There’s a reason the 21st of September refuses to fade from memory. Earth, Wind & Fire etched it into the permanent soundtrack of joy — “ba-de-ya, dancing in September,” brass horns blazing like eternal harvest trumpets, love itself changing the minds of pretenders while chasing the clouds away. It’s not just a song anymore, it’s a ritual, a secular hymn so beloved it birthed its own celebration: A Grammy® Salute to Earth, Wind & Fire: The 21st Night of September, a star-studded reminder that one night on the calendar can vibrate forever in our collective bloodstream. September 21 is disco
Peaks & Pints Fresh Hop Six-Pack — harvest hallucinations in six green spells. … Peaks & Pints New Fresh Hops Six-Pack Sept. 19, 2025 Today’s Peaks & Pints Six-Pack is a hop-harvest séance—fields picked at dawn, cones hurled straight into kettles, and pints glowing with citrus, pine, and tropical static, six lupulin spells brewed to taste like September itself still breathing green CLOUDBURST BREWING CONSTANT LUPULIN SATISFACTION: The Seattle brewery collaborated with CLS Farms to pour pine-sharp Chinook, blood-orange Cascade, and rosy Meyer-lemon Vista into one IPA sermon of hop terroir and lupulin lust, 6.5%, 16oz.
Munich wakes today in full roar, the Theresienwiese once again detonating into a carnival of dirndls, brass bands, and rivers of foamy gold—Oktoberfest, the original cathedral of beer. For two delirious weeks, the “Big Six” breweries will pour oceans of festbier into mugs the size of flowerpots while half the world pretends it knows the words to “Ein Prosit.” It’s history as ritual, ritual as excess: beer that isn’t just consumed, it’s weaponized joy, an annual Bavarian thunderclap you can practically hear from here. And because Peaks & Pints refuses to let Munich have all the fun, we’re throwing our
Roy Farms hop and UC Davis ferment guru Shanleigh Thomson lit up the fest—streaming Insta Live for a cider-soaked reel of guidance and grins. Cider Summit Seattle 2025 Recap It felt like a cider comet had returned to its proper orbit: the 2025 Cider Summit Seattle dropped back into its original South Lake Union Discovery Center Lawn home, the corner of Westlake and Denny humming with 40 producers and roughly 150 expressions of apple sorcery, mead mischief, fruit spirits, and cocktails that made you question the very notion of “juice.” Saturday, Sept. 13, arrived painted in
Out in Yakima, tractors are dragging mountains of cones off the bine, the kilns are roaring, and the valley air smells like resin, grass clippings, and citrus oil all at once. Down in Oregon’s Willamette, the fields are buzzing with the same manic harvest energy, farm crews moving fast before the cones wilt, brewers idling on the edges of fields like kids waiting for a parade to start. This is the moment—the weeks when hops are alive, pulsing with oils and sunlight, barely hours from bine to brewhouse. And so, Peaks & Pints answers in kind: five fresh hop pours
OSU debuts the “Longest Bar in College Football.” Mashing-In News: European Beer Star Awards, 190th Oktoberfest New Rules GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Friday, Sept. 19, 2025 — Jeremy Irons turns 77 today! Today’s craft beer news runs the gamut—from Pacific Northwest medal wins in Munich to Seattle pub milestones, fiery snack-beer collabs, and fresh Oktoberfest rules abroad—plus hops under climate stress, legal battles over distribution, mindful tasting lessons, and even Oregon State’s bid for the “Longest Bar in College Football.” PNW Breweries Shine at 2025 European Beer Star Awards Leavenworth’s Icicle Brewing earned a silver
Today’s Peaks & Pints Six-Pack = fresh hop delirium in full bloom. Peaks & Pints New Fresh Hops Six-Pack: Sept. 18, 2025 Today’s New Beer Six-Pack is a green-gold delirium of the season—fields picked at dawn, cones still sticky with resin, lightning-bright citrus and fruit tearing through malt backbones, six lupulin storms brewed so fresh you can almost hear the vines still humming. FERMENT BREWING FRESH HOP CENTENNIAL IPA: Bursts alive with harvest-bright Centennial—floral blaze, lemon oil, and pine crackle sparking like freshly cut fields wired straight into your pint, 6%, 16oz. FORTSIDE BREWING FRESH CUT:
Sometimes a performance politely stays in its lane; Tacoma Arts Live’s Lemon Sessions: Migrations, Forced & Chosen detonates the lanes entirely. On Thursday and Friday, Sept. 18 and 19, 7:30 p.m. at the Tacoma Armory Parade Floor, fiddles braid into Cuban trios, Andean heartbeat meets Persian verse, Filipino lullabies cross the ocean on a tide of projected color while Tacoma poet Claudia Castro-Luna stitches sky-high lines across the parade floor. Produced by Tacoma Arts Live and hosted by Silong Chhun, painted alive by Deepti Agrawal, Fulgencio Lazo, and Saiyare Refaei, it’s less concert than kaleidoscope, less lecture than living archive—a
Cheers to the Land returns with 18 Oregon beers & ciders for farmland protection. Mashing-In News: Cheers to the Land, Lupulin Exchange GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025 — Jada Pickett Smith turns 54 today! Today’s craft beer news spans farmland to fresh hops, with Oregon brewers uniting for Cheers to the Land, Portland hosting back-to-back fests, and Alesong debuting a new Festbier. On the business side, the Lupulin Exchange expands to Europe with Yakima Chief, the Fed’s rate cut offers breweries modest relief, and Beer30 launches Craft University for free brewer education.
