Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack for Saturday, Dec. 7 2024. Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 12.7.24 Stop by Peaks & Pints on your way home from shopping and grab a new beer six-pack hostess gift for the party tonight. Cheers! BLACK RAVEN BREWING GRANDFATHER RAVEN: Robust Russian imperial stout with rich dark caramel notes, unsweetened chocolate, and hints of coffee aromas and flavors, 9.5%, 16oz EX NOVO BREWING NEVERMORE: This year’s Nevermore barleywine was aged in a mixture of Willet Rye, Elijah Craig bourbon barrels and Pinot Noir barrels, and then fermented with house
The Peaks & Pints fajita-like Saturday Sandwich Special pairs well with Cloudburst’s Baltic porter. Peaks and Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: The Beefy Shroomer Saturday, Dec. 7 2024: Peaks & Pints Kitchen Kylee brought back Cremini Mushrooms for her Saturday Sandwich Special that includes Roast Beef, Spicy Mayo, Provolone, Bell Peppers, and Onions on French —flavors found in fajitas. PAIRING: Cloudburst Brewing Vampire Empire Cloudburst describes their beers the best: “Ok, fine. We know Baltic Porters peaked in like the 19th Century…back when vampires ruled the world. And thus, Vampire Empire was born. FUN FACT: Did you
Tacoma Arts Live, with help from the City of Tacoma’s Arts and Cultural Vitality Division, will host more than 100 local artists of all different mediums and disciplines under the historic roof of Tacoma’s Armory from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. This special event celebrates Tacoma’s rich artistic community while supporting our local economy. Peaks & Pints offers a flight of holiday beers to enjoy after Arts At The Armory — a flight we’re calling Peaks and Pints 2024 Christmas Beer Flight Dec. 7: Arts At The Armory. Peaks and Pints 2024 Christmas Beer Flight Dec. 7: Arts At The Armory
Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 12.6.24 ‼️ FRESHIE FRIDAY ‼️ We have another six-pack suggestion of new arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler. AECHT SCHLENKERLA EICHE OAK SMOKE: Doppelbock beer brewed with 100 percent oak wood smoke-kilned malt imparting a smoother, more multi layered smoky note than the aromatic Beech Smoke malt for complex smokiness paired with Hallertau hops, 8%, 16.9oz CLOUDBURST BREWING CORPORATE OVERLOADS IPA: “Welp, it’s been almost 10 YEARS since AB-Inbev purchased an important, local Seattle brewery and it appears to be going really well. Like, beer-business-geniuses-with-#noregrets well… NOT! HAHAHAHA!” writes Cloudburst Brewing for its
The Washington State Fairgrounds in Puyallup has turned into a Christmas lover’s wonderland through Sunday as the 36th annual Victorian Country Christmas festival opens at 10 a.m. Holiday music will fill the air as live musicians stroll through a festive array of Christmas décor and animated displays. The Victorian Country Christmas Festival hosts its fan-favorite shopping event, with classically decorated Victorian-style market booths featuring holiday shopping from local artisan vendors, including handmade art, décor, jewelry, bath and body products, specialty foods and more! For guests’ convenience, a parcel check will be available to store new purchases while they enjoy the
Here’s your Thursday six-pack of new arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler. Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 12.5.24 Here’s our Thursday six-pack of new arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler. … ANDERSON VALLEY BREWING BROTHER DAVID’S TRIPLE: Belgian-style triple with rich candied orange peel, maraschino cherry, orange blossom, and clover honey with a subtle hint of, pears, sourdough bread and a touch of freshly mown fields on the nose followed by a sturdy malt backbone supporting a spicy hop flavor and warming afterglow that lingers on into a comforting, subtly peppery/citrusy finish, 10%,
Well, it’s that time of year again. Christmas. We all know what that means. Twenty-four-hour marathons of A Christmas Story on TBS. Gaudy lights tacked onto just about every house in the suburbs. Overcrowded stores and that annual homage to Charlie Brown’s puny little tree. Oh, and then there’s our favorite — Old Scrooge: A Silver City Love Story at Peaks & Pints, which will turn the first page at 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 5. Like last year, the Silver City Brewery Christmas Party at Peaks & Pints will revolve around their Old Scrooge Christmas Ale, their classic old ale
