This Wednesday, July 23, the Grit & Grain Podcast descends into the hallowed, cedar-scented halls of Peaks & Pints for a rare, soil-to-glass summit: a double live recording with Brian Estes of LINC Malt and Rikki Welz of HAAS hops, the elemental conjurers of barley and bitterness, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Tacoma’s Proctor District. To honor this communion of terroir and terpenes, of loam and lupulin, we present a flight brewed in their image — a five-glass tribute to the flavor architects working quietly beneath your pint. This is not a beer flight. This is an edible syllabus.
The 2025 Goose Island Bourbon County Stout lineup, photo courtesy of Goose Island Mashing-In News: Grain & Hops on Mic, Bourbon County 2025 GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Wednesday, July 23, 2025 — Woody Harrelson turns 64 today! From soil-to-glass storytelling in Tacoma to honeywine showdowns in Centralia, brewery closures across the pond, and coast-to-coast craft shifts—from Australia to Alberta—today’s craft beer news pours a full flight of flavor, fallout, and fresh perspective. Grains & Hops: Grit & Grain Podcast Double Header at Peaks & Pints The Grit & Grain Podcast records a special double episode
Today’s Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack is here—a Tuesday treasure chest of flavor and feeling, brewed for hammock days, campfire nights, and fantasy quests that start at the bottle shop. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Tuesday, July 22 It’s Tuesday, which means new beer has dropped at Peaks & Pints. We’ve got Dutch dessert dragsters. Lime-soaked lagers. A hazy spell cast straight from the Holy Mountain. Also: hop lightning, campfire lullabies, and one beer that practically speaks fluent Cologne. This isn’t just a six-pack—it’s a curated, contemplative tasting flight for your inner poet, your
Ah, the aluminum cylinder. Maligned by purists, underestimated by connoisseurs, reborn by craft alchemists into objects of art, rebellion, and outright joy. Today, on National Beer Can Appreciation Day, Peaks & Pints invites you to crack the code — and a few cold ones — in tribute to the can: that portable, recyclable miracle that once carried only the pale shame of macroswill, but now gleams with the mythos of Dale’s, the legacy of Rude Parrot, the ethereal florals of Fair Isle, the pastel phantasmagoria of Great Notion, and yes, the sheer audacity of a 32-ounce campfire-festooned crowler filled with
The Parkway Tavern in Tacoma turns 90 Saturday. Mashing-In News: Parkway Turns 90, Redmond Brewfest GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Tuesday, July 22, 2025 — George Clinton turns 84 today! From blackberry-soaked summer seasonals to balloon-lit beer festivals, Tuesday’s craft beer report is positively bursting at the seams with flavor, nostalgia, and the occasional child-related controversy. We raise a toast to Tacoma’s beloved Parkway Tavern as it hits the 90-year mark with a party steeped in memory and malt, and we head south to Redmond, Oregon, where hot air balloons and hopheads collide in glowing harmony.
Today isn’t just Monday. It isn’t even just a Monday. It’s Belgian National Day, the kind of calendar oddity that causes monks to raise chalices, constitutional scholars to toast to long-dead kings, and Americans to wonder, “Is that the one with waffles or beer?” (Answer: Yes.) On July 21, 1831, a German prince named Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg swore allegiance to Belgium’s new constitution and became King Leopold I, a king of beer-loving people forged from revolution and stubborn charm. Since then, Belgians have marked this date with fireworks, fanfare, and a sensible number of Abbey ales. At Peaks & Pints,
You got your hops in my malt! You got your malt in my hops! Together, Rikki Welz and Brian Estes are the unexpectedly perfect pairing that makes the Grit & Grain Podcast taste like brewing brilliance. Peaks & Pints 6-Pack of Things To Do: July 21–27, 2025 Welcome to the week where history drinks with the present, where yeast gets philosophical, where stadium lights glow tie-dye, and where the air of Tacoma—notorious, beloved, occasionally misunderstood—is ready for its moment in the spotlight. This 6-Pack is your backstage pass to a week drenched in storytelling, salsa steps,
Trail Report: Huckleberry Mountain in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest is brushy in spots but clear, with large berry patches and views of Glacier Peak. Bug nets are strongly recommended. Washington Trails & Taps Weekly Recap: July 14–20, 2025 July, in all its shimmering glory, delivered the kind of week that makes the Pacific Northwest blush. Think: ridge trails humming with bees, mountain goats striking poses on granite outcrops, and that moment of alpine quiet when the only sound is your own breath—and maybe a pika squeak. But even amid all that splendor, fire danger edged
