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Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 3.25.23

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Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 3.25.23 Happy dreary Saturday, peeps! Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 3.25.23 has just the thing for your rainy day blues over here in Tacoma’s Proctor District. … Lucky Envelope Brewing Schwarzbier Black Pilsner: Simple yet complex dark larger that drinks like a crisp clean Pilsner with notes of smooth dark chocolate and balanced with a floral noble hop bitterness, 5% Lumberbeard Brewing Hops In Here: Easy drinking hazy IPA brewed with El Dorado, Bru-1 and Galaxy hops for notes of mango and kiwi, 6.4% Old Schoolhouse Brewery Blazing Barrels: Imperial stout

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 3.22.23

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 3.22.23 Happy Wednesday, peoples! Check out Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 3.22.23. Lots of goodies in this batch. … Breakside Brewery White: Modern witbier brewed with light touches of spices and a restrained-but-characterful yeast for subtle notes of coriander, subtle citrus from the use of bitter orange and sweet tangerine, subtle herbaceous hop notes, subtle wheatiness, and subtle notes of lemon, pear, and pepper from the yeast, 5.2% Double Mountain Brewery Sweet Jane: IPA with tropical fruit and pine notes, 7% Ex Novo Brewing Eliot IPA Brewers’ Edition 2023: Northwest-style IPA

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Speedway On the Fly

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Founded with a passion and respect for brewing in 1995, AleSmith Brewing continues to be recognized as one of the world’s foremost craft breweries on the strength of numerous awards garnered at prestigious local, national, and international competitions. Consistently ranked in the World’s Top Ten list on the consumer generated website www.ratebeer.com, AleSmith is currently ranked #9 out of 33,000+ breweries worldwide, thanks mostly to their imperial coffee stout, Speedway. For those unfamiliar with AleSmith’s original Speedway Stout, it is best characterized by dominant chocolate and roasted malts supported by notes of dark fruit, toffee, and caramel. A healthy dose

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Double Mountain 16th Anniversary Party recap

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Double Mountain owner Matt Swihart enjoys his 16th Anniversary Party. Double Mountain 16th Anniversary Party recap Every St. Patrick’s Day weekend beer lovers from across the Pacific Northwest head to the windsurfing capital of the world for a celebration of epic proportions — Double Mountain Brewery & Cidery’s annual Anniversary Block Party. At least, until COVID showed up. After three long years, Double Mountain celebrated their 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th anniversary block party Saturday, March 18 at their founding brewery in Hood River, Oregon. Prior to the pandemic the Double Mountain anniversary was legendary, with

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Anchorage Barleywine Flight

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Gabe Fletcher, the head honcho at Anchorage Brewing, started his career at Midnight Sun, another Alaskan brewing company. After 13 years of helping cultivate an image of creating adventurous beers, Fletcher decided to part ways with Midnight Sun and strike out on his own. In 2011, Fletcher released his first Anchorage beer. Turns out Fletcher’s meticulous attention to detail and brewing expertise combined to make some amazing beer. The brewery took off, eventually moving to its own brick and mortar in 2014. Today, Peaks & Pints has received Anchorage’s A Deal with The Devil barleywine — one of the highest rated

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6-Pack of Things To Do: March 17-20 2023

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The Rusty Cleavers will perform at Doyle’s St. Patrick’s Day Party Friday, March 17. 6-Pack of Things To Do: March 17-20 2023 The weekend is here so we assembled some exciting events in the greater Tacoma area including a massive party celebrating the guy who drove the snakes out of Ireland. BEER FLIGHT: OK, you might be a tad skeptical about Peaks & Pints’ Irish credibility, given the telling nature of our environment, beer list, cooler inventory, kitchen menu, and most the staff’s last names (hi Peaks bartender Matthew Sullivan!). Yet, we’ve tried black pudding, we

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Peaks and Pint Pilot Program: St. Patrick’s Day Beer Flight

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“What the hell does Peaks & Pints know about St. Patrick’s Day?” OK, you might be a tad skeptical about our Irish credibility, given the telling nature of our environment, beer list, cooler inventory, kitchen menu, and most the staff’s last names (Hi bartender Matthew Sullivan!). Yet, we’ve tried black pudding, we have participated in the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade and heard the story of the Blarney Stone. And we’ve even sung some misty-eyed renditions of “Danny Boy” before being tossed out on the sidewalk. While Peaks & Pints may not have Irish blood coursing through our

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Everybody’s Rebrand Beer Flight

