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Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: Dragon’s Head Cider

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Named for the dragon that guards the apples of immortality in the Garden of Hesperides, Dragon’s Head Cider was founded in 2010 on Vashon Island. Ignoring their last name, owners Laura and Wes Cherry planted a beautiful orchard of apples and pears with production held on site. The Cherry’s don’t believe in cold storing their apples; they press during harvest season at its peak ripeness. Once pressed, the fruit ferments in winter, is blended in spring, and ready to be bottled by early summer. Today, Peaks and Pints presents a to-go flight of Dragon’s Head Cider that we call Peaks

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Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Ambers bracket released

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Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Ambers bracket released Peaks and Pints has unveiled the official bracket for its Tournament of Beer: Northwest Ambers, a voter-based public tournament seeking to crown the best amber and red ales brewed in the Pacific Northwest. Patterned after the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, the Tournament of Beer features 64 ambers and reds brewed in 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 amber or red per brewery. The Tournament of Beer: Northwest Ambers

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Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Mosaic Single Hop

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Mosaic first entered the hop market in 2012, thanks to Jason Perrault, a fourth generation hop farmer — and hop breeder — in the Yakima Valley, where his family owns nearly 1,500 acres of hopyards. Perrault’s breeding company, Yakima Chiefs Ranches, is responsible for creating some of the more popular hops in the States, including Simcoe and Citra. The Mosaic breeding program started in 2001, when they crossed a female Simcoe (YCR 14) and a Nugget derived male, which had a linage including Tomahawk, Brewers Gold, Early Green, and an unknown variety. The test plant was called HBC 369. For

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Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: More Dark Arts Stouts

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Jack Harris loves stouts. He was brewing, drinking, and celebrating stouts before he co-founded Fort George Brewery with Chris Nemlowill in Astoria, Oregon. He had celebrated the first Stout Month in the 1990s while working at McMenamins, and everywhere he moved and everywhere he brewed, he took the stouts with him, including as head brewer at Bill’s Tavern in Cannon Beach. In February 2002, Harris launched the first Festival of Dark Arts in downtown Astoria with artist and master gardener (who oversees the Fort George campus) Jessica Schleif ss a fundraiser for the Astoria Visual Arts organization. They asked the

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Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: VIVID

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Vivid can be defined as something that is clear, intense, and highly detailed, giving a strong impression or image in one’s mind. It often refers to a strong and vibrant experience, memory, or depiction that appears lively, realistic, or remarkably bright. Tacoma Arts Live’s 2024 fundraising gala, VIVID, is dedicated to bringing light, perspective, and joy as they move collectively toward a vibrant future for the arts. Saturday, March 23, arts enthusiasts will gather at the Foss Waterway Seaport Museum to raise critical funds for Tacoma Arts Live’s service as a vibrant hub for arts and culture. All contributions will

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Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Outer Range

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Outer Range Brewing founders Lee and Emily Cleghorn opened the brewery in late December of 2016, but it wasn’t their first rodeo — the two met at a home brewing party in Colorado Springs where they were both serving in the Army; Lee was a 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) Detachment commander. Lee had spent his youth in the beer mecca of Brussels, where he developed a palate refined beyond his years. After moving to the US to attend college, he quickly learned he’d need to brew his own beer if he wanted to enjoy those styles again. Fast forward

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 3.8.24

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New beer arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler Friday, March 8, 2024. Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 3.8.24 You might not think you’re in Washington state reading the Peaks & Pints new cooler arrivals list today. Our Mutual Friend? Casa Agria? More Cellarmaker? Cheers! BIERE OVALE: Our Mutual Friend Brewing: Mixed-culture, foeder-aged saison with oaky, delicate, and tart notes, plus two GABF silver medals, 4.7%, 500ml BIRDING, Fast Fashion Brewing: Collaboration with Human Robot Beer in Philadelphia, this German-style pilsner is brewed with Pilsner malt, German Lager yeast, and Saaz, Spalter Select, and

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Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Our Mutual Friend