We suggest pairing our Wednesday Pesto Caesar Chicken Salad Sandwich Special with Weihenstephaner Original Premium Lager. Peaks and Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: Hail Caesar! Thursday, Dec. 4 2024: Peaks & Pints Kitchen Brittany added Pesto and Caesar to her weekly Wednesday Chicken Salad Sandwich Special, plus Bacon, Onion, Tomato, and Romaine on French. PAIRING: Weihenstephaner Original Premium Lager In 1895, Spaten Brewery brewed a helles lager to compete with pilsner-style beers. Unlike German pilsner, helles lager emphasizes malt sweetness rather than bittering hops; the beer isn’t sweet by any means, but the hops just balance the
It’s freakin’ freezing outside. You have bundled up kids in thermal wear, ski socks, turtlenecks, snow pants, parkas, waterproof gloves, hats, and scarves. You cut your hand while trying to climb over bikes in garage to get the deicer bags. You bleed profusely onto your white Bronco. Frighten children, who have fallen on a patch of ice, run back into the house with wet boots and undo the hours of bundling it just took to get them outside for five minutes. You realize that these are hours of your life that you will never get back. You call your spouse
After a couple months of avoiding the elements, isn’t it time you get a little bit of exercise? Ice skating is the perfect way to get yourself off the couch and get the blood moving again. Experience Sprinker Recreation Center’s ice rink transformed into a winter wonderland with more than 35,000 lights, animated displays, cascading lights on ice, and falling snow with a giant lighted tree in the center of the rink. They’re calling it “Ice Lights”, and it’s open today from 10:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m., and again 6-9 p.m. You can also experience the thrill of driving bumper cars
6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma: Dec. 3-9 2024 Season’s greetings! There are plenty of hot times ahead during the South Sound’s coolest season, and Peaks & Pints’ 6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma will be unwrapping some treasures this season — including this week. TUESDAY, DEC. 3 — HOPPY HOLIDAYS FOOD DRIVE: The Douville Home Group’s Hoppy Holiday Food Drive is back for its sixth year with 10 amazing Pierce County breweries/cideries helping the Emergency Food Network feed those in need. This past month, the county community has donated non-perishable food and hygiene items at their favorite
From watching Elf to eating Aunt Bethany’s cookies to spraying fake snow on the windows, we all have our seasonal rituals. And it’s impossible to live in the greater Tacoma area and get in the spirit without a spin through ZooLights. Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium’s 800,000 light display depicts everything from a giant Pacific octopus and flame tree to the Narrows Bridge and Sasquatch. This year’s light display also features a magnificent heard of groovy goats that you can reserve time for a hang. Before or after walking through the twinkling lights from 4:30 to 10 p.m., swing by
You fancy, Nøgne Ø Dark Horizons 7! Fancy Pants Sunday: Nøgne Ø Dark Horizons 7 Øh, do we have Fancy Pants Sunday beer for you. It’s the most famous artisan brewery in Norway. Gunnar Wiig and Kjetil Jikiun launched it in January 2002 in Bergermoen, Grimstad, an industrial area on the border between the municipals Ringerike in Buskerud and Jevnaker in Oppland — part of the Sørlandet geographical region of Norway. The brewery’s name is Danish for “Naked Isle” and was, according to the website, a poetic term used by Henrik Ibsen in his 19th-century Norwegian
Baerlic Brewing’s “Die Hard” Yippie-Ki-PA holiday IPA pairs well with our Sunday sandwich special. Peaks and Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: Die Hard Sunday, Dec. 1 2024: Peaks & Pints Kitchen Kylee tweaked ingredients for her first sandwich special of December 2024. She’s pickled onions and whipped up a creamy sun-dried tomato pesto and added them to chicken, provolone, Parmesan, balsamic glaze and arugula on French. PAIRING: Baerlic Brewing Yippie-Ki-PA The high hop content of IPAs often pair well with rambunctious dishes, such as Kylee’s Sunday sandwich special. A higher alcohol content and rich flavor of American
You’re lagging in the Christmas spirit this year. Just like last year. And the year before. Scrooging has always been your go-to reaction to the yuletide, but as you grow older, and more sentimental, it’s increasingly unacceptable to be crotchety and contrarian. It’s unsavory. So, Peaks & Pints decide to be proactive. We will elicit Christmas cheer daily through Dec. 24, as we are closed Christmas Day. By which we mean Christmas beer. We will dedicate our daily beer flight to holiday and winter beers pairing it with a local holiday event. After all, Christmas is about nothing if not
Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack 11.30.24 A decadent six-pack of dark treasures with a lone hazy IPA … BLOCK 15 BREWING IMAGINE 2024: Blend of Belgian-inspired imperial stouts matured for 1 and 2 years in freshly emptied Willett bourbon barrels, 14%, 500ml BOTTLE LOGIC BREWING MIND OVER BATTER: Collaboration with Pontoon Brewing, this bourbon barrel-aged walnut brownie inspired imperial stout has a bitter Baker’s chocolate backbone, reminiscent of that perfect crispy corner piece of brownie with a silky finish of walnut richness, 12%, 500ml RAINY DAZE BREWING TOTALLY BAKED: Milk stout with layers of chocolate, hints of sweet vanilla
Menefee Tree Farm just delivered … for the fifth consecutive year … a ginormous tree to Peaks & Pints in Tacoma’s Proctor District. It’s another beauty, which we’ll decorate soon. In the meantime, we constructed a Saturday Christmas tree beer flight in celebration of Menefee’s dedication to adding amazing aromas for the holidays. In 1980, Lou Menefee along with his son, Scott, began selling Christmas trees in the empty lot next to their house. Lou would drive out to Shelton, cut down trees, and load as many trees into his 1972 Datsun Pickup as he could. Then, he would drive
Here’s a Black Friday six-pack that’s not bourbon barrel-aged. Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack 11.29.24 We hope y’all had a great Thanksgiving! Here are six new arrivals to our cooler. Cheers! BOTTLE LOGIC BREWING SHOCK BRACER: West Coast double IPA brewed and generously dry hopped with Mosaic and Strata hops for melon-driven aromatics followed by notes of cantaloupe, guava, and mango with a moderate orange-pithy bitterness finish, 8.5%, 16oz GRAINS OF WRATH HAIL SANTA: Spiced holiday ale packed with cinnamon, allspice, ginger, nutmeg, and honey, 7%, 16oz MATCHLESS BREWING MATCHLESS MADE: Hazy IPA brewed with
Take a whiff from your Peaks & Pints taster glass, have a sip, and you’ll discover. The flavors that develop when beer is aged in booze-soaked oak are stunning. Bitter, harsh stouts can turn seductive and smooth as silk. The alcohol percentage tips the scales over 10 percent, the body of the beer becomes silk-smooth, and wood characteristics — like oak, vanilla and dry tannins — sink into the roasted malts, creating a symphony of dark flavors. Today marks the last day of our Dark Days of Thanksgiving imperial stout festival, and we’re going out with a bang! We’ll tap
Here’s a six-pack of new arrivals for your Thanksgiving celebration. Peaks and Pints Pre-Thanksgiving New Beer Six-Pack: 11.27.24 It’s go time! BLOCK 15 BREWING HOPPY HOLIDAYS: This yuletide IPA is brewed with a sleighful of hops, orange zest, and foraged spruce tips for gifts of pine and citrus wrapped in a warm malt backbone, 9.2%, 16oz GRAINS OF WRATH NIGHTIME STORIES: Jet black American stout with notes of pine, dark chocolate, roasted barley and citrus, 7.2%, 16oz OUTER RANGE BREWING SNOHDEGA: Hazy IPA collaboration with Tripping Animals, Other Half, and Ology Brewing brewed with Krush and
The night before Thanksgiving is known as Blackout Wednesday, or Drinksgiving, and is a time when people often binge drink. This cultural phenomenon is driven by college students and young adults returning home for the holidays, and many people have the next day off for Thanksgiving. For those reasons (and the fact that Thanksgiving is for many a stay at home and cook family holiday) a large swath of pre-turkey day drinkers spends the night out hitting bars and restaurants. A holiday before “The Holiday” Black Wednesday now ranks as one of their biggest drinking dates of the year … right up
Grab this six-pack for Turkey Day! Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack 11.26.24 Peaks & Pints has our 13-door cooler loaded up with tons of fresh beer — including our Tuesday recommended six-pack below — so you can stock up for those Thanksgiving festivities. Cheers! EVERYBODY’S BREWING IMAGINARY FRIENDS: Winter warmer brewed with Crystal and Chocolate Malta plus generous amounts of Simcoe, Citra, and Cascade hops for a winter warmer meets hoppy IPA, 7.1%, 16oz EVIL TWIN BREWING BEFORE DURING AND AFTER CHRISTMAS: Revamped edition of an original hazy, double dry-hopped double IPA with big juicy