Evergreen State Brewing announced their moving their Tacoma location to Dock Street. Mashing-In News: Evergreen State Brewing moving, No-Li Brewhouse in the news GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Monday, July 21, 2025 — Jon Lovitz turns 68 today! From waterfront taproom upgrades and First Amendment brews to a rustic Belgian revival and the ripple effects of global tariffs, today’s craft beer headlines pour deep with flavor, community, and change. Evergreen State Brewing Taproom Relocating to Tacoma’s Historic Henry Building Evergreen State Brewing is moving its Tacoma taproom to the historic Henry Building on Dock Street, upgrading
There are rules, of course—meal sequences, responsible pacing, that little voice whispering maybe not five dessert beers in a row. To that we say: nonsense, darling. On this cloudy Tacoma Sunday, Peaks & Pints invites you to flip the script and plunge spoon-first into your sweet tooth’s subconscious. Welcome to Dessert First, our five-beer flight of marshmallow daydreams, berry-laced stardust, peanut butter smoke rings, coffee crème wizardry, and one bourbon-soaked mic drop disguised as a stout. This isn’t just beer—it’s a pastry opera in five movements. Lick the spoon. Skip the salad. Bring a friend who says, “I don’t usually
The Proctor Pick-Me-Up Six-Pack—a curated, gloriously chilled thank-you note to your shopper’s soul. Six liquid treasures, none of which can be found at the Proctor Farmers Market, Compass Rose, or Ice Cream Social, though they pair suspiciously well with all of the above. Proctor Treasures for Your Tote. And Now, Your Fridge Ah yes, the Proctor Sidewalk Sale—that glorious Friday through Sunday neighborhood ritual where the air smells like sunscreen and basil, your tote bags multiply like rabbits, and every other sentence you hear begins with “Wait, is this handmade?” It’s the kind of weekend that
Saturday, July 19 Forecast: patchy morning gloom tapering into sun-splashed denial by 3 p.m., with emotional visibility improving considerably if enjoyed under a patio umbrella. Welcome to Cloudy With a Chance of Hops, our soft-focus meditation on haze, wheat, and that most Pacific Northwest of weather phenomena: the slow-rolling fogbomb. These are not beers that punch—they glide. No bitterness, no bar fights. Just five mist-kissed pours brewed for hammock lounging, ferryboat zoning, or staring at the sky like it owes you a better metaphor. This is your brain on soft light and Citra. Peaks & Pints Beer Flight: Cloudy With
Today’s lineup is a mossy meditation on West Coast clarity, New Zealand breeze, and Bellingham haze—brewed for trailhead tailgates, ferryboat daydreams, and hammock-induced existential reboots. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Friday, July 18 2025 Welcome to the Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack, your daily dispatch from the misty, pine-slicked edges of Cascadia where hops grow like weeds and every can crack echoes off Mt. Rainier. Today’s lineup is a mossy meditation on West Coast clarity, New Zealand breeze, and Bellingham haze—six selections brewed for trailhead tailgates, ferry boat daydreams, and hammock-induced existential reboots. It’s
Ah yes, St. Arnoldus of Soissons—the myth, the monk, the medieval microbiologist who looked upon the tepid, parasite-laced waters of 11th-century Belgium and thought: “Nope. Let’s boil that hellscape and add hops.” Canonized not just for his piety but for his prescience, St. Arnoldus urged the masses to “drink beer, not water,” which in retrospect is perhaps the most righteous public health campaign ever disguised as day drinking. He is the patron saint of brewers, alewives, and those of us who’ve seen God in the golden shimmer of a Belgian tripel—and on July 18, we raise our chalices not just
In Episode 152 of Grit & Grain, the crew returns from a summer break to swap mountain, camping, and beer fest stories while diving into the latest Brewers Association data on craft beer’s evolving landscape. Mashing-In News: Matt Swihart, Thorsten Geuer GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Friday, July 18, 2025 — Kristen Bell turns 45 today! As the summer sun climbs and cold pours flow, the craft beer world is bubbling with bold debuts, nostalgic returns, and thought-provoking industry reckonings—from mountaintop podcast musings and 30-year throwbacks to billion-dollar projections and pint-glass celebrations. From Peak to Pint:
Welcome, haze chasers, coconut crooners, and citrus zealots—we’ve assembled a swirling, hop-spun six-pack built for the blissfully unhinged. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Thursday, July 17, 2025 Welcome to the Thursday New Beer Six-Pack, a swirling, hop-spun meditation on fruit-forward delirium, diesel-soaked pine, and one imperial daydream designed to make your socks roll down of their own accord. Today, we tap into neon haze visions from Ravenna, citrus sermons from Structures, and dank tropical mind games courtesy of Vice and Mother Earth. It’s a lineup brewed for the blissfully unhinged—those who believe peach sherbet belongs