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During this year’s Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colorado, Peaks & Pints visited Our Mutual Friend Brewing, or OMF, in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood on Larimer Street. Founded in 2012, which makes it one of the oldest breweries in River North Art District, or RiNo, and while our first impression of the taproom was a carefully curated combination of hipster cool, industrial chic, and your British uncle’s library and faux nonchalance, it would be a mistake to call OMF just another neo-beatnik hangout. The award-winning outfit — eight GABF medals, including a gold medal for Saison Trystero and silver

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Peaks and Pints Cider Flight: Finnriver

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In the rolling farmland of Chimacum Valley along a salmon stream just south of Port Townsend, the Finnriver orchards stretch across 80 acres using more than 20 different varieties of apple tree. Their mission is to reconnect people to the land that sustains us and to grow community. They seek to create deep-rooted and fruitful connections at their farm-based taproom and rural gathering space. Finnriver’s farm and orchard is Certified Organic and Salmon Safe, and the company is a Certified B Corporation, seeking to make business a force for good. Finnriver also makes exceptional cider, thanks to head cidermaker Andrew

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Congrats! It’s a Beer: 7 Seas 7 C’s IPA

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Peaks & Pints welcomes 7 Seas Brewing’s new 7 C’s IPA to our cooler. Congrats! It’s a Beer: 7 Seas 7 C’s IPA 7 Seas Brewing released its first of several scheduled Bridge Series craft beers for 2024 — a West Coast IPA brimming with seven different classic American IPA hops — all starting with the letter “C”.  Hopped with Columbus, Centennial, Cascade, Citra, Cryo Chinook, Comet, and Crystal, 7 C’s 6-percent, bright IPA sports a pale golden hue with a citrus peel aroma that leads to a moderately bitter, dry finish. You can’t talk South

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Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Outdoors

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Remember when you were perched at the top of Trappers Peak, feeling exhausted but accomplished as you survey the peaks and valleys of the landscape? Remember when you felt the tug of a catch while you’re standing knee-deep in a flowing Sol Duc River? Remember when paddled through whitewater rapids of South Fork Snoqualmie River? Remember when we use to ski every Thanksgiving instead of waiting for February for decent snow? Finding your bliss in the outdoors can mean something different to everyone. But whatever it means to you, you probably can find it in the Northwest, and you can

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Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: 2024 Matryoshka Variants

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It began in the 1700s when English brewers were favored by the Russian court. Catherine the Great wanted English beers and so the English brewed beers for her court, which at that time was in St. Petersburg. The beers had to survive the long shipping up through the North Sea, through the Baltic, up to St. Petersburg, so the English would make big, highly alcoholic versions of their beers. They called them imperial, particularly imperial stout, because they were meant for the Empress of Russia. Following the earlier trend, the Russian imperial stout style was inspired by British brewers in

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Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: Tieton Cider Works

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In 2008, Craig Campbell and his wife, Sharon, began experimenting with making cider from dessert apples grown in their 400-acre commercial fruit orchards in Yakima, Washington. Despite naysayers who warned that cider apples required a maritime climate, Craig also planted a two-acre test orchard with 25 varieties of cider apples. Today, their two-acre experiment expanded into Cider View, a 30-acre “high-density” cider orchard. In their commercial cidery, Tieton Cider Works, their head cidermaker/operations manager of nearly 15 years Marcus Robert blends American heritage, English and French cider varietals with dessert apples to capture the best of what each variety brings

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Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Double Hazies

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Let’s get right to the juicy stuff: New England-style, or hazy, India pale ales. They keep coming and coming with no sign of slowing down. It’s predominately what people ask for when they approach our Western red cedar tap log. New England Style IPAs are brewed to be juicy and fruit forward, even when there’s no fruit in the brewing process. You’re receiving the aroma and experience of different types of hops as well as the pure magic of brewing beer. The good news — thanks to hazy and juicy there are more IPA drinkers. Today, Peaks & Pints looks

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NW Beverages hugs Finnriver at Peaks & Pints

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Peaks & Pints taps Finnriver Farm & Cidery Head Cidermaker Andrew Byers’ delicious ciders Thursday, March 7 beginning at 5 p.m. NW Beverages hugs Finnriver at Peaks & Pints The last time NW Beverages distribution company reached excitement levels this high was when their sales executive Mike “Taco Boz” Bosold make homemade ice cream for the team. The Western Washington distributor just added Finnriver Farm & Cidery to their portfolio — and they’re celebrating with a Finnriver tap takeover at Peaks & Pints Thursday, March 7. On the northeast corner of the Olympic Peninsula is an

