Nine years. That’s nine circuits around the sun, nine winters of cedar and laughter, nine summers of foam and friendship. On November 1, 2016, Peaks & Pints swung open its doors — half a day late, twice as thirsty — and Tacoma walked in grinning. Outside, Proctor smelled of rain and fresh ambition. Inside, we poured like we’d been waiting a lifetime, straight into a Green Flash + Alpine Treasure Chest takeover that roared like a baptism of hops. Craft beer itself was in its wild adolescence — bold, brash, and blissfully unselfconscious. Hazy IPAs were just beginning their reign.
Halloween in Proctor always hits different — the air thick with caramel and cackles, kids orbiting the candy cosmos while grown-ups orbit the bar. From 4–6 p.m., Proctor Treats floods the district in a whirl of costumes, chaos, and sugar highs, and Peaks & Pints has the best seats in the neighborhood — a cedar-framed front row for superheroes, skeletons, and the occasional dachshund in disguise. Inside, though, the treats are strictly for adults. This five-pour séance of a flight whispers, you’ve earned this candy. From Triceratops’ devilishly sweet stout and Urban Family’s spiced apparition to the hop nightmares from
Grit & Grain Podcast — Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland joins the crew to talk shutdowns, SNAP, and strong ale. Politics meets pint glass. Mashing-In News: Rep. Marilyn Strickland, Beer Church Turkey Bowl GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Friday, Oct. 31, 2025 — Happy Halloween! Today’s craft beer news bridges politics, pints, and purpose — from Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland talking shutdowns and strong ale on the Grit & Grain Podcast to Finnriver’s mountain-born cider collaboration, Reuben’s revered barleywine return, and the Beer Church’s bowling-for-good tradition — plus a Mexico City kitchen pop-up, luxury-brand brewing tips, Brewbound Award deadlines,
On a sunny September day in Chimacum, Peaks & Pints toured Finnriver Farm & Cidery and developed their new house cider, Finnriver Buckhorn Cider, with Cider Director Andrew Byers. Finnriver Buckhorn Cider: One Mountain, Two Hearts, One Shared Horizon Sunny September day in Chimacum. This is the story behind Peaks & Pints’ 2025–26 House Dry Cider — Finnriver Buckhorn Cider — a drink born between two sides of the same mountain. One side rooted in the rolling orchards of Chimacum Valley, the other in the cedar-lined heart of Tacoma’s Proctor District. Between
When Peaks & Pints swings open its cedar doors each November, the city still feels like it did that first day in 2016 — cranes rising, murals blooming, espresso in every hand, and beer as the unofficial civic language. The ghosts of the old Heidelberg stacks are long gone, but their spirit lingers in the mash tuns and ambition of every South Sound brewery. Pierce County’s beer scene isn’t just alive; it’s self-inventing, pint by pint, laugh by laugh. Tacoma’s glass is still half full and climbing. Back then, local beer was raw and radiant. E9 Brewing Co. brewed out
Rep. Marilyn Strickland joins the Grit & Grain Podcast at Peaks & Pints today (3:30 p.m.) to talk shutdowns, tariffs, and Tacoma tenacity. Mashing-In News: Rep. Marilyn Strickland on Grit & Grain, Washington Craft Beer Summit GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025 — Winona Ryder turns 54 today! Today’s craft beer news pours a potent mix of policy, resilience, and roots — from Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland discussing shutdowns and tariffs in the Peaks & Pints taproom to Washington’s beer summit brewing in SeaTac, national data showing the beer market steadying, and brewers across
Kitchen Kylee — yes, our sandwich sorceress — now blesses Peaks & Pints every Tuesday with her Grit City Bakery cheesecakes. The first slice? A full-tilt Halloween Candy Cheesecake. Grit City Bakery Halloween Candy Cheesecake at Peaks & Pints Somewhere between a sugar séance and a fever dream, Peaks & Pints Kitchen Kylee (aka Kylee Stevens) has done it again — conjuring a dessert so diabolically perfect it should arrive with a warning label and a halo of nougat steam. Her Grit City Bakery cheesecakes — the cult favorite that’s been haunting the Top of Tacoma
When Peaks & Pints finally swung open its cedar doors on the afternoon of November 1, 2016, craft beer was in full, glorious adolescence — swaggering and restless, still tasting the edge of its own rebellion. Hazy IPAs were the new heresy, pastry stouts the rising indulgence, and bitterness was still a badge of honor. Green Flash and Alpine commanded our taps for that inaugural Treasure Chest takeover, Dogfish Head’s madcap hop experiments ruled the East, and breweries like Firestone Walker, Deschutes, and Stone had become scripture — the durable spines in America’s beer bible. We opened halfway through the