Step into the soft-glow kaleidoscope of São Paulo’s Japas Cervejaria, where beer is not simply brewed—it is braided. Braided from threads of Japanese heritage, Brazilian vibrance, and radical feminine intuition. Founded by three women of Nipo-Brazilian descent who reappropriated the word “Japas” with righteous elegance, this brewery weaves ancestral memory with modern moxie, crafting beers that sip like origin stories told under paper lanterns. Each pour is a page from a family scroll rewritten with rice, jasmine, citrus, and wit—equal parts reverent and rebellious. Today’s flight is your boarding pass. Begin with Sawā Strawberry, a strawberry sour that pirouettes between
Oregon City Brewing, Reuben’s Brews, and Sunriver Lead Northwest Wins at U.S. Open Beer Championships. Mashing-In News: U.S. Open Beer Winners, Washington Beer Awards GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Thursday, July 17, 2025 — David Hasselhoff turns 73 today! The Pacific Northwest continued to impress at the U.S. Open Beer Championship in Oxford, Ohio, as Oregon City Brewing led the charge with five medals, while Seattle’s Reuben’s Brews and Oregon’s Sunriver Brewing each claimed four. Back home, the final hours are ticking away for breweries to enter the 2025 Washington Beer Awards, with registration closing tonight
On this day in 1909, Tacoma put on its fanciest hat, gathered its loudest marching band, and declared itself center stage at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle. Tacoma Day was a spectacle—15,000 proud residents parading through 20 blocks of downtown Seattle, speeches about Mt. Rainier and industrial supremacy, fireworks over Elliott Bay, and a not-so-subtle reminder that the City of Destiny had every right to strut. Today, Peaks & Pints raises a taster glass (or five) to Tacoma’s chutzpah with a beer flight brewed entirely within city limits. No I-5 traffic jams. No bridges. No Seattle collabs. Just Tacoma breweries
Join the Grit & Grain Podcast at 3:30 p.m. today in the Peaks & Pints Events Room as they dive into the Brewers Association’s New Brewer May–June 2025 Industry Report. Photo courtesy of the Brewers Association Mashing-In News: Jack McAuliffe Dies, Stone Distributing Sold GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Wednesday, July 16, 2025 — Will Ferrell turns 58 today! Today, the craft beer world reflects, recalibrates, and raises a glass. The Grit & Grain Podcast invites beer lovers and industry insiders to Peaks & Pints today at 3:30 p.m. for a deep dive into the Brewers
Peaks & Pints Tuesday New Beer Six-Pack is less “variety pack” and more kaleidoscopic spirit quest in six liquid acts. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Tuesday, July 15, 2025 Behold, dear disciples of the divine six-pack, the latest Peaks & Pints Tuesday New Beer Six-Pack—a radiant sextet of sudsy seraphim, each arriving like a flavor-drenched telegram from the edge of fermented possibility. Today’s lineup is part dream journal, part protest poem, part dessert cart, and all unapologetic vibe. We have caffeinated tuxedo stouts sashaying across midnight lounges, saisons that flirt like herbalist ballerinas, and IPAs
Teriyaki chicken in a passionate embrace with Havarti. Pineapple doing its sweet sun-kissed shimmy. Mayo and romaine, because even tropical indulgence needs a crisp, creamy backbone. All pressed lovingly into a French roll that thinks it’s on sabbatical in Maui. Peaks & Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: The Hula Melt Tuesday, July 15, 2025: Behold The Hula Melt, our sun-dazed ode to edible escapism, where teriyaki chicken does a slow dance with melty Havarti beneath a pineapple sunburst, while mayo and romaine offer a creamy, verdant crunch like a polite beach towel handshake. All of it cozied
On this day in 1954, a peculiar silver dart known as the Boeing 367-80 — the “Dash 80,” if you were lucky enough to be on the inside of Seattle’s holy sky-factory — lifted from the soggy, hopeful banks of Renton Field and tore a giddy hole through the sky. It was sleek. It was rebellious. It didn’t care if TWA gave it side-eye. It flew like the future itself, a jet-fueled middle finger to the era of sputtering propellers and stewardesses in girdles. And when Boeing test pilot Tex Johnson — all guts, swagger, and cowboy DNA — famously