Peaks & Pints will released the 2024 Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout and its variants at 10 a.m. on Black Friday. 6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma Nov. 26-Dec. 1 2024 Must haves for the holiday season: food, air, water, 6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma. … TUESDAY, NOV. 26 — DARK DAYS OF THANKSGIVING FLIGHT: What makes a dark beer dark? It all comes down to the malts. Though all beer relies on malts (cereal grains that have been allowed to germinate, then dried to halt the germination process), dark beers are
What makes a dark beer dark? It all comes down to the malts. Though all beer relies on malts (cereal grains that have been allowed to germinate, then dried to halt the germination process), dark beers are unique in their use of black and dark malts. These grains are heavily roasted to achieve the characteristic color as well as the caramelized, toasty flavors we love. The blanket term “dark beer” encompasses everything from classic styles like schwarzbier (a dark German lager) to the return of black IPAs. The most familiar dark beers, however, are generally billed as either porters or
Go dark today! Peaks and Pints Fremont Barrel-Aged Six Pack: 11.25.24 Peaks & Pints kicked off our annual Dark Days of Thanksgiving dark beer tap takeover today and it runs through Black Friday — skipping Thanksgiving as we’re giving the entire staff the day off to be with family and friends. Today’s six-pack features some dark ditties from Fremont Brewing. Cheers! FREMONT BREWING 2022 COFFEE CINNAMON B-BOMB: Winter Ale aged in 8- to 12-year-old American oak bourbon barrels then blended with 9-, 12-, and 24-month-old barrel-aged Winter Ale, then cold brew coffee and cinnamon bark to
Darkness descends on Peaks & Pints this Thanksgiving week, and it promises to be an eventful week with at scarce and salient selections from the dark side. Beginning today and running through Friday, Nov. 29, the right side of Peaks & Pints’ Western red cedar tap log will house dark elixirs, including imperial stouts. In the Georgian-era, stout meant simply that: strong. Stouts were more potent versions of porter. Made with an extra helping of dark grains for added booze and body, stout quickly caught on, most famously in Ireland and Russia where the style received an extra punch for
You fancy, Tommie Sjef Spróng! Fancy Pants Sunday: Tommie Sjef Sprong It was not your typical young adult situation. Many early 20-somethings strive to be social media influencers while sipping hard seltzers. A young Dutch guitarist named Tommie “Sjef” Koenen plays different. People often refer to him as a beer blending prodigy. One taste of an oude geueze whilst visiting Antwerp just after entering his 20s changes his life path. Wasting no time, he became well-traveled between Belgian breweries and his parent’s backyard shed in Den Helder, Amsterdam. At the annual Amsterdam sour and wild ale
Our Mutual Friend Brewing, or OMF, opened their doors in 2012 starting with a modest 31-gallon brew system and would later grow to a 10-barrel brew system along with additional equipment including oak foeders affectionately named Bert and Ernie and a couple of lagering tanks. OMF would spend the next 11 years creating world-class beer using local ingredients and providing an inclusive space that welcomes creatives, locals, out-of-towners, brewers, and everyone in between — including Peaks & Pints in 2023 during the Great American Beer Festival. XBP Limited Liquids has brought OMF to Western Washington, including Peaks & Pints in
Here’s a six-pack to enjoy while watching the games this weekend. Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 11.23.24 Happy Saturday! Don’t let the rain ruin your weekend plans, Peaks & Pints has plenty of tasty beverages on draft and tons of fresh cans, including today’s six-pack recommendation. We’re open till midnight! Cheers y’all! FAT ORANGE CAT BREW BABY ELVES: Holiday double IPA edition of Baby Kittens hazy IPA featuring the same Galaxy, Citra and Simcoe hops — just more of them, 9%, 16oz FAT ORANGE CAT BREW SANTA CLAWS — CINNAMON BUNS: Imperial stout brewed with
Peaks & Pints Kitchen Kylee created another spectacular sandwich special! Peaks and Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: Spectacular Saturday Saturday, Nov. 23 2024: Peaks & Pints Kitchen Kylee has done it again! Ham, Beer Braised Onions, Rosemary Cream Cheese, Chopped Bacon and Gouda on Sourdough. Gouda edges out the braised onions, bacon, and rosemary cream cheese for flavor king. The soup is Chickpea & Lentil PAIRING: Old Stove Brewing Incinerator Doppelbock Malty beers such as doppelbocks pair well with aged gouda. The malt flavor complement the nutty, earthy flavors of the cheese, while the sweetness provides contrast.