Woodinville’s new Toll Bridge Brewing opens with Trappist-worthy flair. Mashing-In News: Toll Bridge Brewing Opens, Pumpkin Junction GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025 — Julia Roberts turns 58 today! Today’s craft beer news is a study in contrasts — from the roasty revival of black beers and the Belgian charms of Woodinville’s newest brewery to San Diego’s beer-fueled party games and Brooklyn’s nationwide ambitions. Toll Bridge Brewing Opens in Woodinville with Belgian Flair and Fiendishly Good Beer Toll Bridge Brewing, a new Belgian-inspired brewery founded by longtime homebrewers Teri and Keith, has opened
Nine years of hops, heart, and hilarity. New house collabs — Finnriver Buckthorn Cider & Lumberbeard Cut-Off Flannel IPA — live bluegrass from The Barleywine Revue, and no cover, ever. Peaks & Pints celebrates Saturday at 6 p.m. 6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma: Oct. 27-Nov.2 2025 Because Tacoma this week doesn’t just hum — it howls, glows, and grins through a cider-scented haze. The city is pure autumn delirium: apples fizzing into amber hymns, Springsteen whispering from the screen, skeletons tangoing down Proctor, and drag queens twirling through the Armory rafters while Peaks &
Autumn, if it were liquid, would taste exactly like this. Peaks & Pints’ Monday Late October Cider Flight is a love letter to the season when breath fogs the air and spice takes over the senses — a brief, golden stretch when apples burn brighter, pumpkins dream in caramel tones, and the year exhales cinnamon. These are ciders born for sweaters and low light, each pour a different stanza in October’s slow-burn poem. From California’s playful Ace and chai-spun Newtopia to Oregon’s sultry Bauman’s, Seattle’s rain-tempered Seattle Cider, and Yakima’s sharp-tongued Tieton, this flight drifts between orchard glow and campfire
10 Barrel’s Dirtbag Ball crawls back to Bend for a Halloween of Pub Beer-fueled chaos. Mashing-In News: Dirtbag Ball, Lagunitas Chicago Auction GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Monday, Oct. 27, 2025 — John Cleese turns 86 today! Today’s craft beer news swings from the irreverent to the introspective — Halloween dirtbags and auction blocks, imperial ciders and lost IPAs, yeast science and Polish pub crawls. 10 Barrel Brewing Brings Back the Infamous Dirtbag Ball for Halloween 2025 10 Barrel Brewing’s legendary Dirtbag Ball returns to Bend this Halloween, taking over the Domino Room on October 31
History, dear drinkers, is rarely this creamy. Once upon a frothy British morning — somewhere between empire and industrial soot — a brewer softened the bitter snarl of stout with an unholy addition: milk sugar, that forbidden sweetness cows whisper into the world. Thus, the milk stout was born — rich, round, restorative — a workingman’s breakfast pint marketed, with Victorian audacity, as “nourishment in a glass.” They even prescribed it to nursing mothers, because of course they did. Then came wars, rationing, the puritanical purges of milk from beer, until the style faded to sepia rumor — only to
Some breweries flirt with madness; Great Notion married it in the woods, fed it pancakes, and handed it a paintbrush. Portland’s high priest of the weird and wonderful returns to Peaks & Pints for a pre-Halloween flight that laughs in the face of subtlety — a trick-or-treat parade of fruit-soaked mayhem, pastry-stout indulgence, and hop-fueled hallucination. These aren’t beers so much as fever dreams in aluminum: skeleton robots, jam-splattered breakfasts, peanut-butter barbarians, and an army of dankness marching through haze. Each pour feels like a sugar séance, a neon ghost story told in malt and mischief. This is Great Notion
Step into the Roosevelt Room, where air exhales melody. Seattle’s Winds5 conjures “Woods” — a program where Bon Iver’s ghost hums beside forest-themed game scores and new works by Molly Turner. Chamber music, re-enchanted. Winds5: Woods | Friday, Oct. 24 | Tacoma Armory Roosevelt Room, 8 p.m. (doors 7) All October long, we at Peaks & Pints are pairing Tacoma Arts Month happenings with beers from our 13-door cooler — because art deserves a pint after the applause, and beer tastes better when it carries a story from the stage, the gallery, or the street. Step
Peaks & Pints’ Pappi Swarner mashes out Lumberbeard’s Cut-Off Flannel IPA, the Tacoma craft beer bar and bottle shop’s 2025-26 house IPA. Photo by Hannah Gordon Lumberbeard Brewing: From Diesel Shop to Cut-Off Flannel IPA Peaks & Pints co-owner Pappi Swarner wears cut-off flannels every day like a taproom uniform — sleeves gone, elbows free — because Peaks & Pints looks and feels like a giant lodge inside: warm wood, cedar tap log, mountain light catching the foam just so. It’s the right costume for our little craft-beer sanctuary, and it matches the long gray beard