Mashing-In News: Lagerhead Beer Fest, Brewing Hope GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Tuesday, July 15, 2025 — Linda Ronstadt turns 79 today! Today’s craft beer news flows with purpose, pride, and unexpected hops of innovation—from Snoqualmie’s conservation-driven Lagerhead Beer Fest and Stoup Brewing’s pint-for-a-cause launch, to global stories of brewing transformation in Ghana and Australia. Whether you’re chasing lagers in the Cascades, exploring Boise’s beer-soaked backstreets, or decoding Yakima Chief’s new hop matrix, there’s something here for every brewer, drinker, and cider sipper with a thirst for what’s next. Lager Than Life: Snoqualmie’s Beer Fest Pours With Purpose Lagerhead Beer
6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma: July 14-20, 2025 Welcome, seekers of the strange and sublime, to the sacred scroll of summer offerings—your Peaks & Pints 6-Pack of Things To Do, July 14–20 edition. It’s a week stitched together with orchard ghosts and Broadway dreams, flannel-fueled resurrections and honky-tonk confessions, speed-freak sermons and paint-splattered sidewalk rites. It’s Tacoma, in all its beautifully unhinged glory: cobblestone nostalgia and citrus-laced IPA, 200-mph cinema and ceramic goat planters, all humming in perfect, chaotic harmony. If you don’t find something to love in this lineup, check your pulse—or at least your playlist. Peaks
Before the condos and breweries, before the concrete silenced the cobblestones, Tacoma’s Fruit & Produce Row thrummed with the sweet industry of the orchard. In the early 1900s, the stretch along Dock Street and Pacific Avenue was a pulpy artery of commerce, where crates of apples, pears, and cherries arrived by train, were packed in sawdust and railcars, and departed by ship to the hungry West Coast. Stamped with names like Wenatchee, Yakima, and Hood River, the fruit flowed through Tacoma like lifeblood—sticky, fragrant, and vital. On Monday, July 14, Peaks & Pints raises a cider-stained toast to this legacy
“ATTENTION, HUMANS: THE MEADOWS ARE BLOOMING, THE MOSQUITOES ARE BITING, AND YOU STILL CAN’T HAVE A CAMPFIRE!”– Public Service Announcement by the Official Spokesgopher of the Washington Trails & Taps Weekly Recap, July 7–13, 2025. Washington Trails & Taps Weekly Recap: July 7–13, 2025 As summer stretched its golden limbs deeper into July, hikers across Washington laced up for lupine-lined ridges, glacier-fed plunge pools, and the alpine hush of marmot kingdoms. Yet the drumbeat of burn bans grew louder, echoing from Cascadia’s state parks to sunburnt backcountry clearings. Still, reports rolled in with joy: waterfalls roared,
Grains of Wrath threw their inaugural IPA bacchanal in the blacktop coliseum behind their production facility, where 37 of the West’s elite poured sun-slicked sermons of clarity, bitterness, and joy into our parched and willing souls. Mashing-In News: Legends of the West Recap, Meet Westwood Farms GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Monday, July 14, 2025 — Conor McGregor turns 37 today! Some days in craft beer feel like quiet head-nods in a sunlit taproom; others feel like a triple IPA-fueled cannonball into a vat of dry-hopped revelation. Today? Absolute lupulin whiplash. From a fire-breathing IPA fest
Grains of Wrath owner Mike Hunsaker summoned the lupulin faithful to Washougal for the inaugural Legends of the West—a sun-blasted West Coast IPA ritual where asphalt radiated heat and clarity reigned supreme. Shanleigh Thomson of Shan Ferments Legends of the West IPA Fest Arrives With a Roar It was the kind of day that made the sun feel like it had taken a personal interest in your scalp—pure sky, 89 degrees of heat shimmering off asphalt, and the scent of 40-ish West Coast IPAs mingling with food cart spice and sunscreen. Legends
You don’t drink an Ale Apothecary beer so much as you time-travel through it—fermentation as séance, barrel as oracle, yeast as unruly poet. These are not beverages. These are wild, wood-whispered spells, brewed in the high desert cathedral of Bend by Paul Arney, Oregon’s funky-bearded fermentation mystic. Every bottle is a ritual, every pour a memory you don’t quite remember having: fir needles and folklore, spruce ghosts and wine-barrel hauntings, microbes whispering in ancient tongues. Today’s Peaks & Pints Beer Flight: Ale Apothecary gathers five of these strange and wonderful elixirs—each one spontaneous, reverent, unrushed, and wholly, gloriously alive. Sip
Today and tomorrow, Tacoma Porchfest strums to life—porches become stages, sidewalks become dance floors, and neighborhoods hum with the buzz of borrowed amps and backyard dreams. And here at Peaks & Pints, we’re handing the mic to the beers. This Saturday flight isn’t just a lineup—it’s a living, humming, hop-soaked mixtape of fictional bands born from the cans themselves. From a flannel-fueled IPA garage band and a synth-surf hexcaster, to a barefoot indie pop sunbeam and a hammock-dreaming psych-pop daybreak, each beer performs its own flavor-forward set from a different porch in the city. Roll for initiative. Crack a can.
