Away days is a well-known term in English football (soccer) culture, referring to the day you watch your team play in another city. The day is about travelling with your community, celebrating (or commiserating) your team, and building experiences around your passion for football, travel, and beer. Opened in 2019 by former Toffee Club owners and British transplants Niki Diamond and Pete Hoppins, Away Days Brewing is inspired by a love of the beautiful game and favorite beer-drinking memories of European travels. After COVID-19 turned their corner of Southeast 10th and Hawthorne grittier with less foot traffic, they closed The
The Pacific madrone at Point Defiance Park witnessed the Great Grizzly Escape of 1937. Tacoma Silent Trees: Pacific Madrone Breaking Silence “I’ve seen Fort Nisqually open in 1937, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse in 1940, and the landslide just north of Salmon Beach three days after the 1949 Puget Sound earthquake, but the event I remember most was the Grizzly bear escape from Point Defiance Zoo in July of 1937,” says the Pacific madrone at the Narrows Viewpoint on the Five Mile Drive in Point Defiance Park. “Men with high-powered rifles scoured Point Defiance looking for
You have dragged your weekend-weary, sorry self through the first day of work-week drudgery. It wasn’t easy, though, and you deserve a little reward. On your walk over for a much-needed ice cream cone at Ice Cream Social, stop by Peaks & Pints and grab our imperial cider flight, the Peaks & Pints Monday Imperial Cider Flight. Every Monday, Peaks & Pints offers a flight of ciders. Today, we’re bumping up the alcohol by volume to greater than eight percent. So, skip the OG magnum of Yellow Tail Shiraz and grab the after-work reward you were looking for. Stay for
You fancy, Fort George Sometimes Things Take Longer! Fancy Pants Sunday: Fort George Sometimes Things Take Longer Breweries barrel-age beer to extract compounds from the barrel’s wood fibers and its previous contents over time. These flavors and aromas infuse into the beer, adding a layer of complexity. Whether it’s a barrel-aged barleywine, bourbon barrel-aged Russian imperial stout, or a blend of barrel-aged barleywines and bourbon barrel-aged Russian imperial stout, the barrel’s lineage and heritage, along with the ingredients and the barrel-aging technique, engage beer fans and stimulate demand. Sometimes beer blends can be fancy, such as
“Invention, my dear friends, is 93 percent perspiration, 6 percent electricity, 4 percent evaporation, and 2 percent butterscotch ripple.” Those are the words of Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Brewing beer could be said to be much the same, especially when creative beer makers use all kinds of sweet treats in their recipes, from candy and cookies to cereal and cinnamon rolls. While the notion of a sweet beer may be sickening to those who prefer their hops, malt, and water to be unadorned by ingredients more commonly seen in children’s sticky hands on Halloween, there
Raised in Puyallup, Colin Lenfesty was a longtime homebrewer who worked his way into the former Schooner EXACT Brewing team, where he met sales guy Mike Murphy. In 2014, the two opened Holy Mountain in Seattle’s Interbay neighborhood. Their oak-influenced and mixed fermentation beers and hop-forward ales and lagers instantly gained crowds and awards. During the pandemic, Murphy left Holy Mountain and the industry to open Outer Dark Coffee in Tacoma, leaving Lenfesty to forge ahead. Forklift failures, whiskey wrestling, fly fishing, and the quickest and most delicious entry into craft beer fame — hear how Lenfesty built Holy Mountain
If you’re looking for a last-minute adventure to get out of town this weekend, Yakima Valley’s Varietal Beer Co. is hosting GoatFest in Sunnyside on May 10. Consisting of German bock-style and other German-style lagers, the event will be held at Centennial Square across the street from the Varietal brewery. Varietal partnered with Nuestra Casa again this year as the non-profit recipient of all proceeds from this event. Nuestra Casa’s mission is to empower immigrants to create positive changes, enriching themselves, their families, and their communities through education, advocacy, and mutual support. In celebration, Peaks & Pints presents a Friday
Peaks & Pints picked this six-pack from the new arrivals in our cooler. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 5.8.25 Peaks & Pints’ new beer six-pack 5.8.25 has all the flavor! 