There’s a special kind of lunacy — the good, delicious kind — that happens when two beers share a recipe but not a soul. Side-by-side comparisons are the beer world’s mirror maze, where nuance stops being theory and starts becoming ecstasy. It’s sensory science disguised as ritual: one sip reveals the slightest tweak — a handful more hops, a heartbeat longer fermentation, the breath of a different brewer’s philosophy. You swirl, you sniff, you surrender, and beer turns to dialect — identical ingredients speaking in wildly different tongues of malt and light. This isn’t just tasting; it’s meditation by way
Grit & Grain dives into a gooey, glorious beer + cheese odyssey with Ericka Baird. Mashing-In News: Beer & Cheese Pairing, Fast Fashion Speaks GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Friday, Oct. 24, 2025 — Kevin Kline turns 78 today! Today’s craft beer news is a full sensory feast—from beer-and-cheese bliss with Ericka Baird and Fast Fashion’s hop-mad science in Seattle, to Westbound & Down’s GABF gold run, Põhjala’s liquid-hop breakthrough in Estonia, and the Halloween launch of Beer Gram’s AI-driven brewery revolution. Grit & Grain Dives Into Beer and Cheese Pairing with Ericka Baird On Episode
Every once in a while, beer stops behaving like beer and starts acting like philosophy — a riddle disguised as foam. Today, Peaks & Pints hosts the Tao of Josh / Tao of Manny Tacoma release party (5–7 p.m., taps side-by-side), where pFriem Family Brewers and Georgetown Brewing pour twin West Coast IPAs brewed from the same recipe, each revealing a different soul. Come taste the yin and the yang, argue about water and wizardry, and watch enlightenment arrive by the pint. And because wisdom loves company, we built The Tao of Peaks & Pints Beer Flight to frame the
Charlie Sheen is back — with a non-alcoholic beer called Wild AF. Mashing-In News: 30,000-Beer Milestone, All About Beer GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025 — Ryan Renolds turns 49 today! Today’s craft beer news spans rebellion, reinvention, and recognition — from Jeff Alworth’s coming-of-age in Mormon-ruled Salt Lake to Don Tse’s 30,000-beer milestone, All About Beer’s national honors, and the women shaping beer’s next era in Vegas — plus rice lagers with science cred, French-press holiday hacks, and Charlie Sheen’s wild, alcohol-free comeback. Growing Up Non-Mormon in Salt Lake: How Alienation Led
Some breweries chase trends. Others bend them until they snap. And then there’s Põhjala Brewery, born from the frostbitten imagination of Tallinn, Estonia — a place where winter doesn’t end so much as deepen, and beer must learn to survive the dark. Founded in 2011 by four Estonian homebrewers and Scottish brewer Chris Pilkington (of BrewDog lineage), Põhjala emerged not as a copy of Western craft ideals but as their obsidian reflection. From the start, they brewed with a fierce Baltic sensibility — cold-fermented, oak-aged, richly malted, threaded with birch, rye, and bog berries. In 2018, they built a new
In the glow of downtown’s Woolworth Windows, Yoshi Nakagawa stitches paper, thread, and memory into meditation. Photo courtesy of Tacoma Arts Commission Mend by Yoshi Nakagawa | Woolworth Window #3 | On view through Dec. 9 | 1098 Commerce Street, Downtown Tacoma All October long, we at Peaks & Pints are pairing Tacoma Arts Month happenings with beers from our 13-door cooler — because art deserves a pint after the applause, and beer tastes better when it carries a story from the stage, the gallery, or the street. In the quiet glow of downtown Tacoma’s Woolworth
Today’s craft beer news goes full cosmic pint glass — from Japan’s first beer brewed in space to a thunderous new hop called Thora. Photo courtesy of Washington Beer Blog Mashing-In News: The Tao of Manny & Josh, Meet Thora GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025 — Christopher Lloyd turns 87 today! Today’s craft beer news spans the cosmos and the cellar—from Japan’s first space-brewed beer and Thora’s thunderous new hop debut to Dogfish Head’s triple-decade stout, Samuel Adams’ record-shattering Utopias, and a philosophical IPA experiment from Georgetown and pFriem—a week where brewing’s
Today’s Six-Pack prowls that sacred in-between—half fresh-hop voltage, half winter hush—a shimmering collision of resin, caramel, thunder, and calm that proves beer, like the season, is best when it can’t make up its mind. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack Oct. 21 Today’s Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack teeters deliciously on the edge of the seasons—fresh hops still crackling with October’s electric pulse as malt and melancholy creep in with the long nights ahead. Think citrus storms giving way to caramel cathedrals, barleywine indulgence humming beside monkish patience, a six-part hymn to the turning light.
