The roots may reach back to Belgium, but much of Peaks & Pints’ Sunday beer flight’s restless brilliance flowered in America. Five benchmark beers tell the story of modern brewing: an Oregon orchard sour shaped by lambic tradition, a Belgian farmhouse apparition, California’s defining Double IPA, an Alaskan barleywine pushed gloriously beyond reason, and Chicago’s bourbon-barrel landmark. Less a passport than a map of influence, these are beers that reshaped styles, redefined expectations, and reminded brewers everywhere that greatness is always worth chasing. The World Cup Final deserves beers that have earned their own place on the global stage. Beginning
Crescent Valley Lavender Farm is one of eight farms, gardens, wineries, markets, and community spaces that make up the Olalla Lavender Festival. Photo courtesy of Crescent Valley Lavender Farm The Daily Outside Sunday: Summer Plant Sale, Day at The Mountain Sunday has a gentler rhythm. It begins beside a brackish lagoon listening for birds, wanders through lavender fields and conservatory gardens, climbs into Mount Rainier’s wildflower meadows, then returns to Tacoma’s waterfront to discover how one of America’s most polluted waterways became one of its most inspiring comeback stories. Whether you’re drawn by flowers, forests, glaciers,
Tacoma Porchfest returns this weekend with two days of free live music woven through Tacoma’s neighborhoods. Saturday, July 18, more than 80 acts perform from noon to 7 p.m. on porches south of Sixth Avenue. Sunday, July 19, another 80-plus musicians take over porches north of Sixth Avenue from 1 to 7 p.m. There are no main stages, no VIP sections, and no wrong turns—just a map, a comfortable pair of shoes, and the delightful certainty that your next favorite band is probably playing a few blocks away. Before the first guitar is tuned, before applause spills across the sidewalk,
Olalla Lavender Festival unfolds across eight farms, gardens, markets, wineries, and gathering places, each contributing its own piece of the landscape. The Daily Outside Saturday: Early Birders, Grit City Litter Cleanup Saturday has no interest in keeping you indoors. Before breakfast, birds are already negotiating the morning canopy in Wright Park and along Clark’s Creek. By midday, Mount Rainier is explaining itself one ranger program at a time while Gig Harbor’s shoreline unfolds a thousand years of natural history. Somewhere between a lavender field, an oak prairie, a waterfront cleanup, and a trail beneath old-growth firs,
Dreams are gloriously unreliable things. Flamingos hold town hall meetings on inflatable pool toys. Candy grows on Scandinavian berry bushes. Cities are built entirely from sea mist and good intentions. Beaches smell faintly of passion fruit and somehow know your first-grade teacher. Streetlights illuminate roads that only appear after sunset. …record scratch. Actually, it does. The Peaks & Pints Friday Dreams Flight isn’t about sleep at all. It’s about the many ways brewers chase the idea of a dream: aspiration, nostalgia, escape, imagination, and wonder. Each beer approaches the theme from a different angle, whether through silky berry bliss, childhood
The July 17 open-late evening includes a free Artasana session led by Gina Rusconi at 4:30 p.m. The Daily Outside Friday: Stewardship Work Party, Full Day of Rainier Friday invites you to slow the pace, lend a hand where it’s needed, and step into landscapes that remind us the best places don’t simply happen—they’re cared for, season after season. Where a neighborhood orchard still keeps time 50+ Walk the Parks — Charlotte’s Blueberry Park Friday, July 17, 2026 • 9–10 a.m. Charlotte’s Blueberry Park Community Garden 7402 E. D St., Tacoma Free • Drop-in; registration encouraged
Tune in to Grit & Grain Podcast 197 for a preview of this weekend’s Lagerhead Fest with our friend, Ben Chase of Rainier Growlers. Mashing-In News: Lagerhead Fest, GABF Tickets GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Friday, July 17, 2025 — David Hasselhoff turns 74 today The craft beer world seems to be asking the same question from every direction today: What comes next? Festivals are reinventing themselves beneath open skies, lagers continue their improbable victory lap, hiking trails now come with matching pints, governments wrestle with alcohol’s place in public life, and independent brewers—from Oregon to
Some breweries name their beers after hops, mythical beasts, explosions, or increasingly improbable puns. Kings & Daughters Brewery seems more interested in telling stories. Their tap list reads less like a catalog and more like a weathered notebook left open on a wooden table: Bright As These. Queens & Sons. Tomorrow Comes. Alley Light. Visions of Moher. Each title hints at a place, a memory, a conversation, or a landscape waiting patiently to reveal itself long before the first sip reaches your lips. That instinct feels entirely appropriate for a brewery tucked beneath the cliffs and orchards of Hood River.