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Christine and Doug Ellenberger opened Everybody’s Brewing in 2008 after years of planning the craft brewery when they weren’t working their shifts at Full Sail Brewing Company directly across the Columbia River. Doug’s 20-plus years brewing and Christine’s years in the restaurant industry melded into a popular brewpub with a killer view of Mt. Hood. In 2018, the brewery relocated to a brand-new building a few doors to the east on White Salmon’s main drag. Now five years after the relocation, Everybody’s Brewing has spruced up its packaging and brand imaging. The full overhaul of their visual identity will be

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 3.11.23

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 3.11.23 Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 3.11.23 will help you spring forward. … AleSmith Brewing Speedway Stout ­– Salted Caramel Brownie Edition: Their iconic signature imperial stout with coffee with decadent combination of cacao nibs, cocoa powder, Madagascar vanilla beans, Fleur de Sel sea salt, and artfully roasted coffee, 12% Breakside Brewery Noble Pilsner: Bohemian or Czech-style pilsner combining the malt richness of a Munich helles with the hop intensity of pilsner with distinct minerality and roundness, 5.6% Cascade Brewing Barrel House Double Dutch: Blend of sour double porters aged in

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Russian River Flight

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While Natalie Cilurzo was working full-time at a winery, Vinnie Cilurzo bought a 7-barrel system from Electric Dave, a guy that was in jail in Bisbee, Arizona, for selling marijuana mail-order. Electric Dave sold Vinnie an old soup vessel for a brewing kettle, a DIY mash tun, and plastic fermenters before the Cilurzos opened Blind Pig in Temecula in 1994. Vinnie was already a homebrewer and had helped form the local Temecula Valley Homebrew Club. Russian River brewery was started in 1997 by Korbel Champagne Cellars, a Guerneville, California-based winery specializing in “California Champagne,” or sparkling wine of the méthode

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Everybody’s Rebrand Launch Party at Peaks and Pints

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Everybody’s Rebrand Launch Party at Peaks and Pints Peaks and Pints will host Everybody’s Brewing’s Rebrand Launch Party Tuesday, March 14, showcasing the brewery’s rebranded logo and cans, as well as introduce new beers on tap and in the cooler. Rule No. 1 for a brewery’s success is to offer an appealing product. But making a tasty beer isn’t the only consideration in winning customers. With numerous artisan beers sold in Washington state and neighboring states, the packaging for bottles and cans as well as brewery logos must also catch a shopper’s eye. To stay competitive on the presentation side, Everybody’s Brewing, White Salmon, Washington’s oldest

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Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales bracket released

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Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales bracket released Peaks & Pints has unveiled the official bracket for its Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales, a voter-based public tournament seeking to crown the best pale ale brewed in the Pacific Northwest. Patterned after the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, the Tournament of Beer features 64 pales from Oregon and Washington, all seeded by public vote, and separated into four geographical regions: Northern Washington, Southern Washington, Northern Oregon, and Southern Oregon with only one pale per brewery seeded. The Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales nomination process produced

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: International Women’s Day

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In ancient Europe, brewing was almost exclusively a woman’s role. The medieval times, however, brought about the frequency of brewing in monasteries to accommodate travelers, and as time passed, the number of female brewers dwindled, brewing in the home became rare, and commercial taverns became a predominantly male domain. Today, while women have since shed the label of “alewives,” they are continuing to infiltrate what has since become an XY-dominated scene by owning and running breweries. Women leading craft beer businesses certainly isn’t unusual. You likely know the names of the women in beer pioneers, such as New Belgium’s Kim

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Capt. Cook Beer Flight

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The official portrait of Captain James Cook, circa 1775 from the National Maritime Museum in the United Kingdom. On This date in history, 1778, Yorkshireman Capt. James Cook wrote in his log, “The land appeared to be of a moderate height, diversified with hill and Valley and almost everywhere covered with wood. There was nothing remarkable about it except one hill. … At the northern extreme the land formed a point which I called Cape Foul Weather from the very bad weather we soon after met with. I judge it to lie in the latitude of

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Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: Swift Cider

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Swift Cider, an urban craft cidery based in Portland, Oregon, is the reincarnation of Outcider, which was originally founded in spring 2012. Founding owner and head small-batch cidermaker Aidan Currie continued to dedicate his life to small batches made with fresh-pressed apples, local ingredients, slow-and-cold fermentation, and wild yeasts when he rebranded as Swift Cider in the Spring of 2014. Swift launched into the Oregon market with three flagship ciders: the Wholesome Apple, the Marionberry, and the Dank Hop. Currie takes pride in making balanced dry ciders, which contrast starkly with the sweeter styles in the market. According to the head

