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
If silk had a voice and heartbreak wore cologne, it would sound like Rocky Sandoval. Tacoma’s R&B son returns for one night of slow-burn soul — falsetto shimmer, sweat-slick confession, and beats that ache in all the right places. Rocky Sandoval: Live at The Eleanor | Friday, Oct. 10 | Tacoma Armory Roosevelt Room, 8 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
Every Thursday, TAM stays open late — free admission, art-making, and live programs. Photo courtesy of the Tacoma Art Museum. Neighborhood Nights | Thursday, Oct. 9 | Tacoma Art Museum, 5–8 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. Every Thursday, Tacoma Art Museum throws open its doors for Neighborhood Nights — free admission, late hours,
Seattle says goodbye to a neighborhood gem as 23rd Ave Brewery pours its last pints. Mashing-In News: 23rd Ave Brewery Closure, Tonya Cornett Interview GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025 — Sharon Osbourne turns 73 today! Today’s craft beer headlines pour a mix of farewells, reinventions, and reminders of what still makes the industry hum. Seattle’s beloved 23rd Ave Brewery calls last call after three years of community and connection, while in Bend, decorated brewer Tonya Cornett rises from Tilray’s layoffs to launch her next act with Upp Liquids. Down south, Ballast Point
The spice flows tonight. King’s Books celebrates Tacoma’s own Frank Herbert — 105 years since his birth, 60 since Dune first shifted the sands — with costumes, Arrakis cocktails, and Bene Gesserit-level trivia at Proof in Old Town Tacoma. Photo courtesy of Tacoma.Aroma.Flavor Frank Herbert Party! | Tuesday, Oct. 8 | Proof, 6–10 p.m. (21+) 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,
There’s fresh hop season — and then there’s Oregon fresh hop season, the original madness made holy. Before Washington’s fields throbbed with tanker trucks and Yakima turned harvest into religion, Oregon brewers were the first to toss steaming cones straight into kettles and pray to the green gods for balance. What began as a dare 20 years ago has evolved into an art form — part alchemy, part symphony — a living conversation between farm and fermenter. Today, Peaks & Pints tips its hat southward, to the growers and dreamers who taught us how to taste the exact second the
Mashing-In News: Celebration Fresh Hop IPA, Denver Rare Beer Tasting GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025 — Chevy Chase turns 82 today! From cider to stouts, philanthropy to hop harvests, today’s craft beer headlines cover passion, purpose, and innovation: 2 Towns Ciderhouse’s Matt Sharpe shares how he plans events and handles feedback; Sierra Nevada readies its 2025 Celebration Fresh Hop IPA (with Celly Drippins slated for November); U.S. craft beer volume fell about 4% last year, sparking debate over maturity vs. collapse; the sold-out Denver Rare Beer Tasting 16 raises awareness for prostate cancer; Maryland launches Make
Tacoma Reads turns the page tonight with Josh Tuininga, author of We Are Not Strangers — the Tacoma Reads 2025 YA pick. A graphic novel of friendship, courage, and compassion in WWII Seattle, where ink and empathy redraw the lines of history. Tacoma Reads: Author Talk with Josh Tuininga | Wednesday, Oct. 7 | Tacoma Public Library Main Branch, 6–7:30 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
Because today the sun makes one last, glorious stand — 72 degrees of golden reprieve before Tacoma tilts toward drizzle, wool, and darkness. What better toast to that final flare of warmth than the beers built for clarity and calm? After weeks of hop-drunk harvest chaos, Peaks & Pints hits reset with a five-pour ode to the world’s quiet backbone: the lager. Vienna, Märzen, pilsner, amber — clean malt architecture, crisp edges, soft light caught in glass. No fruit, no haze, no high-octane boast — just patience, geometry, and the low hum of perfection. Call it Lager Day in October