As part of PNW Climate Week, Tacoma Green Drinks joins Pretty Gritty Tours and guide Chris Staudinger for a walk through the Foss Waterway tonight. Registration is required. Photo courtesy of Curtis Cronn The Daily Outside Thursday: PNW Climate Week Events, Mule Rule Thursday reminds us that stewardship comes in many forms—protecting wildlife, choosing resilient plants, preparing for wildfire, restoring shorelines, and simply showing up for the communities we call home. Where fairways become flyways Eagle’s Pride Golf Course Bird Walk Thursday, July 16, 2026 • 8 a.m.–Noon Eagle’s Pride Golf Course (JBLM) Building 1514, Driving
Lager has endured a peculiar indignity in American beer culture: admired for being cold, tolerated for being familiar, and too often dismissed as the beverage equivalent of beige carpeting. This is, of course, nonsense. Lager is not one beer but an entire language of fermentation, capable of whispering in Japanese rice, humming in Bavarian malt, snapping with Mexican-style refreshment, speaking plainly in American grain, or suddenly painting the sky with a riot of modern Northwest hops. This afternoon at 3:15 p.m., the Grit & Grain Podcast turns its microphones on in our Events Room and aims them toward Lagerhead Beer
As part of PNW Climate Week, Good Luck Shop owner Ginny McClure will join other Tacoma independent business owners for the panel and clothing swap event, “The Tacoma Footprint: Why Loving Local is the Ultimate Climate Action” at 7 p.m. at the Tacoma Public Library Main Branch. Photo courtesy of Instagram The Daily Outside Wednesday: PNW Climate Week Events, Herb Spirals Wednesday reminds us that healthy communities grow the same way healthy gardens do—with thoughtful care, strong roots, and people willing to invest in what they hope will flourish tomorrow. A little flavor goes a long
Some breweries spend years trying to discover their identity. Structures Brewing seems more interested in discovering what happens when identity refuses to sit still. Since opening in Bellingham in 2015, founder James Alexander—and, since 2021, co-owner Bryan Cardwell—have built Structures into one of the Pacific Northwest’s most adventurous breweries, but by treating every style as an opportunity to ask a better question. What if a hazy pale ale could feel impossibly vibrant without becoming heavy? What if an English Bitter deserved the same obsessive attention as the latest hop bomb? What if a Baltic Porter could carry enormous depth while
Dive into PNW Climate Week events on climate careers, tiny forests, and Ocean Horizons: Blue Ventures Meet & Greet, a network of businesses and technologies working to make ocean industries cleaner, smarter, and more resilient, this afternoon at the Center for Urban Waters. The Daily Outside Tuesday: PNW Climate Week Events, Explore the Shore Tuesday is about building something that lasts, whether it’s a stronger community, healthier shorelines, a cooler city, a more resilient workforce, or simply a better understanding of the place we call home. The morning begins in birdsong Sehmel Homestead Park Birding Walk
There are certain Pacific Northwest traditions nobody bothers putting on a calendar because the heart remembers before the brain does. The first Rainier cherries. The first fresh-hop IPA. And then comes the glorious announcement that Metropolitan Market’s Peach-O-Rama has returned, sending otherwise reasonable adults wandering the produce department in a kind of fragrant stone-fruit trance, loading bags with peaches they swear they’ll share before eating three in the parking lot. This is the season when a single perfectly ripe peach somehow becomes both dessert and personality trait. Fortunately, peaches have discovered cider. Northwest cidermakers have spent the past several years
The first cross-region climate week in North America launches today in Tacoma. The Daily Outside Monday: PNW Climate Week Opens, Fleet Feet Run Monday is less about escaping the week than setting its direction, whether that means asking better questions on Mount Rainier, imagining a more resilient South Sound, or simply lacing up your shoes and heading out the door. Paradise, one question at a time Paradise Ranger Guided Walk Monday, July 13, 2026 • 2–3:30 p.m. Meet at the flagpole beside the Jackson Visitor Center plaza Paradise, Mount Rainier National Park Free guided walk •