BLOCK 15 BREWING BOARD SHORTS: Brewed in memory of original Block 15 bar manager, Seth, this summer IPA is brewed with Mosaic, Citra, Amarillo, and Galaxy for passionfruit and guava notes, 6.5%, 16oz CLOUDBURST BREWING HOT MINUTE: “You know a hop we haven’t used in ages?!” asks Cloudburst Brewing. “You’re never gonna guess so we’re just gonna tell you – Meridian. See, we knew
“In the quiet hollow of the Chimacum Valley, as the first green shoots push through soil warmed by lengthening days, we at Finnriver find ourselves at a similar threshold of emergence and renewal,” states Finnriver Farm & Cidery. “Like the apple trees in our orchard awakening from their winter slumber, we too are stretching toward new possibilities while remaining rooted in what matters most.” With spring’s warmth, Finnriver canned two of its beloved varieties, Bloom and Blush. In celebration of Finnriver’s first canning, Peaks & Pints hosts a Finnriver can release party and tap takeover from 5-8 p.m. Thursday, May
Every April, Great Notion Brewing launches its Get On the Bus campaign, releasing many trippy beers. What does Get on the Bus mean? It’s Great Notion’s celebration of the fun annual Bicycle Day (the first recorded LSD “trip” by Albert Hoffman on 4/19) and 4/20 cannabis celebration holidays honoring the Merry Pranksters and their Further Bus. Brewery owners Paul Reiter, James Dugan, and Andy Miller are big fans of Oregon legend Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters; thus, the brewery name and beer references stem from Sometimes a Great Notion. The brewery’s marijuana-themed beers have finally landed in
Born in Tijuana, Mexico, and raised in Southern California, Sam Zermeño has been brewing professionally since 2016, two years after he and his brother homebrewed in their driveway. He started as an assistant brewer at Black Market Brewing in Temecula, California. he was the R&D brewer at Great Notion for nearly three years, all during the Pandemic, and brewed for 10 months at Living Haüs Beer before opening Brujos Brewing on March 2 in the former Hammer & Stitch Brewing space. This weekend, Peaks & Pints picked up beer from Brujos’ all-black taproom with a mural of a skull bleeding
Peaks & Pints suggests you grab these six delicious beers. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 5.5.25 Start your week off right with a six-pack of new, delicious beer. Cheers! BREAKSIDE BREWERY DISCO OVERLOAD: A collaboration with Radiant Beer, this West Coast IPA brewed with Cashmere for notes of melon, Albarino grapes, almond cream, and Hawaiian punch, plus Mosaic and Simcoe for a one-two punch of tropical fruit, citrus, and dank notes to the party, and Krush for lime, guava, and under ripe peach notes, 6.6%, 16oz CLOUDBURST BREWING TOO MANY HASHTAGS: #DDHWCIPA #this #is #a
What are Mexican lagers? Some say their entire reason for existence is to lull the drinker into an 18-minute vacation. Others claim they were invented to soothe a grass-torn throat after mowing the lawn. Or maybe even serve as a crisp contradiction to the 10,000 Taco Tuesdays in Tacoma. It’s still a common belief that Mexican-style lagers are Vienna-style lagers based on the preferences of early German expats in Mexico. However, based on contemporary Mexican lagers, they vary widely in flavor, style, and appearance, and, therefore, so do the American-made Mexican-style lagers that pay homage to them because the Brewer’s
Pairing jazz and lambic beer can create a synergistic experience due to their shared characteristics of complexity, unpredictability, and a unique character that appeals to those who appreciate nuances. With its improvisational nature and often sour notes, jazz can complement lambic beer’s tart and sometimes wild flavors. Sold? Peaks & Pints combines jazz with lambics in our Events Room 5 to 8 p.m. every first Sunday. We call it Jambic & Lazz, featuring Kareem Kandi and his jazz trio paired with a lambic flight. For those who can’t make the show tonight, but still want to enjoy lambics on a
Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 5.2.25 Tons of fresh cans have just been added to the Peaks & Pints fridge, just in time for the weekend! Come hang out with the crew and enjoy a refreshing pint while shopping for Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 5.2.25. Cheers! BLOCK 15 BREWING STICKY HANDS JOKER’S JEST: Harlequin hops add mischievous notes of strawberry guava and sweet tarts to the resinous and punchy Sticky Hands double IPA base, 8.1%, 16oz CLAIM 52 BREWING STUFFED – FRUIT CEREAL: Collaboration with Drekker Brewing, this smoothie sour is conditioned on sweet cherry, raspberry, orange,
