 8: THE GINGERBREAD INFRASTRUCTURE ALERT Status: Seasonal but…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 15, 2025
Peaks & Pints Monday Peach Cider Flight
Peach season doesn’t fade — it mellows, deepens, learns how to linger. The…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 15, 2025
6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma: Dec. 15–21, 2025
6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma: Dec. 15–21, 2025 The week before…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 14, 2025
Firestone Walker Holiday Hang at Peaks & Pints
Firestone Walker Holiday Hang at Peaks & Pints Founded in 1996 along California’s…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 13, 2025
Peaks & Pints Flight of Nutcrackers
It wouldn’t be December without a “Peanuts” special humming from the television, a…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 12, 2025
Peaks & Pints New Barleywine Six-Pack: 12.12.25
Peaks & Pints New Barleywine Six-Pack: 12.12.25 The holidays beg for slower rituals…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 12, 2025
Peaks & Pints 2025 St. Bernardus Abt 12 Day Flight
There’s a particular kind of Belgian mythmaking — a soft, amber radiance built…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 11, 2025
Peaks & Pints pFrieming Beer Flight
pFriem Family Brewers wasn’t born so much as engineered into being — a…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 11, 2025
Mashing-In News: pFriem Christmas, Why Galaxy Hops Changed
Mashing-In News: pFriem Christmas, Why Galaxy Hops Changed GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND!…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 10, 2025
Holiday Gift Emergency No. 7: Daughter-Turning-Wednesday Crisis — Chalet Bowl + Great Notion Wednesday Milk Stout
🚨 HOLIDAY GIFT EMERGENCY NO. 7: DAUGHTER-IS-TURNING-WEDNESDAY CRISIS Status: Active Location: North Tacoma…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 10, 2025
Peaks & Pints National Lager Day Six-Pack
Peaks & Pints National Lager Day Six-Pack Some beer holidays whisper, but National…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 10, 2025
Peaks & Pints Cerebral Beer Flight
Cerebral Brewing didn’t so much open in Denver as quietly detonate there, sending…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 9, 2025
Peaks & Pints Hunt Middle School Ski Bus Flight
Peaks & Pints leaned toward skiing long before we could legally lean toward…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 9, 2025
Mashing-In News: Ghostfish Buys Pike Facility, Steinbart Homebrew Closes
Mashing-In News: Ghostfish Buys Pike Facility, Steinbart Homebrew Closes GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 8, 2025
Holiday Gift Emergency No. 6: Gardensphere Trees + Gigantic “Cat Ate My Stash” IPA at Peaks & Pints
🚨 HOLIDAY GIFT EMERGENCY NO. 6: THE TREE & WREATH PANIC Status: Escalating…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 8, 2025
6-Pack of Things To do in Tacoma: Dec. 8-14 2025
6-Pack of Things To do in Tacoma: Dec. 8-14, 2025 This second week…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 8, 2025
Peaks & Pints Crimson Winter Cider Flight
Winter may dull the daylight, but it never mutes the reds — those…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 7, 2025
Holiday Gift Emergency No. 5: Yiayia & Friends at Good Luck Shop + Scuttlebutt 10° Below Ale at Peaks & Pints
🚨 HOLIDAY GIFT EMERGENCY NO. 5: THE WHIMSICALITY SHORTFALL Status: Intensifying Location: Good…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 7, 2025
Proctor & Pints Gift Emergency Broadcasting System
Proctor & Pints Gift Emergency Broadcasting System Holiday instability has been detected in…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 7, 2025
Fancy Pants Sunday: Oude Geuze De Cam
Fancy Pants Sunday: Oude Geuze De Cam Welcome to Fancy Pants Sunday, Peaks…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 7, 2025
Peaks & Pints Holiday IPA Flight
Winter may dress itself in evergreen solemnity, but today’s Peaks & Pints Holiday…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 6, 2025
Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack 12.6.25