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Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Heaven Hill

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The five Shapira brothers didn’t know anything about bourbon whiskey, and certainly didn’t have any, when they founded Heaven Hill in 1934. Through a leap of faith, they wrote a check as a war was looming and opened shortly after Prohibition ended in Bardstown, Kentucky. Nevertheless, Heaven Hill made it through trying times and has remained in the hands of the family that started it since. Today, it’s America’s largest family-owned and operated distilled spirits producer and marketer. Their brands, including Elijah Craig, have grown beyond the company’s traditional roots as a bourbon distiller to become the country’s sixth largest

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Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Phantasm Powder

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Thiols are a family of sulfur-containing aroma compounds naturally found in hops, either as free aroma-active volatiles or as non-aroma-active precursors. They produce unique and potent characteristics of exotic tropical fruit. Several of the most popular varietals of the last decade, Cascade, Citra, Simcoe, Nelson, and Mosaic, include thiol precursors, compounds that can be transformed into thiols via biotransformation during fermentation, as well as free thiols, aroma active compounds that are soluble in beer. Phantasm is a powder derived from New Zealand Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc grapes, which are rich in thiol precursors that are known for creating aromas of citrus,

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 2.21.24

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 2.21.24 Five beers from 12 Percent Beer Project in North Haven, Connecticut, arrived at Peaks & Pints today. 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

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Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Grit & Grain Podcast

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Beer gurus Matt McLaren (Orcas Distributing), and Ron Swarner (Peaks & Pints), and Bethany Carlsen (The Funk Busters) explore and celebrate the craft beer industry, community, and history in Tacoma, Washington, and surrounding Pacific Northwest region, with assistance from opinionated beer industry insiders, on the Grit & Grain Podcast every Friday on Amazon, Apple Music, Spotify, Google Play, and iHeartRadio, and Channel 253. The Grit & Grain records episodes at 4:30 p.m. every Wednesday at Peaks & Pints craft beer bar, bottle shop and restaurant in Tacoma’s Proctor District. All are welcome to hang, zdrink along with them, and meet

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Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Mounds

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In 1890, Peter Halajian left Armenia for Connecticut with big dreams of owning his own business. While working in a rubber factory in Naugatuck, he would side hustle homemade sweets. Five years later, Halajian opened a candy shop, then another one 25 north in Torrington, then another one in Naugatuck. He advertised with clever slogans.m Customers couldn’t pronouncing his last name, so he changed it to Paul. During World War I, the U.S. Army asked Peter Paul to make chocolate bars for soldiers. In 1919, Paul convinced his Armenian immigrant friends and family members to invest in his company, Peter

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Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: 2024 President’s Day

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Apples were among some of the first crops grown in colonial America. Potted seedlings and bags of apple seeds were brought over on the Mayflower. The Bible-thumping Puritans were not teetotalers. Apple orchards in colonial America usually meant one thing: hard cider. Apples flourished in the fertile soil and friendly climate, and soon apples were a key part of most colonial farms and menus. When a young George Washington ran for Virginia’s House of Burgesses in 1755, he didn’t shell out for drinks — and lost the election in a 271-to-40 landslide. Undeterred, Washington ran again in 1758. And this

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Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Astoria’s Fort George

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After spending the day at Fort George Brewery drinking all the stouts as part of their Festival of the Dark Arts, Peaks & Pints is ready for another Fort George beer flight. Founded by brewers Jack Harris and Chris Nemlowill, the two combined their brewing expertise from previous Oregon coast gigs at Bill’s Tavern and Astoria Brewing Company to open the Astoria brewery in March 2007. Harris and Nemlowill drove their first 8.5-barrel brewhouse — nicknamed “Sweet Virginia” —from the East Coast and through a tornado to open a small pub in the Fort George Building on Duane Street in

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Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Hop Butcher