Sunday’s Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack wanders beautifully—from chef-worthy rice lager precision to heavenly hops, hazy sunshine, an unexpected Trap Door x de Garde collaboration, dreamy pale ale drift, and an arcade-ready West Coast IPA. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack 7.12.26 Sunday’s new beer six-pack glides from chef’s-counter precision to heavenly hop revelations, catches a hazy swell, cruises the Pacific Coast, drifts wherever the afternoon current leads, and somehow still finds time to set a new high score before last call. Fast Fashion Omakase Rice Lager: Fast Fashion Brewing and Highland Park Brewery treat
Watermelon has always been summer’s greatest wanderer. It begins in the garden, still warm from the sun and dripping down your wrists, then somehow finds its way to mountain picnic blankets, sandy beaches, floating pool toys, and backyard gatherings that linger well past sunset because nobody can think of a good reason to leave. Along the way, brewers and cidermakers keep discovering fresh ways to capture that fleeting joy, pairing the fruit with orchard apples, fragrant herbs, crisp lagers, sea salt, tropical citrus, and puckering sour ales. Today’s Peaks & Pints Sunday Watermelon Flight follows that delicious journey through five
Catch the finale of Arctic Sea Ice Weekend at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium today. The Daily Outside Sunday: Low Tide Tours, Arctic Sea Ice Finale Sunday rewards the curious, inviting you to follow receding tides, listen for birdsong, wander mountain meadows, and discover how the natural world reveals itself to those willing to slow down. Five miles of familiar faces Tacoma Run Club Sunday, July 12, 2026 • 7:30 a.m. Anthem Coffee, Point Ruston 5005 Main St. #105, Tacoma Free • Drop-in • Outdoor • All paces and experience levels welcome For more than eight
Some evenings have an amusing way of refusing to disappear. About a month ago, Peaks & Pints was set to host a Job Carr Cabin Museum fundraiser featuring E9 Brewing—a neighborhood gathering where great Tacoma beer would help support one of Tacoma’s oldest stories. Then life intervened. The museum postponed the event, calendars shifted, and the taps quietly waited their turn. That turn arrives Saturday. From 5 to 8 p.m., Peaks & Pints will donate 20 percent of all dine-in purchases to the Job Carr Cabin Museum, helping preserve the modest log cabin where Tacoma’s first permanent non-Indigenous settler planted
During the WSU Extension Master Gardener presentation on grewong microgreens, participants will learn how to grow tender young greens such as radish, broccoli, mustard, peas, and sunflower indoors, from choosing seeds and preparing a growing medium to managing light, moisture, airflow, and harvest timing. The Daily Outside Saturday: Chase the Rainbow 5K, Waterfront Walking Tour Saturday doesn’t ask you to sit on the sidelines. It invites you to hike, harvest, restore, explore, and discover that the natural world reveals its best stories to those willing to step a little closer. Three miles, no fixed agenda Discovering
Friday’s Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack travels beautifully without leaving the cooler—crisp Kölsch elegance, an electrified Double IPA collaboration, a sacred West Coast sermon, sunshine in a witbier, black currant tea-garden refreshment, and a silky Mexican-style dark lager. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack 7.10.26 Friday’s new beer six-pack wanders from crisp German elegance to electrified hop storms, sacred West Coast sermons, sun-soaked Belgian refreshment, tea-garden tartness, and a dark lager that quietly steals the final scene. Eredità Beer Crown & Feathers Kölsch: Eredità Beer welcomes the morning with fresh-baked bread, light honey, orchard fruit,
Blueberries spend most of the summer quietly minding their own business, staining fingertips, filling buckets, and disappearing into pancakes before anyone can object. But every so often they become a little more adventurous. In the hands of imaginative fermenters, the humble berry wanders far beyond the patch, finding new life among crisp orchard apples, tangy sour ales, hop-kissed pale ales, fragrant wildflower honey, and even the dark embrace of bourbon barrels. In honor of National Picking Blueberries Day, Peaks & Pints invites you to follow that delicious journey with a flight celebrating one remarkable fruit through five entirely different expressions.