There are breweries — and then there is Sierra Nevada Brewing, the one that taught America how to taste again. Long before hazies clogged the skyline and pastry stouts stormed the dessert cart, there was Chico, California, and Ken Grossman quietly redrawing the map of rebellion in copper and Cascade. Forty-five years later, the hum from Sierra Nevada’s brewhouse still sounds like America’s heartbeat — steady, unyielding, curious as ever. They don’t just brew beer; they distill intent. Pale ales built the altar, fresh hops kept the faith, and stouts still stare unblinking into the dark. Today’s Peaks & Pints
Monday pear-fectly ripens at Peaks & Pints — a flight of orchard poetry bottled and effervescent, where the noble pear takes the mic and croons across continents. From Tadcaster’s genteel perry halls to Washington’s rain-kissed farms, today’s flight drifts between refinement and ripeness, blossoms and brass. Each pour speaks its own dialect of sweetness and restraint — Samuel Smith Brewery’s courtly elegance, Cockrell Cider Farm’s barn-door breeze, Finnriver Farm & Cidery’s golden nostalgia, and Alpenfire Cider’s misty maritime murmur. Together they taste like orchard daydreams and twilight promises — the soft, luminous hum of pears in perfect conversation. Peaks &
The beer cosmos pours enlightenment in stereo: The Tao of Josh and The Tao of Manny — twin West Coast IPAs, same recipe, different souls. pFriem’s temple of precision meets Georgetown’s grin-filled hive. 6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma: Oct. 20-26 2025 Because Tacoma this week isn’t merely busy — it’s incandescent, delirious, half-drunk on inspiration. The air hums with ink and electricity: playwrights raising the dead, scientists splicing art with code, brewers chasing transcendence through foam, and the Dome already jingling like a caffeinated snow globe. The city feels feverish and fully alive, teetering
Today in craft beer: the world keeps brewing forward. … Mashing-In News: WA Fresh Hop Awards, Salmon-Safe Award GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Monday, Oct. 20, 2025 — Viggo Mortensen turns 66 today! From farm-fresh hop triumphs and river-friendly IPAs to New Zealand’s aromatic enigmas and cider education crossing the border, today’s craft beer news reads like a global toast to adaptation — proof that brewing’s heart still beats loudest in the fields, taprooms, and classrooms where innovation and community keep the glass half full. Trap Door, Ladd & Lass, Cloudburst Shine in Washington’s Fresh Hop
You fancy, Kriek De Ranke! Fancy Pants Sunday: Kriek DeRanke Welcome, aficionados of velvet tongues and sip‑sublime revelations. At Peaks & Pints, Sundays are for satin‑palates and plush pours — Fancy Pants Sunday, our weekly ode to beers that refuse to slum it in tallboys or speak in monosyllables. This week’s showstopper is Kriek De Ranke, a cherry‑wild sour brewed with audacious intent, where sour beer meets fresh fruit and wild yeast in a glass designed for the curious and the bold. Put simply: this is not your sweet‑and‑slick cherry soda masquerading as brew — this
Urban Family Brewing began as a dream small enough to fit inside a pint glass. In January 2012, Sean Bowman, Timothy Czarnetzki, and David Powell opened Urban Family Public House in Old Ballard — a cozy refuge pouring other breweries’ beers before slipping in their own 15-gallon experiments. Curiosity bloomed into obsession, and two years later the family traded the bar for a 7-barrel brewhouse in Magnolia and a new name: Urban Family Brewing. Soon after, Andy Gundel joined to wrangle logistics and story, eventually taking the helm in 2016 and guiding the brewery back to Ballard, now home to