Cheers to the Land returns to save Oregon farmland with 18 local brews. Mashing-In News: GABF at 43, 3-Day Fresh Hop Festival GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025 — Yo-Yo Ma turns 70 Today’s craft beer news climbs from the misty hop fields of Yakima to the alpine peaks of France — a panorama of resilience, reinvention, and reverence for what still makes beer magic. West Seattle raises a pint to harvest season with 40 fresh hop brews; Denver’s Great American Beer Festival faces its midlife reckoning; and the Brewers Association trims its
Hop season’s home stretch: resin, radiance & pure electric harvest. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack Oct. 6 Today’s Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack is a full-throttle hymn to hop season’s home stretch — a delirious parade of resin and radiance, where same-day cones meet road-tripped collaboration, dank alchemy flirts with citrus voltage, and every pour hums with that once-a-year electricity only fresh hops can sing. BOUNDARY BAY BREWERY CABIN FEVER: This winter warmer sidles in like flannel by firelight — caramel malt glow, toasted bread hush, and a slow bourbon-kissed murmur that feels like
The city spins under disco light as families and daredevils glide through rhythm and release Sunday at the Tacoma Armory. 6-Pack of Things To Do In Tacoma — Oct. 6–12, 2025 Because Tacoma this week isn’t merely alive — it’s foaming, humming, and borderline combustible, a city in full creative possession of itself: playwrights whispering truth in half-light, poets spilling confession across bar tops, guitars testifying in backrooms, wheels spinning beneath cathedral ceilings, and artists flinging color like divine shrapnel. It’s a seven-day fever dream of ink, music, motion, and malt — proof that whatever Tacoma’s
Washington Brewers Guild launches its Hall of Fame, honoring legends such as Will and Mari Kemper. Mashing-In News: Oregon Fresh Hop Awards, Craft Beer Hall of Fame GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Monday, Oct. 6, 2025 — Britt Ekland turns 83 today! Today’s craft beer headlines pour a full pint of transition and tribute — from Oregon’s fresh hop champions and Washington’s first Hall of Fame brewers, to Oceanside’s fallen plague, and Hollywood’s caffeinated NA collab. Breakside, Bend, and Ruse Take Gold at 2025 Oregon Fresh Hop Awards The 2025 Oregon Beer Awards Fresh Hop Competition
Today’s Six-Pack is an autumn fever dream in six acts. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025 Today’s Six-Pack is an autumn fever dream in six acts — the last gasp of fresh hop glory tangled with imperial indulgence, science and soil, West Coast sermons, and Yakima hymns. Think caramel dusk, electric vines, and one demonic pumpkin smiling through the haze. ABOMINATION BREWING TRICK OR TREAT: This imperial pumpkin stout stalks in like dessert’s dark familiar—pumpkin, cacao, and vanilla swirling through molten midnight until every sip feels like Halloween lit from within, 14%,
Sunday night, the art is the beer and the beer is the stage. Tacoma’s own Kareem Kandi World Orchestra returns for its first Sunday residency at Peaks & Pints — soulful horns, heartbeat percussion, and melodic improvisations that make the city exhale. The Kareem Kandi World Orchestra | Sunday, Oct. 5 | Peaks & Pints, 5–8 p.m. All October long, Peaks & Pints pairs 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
Some breweries chase trends; Fort George Brewery builds universes. From their Astoria stronghold above the Columbia’s restless mouth, they brew like interdimensional cartographers — each beer a new constellation, each pint a telescope aimed at some deliciously impossible world. Today’s flight drifts across those galaxies: a test batch disguised as a pizza-fueled prophecy, a Strata-drenched daydream thick with orchard haze, a West Coast anthem played loud enough to rattle the spruce, and two fresh hop symphonies that shimmer like alternate realities written in chlorophyll. This is Fort George at full creative voltage — equal parts mad scientist, cosmic poet, and