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In his poem “Chicago,” Carl Sandburg refers to this great city as “Hog Butcher For the World.” And though the literal meaning behind that moniker has faded since the closing of the Union Stock Yards in 1971, it embodies and inspires Chicago brewery Hop Butcher For The World and the beers they brew in three meaningful ways: they experiment with hops in every way possible, they respect the craft of butchering, and, even though their known as just “Hop Butcher”, co-founder Jeremiah Zimmer and Jude La Rose still believe the  “For The World” part is an important and meaningful element

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Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Great Notion Brewing

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In 2016, James Dugan, Andy Miller, and Paul Reiter opened Great Notion Brewing and stunned Portland, Oregon 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 to their hazies, the brewery’s barrel program offers award-winning American sour ales aged

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Peaks & Pints Beer Flight: Monet Valentine

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Pair the warmth and romance of impressionism in “Imagine Monet” with chocolate-forward stouts at Peaks & Pints on Valentine’s Day. On this day for lovers, Tacoma Arts Live opens the unique immersive experience on the art of the French painter Claude Monet at the Tacoma Armory through April 17, 2024. “Imagine Monet” is the exhibition created by the French directors Annabelle Mauger and Julien Baron, the world’s first directors of a digital immersive exhibition. Imagine Monet starts with the famous painting Impression, Sunrise (1872) and closes with the renowned Water Lilies series (1914-1926). This experience features more than 200 well-known

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Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Imprint Schmoojee

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Ryan Diehl and Richard “Sid” Sidman opened Imprint Beer Company in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, in September of 2018. Located in Montgomery County just north of Philadelphia, Imprint immediately had to increase their brewhouse size due in part to their creative hazy IPA, luscious stouts, and mind melting Schmoojee fruited sour with lactose series. Imprint might be more of an acquired taste for some, but if you like your beer with a lot of fruit in it, man is this the brewery for you. Peaks & Pints thinks all we need to do is describe one of their beers, Schmoojee Orange Coconut

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Tournament of Beer: Northwest Amber and Red Ales! Nominate favorite!

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What are your favorite Washington and Oregon amber and red ales? Nominate them for Peaks & Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Ambers. Tournament of Beer: Northwest Amber and Red Ales? Nominate favorite! In April 2024, Peaks & Pints will host the Tournament of Beer: Northwest Ambers. Chosen through the nomination process below, the top 64 vote getters — the cream of the malts — will compete Monday through Friday on our website and Instagram account, April 5-27. Through smartphone voting, Washington and Oregon amber and red ale drinkers will pick daily winners until the best amber

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Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: Yonder Cidery

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Founded in August 2020 by CEO Caitlin Braam and crafted by Head Cidermaker Monique Tribble, Yonder Cider makes savory, subtly sweet and high ABV ciders in Wenatchee with a taproom in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, which is shared with Bale Breaker Brewing from the Yakima Valley. Crafted using a blend of bittersweet cider apples and juicy dessert apples, Yonder ciders are hardly simple, and never straightforward, but you can always count on them being interesting. “Cidermaking is a playground of the pretty and the ugly, the bitter and the sweet: It’s never a one-note song when done well, says Braam. “Our

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Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Washington Hop Mob 2024

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Did you hear it? This morning, as Peaks & Pints tapped big, hoppy IPAs, a dog whistle like screech called hopheads from far and wide to our craft beer lodge in Tacoma’s Proctor District. Once again, we joined the Washington Hop Mob Roadshow across Western Washington showcasing the holy grail for American beer drinkers. Crafted specifically for Kendall Jones and his Washington Beer Blog’s Washington Hop Mob event last night at Reuben’s Brews, and the subsequent roadshow, which Peaks kicks off today, Washington state brewers brewed double and triple IPAs showcasing complete expression of hop character with a minimum of

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Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Lunar New Year 2024

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The Lunar New Year 2024 occurs today, Feb. 10, bringing the lucky Year of the Wood Dragon. In the Chinese zodiac, dragons are notorious for its strong leadership qualities and determination to succeed, which will inspire us to chase our dreams. While Dragons can be quick-tempered, they prefer to be straightforward and surround themselves with individuals who challenge their beliefs, leading to personal growth and fresh starts in relationships. The Wood element will play a significant role in this year, as it encourages us to put forth effort to make positive changes and to grow as tall as the trees

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Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Fort George Dark Arts Stouts