Tacoma Arts Live hosts hometown powerhouse Stephanie Anne Johnson unveils Sing, Baby! — an album of heart, grit, and gospel glow — at the Tacoma Armory tonight. Photo: Wade Atkinson Stephanie Anne Johnson: Album Release Show | Saturday, Oct. 18 | Tacoma Armory Parade Floor, 7:30 p.m. All October long, we at Peaks & Pints are pairing Tacoma Arts Month happenings with beers from our 13-door cooler — because art deserves a pint after the applause, and beer tastes better when it carries a story from the stage, the gallery, or the street. Tonight, Tacoma Arts
By dusk, Proctor’s heartbeat turns pumpkin-orange. The Tacoma Halloween Parade returns — bigger, louder, and gloriously unhinged. Between 26th and 28th, ghosts waltz with toddlers, skeletons syncopate with street drummers, and the air hums like a cauldron about to boil over. Sidewalks blur between costume and chaos; even the pumpkins look nervous. Out front, Peaks & Pints answers the call of the weird with Scary Good — a flight for the wicked, the playful, and the faintly possessed. These aren’t beers for the timid; they’re liquid mischief: black as spells, red as sin, tart as midnight laughter. A toast to
If Yakima is the Vatican of hops, then Single Hill Brewing is its cathedral — stainless gleaming, doors flung open, air thick with chlorophyll and intent. Every harvest season, their downtown taproom becomes the gravitational center of the Pacific Northwest beer world: brewers shoulder to shoulder with farmers, customers casting ballots in the “Fresh Hop Rodeo,” the room alive with the scent of green gold and next year’s dreams. Founded by Zac Turner and Jack Lamb, Single Hill doesn’t just brew in Yakima — it breathes Yakima. Their fresh-hop beers are living records of the valley’s pulse: sticky, bright, green
Forget passive movie nights — this one punches back. SHAOLIN JAZZ and DJ 2-Tone Jones remix Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon live, scene by scene — every kick a beat drop, every glare a jazz note. Part séance, part sonic riot. CAN I KICK IT? featuring Enter the Dragon | Friday, Oct. 17 | Tacoma Armory Parade Floor, 7:30 p.m. All October long, we at Peaks & Pints are pairing Tacoma Arts Month happenings with beers from our 13-door cooler — because art deserves a pint after the applause, and beer tastes better when it carries
Thursday, Oct. 23, Peaks & Pints becomes the dojo of duality as pFriem and Georgetown collide in hops and harmony. The Tao of Josh / The Tao of Manny — A Tale of Two Ways, One Pint Every once in a while, the beer gods drop a riddle instead of a recipe. This one arrives wrapped in Cascade mist and stainless-steel meditation: The Tao of Josh and The Tao of Manny, two West Coast IPAs born from the same ingredients, same blueprint, and utterly different souls. One flows from the immaculate temple of pFriem Family Brewers,
Go behind the curtain with legendary designer Carey Wong, whose 50-year career and 300+ productions reveal how sketches, models, and costumes shape the soul of a story. Photo courtesy of Washington State History Museum Shaping the Story: Designs for the Theatre by Carey Wong | Washington State History Museum | 10 a.m.–6 p.m. All October long, we at Peaks & Pints are pairing Tacoma Arts Month happenings with beers from our 13-door cooler — because art deserves a pint after the applause, and beer tastes better when it carries a story from the stage, the gallery,
Avery Brewing sits at a crossroads: heritage, hype, and redefined ambition. Once fiercely independent, the Boulder stalwart now flows through the Mahou San Miguel current — merged under a shared U.S. platform with Founders and Mahou Imports. The corporate weave may have tightened, but Avery still wears Beer First like armor, its brewhouse beating stubbornly to the rhythm of experimentation. Behind the glass walls of its 67,000-square-foot Gunbarrel campus, tanks hum and barrels whisper — a $30 million temple to scale, precision, and madness. Packaging lines fly at 220 cans a minute; sours and stouts sleep in oak like secrets.