Espresso made its debut in Italy in the early 20th century although coffee was already very much a part of Italian life for centuries. Espresso lovers owe their thanks for the tasty brew to Italy’s Luigi Bezzera, the owner of a manufacturing plant who wanted to speed up the time it took to make coffee. He discovered that adding steam pressure to the process produced a stronger, more robust cup of coffee. This machine used in this new quick-brew process was named the Fast Coffee Machine. The beverage produced by the machine would eventually become known as espresso, which means
For some people, the best — and most frightening — thing about middle school was heading to the roller rink on a Friday night. Would your friends be there? Would they get along? Would your mom embarrass you? Would you be alone for the couples’ skate? And while that nostalgia is fun, it’s difficult to head back there as an adult. Thankfully, Tacoma Arts Live has teamed up to give kids and adults just such a place. Tonight, Skate the Armory: Holiday Edition will turn the Tacoma Armory into the North Pole Skating Rink. Skaters will have a blast skating
Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack 11.21.24 Dear Peaks & Pints Pals. You see us as a Pilsner, Black Hefeweizen, West Coast IPA, Imperial ESB, Baltic Porter and a Belgian Strong Golden Ale. Correct? That’s the way we saw each other at 8 o’clock this morning when Pappi put us in his Peaks & Pints cooler. But in the greater scheme of things, we are the most interesting Thursday Night Football companion. Cheers! BIZARRE BREWING LANE THIRTEEN: Collaboration with Alma Mader Brewing in Kansas City, this American cellar pilsner is hopped with Spalt Select and Sterling, then fermented cold with
In 2018, art took Stillwater Artisanal Ales founder Brian Strumke to Seattle, where he met Matt Storm, owner of The Masonry, the man known for his intensely curated beer list and wood-fired pizza. In 2020, the pandemic paused Strumke’s nomadic lifestyle and, allowing him to dive into Storm’s concept for a new brewery, Fast Fashion. The duo began brewing a series of small batch beers paired with a smart, fashionable Instagram account. Today, Fast Fashion celebrates their fourth anniversary with a good, old-fashion prom with prom photos, lunch lady square pizzas, beer specials, dance party and karaoke. If you can’t
A slowly-developing La Nina is favored to influence conditions for the upcoming winter across most of the country, according to NOAA’s U.S. Winter Outlook released by the Climate Prediction Center — a division of NOAA’s National Weather Service. This outlook is for December 2024 through February 2025 and contains information on likely conditions throughout the country for temperature, precipitation and drought. This winter, NOAA predicts colder- and wetter-than-average conditions for the entire northern tier of the continental U.S., particularly in the Pacific Northwest, which translates to good snow conditions for ski resorts across Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. Still, we
Today’s new beer six-pack includes a three-year vertical of Matchless Brewing’s Ol’ Lifewine barleywine. Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack 11.19.24 Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack 11.19.24 has a bonus option. We offer a three-year vertical of Matchless Brewing’s Ol’ Lifewine English Barleywine. Enjoy! GREAT NOTION BREWING TAME THE TRAIL: Witbier brewed with orange peel, coriander, apricot, and peaches, 5.3%, 16oz MATCHLESS BREWING OL’ LIFEWINE 2021: For the 2023 re-release of this English-style barleywine, they handpicked from their barrel library, that were aged exclusively in fresh Westward Whiskey barrels. A blend of Maris Otter, Amber
Peaks & Pints hosts a Pray For Snow Party at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20. 6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma: November 19-25 2024 No snow yet, but flurries of music, conversations, and beer as you’ll discover in 6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma: November 19-25 2024. Cheers! HOPPY HOLIDAY FOOD DRIVE FLIGHT — TUESDAY, NOV. 19: The Hoppy Holiday Food Drive is back with 10 Pierce County breweries and cideries for a friendly competition to collect non-perishable food and hygiene items for Emergency Food Network, or EFN. Through Dec. 3, items can be