These are your new devotionals. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Friday, July 11, 2025 Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack, a curated sextet of shimmering elixirs for your pleasure cortex and sweaty July rituals. It is summer incarnate, in cans: West Coast odes to grapefruit ghosts, New Zealand pilsners that wear electric tap shoes, rice lagers that whisper makrut truths, and even a unicorn-laced lager that flips the finger to conformity with a rainbow grin. These aren’t just beers—they’re liquid manifestos, brewed for porch philosophers, Pride paraders, and anyone who’s ever cried into a citrus
Senator Rosa Franklin stands tall in grace and legacy, her image rooted among the silvered paper birches that now bear her name in quiet reverence. Tacoma’s Silent Trees: Paper Birches Speak at Senator Rosa Franklin Park “We have seen much,” said the paper birch trees at Senator Rosa Franklin Park, their silvered limbs trembling with pride. “We’ve shaded the laughter of children and the footsteps of generations. We’ve endured seasons of silence, of song, of change.” But on February 22, 2021, as neighbors gathered beneath their branches and the wind held its breath, the birches watched
So here it is, our final glittering toast of the season: Peaks & Pints Proctor Pride Beer Flight: Tacoma Pride—a kaleidoscopic quintet of beers brewed not just with hops and grain, but with purpose, protest, and the kind of incandescent joy that survives both legislation and hangovers. We raise our glasses not only to Tacoma Pride Festival, erupting in color and courage across the city this weekend, but also to our beloved friends at Proctor Pride, whose loud, loving presence in the neighborhood made our first two Pride flights in June possible and meaningful. This is the third and final
7 Seas Brewing celebrates 16 years Saturday in their Gig Harbor taproom. Mashing-In News: Anniversary Parties, Legends of the West GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Friday, July 11, 2025 — Lil’ Kim turns 50 today! 7 Seas Marks Sweet 16 With Beers and Cheers in Gig Harbor 7 Seas Brewing celebrates 16 years of craft this Saturday, July 12, with an all-day, all-ages party at their Gig Harbor taproom featuring special anniversary beer releases and good vibes on the waterfront. (7 Seas Brewing) Two Years on the Ridge: Holy Mountain Taps Into Anniversary Glory Holy Mountain
Today’s Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack isn’t just a lineup—it’s a mid-July invocation. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Thursday, July 10, 2025 Welcome to today’s new beer six‑pack séance, where hops whisper secrets, saisons breathe like linen ghosts, and double IPAs throw fastballs straight through your serotonin. Each bottle, each can, is a little ceremony — of fermentation, yes, but also of longing, of tongue-bound transcendence, of the elegant madness that is midsummer in the 253. Ready your glasses, ye of great thirst and delicate weirdness. This is your Thursday gospel in liquid form.