Arts Month explodes today: music, dance, drag, painting, poetry — Tacoma’s creative cosmos spilling through the library stacks in a family-friendly swirl of color and noise. Kaleidoscope Opening Party | Saturday, Oct. 4 | Tacoma Public Library Main, 1-4 p.m. All October long, Peaks & Pints pairs 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. Kaleidoscope is the big bang of Arts Month — a family-friendly storm of
Tacoma Arts Month In The Cooler: Beer Meets Art ‘Tacoma Arts Month returns again, rich with art, words, movement, and music. Peaks & Pints co-owner Pappi Swarner has been writing about this month since its ragged inception — when a few dreamers convinced the city to make space for art to spill out of studios and into November’s damp air. Back then, he was at the helm of the Weekly Volcano alternative newsweekly, pounding out preview after preview, chronicling open studios and scrappy performances, and eventually receiving an AMOCAT Award himself on behalf of the Volcano. To see Tacoma Arts
Tacoma Arts Live ignites the night: gospel-soaked LP And The Vinyl reimagine Beatles, Bowie, Stevie Wonder, and more — molten gospel, jazz, R&B, and rock all in one set at the Tacoma Armory. Tacoma Arts Month In the Cooler: Oct. 3 All October long, Peaks & Pints pairs 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. LP And The Vinyl | Friday, Oct. 3 | Tacoma Armory Parade
Hop Selection in Yakima — Grit & Grain Ep. 161 dives deep into sticky cones & brewer camaraderie. Mashing-In News: Hop Selection Recap, Otherlands Breaks Rules GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Friday, Oct. 2, 2025 — Chubby Checker turns 84 today! Today’s craft beer news blends hop fields and fresh collabs with industry deep-dives—from Yakima’s sensory harvest rituals and Oregon–Japan beer dinners, to Bellingham lager experiments, Portland IPA debuts, Hood River fall fests, and big-picture reckonings on the state and sustainability of craft brewing. Grit & Grain Ep. 161: Inside Yakima’s Hop Selection Ritual In Episode
Tacoma doesn’t merely drink fresh hops — it baptizes them, remixes them, makes the season its own civic liturgy of chlorophyll and yeast. The brewers here don’t whisper about Yakima’s bounty; they drag it across bridges, hurl it into fermenters, weave it into saisons, pale ales, and haze bombs until the whole city thrums like vines still dripping dew. This isn’t some postcard of hop country — it’s Tacoma in real time, stitched from backyard trellises, Narrows breezes, and tanks buzzing with green voltage. Peaks & Pints gathered the clan under one flight board: five Tacoma breweries, five visions of
Vice Beer doesn’t just make beer — they stage-dive it. Born in Vancouver with one foot in Nintendo cartridges and the other in resin-slick hop cones, Vice has been rewriting the Pacific Northwest playbook in neon marker. Today they take the mic for the Grit & Grain Podcast at 4:30 p.m. in our Events Room, then roll straight into a four-beer tap takeover that’s less “taplist” and more “hop mixtape.” Expansion tales, harvest chaos, retro swagger — all will pour into our Wednesday beer flight. These are not polite beers. They’re the kind that blow dust out of the arcade
After you’ve participated in Tacoma Arts Month events today, make your way to Peaks & Pints. We have Vice Beer’s We Are All Made of Stars in our cooler. Dressing the Gilded Age | Washington State History Museum | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tacoma Arts Month returns again, rich with art, words, movement, and music. I’ve been writing about this month since its ragged inception — when a few dreamers convinced the city to make space for art to spill out of studios and into October’s damp air. Back then, I was at the helm of the