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If you’ve ever wondered at the appeal, the urge, the drive to attend Fort George Brewery’s Festival of the Dark Arts, if you’ve heard wisps of the mythology and the mystery and the epic weirdness or even seen a few pictures and wondered, you know, WTF, maybe I should dress like Jack Sparrow and make my way through 80 exquisitely unique stouts on a cold mid-February Saturday in Astoria, Oregon. You should. It’s rather astonishing how often you’ll reach bliss at the one-day stout craft beer festival. It almost matters not from which brewery room you inhabit — Festival of

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 2.8.24

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 2.8.24 Here’s another drop of new beer in the Peaks & Pints cooler that you might want to consider for your Super Bowl Party. … BLURRED INTO ONE, Funky Fauna Artisan Ales: Wild saison with Leon Millot and Marechal Foch grapes, 5.4%, 16oz CHARMS NE IPA, Diamond Knot Brewing: Hazy IPA with big orange and pineapple aroma from gratuitous dry hopping, 7%, 16oz CURRENTLY TRENDING, AleSmith Brewing: Crisp, crushable cold IPA brewed with Simcoe Cryo, Mosaic, and Chinook for notes of citrus, pine, and tropical fruit, 7.35%, 16oz KEEP IT KRAKEN, Kulshan Brewing:

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Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Remember The Flagships

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“What’s new?” is a phrase Peaks and Pints hears daily. In fact, that phrase was heard daily between 1985 and 2003, the years craft beers exploration and trying something new was a thing. In 2024, though, that means some drinkers — in their relentless quest for Untappd check-ins and tried-it-first bragging rights — have forgotten the flagship, core beers that first grabbed their attention. At one time, every brewery had one and that beer often defined the brewery. It also was the top-selling beer that subsidized a brewery’s seasonals, specialty brews, experimental beers and one offs. Because the flagship beer

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Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Hop Breeding Company

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Hop breeding has been a thing for many centuries, but in the mid 1800s hop breeding became more organized, first in Germany, and soon spreading to other European hop producing countries and beyond. Breeding hops solves many issues for hop farmers, including increasing yields, breeding shorter length hops, and develop disease resistant hops. In the US, New England and New York ruled stateside hop cultivation and breeding for many years. Then, the hop foundation Ezra Meeker built in Puyallup in the late 1800s, and the great fertile grounds and ideal climate of Yakima farmlands came to fruition catapulting Washington state

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Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Russian Imperial Stout

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There are tales of Peter the Great, the Russian Tsar who traveled to England in 1689 and said to have fallen in love with strong British porter, which is weird since the style didn’t truly exist for another 30-plus years. Whatever. Peter the Great likely did have some influence on the origination of Russian imperial stouts as his modernization of the Russian economy allowed for the importation of British goods, which included beer. In 1729, Ralph Thrale purchased Anchor Brewery of Southwark, London, and brewed the first Russian imperial stout, exporting the beer to Russia. The stout became significantly more

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 2.5.24

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 2.5.24 Here’s your first round of new beer in the Peaks & Peaks cooler for your Super Bowl party. … CZECH DARK LAGER, Structures Brewing: Schwarzbier meets dunkel for notes of toffee and chocolate from the dark malts and the roundness and crispness of a lager, 5.3%, 16oz YEAR OF THE DRAGON DRAGONFRUIT WHEAT, Lucky Envelope Brewing: Collaboration with Highland Brewing, this celebratory Chinese Zodiac wheat beer boasts a vibrant fusion of dragonfruit purees and powders, coupled with a blend of Luminosa, HBC-1019, and Strata for notes of peach, mango, lemonade, and bubblegum,

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Fancy Pants Sunday: Prairie Artisan Indulge Me

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You fancy, Prairie Artisan Indulge Me! Fancy Pants Sunday: Prairie Artisan Indulge Me Fashion-wise, we keep things casual at Peaks & Pints: cut-off flannels, brewery T-shirts, jeans and shorts, and the latest thrift store finds are all par for the course. Still, now and then, it’s fun to get dressed up a little bit, gather all your friends to do the same, and indulge in fancy craft beer. That’s the premise for our weekly Fancy Pants Sunday column — a column that champions high ABV, complex, and delicious craft beers — although we accept casual-clothed sippers,

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Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Imagine Monet