The City of Tacoma and Tacoma Tree Foundation are inviting eligible South Tacoma residents to request free street trees for the public right-of-way ahead of October planting. The Daily Outside Friday: TGIChill, Green Blocks, Crab Bites Friday eases into the weekend with quiet moments worth lingering over, from bonsai at golden hour and trees that will shade future generations to hungry tidepool critters and a mountain that never seems to run out of stories. Where the week quietly exhales Fridays in July: Open Late at Pacific Bonsai MuseumFriday, July 10, 2026 • 10 a.m.–7 p.m. (Soundbath
Not every brewery needs a sprawling campus, a rooftop biergarten, or a parking lot full of food trucks to leave a lasting paw print on craft beer. Fat Orange Cat Brew Co. began on Aug. 13, 2016, as a tiny farm brewery in East Hampton, Connecticut, where longtime homebrewer Mike Klucznik and his wife, Sheila Mullen, transformed years of award-winning homebrewing into one of New England’s most sought-after beer brands. Klucznik traded a career as a CPA, Mullen stepped away from teaching American Sign Language, and together they built a brewery inspired by Billy, Mullen’s beloved orange-and-white cat who convinced
Bald eagle perched atop a conifer at Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, D. Ellison, The Daily Outside Thursday: Vermicomposting, Maritime Spirits Walking Tour Thursday proves that curiosity comes in all sizes. Spend the day wandering Mount Rainier with rangers, discover how worms transform yesterday’s leftovers into tomorrow’s gardens, search an estuary for playful marine mammals, then choose between stories carried by Gig Harbor’s waterfront or a few easy miles through Tacoma—five adventures, each reminding us that the outdoors is less a destination than a way of paying attention. From sunrise to starlight, one mountain
Oregon has always been difficult to summarize. Rivers become forests. Forests give way to orchards, mountain gorges, and coastlines where the Pacific seems to breathe directly into the brewhouse. Fort George Brewery has built its reputation by embracing that same sense of place, brewing everything from straightforward lagers to mixed-culture saisons, spruce ales, hop-saturated IPAs, and just about every fascinating stop in between. The Peaks & Pints Wednesday Fort George Flight follows a trail from the Lower Columbia River through evergreen woods, into a rustic farmhouse where wild microbes and peach pie happily ignore convention, climbs the wind-carved Columbia Gorge,
The first rays of morning sun on Mount Rainier, as seen from Sunrise. NPS Photo The Daily Outside Wednesday: Sunrise Plaza Talk, Music Walk Wednesday climbs from the highest road on Mount Rainier to Tacoma’s city streets without ever losing its sense of wonder. Spend 15 minutes letting a ranger decode the mountain, watch hungry Salish Sea creatures steal the afternoon, discover how trees quietly reshape a city, then follow music through downtown as youth orchestras prove the shortest walk can sometimes carry the biggest soundtrack. High-country air, big views, and fifteen minutes of Sunrise making
Today’s Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack has no interest in staying in one lane. It hops from globe-trotting West Coast IPAs to patio-perfect fruit refreshment, berry-soaked tart ales, Pacific Northwest haze, and a Yakima IPA tuned like your favorite summer song. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack 7.7.26 Tuesday’s new arrivals to our cooler behave like the best kind of wandering mind—chasing bright fruit, collecting stories from distant hop fields, stopping for aguas frescas, and hiking a ridgeline and more. E9 Brewing Krazy World West Coast IPA: E9 Brewing sends Nelson Sauvin, Dolcita, Cashmere, and
Join us Saturday, July 11, 2-6 p.m., as Charlie Gilbert pours Gilbert Cellars Left Bank, Orange Wine, and Rosé while sharing five generations of Yakima Valley stories during the Proctor Wine Walk. Peaks & Pints Welcomes Gilbert Cellars to Proctor Wine Walk There are wine festivals where every conversation somehow feels like it’s leading toward a helicopter ride, a saxophone solo, and someone shouting that this is the greatest afternoon in the history of fermented beverages. And then there’s the Proctor Wine Walk. The Proctor District doesn’t believe wine should remain trapped behind tasting-room counters or