End of an era: Portland’s Upright Brewing to close after 16 years of farmhouse ales, lagers & cask beer. Mashing-In News: Oktoberfest Security Scare, Several Closures GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025 — Julie Andrews turns 90 today! From Munich’s Oktoberfest security scare to Portland’s Upright Brewing closure, new ownership in Vancouver, scholarships fueling fresh voices, and cider and beer celebrations across North America, today’s craft beer news spans endings, new beginnings, and the ties that keep brewing culture alive. Oktoberfest Grounds Closed After Bomb Threat in Munich Munich police temporarily closed the
And just like that, the steins clink hollow, the brass fades, the caramel malts retreat to memory. Peaks & Pints Fresh Hoptoberfest: The Ninth Pour has run its 30-day delirium — fresh hops glowing neon beside toffee-laced Oktoberfests, harvest colliding with history in one long month of froth. Today, we close the curtain on the Märzens and Festbiers, those malty anchors between summer’s exhale and winter’s dark inhale. But don’t mistake this for the end of fresh hop season — those lupulin bombs will keep thrumming through our IPA lines for weeks yet, proof the fields aren’t done singing. So
Outer Planet Brewing saved! Capitol Hill taproom reopens in October. Mashing-In News: Outer Planet Back In, Streaming GABF GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025 — Barry Williams turns 71 today! Today’s craft beer news is packed with fresh beginnings and fleeting pours—Seattle’s Outer Planet finds a savior, Zupan’s freezes hops in time, Chuckanut shines local malt, Krispy King crowns lagers ahead of GABF, and Lagunitas’ Born Yesterday returns to bend space-hop physics once again. Outer Planet Brewing Finds New Owner After Farewell Party After announcing its closure and holding a farewell party on
September = fresh hop thunder, six pours deep Peaks & Pints New Fresh Hops Six-Pack: Sept. 29, 2025 Today’s Peaks & Pints New Fresh Hops Six-Pack is a lupulin parade of field fire and harvest voltage—Centennial fields igniting, Mosaic coups erupting, Chinook clouds sparking tropical light, and Citra squalls crashing in—six electrified proofs that fresh hop season doesn’t whisper, it sings in green neon. 7 SEAS BREWING YAKIMA VALLEY FRESH HOP IPA: Loza Farms Centennial and Nugget flood the glass—grapefruit zest, floral flare, and citrus heat coursing like Yakima fields plugged straight into your bloodstream, 6.2%,
6-Pack of Things To Do In Tacoma: Sept. 29-Oct. 5 2025 Because this week Tacoma doesn’t just schedule itself—it combusts into a fevered pageant of laundry-born cider gospels, last-call hoplit Oktoberfests, podcast pulpits dripping with fresh-hop gospel, Swiftian showgirl liturgies flickering ten feet high, Beatles and Bowie resurrected in jazz-soaked thunder, and a library bursting open as the official portal into a month-long kaleidoscope of art, story, and spectacle. Peaks & Pints Monday Incline Cider Flight: From Laundry to Legend | Monday, Sept. 30 Incline Cider Company didn’t start in some bucolic Northwest orchard — it started in an Arizona
Incline Cider Company began, improbably, in an Arizona laundry room, where Jordan Zehner and Lesley Shields fermented experiments in fruit, yeast, and wayward hops next to the spin cycle. What started as ambient-temperature fermentations and garage kegerators turned into backyard brainstorms with Jordan’s father, Chris — a wine-industry veteran who recognized that what they were brewing was already better than anything in the grocery cooler. By 2015, the Zehners, bolstered by Teresa, Jodran’s mother, and Lesley’s design and people-savvy, launched Incline as a family-driven leap into the still-nascent craft cider world. Armed with orchards, hops, and decades of distributor know-how,
Yellow Aster Butte at Mount Baker Wilderness in Washington / photo by Jeffhollett Washington Trails & Taps Weekly Recap: September 22–28, 2025 Late September delivered crisp mornings, fiery foliage, and smoky skies that opened and closed like theater curtains. From Baker’s high basins to Rainier’s ridges, hikers chased color, dodged haze, and shared trails with bears fattening for winter. 🌿 WTA Trip Report Highlights Yellow Aster Butte (9/28) — Peak fall color, berries still ripe, windy summit. Trailhead is busy but manageable. Pinnacle Saddle & Plummer Peak, MRNP (9/28) — Short, steep, massive Tatoosh payoffs; autumn