In September 2013, Rodger Davis and Claudia Pamparana opened Faction Brewing in Alameda, California. Davis has been a part of the West Coast craft beer scene for over 20 years. Originally a Southern California native, Davis received his certificate in Brewing Science from Siebel Institute of Technology and the World Brewing Academy in Chicago. Before opening Faction, he was the head brewer at Drake’s Brewing in San Leandro and Triple Rock Brewery in Berkeley. Rodger enjoys drinking Underbergs, repeatedly listening to Africa by Toto, and giving people the middle finger. Pamparana, Faction’s operations director, grew up in Southern California and
Ryan Diehl and Richard “Sid” Sidman opened Imprint Beer Company in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, in September 2018. Located in Montgomery County just north of Philadelphia, Imprint immediately had to increase their brewhouse size due partly 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, this is the brewery for you. Peaks & Pints thinks all we need to do is describe one of their beers, Schmoojee Orange Coconut a La Mode, a heavily fruited
“Cinco de Mayo,” Spanish for “the sink is full of mayonnaise.” OK, not really. We made that up, which is only fitting, because the idea that May 5 is a big holiday celebrated throughout Mexico is also made up. This yarn was spun by some PR hack for Corona beer in the ’80s when the company sought a way to get Americans to drink more beer. Since this is not an especially hard task, they didn’t work especially hard on the idea, not even hard enough to note that Mexico’s real Day of Independence is Sept. 16. Cinco de Mayo
Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 4.29.25 Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack 4.29.25 features six cans that fit nicely in your hand. Cheers! BLACK RAVEN BREWING COOLER RUNNINGS: Collaboration with Icicle Brewing, this West Coast pilsner is brewed with Columbus, Nugget, Strata, Citra, Motueka, and Nectaron hops, 5.8%, 16oz BLACK RAVEN HUNTER: Woody Creek Rye barrel-aged lightly smoked barleywine brewed in collaboration with Hair of the Dog Brewing, 12.11%, 16oz BUOY BEER MEXICAN LAGER: Bright and refreshing, this lager showcases smooth, light-bodied malt flavors with a touch of corn and aromas of corn chip and a hint of citrus
This past Earth Day, Firestone Walker Brewing took the opportunity to celebrate its “Brewing for Tomorrow” initiative, which is the brewery’s part in making the planet a little bit better. “Brewing for Tomorrow is about being good stewards of our natural resources,” said CEO Nick Firestone in a media release. “It’s a mindset that drives every decision we make. From solar and water to carbon and sourcing local grains, we’re committed to crafting beer with a lighter footprint and a deeper connection to our home.” As part of its Brewing for Tomorrow platform, Firestone Walker continues to invest in practical,
We’re in full spring mode. We’re packing our calendars with home projects, patio hangs, casual hikes, and picnics. And while it was fun to cozy up to imperial and barrel-aged ciders, we’re looking forward to berry-picking season. As these days usher in the return of strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, and blueberries, don’t miss out on the opportunity to savor those ripe flavors in cider form. It’s Monday, which means Peaks & Pints offers a flight of ciders. As you can guess from the brilliant introduction, we’re offering a flight of berry cider today—many cideries are brewing tart and balanced berry varieties
Fort George Brewery Sales Executive Kyle Vormestrand celebrates his Vortex IPA winning the Peaks & Pints 2025 Tournament of Beer: Northwest IPAs. Fort George dubbed April Vortex Month, a wise move that paid off in the Tournament of Beer: Northwest IPAs. Peaks & Pints 2025 Tournament of Beer: Northwest IPAs Winner and Recap It’s a simple equation: Water plus grain, hops, and yeast. But hidden within this simple formula is a universe of variety. Session or imperial? Clear or hazy? Tropical or dank? West Coast or Northwest? Pacific Northwest brewers who brew