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Great Notion Beer Flight

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In 2016, Great Notion Brewing opened in Northeast Portland and opened the city’s eyes. Owners James Dugan, Andy Miller, and Paul Reiter basically freaked out the city known as Beervana with their New England-style IPAs and boundary-pushing culinary-style beers. The awards followed: World Beer Cup, GABF, Best of Craft Beer Awards, and Oregon Beer Awards, as well as the 2018 #1 IPA in America from Paste Magazine, Ripe IPA. Great Notion was the first Portland brewery to become known for hazies, and the controversial style, and traditionalists hated it. Now the traditionalists are all wearing Great Notion T-shirts. In addition

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Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 3.4.23

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Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 3.4.23 Happy Saturday! Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 3.4.23 has arrived for the weekend! Block 15 Brewing Headhaze: Brewed with Moonraker Brewing from Auburn, California, as a follow up to their previous collaboration Headway west Coast double IPA, this hazy double IPA is loaded with sticky, dank, lupulin goodness, 8.2% Ecliptic Brewing StaRPM: Collaboration with Boneyard Beer, this IPA melds the hop prowess of Ecliptic’s Starburst with Boneyard’s RPM for a unified force of citrusy and tropical hop aromas from Citra, Simcoe, Centennial, Azacca, and Amarillo against a classic malt profile

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Matchless Beer Flight

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Let’s recap. West Olympia letter carrier, botanist, and homebrewer Patrick Jansen met Darby’s Café owners Nate and Sara Reilly at the Helsing Junction music and sleepover festival and the three opened Three Magnets Brewing in 2014. In June 2017, Jansen and Grant Bolt — a bartender at Three Magnets as well as founder of WortWorks Soda Co. — opened Matchless Brewing Co. near the Olympia Regional Airport in Tumwater. With Grant as president and Jansen as director of brewing operations, the duo began cranking out award-winning craft beer in a 9,000-square-foot brewery and taproom. Jansen eventually left and environmental scientist

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Schwarzbier Flight

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There are those who shy away from the right side of Peaks & Pints. And, by right side, we mean the right side of our Western red cedar tap log — home of the dark beers. Peaks & Pints isn’t sure how it happened, but somewhere along the line casual beer drinkers got the wrong idea about dark beer. They’re not all heavy or boozy. Take, for instance, the schwarzbier. Schwarzbier is one of the oldest known European beer styles, with origins in Kulmbach, Germany, circa 800 BC. Pronounced sh-vahts bee-uh, this lager style is named after its appearance, similar

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Drekker Flight

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In September 2014, after seven years of homebrewing, writing business plans, watching Viking movies, and dialing in their branding, scientist Mark Bjornstad, builder Darin Montplaisir, businessperson Jesse Feigum, and engineer Mason Montplaisir opened Drekker Brewing in downtown Fargo, North Dakota. The brewery name is a nod to the region’s Nordic heritage comprised of the words “drekka,” which means “to drink,” and “drykkr” which means “draft drink,” and “drakkar,” the name for the feared dragon-headed longships that ruled the rivers and seas of Europe during the Viking Age. Their epic adventure began with a 10-barrel system in a 5,200 sq. ft.

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 2.28.23

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 2.28.23 Catching up on the backlog of delicious beer we receive, plus Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 2.28.23 in the cooler, in addition to the arrival of Bell’s Brewery beer. Bale Breaker Brewing Daybreak Pale: New year-round, crisp pale ale with complex aromas of grapefruit, apricot, and pine resin and hints of mango, blueberry, and melon, 5.5% Block 15 Brewing Charmed Life: Medium-bodied Irish red ale with a pleasant, malty nose and subtle caramel flavor that balances with a clean finish, 5% Drekker Brewing Chonk Funky Monkey: Smoothie sour take on

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Bell’s Brewery Flight

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Even though Larry Bell grew up in Park Forest, a village south of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, he started his brewery in 1985, selling beer he’d made in soup kettles out of his homebrew shop in Kalamazoo, Michigan. One of the oldest craft breweries east of Colorado, Bell’s Brewery owes its success in part to Michigan’s flexible distribution laws at the time: every account the brewery had during its first four years Bell’s delivered to directly. His beer recipes, such as the burly Two Hearted Ale, the honey-hop bomb Hopslam, and popular summer seasonal Oberon Wheat Ale, also put