Portland’s oldest cider house, Cider Bite, closes Oct. 19. Mashing-In News: 3 Fonteinen Tasting, Energy Cone 2025 GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Monday, Sept. 29, 2025 — Bryant Gumbel turns 77 today! Today’s craft beer news spans continents and styles—from Seattle pouring legendary lambic and Yakima’s hop-fueled rites, to Portland losing a cider mainstay, Asia rewriting beer with tea and durian, and California, Sierra Nevada, and Lithuania all reminding us just how wide the brewing world truly is. 3 Fonteinen Comes to Seattle: Fair Isle Hosts Exclusive Tasting Fair Isle Brewing in Seattle will host a
Trap Door Brewing has always been less a static brewery and more a restless experiment in constant reinvention. Yes, Zane Singleton laid the foundation — UC Davis fermentation scientist, Sacramento native, a hop-mad chemist who set the house voice in crisp lagers, resin-sharp West Coast IPAs, and haze bombs that snagged medals. But the torch didn’t stop there. In 2019, Michael Parsons moved from taproom leadership into ownership, and by 2020, he was publicly recognized alongside founder Bryan Shull as co-owner, shaping the brewery’s next chapters from the business side while guiding its Main Street heart. That same year, Kyle
The Single Hill 2025 Energy Cone collab crew loses their minds over CLS Farms Zappa hops. Single Hill Hillstory: Energy Cone 2025 Single Hill Brewing’s cofounder and “Director of Liquids,” Zach Turner, suggests Brandon Wiley, Bottleworks’ manager, should grab a breakfast burrito for Dwayne Smallwood of Bridge & Tunnel. Every harvest has its own scripture, and in Yakima, scripture is written in resin, sweat, and steam. Single Hill Brewing’s Energy Cone is no ordinary IPA — it’s a once-a-year hymn to the hop gods, first dreamed up in 2020 with Bottleworks and
Every harvest writes its own delirious scripture, and Single Hill Brewing keeps revising the gospel in resin, steam, and sweat. This year’s Energy Cone — first dreamed up in 2020 with Bottleworks and Full Throttle Bottles and now brewed with five bottleshops in full Devo-hat glory — is the centerpiece of a flight that spans their wide orbit: Skyfinder, a Strata-and-Simcoe rocket ride through citrus nebulae; Flight Cancelled, a malt-kissed Czech amber that makes missing your gate feel divine; Last Light, a black-cloaked fresh hop IPA glowing like embered grapefruit under Yakima stars; and Quiet Legend Pale, a bright, balanced
Portland’s Breakside Brewery has never been content with mere excellence; since its 2010 birth in a humble Northeast Portland brewpub under the restless vision of founder Scott Lawrence — and later joined by brewmaster Ben Edmunds, whose hop-saturated brain has become legend — it’s grown into one of the Northwest’s loudest, brightest beer houses, now spilling gold from three breweries, five taprooms, and a trophy cabinet sagging with medals from GABF to World Beer Cup. Breakside is the brewery that made IPA into something operatic, that turned West Coast bitterness into a symphony, that proved unhinged creativity could still march
Grit & Grain tastes 15 pumpkin beers, spice & oddballs included. Mashing-In News: Pumpkin Beers, Vice Beer Turns Three GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Friday, Sept. 26, 2025 — Linda Hamilton turns 69 today! Today’s craft beer news pours out a seasonal feast—pumpkin ales on trial, fresh hops in bloom, anniversaries raging, gothic cider rising, and even Simcoe and Sierra Nevada pausing to reflect on their legacies. Grit & Grain Samples 15 Pumpkin Beers in Episode 160 In Episode 160 of the Grit & Grain Podcast, the hosts taste through 15 pumpkin beers—praising classics, questioning oddballs,