Today’s special dares you to bite the sun: the Pineapple Provocateur, a stacked fever dream of grilled chicken, smoky bacon, caramel-laced barbecue teriyaki, molten provolone, green onion crunch, arugula snap, and golden pineapple rings glistening like forbidden fruit on toasted sourdough. Peaks & Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: Pineapple Provocateur Thursday, July 10, 2025: Behold Peaks & Pints Kitchen Brittany’s Pineapple Provocateur—a sandwich that doesn’t whisper, doesn’t nudge, doesn’t politely knock. No, this one struts in with a bacon-crackled grin, teriyaki barbecue dripping from its sly little smirk, and pineapple rings gleaming like sun-soaked amulets of tropical
Today, Peaks & Pints casts off the blender and reimagines the piña colada as a five-beer flight of tropical fever dreams and tiki-transcendent delights. No cruise ship shame. No bar blender trauma. Just pineapple in exaltation, coconut in velvet devotion, lime and Tajín and marshmallow and graham cracker crust in glorious, fermented mischief. From key lime pie epiphanies to sour ale soul cleanses, from soft-spoken island wheat to a spirulina-soaked psychedelic smoothie that tastes like a piña colada drank too much sunlight and danced itself fluorescent—this is the colada deconstructed, refracted, and reborn in five pours of radiant paradise. Bring
LAGERHEAD—a lager-forward revelry of nearly 50 breweries pouring crisp wonders in support of Washington Wild. Mashing-In News: LAGERHEAD Fest, Women in Beer Awards GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Thursday, July 10, 2025 —Arlo Guthrie turns 78 today! Today’s craft currents bring lager dreams and lifted voices, THC fizz and Deadhead pours. In Snoqualmie, the rare and the righteous gather under the mountain mist for LAGERHEAD—a lager-forward revelry of nearly 50 breweries pouring crisp wonders in support of Washington Wild. Across the pond, the inaugural Women in Beer Awards prepares to spotlight the oft-overlooked brilliance fermenting behind
Your midweek miracle has arrived, straight from the cooler into the cosmos—six fresh arrivals at Peaks & Pints, each one a liquid sermon in its own right. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: July 9, 2025 Welcome to Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: July 9, 2025, where the cooler runsneth over with lupulin revelations and seasonal wizardry so potent it could recalibrate your entire sense of what a Wednesday should taste like. From a guava-glazed supernova that dares your frontal cortex to keep up, to a rice lager as delicate and deliberate as a cedar
The salinity in SeaQuench mirrors the oceanic soul of the tuna, amplifying its depth without drowning it. Peaks & Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: The Gouda Catch Wednesday, July 9, 2025: Once, it swam the mythic depths—fleet of fin, silver as secrets, dreaming of brine and moonlight. Now, kissed by rosemary’s herb-laced whisper and tucked beneath arugula’s peppered canopy, it surfaces anew on warm French bread, bearing gifts. Smoked Gouda melts like forbidden knowledge, binding sea to land, bite to bliss. This isn’t just Peaks & Pints Wednesday Sandwich Special—it’s a maritime sonnet in sandwich form. The
Once, it brayed with fire-wheels and horse screams, the great red doors flung wide as soot-kissed men hauled brass and fury into Tacoma’s North End infernos. Engine House No. 9 was born in July 1907 with ash in its lungs and civic duty in its bones, a stalwart Edwardian firehouse stitched from brick and steam just uphill from the port’s restless tides. It outlived the horses, outlasted the quake, and dodged death by disrepair until, in 1971, two journalists from The Tacoma News Tribune—Win Anderson and Bob Lane—purchased the boarded-up relic and began resurrecting it with ink-stained hands and reverent
Triceratops Brewing in Tumwater has announced the return of its award-winning hard sodas. Mashing-In News: Modern Times Rebuilds, Craft vs. Big Beer GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Wednesday, July 9, 2025 — Tom Hanks turns 69 today! From Portland’s taco-kissed beer fiestas to Vancouver’s cross-border collab jubilee, from Tumwater’s fizzy fruit revival to San Diego’s retro-futurist resurrection, today’s craft beer dispatch spans continents and contradictions. Czech exports rise as locals sip less. Texas bleeds taprooms. A new debate bubbles: Is great beer bound by size, or by soul? Pour a pint, clear your palate, and dive
Today’s sixer is a liquid mixtape for the synesthete soul. Peaks & Pints New Craft Six-Pack: July 8, 2025 Ah, Tuesday. That mercurial hinge between ambition and surrender, where the inbox looms and the hammock whispers. But fear not, weary wanderer of the workweek, for the Peaks & Pints cooler has cracked open its shimmering vault of fermented absurdities and radiant recalibrations. Today’s new sixer is a liquid mixtape for the synesthete soul: watermelon daydreams and guava sermons, trappist hymns and tart fruit cartwheels, sun-scorched IPAs that echo through Yakima canyons, and a cider so minty-peachy-perfect