Citrus sunshine wrapped in buttery layers, now flirting shamelessly with Samuel Smith’s Organic Chocolate Stout — orange crackle meets cocoa velvet, pastry meets midnight. Peaks & Pints Introduces Orange Phyllo Cake Peaks & Pints’ kitchen has a new obsession: layer upon layer of whisper-thin phyllo, brushed with butter like edible silk, tucked around a golden burst of orange zest and nutty sweetness. It’s a dessert that flakes and sighs in equal measure, citrus-bright and feather-light, like the Mediterranean sun captured in pastry form. One forkful crunches, another melts, and suddenly you’re grinning like someone just slipped
Red. Amber. Call it chromatic chaos in a taster glass. Historians will tell you “amber” was a West Coast invention to bridge the gap between pale and brown, while “red” hails from Irish hearths and roasted malt. American brewers tossed in caramelized grain, citrus hops, and a shrug, and suddenly there was no difference at all. At the Great American Beer Festival they even share a single catchall category, like distant cousins crammed onto the same barstool. What’s left is a spectrum of glowing ales that refuse to sit neatly in any box—reds pretending to be ambers, ambers moonlighting as
Farewell pints: Boundary Bay closes after 30 years with a final street fest in Bellingham. Mashing-In News: Boundary Bay Farewell, AHA 2025 Strategic Plan GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025 — Doug E. Fresh turns 59 today! From heartfelt farewells in Bellingham to Bavarian block parties in Portland, from fresh hop fests to boundary-pushing beers abroad, today’s craft beer news pours a full spectrum of stories—celebrations, closures, and the flavors that keep pushing the culture forward. Boundary Bay Brewery Closes with 30th Anniversary Farewell Bash After 30 years as a beloved Bellingham institution,
Six cans and bottles, six spells, one delirious season in your glass. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack Sept. 16, 2025 Today’s Seasonal New Beer Six-Pack doesn’t just toast autumn—it howls it into being: pumpkin spice cannonballs into citrus haze, festbier steins clashing like golden thunder, fresh hops crackling green lightning, and malty hymns rising like smoke from a harvest bonfire—six delirious spells bottled for the turning of the year. 21ST AMENDMENT BREWERY PUMPKIN HAZE IPA: They swirl pumpkin purée and spice through a Citra-soaked haze—mandarin, stone fruit, and nutmeg colliding like pumpkin pie cannonballed into a
Sometimes a flight isn’t just beer, it’s séance and symphony, oak and chaos, tart lightning trapped in glass. Today at Peaks & Pints, we’re dragging the barrel-aged sours into the light where they belong, where microbes, wood staves, and time itself have done their slow, feral alchemy. These aren’t your easy Sunday lagers. These are living, breathing creatures: fermented by wind and wild yeast, bent through barrels that once held wine, rum, tequila, brandy. They taste like fruit struck by cathedral bells, like barnyards reborn as champagne, like sunlight refracted through old oak and forgotten prayers. This Tuesday flight is
Weihenstephaner brings Bavarian vibes to Portland’s Oktoberfest (Sept 19–Oct 10). Mashing-In News: Turning 40, Freshies & Friends GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025 — Amy Poehler turns 54 today! From Bavarian beer gardens in Portland to fresh hops in Marysville, milestone anniversaries for Bell’s and the BJCP, new leadership in barley, awards season at Brewbound, and even a spicy Thai somtum ale—today’s craft beer news is a global mix of tradition, innovation, and celebration. Weihenstephaner Brings Bavarian Flavor to Portland Oktoberfest Downtown Portland’s Hotel Zags and PLS on Sixth are transforming their patio
Oregon has a way of making cider that feels less like a beverage and more like a collective love letter to land, fruit, and stubborn creativity. From Hood River to Bend, Willamette Valley to Portland, every cidermaker in this flight cut their teeth in the same state but plays a different chord — Double Mountain chasing rosé elegance with pink-fleshed apples, Portland Cider racking up medals by turning the spice rack into an incantation, 2 Towns rewriting the berry gospel with marionberries, Bauman’s elevating brunch into liquid peach poetry, and Tumalo catching high-desert light in a farmhouse bottle. The through-line