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This Valentine’s Day, Tacoma Arts Live will open a unique immersive experience on the art of the French painter Claude Monet at the Tacoma Armory through April 14, 2024. Imagine Monet is the exhibition created by the French directors Annabelle Mauger and Julien Baron, the world’s first directors of a digital immersive exhibition. Imagine Monet starts with the famous painting Impression, Sunrise (1872) and closes with the renowned Water Lilies series (1914-1926). This experience features more than 200 well-known masterpieces by the French impressionist with 360° projections on walls and floor plunging visitors into a waking dream, thanks to state-of-the-art

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Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Oakshire Dark Days

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As curator of Peaks & Pints’ February Stout Month, Stoutula jumped in his Chevy Impaler to grab Oakshire Brewing’s annual Dark Days of February beer in Eugene, Oregon. Stoutula has followed Oakshire since founders Jeff and Chris Althouse opened their originally named brewery, Willamette Brewery, in 2006. 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 at

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 2.2.24

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New craft beer arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler. Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 2.2.24 Weekend hits! CEPHALOPHILOSOPHY, Bottle Logic Brewing: Harland Brewing helped brew this inky imperial stout brewed with ube and maple syrup, taking it up to a massive 38º Plato starting gravity. After 14 months in bourbon barrels, they finished this alluring liquid on house-roasted pecans and cinnamon sticks, 14.9%, 500ml COCONUT CAVATICA, Fort George Brewery: The delicious Cavatica imperial stout infused with a staggering amount of coconut, 8.8%, 16oz FORM FIVE, Bottle Logic Brewing: Collaboration with Weathered Souls Brewing,

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Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Bottle Logic Stouts

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The Peaks & Pints annual salute to February Stout Month has been hijacked by Stoutula this year. Formerly known as Count Dracula, a strong urge for stouts earned the Transylvanian nobleman the moniker, Stoutula. The centuries-old, stout guzzling vampire has taken control of our monthlong stout celebration, including the occasional in-house flight — like today’s flight, Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Bottle Logic Stouts. Homebrewing buddies Wes Parker, Steve Napolitano, and Brandon Buckner decided to turn a hobby into a career, and in 2013, they open Bottle Logic Brewing, a 6,000 square-foot tasting room and 15-barrel brewing facility near the

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Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: Pear

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Perry and pear cider are both made from pears, but the similarities end there. Pear cider can be made with imported pear juice or concentrate and can even include some apple juice. The main difference between perry and pear cider is that pear cider can use juice from edible pear varieties like Barnet, Bartestree Squash, Chaceley Green, Clusters, Coppy, Dead Boy, Ducksbarn, Hendre Huffcap, High Pear, Late Treacle, Lumber, Merrylegs, Newbridge, Red Pear, Sack, and White Longdon. “Proper” perry, on the other hand, is made only from proper perry pears. Perry pears are smaller than culinary or dessert pears. As

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Fancy Pants Sunday 3 Fonteinen Schaarbeekse Kriek

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You fancy 3 Fonteinen Schaarbeekse Kriek Blend No. 73! Fancy Pants Sunday 3 Fonteinen Schaarbeekse Kriek Bone dry and cherry jam — welcome to Fancy Pants Sunday 3 Fonteinen Schaarbeekse Kriek Blend No. 73 (Season 19/20). Pronounced “goo-zah,” gueuze is not really a style, per se, but rather a combination of versions of another style, lambic. Lambics are sour, funk beers fermented with wild yeast and bacteria — those that live and breed naturally in the wilderness. Young lambics are sweet and inoffensive. Aged lambics will slap your face with acidity than become more delicious over

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Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: de Garde

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Tillamook, Ore., is a sleepy, remote, and often damp coastal town 74 miles west of Portland. It smells of sea air and dairy farms. It’s also home to founder and head brewer Trevor Rogers’ de Garde Brewing, whose singular focus is spontaneously fermented, barrel-aged beers. The brewery, found near the Tillamook Air Museum’s massive blimp hangar, barely distributes, meaning fans must either track down bottles on the Internet or visit in person. Once you’re there, the handful of wild ales and guest rarities on tap and limited-release bottles available to go don’t disappoint. Berliner weisses, Belgian ales, porters and more

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