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Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: Double Mountain 2023

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Taking inspiration from traditional matchbook designs from the 1940s & 1950s, Double Mountain Brewery & Cidery released a new design for their 2023 cider line-up. The vintage design aesthetic in the illustration style spoke to them and they used processing techniques to give the label an aged printed look. Some things you might notice are that the black appears to be printed offset, to replicate an old print plate being misaligned, as well as visible halftone dot patterns throughout the artwork, and an added worn paper effect. The focal point of each label is a black tree, which is a

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Structures Beer Flight

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Let’s drink Structures Brewing beer while we wait for their new Bellingham location to open, which Structures says will open soon on their Instagram. A little over a year ago, Structures bought Chuckanut Brewery’s former location in Bellingham’s Old Town — a hop, skip and run from Structures’ current State Street location. For 14 years, Chuckanut called its Bellingham “North Nut” brewery and restaurant on Holly Street home. Chuckanut is doubling its “South Nut” brewery and taproom in Burlington and going strong at its recently opened “P. Nut” location in Portland, Oregon. Anyway, a large black-and-white Structures Brewing sign now

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Single Hill Flight

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Hops are one of Washington’s most prominent crops, their farmers powering the global brewing industry by growing almost 75 percent of the world’s hop acreage in the state, almost all of which is in the Yakima Valley. A handful of craft breweries sit close to said hops, including Single Hill Brewing. In August 2016, Ty Paxton and Zach Turner opened Single Hill in an old JC Penney Tire Center in downtown Yakima. The two first met at a cider pressing party that a mutual friend was hosting in 2013. Three years later, over pints at Bale Breaking Brewing, the two

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Friday, Feb. 24-Sunday, Feb. 26

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Friday, Feb. 24-Sunday, Feb. 26 Happy Friday! Here are a few things to do this weekend in Tacoma. Cheers! BEER FLIGHT: The Hawaiian Islands are known for several beverages: Kona coffee, mai tais, Blue Hawaiians, and pineapple juice come instantly to mind, but the Aloha State also produces delicious craft beer two blocks from the ocean in Kihei, Maui. What began in 2005 as a tiny local brewpub has grown into Maui Brewing’s multi-million-dollar facility that serves its craft beer in Lahaina (Maui), Kailua (Oahu), and Waikiki (Oahu), and well beyond the Hawaiian Islands. In

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Maui Brewing Flight

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The Hawaiian Islands are known for several beverages: Kona coffee, mai tais, Blue Hawaiians, and pineapple juice come instantly to mind, but the Aloha State also produces delicious craft beer two blocks from the ocean in Kihei, Maui. What began in 2005 as a tiny local brewpub has grown into Maui Brewing’s multi-million-dollar facility that serves its craft beer in Lahaina (Maui), Kailua (Oahu), and Waikiki (Oahu), and well beyond the Hawaiian Islands. In April 2022, less than two months after announcing the closure of half its locations, including Portland, Oregon, San Diego-based Modern Times Beer announced the company’s lender

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Cold Weather Stout Flight

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It’s February in the South Sound so it’s not entirely unexpected that there is snow on the ground. Apparently, there is more snow on the way. Just how much snow we’re going to get, though, is a matter that always seems to be up for debate with local meteorologists. As of right now, the National Weather Service is saying that the Tacoma area should expect a mostly cloudy day with a high of 36 today with cold temperatures through Friday and a chance of snow (and rain) Saturday night through Wednesday. Either way, there’s a high chance folks will be

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Twelve Percent Beer Flight

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In October 2008, Brian Ewing launched Twelve Percent Imports selling imported beer to New York out of his Toyota Prius. The first beer he imported was Gaverhopke Extra, a 12 percent Belgian ale, thus the name of his distributing company. Ewing began distributing an unusually heavy roster of gypsy brewers and contract brewed beer such as American Solera from Tulsa and Fat Orange Cat Brew Co. from East Hampton, Connecticut. He eventually partnered with Alex Blank to form Twelve Percent Beer Project, a contract brewing facility at State Street Brewing in North Haven, Connecticut. Many of Ewing and Blank artisan

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Tournament of Beer Northwest Pale Ales nominations open