6-Pack of Things To Do In Tacoma Sept. 15-21, 2025 Because Tacoma this week doesn’t merely offer things to do—it bends spacetime into a delirious carnival of them: pianos turned séance machines, pumpkin pints debated in real time like gourds on trial, ancestral migrations re-mapped in light and sound, Italian demons chewing through cinema seats, banjos vibrating highways into memory, and blues transfigured into prayer. It’s spectacle and sermon, ritual and riot, art and ale all colliding in a single week—Tacoma’s cultural bloodstream surging so hot and strange you’ll wonder how the city can possibly hold it all without bursting
The trail to Lake Valhalla is in good shape with fall colors just arriving. Photo credit: Ron Clausen Washington Trails & Taps Weekly Recap: September 8–14, 2025 The rhythms of early autumn deepen: shorter mornings, lingering smoke, and vivid berry patches that refuse to fade. Trails stayed inviting—even as wildfire whispers grew louder again. Here’s what hikers, rangers, and forest managers reported this week. 🌿 WTA Trip Report Highlights Lake Valhalla — Sept. 14 Cloudy morning, light crowds at 8 a.m., and a well-maintained, non-technical trail. Encountered a few PCT hikers; fall color is starting to
The Grit & Grain Podcast discusses Ezra Meeker’s hop legacy and a new hop museum in his honor on Episode 159. Mashing-In News: Ezra Meeker Hop Museum, Kings & Daughters & Taproom GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Monday, Sept. 15, 2025 — Tommy Lee Jones turns 79 today! Today’s craft beer news runs the gamut from history-rich to freshly poured: a new Grit & Grain podcast episode digs into Ezra Meeker’s hop legacy (and buried treasure) in Puyallup, while Hood River welcomes Kings & Daughters’ long-awaited Walled Garden taproom. In Portland, Threshold proves that Tuesday night
Fresh hop season is still just waking up, stretching its green arms across the Pacific Northwest, and Peaks & Pints is, once again, sliding a quintet of harvest-fueled beauties across the bar. Think of this flight as the overture before the full orchestra arrives: cones cut hours ago, still sticky with oil and earth, spun into hazy fields, citrus storms, and pine-soaked detonations. The crescendo hasn’t peaked yet—that’s still coming—but you can already taste the voltage in these early pours, that unmistakable thrum of hops at their brightest and most alive. Call it the soft rumble before the lupulin storm,
Moonlit Crunch Chicken — crafted by our kitchen wizard Kylee — stacks chicken, garlic chili-crisp mayo, ginger-sesame slaw, and crunchy chow mein noodles on French bread. It’s spice, crunch, and celebration in every bite. T-Town Toast: Moonlit Crunch Chicken + Moon Festival Saturday Sandwich Special, Sept. 13, 2025 Raise your sandwich high, Tacoma. Today from 1-6 p.m., the Tacoma Moon Festival glows at Chinese Reconciliation Park — lanterns swaying in the salt air, lion drums echoing against Commencement Bay, mooncakes traded like secret treasure. We toast in flavor and festival, because nothing says Tacoma like community
Because sometimes even Fresh Hoptoberfest has to scoot over and make room for its malt-polished Bavarian cousin, Peaks & Pints is yanking Oktoberfest out of the hop-storm spotlight and handing it a stein of its own. Today’s flight is a toast to the classics: golden lagers built on toasty grain and caramel whispers, floral noble hop grace notes, and centuries of beer hall thunder. Call it a break from the lupulin rave, call it an amber pause between harvest howls, call it what Munich calls it every fall—Oktoberfest, in all its liter-worthy glory, foamy, timeless, and impossible not to raise
Six pours, six electric harvest spells Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Friday, Sept. 12 Today’s New Beer Six-Pack is a fresh-hop carnival gone cosmic—citrus nebulae, strawberry fields ablaze, orange mirrors of afternoon sun, harvest raves in plush haze, fruit carts struck by lightning, and collabs exploding fruit tanks—six lupulin-powered moments demanding you taste September. FIELDWORK BREWING EMPEROR CITRA: This double-NE IPA rides in on saturated Citra power—marmalade and papaya, fresh orange juice and creamy body balanced with bite, like sipping sunlight woven through tropical citrus clouds, 8.7%, 16oz. LIVING HAUS BEER FRESH HOP COLIN: This