April 4-26, 2025, Peaks & Pints pitted 64 of the Pacific Northwest’s best in a malty head-to-head battle of Northwest-style IPAs. We speak, of course, of the Tournament of Beer: Northwest IPAs. The public selected and seeded sixty-four Washington and Oregon-brewed Northwest-style IPAs in February 2025. Some IPAs fell easily by the wayside, either faltering due to a defective mash tun paddle or simply because they faced a superior opponent. Chinook by Chinook, the Pacific Northwest drank its way through the first two rounds followed by the Sweet Wort 16, the Hot Break Eight, the Final Four and today’s Championship
Peaks & Pints bartender Matthew Usher and co-owner Pappi Swarner call the Tournament of Beer: Northwest IPAs Championship Game. Tournament of Northwest IPAs: Final Vote and Tonight’s Party PAPPI SWARNER: Oh, the carnage! Oh, the humanity! Oh, the late kettle additions! MATTHEW USHER: The prodigious Northwest-style IPA throwdown finale is on! Voting for the Peaks & Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest IPAs Championship Game is live. Hello Tournament tribe! I’m Peaks bartender Matthew Usher. After three weeks of voting, you have picked the most popular Northwest-style IPAs in the Pacific Northwest. What began as 64 Cascade
This one would be a contender if the Tournament of Beer: Northwest Six-Packs exists. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 4.25.25 You worked for the weekend. We believe you’ll enjoy this six-pack of new arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler. Cheers! BALE BREAKER BREWING LAS MAS BUENA: Crafted with flaked corn and Pilsner malt for a malt-forward Mexican-style lager with bread dough and corn chip aromas followed by fruit and floral hints, 5%, 16oz FORT GEORGE BREWERY FIELDS OF GREEN CODENAME — COSME: Seriously opaque, positively citrusy Hazy IPA brewed with Idaho 7, Mosaic Cryo,
Peaks & Pints pitted the Pacific Northwest’s best Northwest-style IPAs for three weeks in a head-to-head battle of malts and hops. We speak, of course, of the Tournament of Beer: Northwest IPAs. Sixty-four Northwest-style IPAs brewed in the lands of Oregon and Washington were selected and seeded by the public throughout February, separated into four geographical regions: Northern Washington, Southern Washington, Northern Oregon, and Southern Oregon, with only one IPA per brewery. Through voting on Peaks’ Instagram Stories, IPA drinkers have picked winners until the best Northwest-style IPA is crowned, which will be tomorrow at the Tournament of Beer Party
Peaks & Pints bartenders Phaedra and Mitchell call the Tournament of Beer: Northwest IPAs Final Four. E9 Brewing slinging pints during its Hot Break Eight game against Odd Otter. Peaks & Pints 2025 Tournament of Beer: Northwest IPAs: Final Four The Pacific Northwest loves Northwest-style IPAs — at least according to the thousands who voted in our Tournament of Beer: Northwest IPAs. Yesterday’s IPA voting action doubled the previous highest vote count for a single day. And the top seeds in every match won. What four hop-slinging breweries will move on to
Six-pack of new arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 4.24.25 New week, new beer six-pack — and this one’s packed with flavor! 
BLOCK 15 BREWING DEMO TAPE SIDE A: West Coast IPA brewed with the dynamic duo of Talus and Krush hops, blasting notes of citrus and tropical fruits dripping in hop resin, 7%, 16oz EVIL TWIN BREWING POST MARLON(E): Quadruple IPA Double dry-hopped with Riwaka AND Riwaka Amplifire for citrus, tropical fruit, floral, herbal, and spicy fruit rind with a long citrus bitterness finish, 12%, 16oz LITTLE
Forged in 1995, AleSmith Brewing has been recognized by consumers and critics alike as one of the world’s foremost craft brewing companies, behind accolades, including medals won at prestigious national and international beer competitions. AleSmith was acknowledged by the RateBeer community as the 6th Best Brewery in the World in 2018. AleSmith’s range of acclaimed beers, which includes Speedway Stout, Nut Brown Ale, and San Diego Pale Ale .394 is distributed in 28 U.S. states and eight countries. The brewery is celebrating its 29th year in business and occupies a 109,942 square-foot facility with a state-of-the-art brewery in the heart