Before American sour beer had taproom fan clubs, bottle shares, wild ale festivals, and entire Instagram accounts devoted to the sacred pucker, New Belgium Brewing was quietly building one of the most important wood-aged sour programs in the country. The Fort Collins brewery’s Belgian-born brewmaster Peter Bouckaert, formerly of Rodenbach, helped bring Old World foeder culture to Colorado in the 1990s, while Lauren Salazar became one of American sour beer’s great blending minds. Together, they turned patience, microbes, French oak, and deliciously unreasonable curiosity into something that changed U.S. craft beer forever. At the center of it all stands New
Meet every Tuesday at Fleet Feet Puyallup for a free, 3- to 5-mile run & walk through the community. The Daily Outside Tuesday: Walk Wapato, Run Puyallup Tuesday stretches itself beautifully across the afternoon and evening: begin among glaciers and wildflowers where a ranger helps Mount Rainier find its voice, slow the pace with a lakeside walk around Wapato, then finish with a few easy miles through downtown Puyallup. Wildflowers, volcanoes, and ninety minutes that make the mountain speak Mount Rainier National Park — Paradise Ranger Guided Walk Tuesday, July 7 2–3:30 p.m. Paradise, Mount Rainier
The United States and Belgium meet tonight at Seattle Stadium in a World Cup Round of 16 match that feels less like a soccer game and more like a civic fever dream wearing cleats. Kickoff is 5 p.m. Pacific, and the U.S. arrives after beating Bosnia and Herzegovina 2-0 in the Round of 32, with striker Folarin Balogun available after FIFA lifted his red-card suspension. Belgium, meanwhile, survived Senegal 3-2, because apparently waffles, surrealism, Trappist beer, and knockout-round drama are all part of the national export package. Watch for the U.S. to press, run, and attempt to turn Seattle into
Paradise, located on the south side of Mount Rainier National Park, features subalpine meadows, the Jackson Visitor Center, the historic Paradise Inn, and epic mountain views. Photo by B. Burnett The Daily Outside: Ranger Walk, Proctor Run Monday doesn’t ask for much—just 90 minutes on a mountain or a few miles through the neighborhood. One reminds you how small you are beneath glaciers and sky; the other reminds you how good it feels to move alongside other people. Between the two, the workweek gets off to a remarkably healthy start. Paved trails, alpine stories, and ninety
Sunday’s Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack feels like someone rolled a natural 20 on beer shopping—a farmhouse anniversary, a hop hug, a tropical fruit explosion, a kaiju IPA, a dragon-worthy imperial stout, and one Czech lager that’s perfectly happy missing its flight. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack 7.5.26 Sunday’s new beer six-pack feels like a fantasy campaign that wandered into a farmhouse, hugged a tropical fruit stand, battled a hop monster, missed its flight on purpose, and celebrated the whole glorious detour with a dragon-sized stout and a toast to beautifully brewed adventures. Garden
Jazz and lambic share an uncommon faith in the unexpected. A standard begins with familiar notes before musicians wander into inspired improvisation. Lambic begins with centuries-old tradition before wild yeasts, patient oak, fruit, and time compose a performance no brewer can completely script. Every barrel is a little different. Every bottle has its own personality. Every pour discovers a new melody. That’s why Peaks & Pints pairs them on the first Sunday of every month during Jambic & Lazz, when Kareem Kandi and his jazz trio fill our Events Room from 5 to 8 p.m. with the same blend of
Firework debris left on the beaches after a Fourth of July Celebration (Photo: NOAA). The Daily Outside Sunday: Run, Walk, Hike, Plant, Work, Plunge Sunday arrives with the happy realization that the fireworks may be over, but the weekend certainly isn’t. Lace up for a community run, sip coffee while reconsidering vultures, wander drought-wise gardens and mountain meadows, bring home a new plant, restore a forest, clean a beach, or spend an entire day with Mount Rainier’s rangers—proof that the best part of a holiday weekend is often the day after the holiday itself. Stars, stripes,
America turns 250 today. That’s a lot of candles. Best not light them all at once. The Fourth of July has always been less about history books than shared rituals: the first rocket pop melting faster than you can eat it, the sharp crack of a Cherry Bomb somewhere down the block, burgers sizzling beside coolers full of beer, neighbors drifting from yard to yard, and one last toast beneath a sky busy reminding everyone that subtlety was never the point. This year’s Peaks & Pints 2026 Fourth of July Flight follows that familiar rhythm. It begins with childhood, wanders