Sometimes the Peaks & Pints’ Friday Beer Flight shows up like an unmarked mixtape with exactly five tracks—no title, no liner notes, just waiting for you to drop the needle and decide what it wants to be. You could call this one “The Lupulin Quintet,” or “Five Hops in Search of a Name,” maybe “The Cooler’s Secret Handshake,” or “IPA, Interrupted.” Perhaps it’s “Meadow Light & Boatyard Chaos,” perhaps just “Friday.” Doesn’t matter. What matters is five brand-new arrivals—fresh-picked whispers, clawed brawls, sleepless anthems, cosmic haze, golden fever dreams—and they’re yours to rename, remix, and drain as you please. Peaks
Today in craft beer: fresh hops will have their day on award shelves. Mashing-In News: Fresh Hop Awards, PNW Oktoberfests GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Friday, Sept. 12, 2025 — Nina Blackwood turns 73 today! From Bavarian blowouts and fresh hop showdowns to high-rise patios, pioneering women’s sports bars, and even a beer can widget shaking up how hops hit your tongue, today’s craft beer news spans festivals, innovations, and community milestones near and far. Washington Beer Awards Opens Fresh Hop and Cider Competitions The Washington Beer Awards has opened registration for its fall Fresh Hop
September doesn’t sip quietly—it howls in malt, haze, and pumpkin fire.🔥 Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack 9.11.25 Today’s New Beer Six-Pack is pure delirium in liquid form—’90s soda reborn as sour haze, red ales blazing like autumn bonfires, pumpkin porters smoldering in whiskey cathedrals, milkshake IPAs committing seasonal heresy, barleywines roaring like oak-aged leviathans, and pastry stouts masquerading as dessert—six outrageous reasons to believe September drinks best when it’s unhinged. CLAIM 52 BREWING THICC – KACTUS KOOLER: This gose slams pineapple, Cara Cara orange, tangerine, and vanilla into a tart-sweet frenzy—like your favorite ’90s soda
Every September, Tacoma’s pint glasses start humming like overloaded power lines, and it can only mean one thing: fresh hop season. The cones are still breathing, brewers are still sprinting, and every pour tastes like the fields of Yakima wired themselves directly into your bloodstream. Today’s Peaks & Pints Thursday Fresh Hop Flight bottles that charge five different ways: Sig Brewing Co. channels live-wire elegance with its Pilscifer, Double Mountain rips open its IRA veins with Killer Red, Matchless drags Centennial cones straight from CLS Farms into Tumwater magic, Level pixelates Simcoe into a glowing lupulin arcade, and Breakside proves
Widmer’s Oktoberfest brings $3 Hefes + lederhosen Sept. 27. Mashing-In News: Chuckanut and Aslan Collab, Widmer Oktoberfest GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025 — Ludacris turns 48 today! From phoenix-rising brewery rebirths to taproom closures, $3 pint polka parties to draft beer’s surprising comeback, today’s craft beer news traces the full spectrum of what keeps the Pacific Northwest (and beyond) endlessly pouring. Chuckanut and Aslan Unite for West Coast Pils Collaboration Chuckanut Brewery has revived its original 10-barrel brewhouse for a new collaboration with longtime friends at Aslan Brewing, releasing a hop-charged West
The climb to Labyrinth Mountain & Minotaur Lake is worth the view. Photo by Peter Stevens, CC BY 2.0. Washington Trails & Taps Weekly Recap: September 1–7, 2025 September slid in with smoky skies, fading wildflowers, and early hints of fall color. Trailheads filled quickly, while wildfires kept the air tinged with haze. Yet hikers still reported berries, alpine solitude, and those crystalline moments that only Washington’s backcountry delivers. 🌿 WTA Trip Report Highlights Labyrinth Mountain & Minotaur Lake — Sept. 6 A demanding climb rewarded with alpine solitude and panoramic views over Minotaur and Theseus
Pumpkin beer is America’s oldest brewing prank, first stirred into kettles in the 18th century when malt was scarce and gourds were cheap, plentiful, and begging to be mashed into fermenters. Colonists, strapped for grain, brewed with pumpkin flesh and whatever spices lingered in the cupboard, creating ales that were more survival than celebration. Flash forward a couple hundred years, and pumpkin beer returned not from necessity but from nostalgia — a spiced, glowing goblet of autumn marketing genius, equal parts pie, pint, and ritual. By the 1990s, breweries had gone full harvest delirium, cramming gourds, cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove