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Tournament of Beer Northwest Pale Ales nominations open In April 2023, Peaks & Pints will host the Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales. Chosen through the nomination process below, the top 64 vote getters — the cream of the hops — will compete Monday through Friday on our website, April 7-29. Through smartphone voting, Washington and Oregon American pale ale drinkers will pick daily winners until the best pale in the Northwest is crowned. It’s just like March Madness, only with way more citrus and tropical fruit accents. The hop-to-hop battle of Washington and Oregon brewed American pale ales grand

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Fat Tuesday Beer Flight

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Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday: The day before Ash Wednesday goes by multiple names and is celebrated with different foods around the world. The common thread is that rich foods play an important role as Christians would historically attempt to exhaust their supplies of animal products, like butter and eggs, before those foods became forbidden during the 40-day Lenten fast. In Louisiana, the traditional Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, sweet is the king cake, covered in icing and decorated, commonly, with purple, green, and gold sugars. Fat Tuesday is not complete without flavorful Creole dishes — think rich roux,

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Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: Incline Cider

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The biggest question in the hard cider world is: How does the Zehner family find time to make delicious cider? The social media accounts of Incline Cider Co. co-owners Jordan and Lesley Zehner are filled with mountain hikes and marathon trainings. Yet, with help from Jordan’s parents and co-owners, Chris and Teresa, Incline continues to make delicious cider, as well as fill their taproom with what seems like a party daily. Since 2015, the Zehner family has made delicious, crushable cider, many from a dry-hopped apple base to pull out citrus aromas. The Auburn-based cidery with a popular Tacoma taproom

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Aloha Modern Times Beer!

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Aloha Modern Times Beer! Modern Times Beer is back in Washington state — thanks to new ownership Maui Brewing —and Peaks & Pints hosts the San Diego Brewery’s welcome back party Friday, Feb. 24. The craft beer and cider bar, bottle shop and restaurant in Tacoma’s Proctor District will tap special beers from Modern Times and Maui Brewing 4-7 p.m. asking folks to wear Hawaiian shirts while tropical tunes swirl above like trade winds. ALOHA MODERN TIMES BEER!, 4-7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24, Peaks & Pints, 3816 N. 26th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma LINK: Peaks & Pints cooler inventory

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Ever Grain Brewing Flight

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In Fall of 2016, Ever Grain Brewing Company in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, opened to the public. Co-founders Larry Dolan and Norm Fromm, who’d worked together before running Camp Hill’s Brewhouse Grille, experimented and developed Ever Grain for two years before opening the 17,000 square foot brewery and taproom, as well as sip on beers straight from the 20 hectolitre brewhouse. The brewery owns a farm that not only is where they store 100 percent oak fermented mix culture and lambic-style beers, but also grow an assortment of local ingredients, such as vegetables, fruit, and honey; to utilize in our daily

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Modern Times Is Back Flight

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An avid homebrewer and former employee at Stone Brewing Co. in Southern California, where he worked in the communications department, Jacob Mckean founded Modern Times Beer in the Point Loma neighborhood of San Diego in 2013. In addition to being California’s first employee-owner brewery, the craft brewery expanded greatly, with several locations in San Diego County, Los Angeles, Portland, Santa Barbara, Oakland, and Anaheim. All of this is in addition to operating the company’s original brewery and coffee shop in Point Loma. In spring 2021, McKean issued a public apology and announced he resigned as CEO after allegations of harassment

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Oakshire Beer Flight

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In 2006, Jeff and Chris Althouse were the only employees at their newly founded Willamette Brewery in Eugene, Oregon. The Althouses brewed 300 barrels that year, far short of what they’d eventually brew after 2008 when they converted Willamette Brewery into Oakshire Brewing. In 2017, Dan Russo became lead brewer managing Oakshire’s collaborative production team of seven and overseeing the Pilot, Vintage and Core Seasonal programs. Russo remains Oakshire’s longest-tenured employee of the 28 people currently employed at the community-inspired, small-batch brewing company. Oakshire has included Peaks & Pints on their Dark Days of February Northwest tour. Tonight, Peaks will

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Tacoma Narrows Tubbythumping Stout history

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From left, Ron Swarner of Peaks & Pints, Sean Jackson of Parkway Tavern, and Ben Chase of Rainier Growlers helped brew Narrows Brewing’s Tubbythumping Imperial Stout. Photo by Phaedra Miller Tacoma Narrows Bridge Tubbythumping Stout history Nov. 7, 2022, Parker Rush, owner and head brewer at Narrows Brewing, raised a pint toward the Tacoma Narrows Bridge standing majestically out his taproom’s back window. The wind was barely blowing on the cloudy day unlike 83 years ago when 42 mph winds whipped the “Galloping Gertie” 2,800-foot center span like a hungry dog attacking a bone. The $6,400,000