Peaks & Pints bartenders Quinn and Matthew preview the Tournament of Beer: Northwest IPAs Hot Break Eight. Peaks & Pints 2025 Tournament of Beer Northwest IPAs Hot Break Eight The Hot Break Eight is fully fleshed out: Georgetown Lucille, Stoup Citra IPA, Odd Otter Optimus Pine, E9 Realize Real Lies, Fort George Vortex, pFriem IPA, Boneyard RPM, and Bend Brewing Tropic Pines. All the signs in the breweries, the mass emailings to customers and friends, the IPA phone trees have paid off for these eight hop slingers. It’s now do or diacetyl time for the IPA
Today, the German Beer Purity Law — Reinheitsgebot — celebrates 509 years of absolutely nothing but barley (or wheat), hops, water, and yeast. Not so much as a spruce tip or cacao nib may defile anything called “beer.” Across Germany, breweries, brewing museums, beer gardens, and microbreweries will mark the purity law anniversary by opening their doors to allow a glimpse behind the scenes for visitors to experience the art of brewing and its long history. German brewing traditions are influenced by the highly controlled, pragmatic Bavarian approach of the Reinheitsgebot, coupled with the flamboyant, daring, and just plain weird
Peaks & Pints bartenders Phaedra and Monica call the Tournament of Beer: Northwest IPAs Sweet Wort 16 games. Peaks & Pints 2025 Tournament of Beer: Northwest IPAs April 23 What is the best Northwest-style IPA in Oregon and Washington? You think you know where to find it. We all do. After weeks of feverish voting (and with the help of a nifty contraption called Instagram Stories), we at Peaks & Pints have watched you, beloved voters, narrow down the Pacific Northwest IPAs from 64 to the very best 16, the creamy mouthfeel of the crop. Yesterday,
Seattle native Josh Pfriem began homebrewing at Western Washington University in his early 20s, then moved to Utah as a ski bum. He worked at Utah Brewers Cooperative for a few years before returning to his old college town of Bellingham to brew at Chuckanut Brewery, where he helped win the Great American Beer Festival Small Brewpub of the Year in 2009. He moved to Hood River, Oregon, to work at Full Sail but left in December 2011 to open pFriem Family Brewers — across the highway from Full Sail, along the banks of the Columbia River — in August
Peaks & Pints co-owner Pappi Swarner and bartender Matthew Usher return to call the Tournameny of Beer: Northwest IPAs Sweet Wortk 16 opening day. Peaks & Pints 2025 Tournament of Beer: Northwest IPAs Sweet Work 16 For over two weeks, we have asked you a compelling question: Who makes the best Northwest-style IPA in Oregon and Washington? And you have responded in multitudes. Vacation days have been used. Neighbors have started feuds. People are selling their wine cellars. Craziness! The competition had been whittled down to the Sweet Wort 16. Yes, 16 Northwest IPAs are poised
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, and Yonder East, a taproom in Cashmere, Washington, which opened last summer. As the latest addition to Side Street in Cashmere, the taproom is set in a 3,900 square foot mid-century modern-inspired basement, with an additional 2,500 square foot outdoor patio. Crafted using a blend of bittersweet cider apples and juicy dessert apples, Yonder ciders
Peaks & Pints Tournament of Beer Director Pappi Swarner and Peaks bartender Matthew Usher call the Tournament of Beer: Northwest IPAs Second Round final games. Peaks & Pints 2025 Tournament of Beer Northwest IPAs April 21 Beginning tomorrow, we’ll cut the field of 64 Oregon and Washington-brewed Northwest IPAs to the Sweet Wort 16. Then, on April 24, it’ll drop to eight. Saturday, April 26, we’ll announce the winner of the Tournament of Beer: Northwest IPAs — picked by you, of course — at our beer bar, bottle shop, and restaurant in Tacoma’s Proctor District. On
There’s no shortage of things you can do to prepare for 4/20, like, say, visiting numerous dispensaries and buying copious amounts of deeply discounted cannabis and cannabis products, and then, you know, consuming them today, perhaps in a Mrs. Butterworth’s bong or Cheech & Chong joint. Hey, so long as you consume responsibly and don’t drive afterward. Or you could lounge around on the couch or in the backyard and enjoy drinking beers that are “dank,” a term that means pungent, funky, and odoriferous, to both good weed and very hoppy IPAs. Dank means an extremely overpowering odor that can