Festival Herencia Latina — sabor, soul, mercados, folklórico, technicolor community joy at Tacoma Armory. 6-Pack of Things To Do In Tacoma: Sept. 8-14, 2025 Because this week Tacoma explodes in a kaleidoscope of excess and ache: fresh-hop steins and Bavarian hymnals clashing in foamy delirium, polyester saints resurrected under mirrorballs, Downton chandeliers trembling with scandal, mercaditos spilling sabor and soul, a moon festival glowing against the Sound like a lantern-lit heartbeat, and Everclear screaming us back into the sun-bleached roar of 1995. Fresh Hoptoberfest: The Ninth Pour | Through Sept. 30 September in Tacoma means one
Stoup Brewing’s Capitol Hill location will host The Art & Science of Beer on Sept. 11. Mashing-In News: Art & Science of Beer, Beer Styles & Tom Cruise Films GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Monday, Sept. 8, 2025 — Pink turns 46 today! Today’s craft beer news mixes science and art, hops and Hollywood, steady classics and bold debates—from Stoup Brewing’s fresh-hop education night to Em Sauter’s Tom Cruise pairings, Maine Beer Co.’s quiet growth, and even baseball’s surprising turn toward sobriety. Stoup Brewing Hosts Art & Science of Beer Event Sept. 11 Stoup Brewing’s Capitol
You fancy, Mortalis Brewing Leto! Fancy Pants Sunday: Mortalis Brewing Leto Welcome, lovers of lace-trimmed beer and liquid velvet. 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 Mortalis Brewing’s Leto, an imperial pastry stout brewed not just with almonds and cacao, but with mythic conviction. This is dessert dressed in moonlight, a collaboration forged between brewers, café saints, and ancient gods. Put simply, Leto isn’t here to party—it’s here to
Peaks & Pints doesn’t host concerts, but when we do, they’re an orchestrated collision: microbes and music, saxophone wails tangling with Brett funk, syncopation mixing with oak-barrel sour. Today, Jambic & Lazz, our first-Sunday sacrament, Kareem Kandi’s molten saxophone trio will fill our Events Room like microbes rushing into a Belgian coolship. From 6:30–9:30 p.m., Kandi and crew coax blues, funk, and classical threads into one smoky tapestry, while the beer flight hums with lambic—ancient, wild, tart, alive. Because really, what pairs better with jazz than a beer that refuses to follow rules? To understand why your taster glass is
Six cans, six autumn incantations Peaks & Pints New Fresh Hoptoberfest Beer Six-Pack: 9.6.25 Saturday’s New Beer Six-Pack is less a lineup and more a mad fresh hop and Oktoberfest séance—lagers humming with Bavarian grace, Märzens clinking soberly in the corner, wet-hop pale ales igniting with green fire, and fresh IPAs shimmering like forest incantations—proof that fall in the Northwest doesn’t arrive with the leaves but with the first frothy roar of fresh hops and festbier poured in delirious unison. ATHLETIC BREWING OKTOBERFEST: This non-alcoholic beer is all Vienna and Munich malt toastiness, Hallertau noble grace,
Bottle Logic Brewing has never brewed politely. Since 2013, the Anaheim crew has treated beer less like tradition and more like mad science — a laboratory of lupulin where equations collapse into chaos and barrel-aged dreams flirt with dessert. Their taproom has always felt like a feverish blend of alchemy lab and comic-book lair: chalkboards scrawled with hop hieroglyphs, glassware glowing with experiments gone deliciously sideways, beakers bubbling with paradox. They build West Coasts like surgical strikes, hazies like technicolor hallucinations, and pastry stouts that taste like someone torched a bakery inside your ribcage — all with a sly wink,
Every September, the Pacific Northwest forgets how to breathe politely. The air smells like cut grass and resin, brewers sprint like caffeinated monks through the Yakima Valley, and cones get crammed into kettles so fast they’re still humming with sunlight. Fresh hop season is not a style; it’s a fever, a fleeting green delirium that lasts about as long as a mayfly and tastes like the moment the world itself goes electric. Which is why Peaks & Pints keeps the Friday ritual: four beers wired directly to the harvest, each one a short-lived miracle, each one tasting impossibly alive. Victor