Friday’s new arrivals feel like a Pacific Northwest road trip that accidentally wandered into a hop laboratory—dreamy pilsners, brewery housewarmings, overloaded signal towers, mountain trailheads, anniversary toasts, and one remarkably chatty Mind Plant. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack 7.3.26 Friday’s new beer six-pack is a love letter to the modern Pacific Northwest—crisp pilsners masquerading as IPAs, collaborations celebrating fresh beginnings and anniversaries, mountain-town adventures, and enough expressive hops to convince even your inner voice that another pint sounds like an excellent idea. Brothers Cascadia Dreams of Otherness West Coast Pilsner: Reality shifts delightfully as lime
Long before Irrelevant Beer occupied its corner of downtown Vancouver, co-founder Mitch Montgomery was experimenting with homebrew while building Relevant Coffee into one of southwest Washington’s favorite gathering places. Along the way he crossed paths with brewer Sebastian Lynch, whose own journey carried him from homebrewing to Trap Door Brewing before returning to Relevant Coffee to help launch its cold brew program. Coffee roasting, beer brewing, fermentation, timing, chemistry, hospitality—it all began to feel less like separate crafts and more like different dialects of the same language. When the neighboring space became available, Montgomery, Lynch, Brian Clemens, Don Walker, and
The Pacific Bonsai Museum will stay open later today for a free chair yoga session with Shawn from Three Trees Yoga. Photo courtesy of Pacific Bonsai Museum The Daily Outside Friday: Fee Free Day, Bonsai Yoga Friday begins with a choice between mountain meadows, lakeside paths, muddy gloves, second chances for forgotten treasures, and bonsai basking in golden-hour light—proof that Independence Day weekend starts best when you step outside before the fireworks ever begin. A free pass, four ranger programs, and an entire mountain waiting to tell its stories Mount Rainier National Park — Independence Day
This week’s Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack refuses to stay in one zip code. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack 7.2.26 Thursday’s new beer six-pack is pure summer momentum—hop-fueled friendships, dangerous ideas, soccer glory, dessert-fueled mayhem, a tidal wave of green hops, and one mountain-town IPA reminding you the best adventures usually begin just beyond the last trail marker. Bale Breaker Frenz West Coast IPA: Summer friendships taste suspiciously like peach, mango, citrus zest, and a crisp crackery finish, with Bale Breaker Brewing and Odell Brewing proving great hop chemistry needs no introduction, 6.5%, 16oz.
You don’t always need a road trip. Sometimes five small glasses will do the driving. Oregon has never been especially interested in fitting inside a postcard. It is baseball beneath long summer evenings, moss-covered trails winding through towering firs, rivers that refuse to hurry, bicycles leaning against brewery walls, and high-desert horizons that seem determined to outrun the sky. Every hundred miles the landscape changes, yet somehow every version still feels unmistakably Oregon. The Peaks & Pints Thursday Block 15 Brewing Flight wanders across that landscape without asking you to pack a cooler, fill the gas tank, or argue over
Penrose Point State Park offers one of the South Sound’s most varied outdoor classrooms. Photo courtesy of Harbor WildWatch The Daily Outside Thursday: Container Gardening, Cheers Run Thursday finds happiness in wonderfully different places: a mountain plaza, a tide-swept shoreline, a library full of gardening wisdom, and three easy miles through downtown Tacoma—proof that the best summer itineraries don’t always need a highway. A mountain, a microphone-free moment, and Paradise keeping things delightfully unscripted Mount Rainier National Park — Paradise Plaza ProgramThursday, July 211–11:20 a.m.Jackson Visitor Center Plaza, ParadiseMount Rainier National ParkFree program | Outdoor ranger
Portland has never been especially interested in coloring inside the lines. It borrows inspiration from everywhere—coffeehouses, breweries, vineyards, food carts, bicycle culture—and somehow turns the whole glorious mashup into something unmistakably its own. So perhaps it was inevitable that one of Oregon’s largest cideries would look at fresh Northwest apples and think, “These deserve a few interesting friends.” Since Jeff and Lynda Parrish founded Portland Cider Company in 2013, the cidery has proven that fruit additions don’t have to bury the apple—they can make it more expressive. Concord grapes, passion fruit, guava, blackberries, peaches, lime… each cider begins with fresh