Mac & Jack’s Brewing GABF 2025 medalist Serengeti Wheat will now be brewed at Silver City Brewery under their shared parent company, Ackley Brands. Mashing-In News: Mac & Jack’s Moves, Chuckanut Wins GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025 — Flea turns 63 today! The Pacific Northwest beer world is buzzing this week with stories of legacy, reinvention, and a little Halloween mischief — from Mac & Jack’s relocating its iconic brewhouse to Bremerton and Chuckanut reviving a centuries-old Polish style, to Pelican Brewing spreading its coastal wings in Rockaway Beach and Gigantic Brewing
Every October, the craft-beer cosmos descends on Denver for the Great American Beer Festival — that gleaming, unholy communion where malt gods and hop evangelists hurl their finest brews into the celestial gauntlet and pray for medals. It’s not just a festival; it’s pilgrimage and pageant, tasting and theology. Beer as art, as muscle, as myth. This year, the Pacific Northwest rose like a lupulin-scented phoenix, sweeping golds and silvers across categories once ruled by titans. Oregon shimmered. Washington thundered. Together, they reminded the world that the wet side of the Cascades still brews the gospel. Today, Peaks & Pints
The Pacific Northwest may be crawling with cideries, but few blaze as brightly—or as unapologetically—as 2 Towns Ciderhouse, the Corvallis-born juggernaut of orchard alchemy and fearless craft ambition. Founded in 2010 by three college friends with a truck, a press, and an unruly dream, 2 Towns has grown from garage fermentations into one of the country’s most decorated cider houses—snagging medals at the 2025 Great American Beer Festival — Gold in No/Low-Tannin Cider (for “14th Anniversary”) and a Bronze in Fruited Cider (for “Huckleberry Cosmic Crisp”) — and practically every other competition that dares invite cider to the table. Their
6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma: Oct. 13-19, 2025 Because Tacoma this week hums like a live wire strung between art and anarchy — pencils trembling, pints foaming, guitars testifying, and ghosts rehearsing for their big parade. Even the sidewalks feel caffeinated, creation spilling out of classrooms and taprooms in one ecstatic exhale. From charcoal sketches to hop-soaked sermons, kung-fu remixes to costumed delirium, this city is a full-sensory fever dream — proof the line between ordinary and electric runs straight through 26th Street. Tacoma Arts Month: Introduction to Drawing @ Artsi Creative Space | Monday, Oct. 13 Every
Youth and costumes were numerous at the Great American Beer Festival 2025. Mashing-In News: GABF 2025 Medals, Beer Writers Medals GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Monday, Oct. 13, 2025 — Sammy Hagar turns 78 today! Today’s craft beer world feels like a living tap list of triumphs and transformations — from the Pacific Northwest’s medal haul at the 2025 Great American Beer Festival to a Berliner Weisse resurrection in Berlin, from bold new voices in beer journalism to a collective call for clarity, crispness, and smaller cans — proof that whether through brewing, writing, or innovation,
2 Towns Ciderhouse won gold for its 14th Anniversary Cider. Photo courtesy of the Brewers Association The 2025 Great American Beer Festival 2025 hurled 347 medals across 102 beer styles (plus a few shiny new cider categories), and the Pacific Northwest walked through Denver like it owned the clouds. Over seven days and 8,315 entries, judges wept, palates trembled, and clipboards bowed. Yet again, Washington and Oregon turned rainwater and rebellion into liquid poetry. Washington — Granite Jaw, Green Halo Call it the Evergreen flex. Grains of Wrath roared to gold in American IPA with Built
The Tacoma Arts Month annual Studio Tour flings open 60-plus studios, inviting you straight into the sacred chaos of creation. Photo courtesy of Tacoma Arts Commission Tacoma Arts Month Studio Tour | Saturday & Sunday, Oct. 11–12 | Citywide, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. (Free) All October long, we at Peaks & Pints are pairing Tacoma Arts Month happenings with beers from our 13-door cooler — because art deserves a pint after the applause, and beer tastes better when it carries a story from the stage, the gallery, or the street. For one luminous weekend, Tacoma becomes less