Today’s curated six-pack of recent arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler includes treasures. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 4.19.25 Here’s another curated six-pack from new arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler. This round includes an Imprint Beer’s Schmoojee smoothie sours, AleSmith meets Modern Times Speedway Monsters Park imperial stout, and a pFriem + Von Ebert West Coast IPA. Cheers! ALESMITH BREWING BARREL-AGED SPEEDWAY STOUT MONSTER’S PARK CHOCOLATE ESPRESSO EDITION: Collaboration with Modern Times Beer, this imperial stout is aged in bourbon barrels with Dominican cacao nibs and espresso, 13.62%, 16 oz ALESMITH SPEEDWAY
Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø, the founder and man behind Evil Twin Brewing, was a physics and English teacher in his native Denmark before starting Copenhagen’s Ølbutikken, a highly regarded beer store. He’s also an evil twin himself. His brother, Mikkel Borg Bergsø, brews under the Mikkeller label. Jarnit-Bjergsø, however, has done his best to outshine the good twin. He founded Evil Twin as a nomadic brewery on April 1st, 2010, the same day his second son was born, marking a significant milestone in his brewing journey. Like his brother Mikkel, Jarnit-Bjergsø would concoct a recipe for his beer and hand it to
Silver Moon IPA 97 and Crux Grade A IPA faced off yesterday. See the winner below. Peaks & Pints 2025 Tournament of Beer: Northwest IPAs April 19 Peaks and Pints challenged 64 Oregon and Washington’s best Northwest-style IPAs to go IBU-to-IBU in craft beer combat for over two weeks. Some fell easily by the wayside, either due to a rogue taproom employee or simply because they faced a superior opponent. Pint by pint, we drank our way through two weeks. It was do-or-die, win-or-fly, bring-your-best-or-acetaldehyde. Here’s a recap of yesterday’s Tournament of Beer Second Round action—the
There are several 4/20 beers in our hand-selected Friday six-pack of new beers. Peaks & Pints New Arrivals Six-Pack: 4.18.25 Friday is finally here, and some freshies have landed in our 850+ cooler, including some 4/20 beers for Sunday. Cheers! EVIL TWIN BREWING THIS DELI NEEDS A BIGGER DOUBLE KIWI LIME COCONUT MUFFIN LASI GOSE — MARSHMALLOW TREATMENT: As the name suggests, this imperial gose is a collaboration with Omnipollo, brewed with milk sugar, kiwi, coconut, lime, sea salt, and marshmallow for tangy acidity, tropical fruit, coconut cream, and marshmallow fluff, 7%, 16oz FREMONT BREWING KUSH:
Casey and Laura Ruud purchased the floundering Winthrop brewery in 2008, changed the name to Old Schoolhouse Brewery, cleaned it up, and quickly turned it into an award-winning gem of a brewpub. Life happens, and the Ruuds sold the brewery to three gentlemen who grew up in New Hampshire together, brothers Nathan and Jacob Young, and Troy Anderson. Jacob and Nathan knew restaurants and bars inside and out. Troy coached high school track with Jacob and worked at Microsoft with Nathan. All three enjoy the outdoors, which is almost mandatory since the original riverfront brewery and gastropub is in Winthrop,
Peaks & Pints bartenders Casey and Trish call the Tournament of Beer: Northwest IPAs Second Round action on this Friday. Peaks & Pints 2025 Tournament of Beer: Northwest IPAs April 18 Laid-back is the essence of Friday. That means an early lunch with a Northwest-style IPA. Then, blaze from work early to grab another IPA. Dinner with friends at Peaks & Pints and plenty more IPAs … you know the routine. The mere thought of lifting a finger to wash the mountain of dishes in the sink should make you shudder. Yesterday, a good chunk of
The sound — a satisfying palm-to-palm WHAP! — rings out and for a second seems to silence everyone and everything else nearby. It snaps everyone awake, as if from a long slumber, before Peaks & Pints Kitchen Aaron quips, “That’s right, brother! It’s National High Five Day!” Indeed, it’s the third Thursday in April, National High Five Day. The day is dedicated to giving high-fives to everyone for any reason whatsoever. Ate today’s Peaks & Pints sandwich special? High Five! Voted in the Tournament of Beer: Northwest IPAs? High Five! Enjoyed today’s High Five Beer Flight? High Five! There is