Grit & Grain Podcast dives into homebrew competition season, spotlighting Tacoma’s Lights Out! dark beer contest and the brand-new All-American competition in episode 158. Mashing-In News: Homebrew & Fresh Hop Competition Seasons GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Friday, Sept. 5, 2025 — Michael Keaton turns 74 today! From homebrew competitions in Tacoma to fresh hop fests in Seattle, from Bay Area closures to big national expansions, today’s craft beer news captures both the challenges and innovations shaping the industry—locally and beyond. Grit & Grain Podcast Dives Into Homebrew Competition Season Episode 158 of the Grit &
Six arrivals, six cosmic dialects of beer! Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack Thursday, Sept. 4 Today’s New Beer Six-Pack is a delirious mixtape of hop dialects and liquid daydreams—locomotives of haze, neon West Coast sermons, mandalas of lupulin light, lagers polished like amber dusk, power lines sparking with mango voltage, and constellations you can drink—six reasons to believe the universe prefers to speak in beer. FIELDWORK BREWING HAZY TRAIN: This I-I-I-IPA barrels through in a blur of Mosaic and Amarillo—grapefruit, melon, and pineapple thunderclaps wrapped in pillowy haze, a juicy locomotive of dank delight with
There are beer fundraisers, and then there are beer fundraisers in costume wings, with zoo keepers quoting owl trivia while ordering IPAs by the tray. Drinking for Conservation isn’t some hushed gala with PowerPoint slides and wilted salad — it’s joyful rabble-rousing with a purpose, conservation wrapped in pint foam, a reminder that saving the world doesn’t have to feel like homework. For nearly a decade, these righteous weirdos have turned bars into habitats, convincing us that maybe the best way to fight extinction is to buy the next round. Tonight, the beneficiary of this delightful chaos is none other
Seattle’s Fresh Hop Fest (Oct 9–11) at Beveridge Place Pub & WA Beer Blog pours 40 freshies in 3 days. Mashing-In News: Seattle Fresh Hop Fest, Vice Beer 3.0 GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025 — Beyonce Knowles turns 43 today! Today’s craft beer news flows from Seattle fresh hop festivals and Oktoberfest guides to Vancouver brewery expansions, talent pipelines, sustainability pushes, and even the controversial rise of “beer on the rocks.” Beveridge Place Pub and WA Beer Blog Tap 40 Freshies for Fresh Hop Fest, Oct. 9–11 The Beveridge Place Pub and
Every September, Tacoma wakes to the clang of school bells, and today it’s official: Washington Elementary and Mason Middle are back in session. Which means you, dear driver, should slow your roll through Proctor — backpacks bulging, sneakers squeaking, crosswalks packed with tiny humans whose energy could power a small city. The morning mayhem gives way to the afternoon flood: once the last bell rings, the Proctor District erupts. Kids swarm the coffee shops, jabbering like parrots on double-espresso, filling the sidewalks with sugar-hyped shrieks and end-of-summer gossip. It’s glorious, chaotic, inevitable. And what about the adults — the teachers,
Hop Valley to close its Eugene pub, planning a downtown revival. Mashing-In News: Grit & Grain Double Episode, Final Rare Beer GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025 — Charlie Sheen turns 60 today! From Tacoma’s hop-soaked podcast and Portland’s new Rosenstadt taproom to Hop Valley’s Eugene pub closure, Vanguard’s 10th anniversary, the last Denver Rare Beer Tasting, David Bruce’s memoir, and NBWA’s sobering sales index, today’s craft beer news mixes history, community, celebration, and industry headwinds into one busy pour. Grit & Grain waxes Hop King and Lights Out today at Peaks &
Six new arrivals, six delirious archetypes Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025 Today’s New Beer Six-Pack is an unruly carnival of liquid archetypes—pumpkin lanterns and piña-colada mirages, antipodean hop riots and orange-soda fever dreams, prairie winds stitched with citrus, and lager hymns humming from frothy steins—proof yet again that beer is less a drink than a shape-shifting spellbook in six chapters. DOGFISH HEAD PUNKIN: Real pumpkin, brown sugar, and spiced whispers swirl in a malty embrace, a rich brown ale that tastes like carving knives and cinnamon smoke curling under a harvest