The Hoppy Holiday Food Drive is back with 10 Pierce County breweries and cideries for a friendly competition to collect non-perishable food and hygiene items for Emergency Food Network, or EFN. Through Dec. 3, items can be donated in-person or monetary donations can be made online using the QR codes on all the marketing materials. Again, all donations benefit EFN, whose mission is, “… to provide Pierce County with a consistent, diverse and nutritious food supply so that no person goes hungry.” More than 10,000 pounds of that food came from last year’s Hoppy Holiday Food Drive. The event officially
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. The popularity of cider in America grew as the nation’s territory expanded. Then, the Temperance movement and popularity of German lager squashed the hard apple cider movement … until 2013. Zealous connoisseurs grow dissatisfied with the
The last six-pack of new beer for this week! Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack 11.17.24 The kids don’t want to watch Sunday Night Football, but rather holidays specials. You need this Sunday night six-pack, ho, ho, yo! HELLBENT BREWING ALL SPRUCED UP WINTER ALE: Seven different malt varieties, Citra, Chinook, and Cascade hops, and fresh spruce tips add a citrus floral and “candy-like” aroma followed by caramel malt, pine-y hops and the unique flavor of spruce, 7.5%, 16oz HELLBENT BREWING EVERGLOW WINTER IPA: Brewed with pale malt and a touch of wheat and caramel malts
You fancy, Hubbard’s Cave Barrel-Aged Bananas Foster Imperial Stout! Fancy Pants Sunday: Hubbard’s Cave Barrel-Aged Bananas Foster Born on the near west side of downtown Chicago in 2013, Une Année was founded by Chicago native Jerry Nelson. Une Année — which means “One Year” in French — set out on a quest to make fine Belgian-inspired ales. Soon, with the help of Jerry’s brother, David, they expanded to include sours and then, in 2015 they launched their sister brewery, Hubbard’s Cave, which pays homage to the “Hubbard Street” traffic tunnel on I-90/94 located near the brewery’s
Pair our Sunday Italian Grinder Sandwich Special with Cloudburst Brewing’s Happy Little Clouds Pilsner. Peaks and Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: Happy Little Hearts Sunday, Nov. 17 2024: Peaks & Pints Kitchen Kylee added Artichoke Hearts to her Peaks and Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: Happy Little Hearts complete with Salami, Pepperoni, Ham, Pesto, Mayo, Provolone, Bacon, Tomato and Spinach on French. PAIRING: Cloudburst Brewing Happy Little Clouds Because our Sunday sandwich special rains flavors, we suggest pairing it with Cloudburst’s award-winning pilsner, Happy Little Clouds. This version marks their 50th batch of this beer, which they brewed
Engineer Barry Chan adored homebrewing. He dove, kettle first, into the Seattle homebrewing scene asking questions and sharing his beer knowledge. His passion and dedication soon translated into a Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) judge where he earned a National score on his first tasting exam. One day, while homebrewing in his kitchen, his buddy Ray Kwan sunk into the couch playing Mario Bros. and dreaming of his next big thing. His first idea was an East Coast-style sports bar since Kwan has roots in New Jersey and loves sports. Chan, from Pennsylvania, thought a brewery in Ballard made more sense. In
In 1993, Adam Avery launches his Avery Brewing Company in a garage off an alley in Boulder, making him one of the pioneers of Colorado’s craft beer scene. At first, consumers were apprehensive when it came to the new tastes Avery introduced to the market place. In 1996, Avery was among the first breweries in Colorado to offer an IPA. Many of the deliveries were returned because the beer tasted too bitter. Pushing the limits in the brewhouse, they began experimenting with barrel aging in 2003 and barrel-aged fanatics throughout the nation seek the results out. Many of the big