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Urban Family Beer Flight

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Sean Bowman, Timothy Czarnetzki, and David Powell founded Urban Family Public House in the heart of Old Ballard in January 2012. The partners initially served a range of styles from other breweries, but later devoted a few of their taps to house beers made on a 15-gallon system. A little over two years later, the renamed Urban Family Brewing traded Ballard for Magnolia and upgraded to a 7-barrel brewhouse. Andy Gundel started helping the company with social media and logistics soon thereafter, and in 2016 became a majority owner. In the years since, Urban Family moved back to Ballard into

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 2.14.23

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 2.14.23 Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 2.14.23 has some delicious new arrivals to the cooler! Aslan Brewing Melopepo: West Coast IPA boasting bold and juicy flavors of stone fruit and melon, Anchorage Brewing Bite the Hand: Hazy imperial IPA brewed with Vic Secret, fermented with Hazy Chico yeast, and double dry hopped with Sabro, Motueka, and Mosaic hops, 8.4% Anchorage Bleed Out: Barleywine aged in Woodford Reserve Double Oaked bourbon barrels then transferred to Willett and then Buffalo Trace bourbon barrels for a total aging time of 18 months, next blended

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Valentine’s Day Beer Flight

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Valentine’s Day conjures up visions of classic couplings: Romeo and Juliet, John and Yoko, sweet fruit and chocolate. Combine those latter two with some beer, and you have a three-way that will warm the cockles of the most demure drinker. In celebration of the Hallmark holiday, Peaks and Pints presents a beer flight with that shares the flavors of the usual Valentine’s day gift: chocolate covered fruit. Indeed. While the bitterness of an especially hoppy beer might not be ideally suited (unless, of course, you were recently dumped – when bitterness might be appropriate), there are several offerings that blend

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Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: Yonder Cider Co.

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Yonder Cider Co., one of Washington’s top independent cider producers, launched in August 2020 during the heart of the pandemic, selling its first cans out of the founder Caitlin Braam’s garage in Seattle’s Phinney Ridge neighborhood. In its first two years, Yonder expanded statewide, growing by more than 240 percent in the past year. Produced in Wenatchee, Washington — the heart of Apple Country — the growing cidery prides itself on a blend of culinary and bittersweet apples, producing ciders as beautiful and bold as the packaging they come in. Since Peaks & Pints suggests a to-go cider flight every

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Peaks and Pints hosts Oakshire Dark Days of February Tour

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Peaks and Pints hosts Oakshire Dark Days of February Tour Oakshire Brewing has included Peaks & Pints on their Dark Days of February Northwest tour. Thursday, Feb. 16, Peaks will pour their four dark and delicious Dark Days beers — Hellshire XII, Heart Shaped Box, Overcast Café and Visit Munich, plus their Shred Kindly Hazy Pale Ale — before they head to Astoria for Fort George Brewery’s Festival of Dark Arts and beyond. In 2006, Jeff and Chris Althouse were the only employees at their newly founded Willamette Brewery in Eugene, Oregon. The Althouses brewed 300 barrels that year, far

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Peaks & Pints Pilot Program: Perfect Super Bowl Flight

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Members of the Seattle Seahawks will be doing the same thing as you will be today, February 12: watching the Super Bowl. We can all stay at home and pout that the Seahawks aren’t playing this year, or we can have some fun and throw a Super Bowl party — even if it means temporarily rooting for a new team. The question is: What will your pour for your guests during the game? Russian River Pliny The Elder double IPA might not be everyone’s bag. Or hey, maybe you’re just real nostalgic for college and all you ever buy is

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Brick West Beer Flight

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Jan. 3, 2020, Matt and Ryan Goodwin, and Joel and Jordan Tampien, two sets of brothers, opened Brick West Brewing Co. in the former Watts Automotive building on the west end of downtown Spokane. Behind the “beer hall” taproom and a large patio, Sam Milne brews the beers in the 15,000 square foot, 15-barrel brewhouse. Milne started as a home brewer before working at Pyramid Brewing Co. in Seattle and Kulshan Brewing Co. in Bellingham. He was a recipient of the 2018 Falconer Foundation Siebel Brewing Scholarship, which allowed him to study craft beer brewing at the Siebel Institute in

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