Some December days tiptoe in quietly, but today’s New Beer Six-Pack barrels through…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 6, 2025
Peaks & Pints Superstition Berry White Day Flight
Once a year the mead cosmos tilts, the fruit constellations realign, and the…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 5, 2025
Peaks & Pints Pure Project Friday Flight
Pure Project doesn’t brew beer so much as conjure it — coaxing fruit,…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 5, 2025
Mashing-In News: Beer Questions, Berry White Day
Mashing-In News: Beer Questions, Berry White Day GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Friday,…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 4, 2025
Peaks & Pints 10th Anniversary Berry White Day Dec. 6
There are days in the global drinking calendar when the universe briefly snaps…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 4, 2025
Holiday Gift Emergency No. 4: Chrystale Files Art at Proctor Art Gallery + Obec Christmas Lager at Peaks & Pints
🚨 HOLIDAY GIFT EMERGENCY NO. 4: THE TRANQUILITY SHORTAGE EVENT Status: Gentle but…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 4, 2025
Peaks & Pints No Boat Beer Flight
No Boat Brewing didn’t merely occupy a Snoqualmie warehouse and call it a…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 3, 2025
Holiday Gift Emergency No. 3: The Cookie from Met Market + Omnipollo Banana Cookie Kooks at Peaks & Pints
🚨 HOLIDAY GIFT EMERGENCY NO. 3: THE COOKIE COLLAPSE Status: Alarming Location: Metropolitan…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 3, 2025
Peaks & Pints Speedway Grand Prix 2025 Flight
Long before pastry stouts were crowned the sugar-dusted royalty of winter, AleSmith Brewing…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 3, 2025
Mashing-In News: Legacy Breweries, CBC 2026
Mashing-In News: Legacy Breweries, CBC 2026 GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Wednesday, Dec.…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 2, 2025
Holiday Gift Emergency No. 2: Fleet Feet Proctor Running Socks + Fremont Winter Ale at Peaks & Pints
🚨 EMERGENCY NO. 2: THE THREADBARE SOCK CRISIS Status: Ongoing Location: Living rooms,…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 2, 2025
Peaks & Pints 2025 Hoppy Holiday Flight
There are beer parties, and then there is the Hoppy Holiday Food Drive…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 1, 2025
Holiday Gift Emergency No. 1: Secret Sips from Olympia Coffee + Wintering Stout at Peaks & Pints
THIS IS A FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE PROCTOR & PINTS GIFT EMERGENCY BROADCASTING…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 1, 2025
Peaks & Pints Monday Cranberry Cider Flight
Cranberries don’t whisper; they zing, flare, and detonate like tiny jeweled grenades tossed…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 1, 2025
6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma: Dec. 1-7 2025
This first full week of December doesn’t just arrive — it swoops into…
by Ron Swarner - Dec 1, 2025
Mashing-In News: Final Northwest Winter Beer Guide, Tide Land Stout
Mashing-In News: Final Northwest Winter Beer Guide, Tide Land Stout GOOD MORNING, SOUTH…
by Ron Swarner - Nov 30, 2025
Peaks & Pints Sunday Proctor Tree Lighting Flight
There’s a certain kind of magic only Tacoma's Proctor District can summon —…
by Ron Swarner - Nov 29, 2025
Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack 11.29.25
Some late-November Saturdays slip in with quiet intentions, but today’s New Beer Six-Pack…
by Ron Swarner - Nov 29, 2025
Peaks & Pints Tacoma Small Business Saturday Flight
There’s a different kind of charge to the Saturday after Thanksgiving — not…
by Ron Swarner - Nov 26, 2025
Peaks & Pints Chocolate Apocalypse Flight
There’s a point in late November when the daylight finally gives up, slips…
by Ron Swarner - Nov 25, 2025
Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack 11.25.25
Some days ease in quietly; this one crashes through with citrus snap, winter…
by Ron Swarner - Nov 25, 2025
Peaks & Pints Anti-Stout Dark Days Flight
There’s a strange, beautiful physics that happens when November finally exhales — when…
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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