Autumn doesn’t politely arrive; it comes stomping in with gourds under both arms, spices flying, fields glowing, and breweries all but possessed by nutmeg spirits. Pumpkin beers are America’s oddball genius — equal parts pie, pint, and pagan harvest hymn. They can be sweet, spiced, silky, boozy, restrained, or absurdly decadent — but they all whisper the same thing: it’s October now, you fools, drink accordingly. And today the gospel gets louder: the Grit & Grain Podcast records Episode 160 live at Peaks & Pints at 3:30 p.m., tracing the history of pumpkin beers from colonial brews to modern pie-in-a-glass
Grit & Grain goes live at 3:30 p.m. in Peaks & Pints to put pumpkin beers on trial. Mashing-In News: Pumpkin Beer Podcast, Early Harvest Fresh Hop Winners GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025 — Kevin Sorbo turns 67 today! Today’s craft beer news balances nostalgia, innovation, and big moves: Grit & Grain goes live at Peaks & Pints to put pumpkin beer on trial, fresh hop winners are crowned in Bend, and the Brewers Association takes a hard look at how to reach Gen Z. Plus, Liz Garibay shares how
September pours itself straight into your glass — six fresh harvest spells, tart berry symphonies, and even a cider-donut carnival. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Sept. 23, 2025 Today’s Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack is a riotous harvest opera in six delirious movements—wet hops hurled from the bine, berries spun into tart symphonies, lagers wired with green electricity, and cider-donut spice carnivals—all proof that September doesn’t just change the light, it pours the season straight into your glass. FUTURE PRIMITIVE CENTENNIALS FOR MILLENNIALS: Crosby’s wet-hopped Centennial blazes with citrus zest and floral bite, a
Skagit Farm to Pint Fest returns Sept. 27 with 15 beer + food pairings. Mashing-In News: Skagit Farm to Pint Fest, Giant Volatile Substance GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025 — Bruce Springsteen turns 76 today! From Skagit Valley’s farm-to-pint bounty to a 20,000-gallon IPA can in Portland, today’s craft beer news spans festivals, collaborations, and bold experiments. Chuckanut teams up with Austin’s ABGB on a Czech dark lager, Von Ebert goes larger-than-life with Volatile Substance, and hop science dives deeper into oils and thiols. Meanwhile, stories of heritage (such as Saaz hops
Melted Mondays are here! Melted Mondays Launch at Peaks & Pints Because Mondays were never meant for clean eating or tidy resolutions — they were made for surrendering to the holy trinity of bread, cheese, and heat, dripping like a benediction into your week. Melted Mondays is not just a sandwich special, it’s a ritual: one hot, gooey creation each week, paired with a beer that knows how to listen and a soup that knows how to sing. It’s excess disguised as therapy, comfort disguised as art, molten cheese disguised as salvation — all waiting to
Tieton Cider Works is less a newcomer and more a long-whispered family saga given fruit and fizz. Their land — Harmony Orchards — has been growing apples in Tieton, Washington, since the 1920s, and in 2008, Craig Campbell (third-gen orchard keeper, WSU horticulture alum) decided to test what cider apples and perry pears could do beyond dessert fruit. What started as a modest block of trial trees expanded over decades into the largest acreage of specialty cider apples and pears in Washington. Now, pressing, blending, fermenting, and packaging all happen just north of downtown Yakima, in a facility that feels like
Freddy twirls, Jason pirouettes, Chucky struts—Tacoma Arts Live’s “Cadaveret” turns horror icons into campy cabaret in the Tacoma Armory Roosevelt Room Thursday. 6-Pack of Things To Do In Tacoma: Sept. 22–28, 2025 Because sometimes Tacoma doesn’t just stack a week of events, it unleashes a riotous buffet of hop-soaked rituals, gourd séances, sequined slashers, indie-sleaze sweat storms, haunted cantina fundraisers, and even a free forest run that makes your lungs taste like incense — all colliding in one glorious stretch where the city feels like it’s vibrating too hard to stay inside its own skin. Fresh
