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
Labor Day is done, the grills are cold, the fireworks ash, the workweek rising again like an unwanted alarm clock. But before you dive headlong back into spreadsheets and meetings, Peaks & Pints offers a different kind of labor — the monastic, eternal kind, the sort performed by silent men in stone abbeys, brewing beer so divine it feels like prayer you can drink. The monks of Rochefort have been at it for centuries, brewing in the quiet recesses of Abbaye Notre-Dame de Saint-Rémy in southern Belgium, where Trappist bells toll not just for vespers, but for wort and mash,
Untappd launches Celebrate Oktoberfest + Love Hiking badges. Mashing-In News: Ezra Meeker Hop Museum Beer, Untappd Mania GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025 — Keanu Reeves turns 61 today! From Ezra Meeker’s hop empire reborn as a modern taproom-museum to Yakima’s growers pressing Congress for labor and innovation support, from Rochester’s foraged-brewery fairy tale to Untappd’s flurry of new badges and partnerships, today’s craft beer news reminds us that history, creativity, and technology are all on tap. Ezra Meeker’s Legacy Lives On in a New Taproom-Museum Vision Tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. in the
Every September, Tacoma becomes a strange kind of altar — not to school supplies or Seahawks schedules, but to the gods of green cones and golden malt. Peaks & Pints calls it Fresh Hoptoberfest, now on its ninth raucous chapter, and it’s less a beer fest than a seasonal séance: two fresh-hopped beauties still sticky from Yakima’s fields, two Oktoberfests gleaming with Bavarian malt memory, every day for thirty days, no excuses, no mercy. This is not a polite pumpkin latte cameo — this is lupulin frenzy colliding head-on with centuries of lager ritual, a Pacific Northwest harvest mash-up staged
6-Pack of Things To Do In Tacoma: Sept. 1-7 2025 Because this week Tacoma doesn’t just offer plans—it detonates them: hops and pumpkins colliding in seasonal mayhem, ghosts of hop kings and bat-winged biologists raising pints, soul food reinvented as streetwide communion, and jazz horns coiling through lambic funk until the very walls exhale. Fresh Hoptoberfest: The Ninth Pour | Monday, Sept. 1 Behold the annual collision of Yakima’s green gospel and Bavaria’s malty hymnals: Fresh Hoptoberfest: The Ninth Pour takes over Peaks & Pints for the entire month of September, a ritual now nine years strong and only gaining
Peaks & Pints’ Fresh Hoptoberfest kicks off—two fresh hops + two Oktoberfests daily through September. Mashing-In News: Fresh Hoptoberfest, Outer Planet To Close GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Monday, Sept. 1, 2025 — Barry Gibb turns 79! Today’s craft beer news flows from Tacoma’s Fresh Hoptoberfest taps to Seattle’s bittersweet brewery goodbye, from corn’s redemption in the brewhouse to American icons landing overseas, with a sweet new Pints and Panels pairing to top it all off. Peaks & Pints Serves Fresh Hops and Oktoberfests All September Long Peaks & Pints’ Fresh Hoptoberfest returns for its ninth
Peaks & Pints Fresh Hoptoberfest: The Ninth Pour And lo, the saga continues. For nine straight Septembers, Peaks & Pints has conspired with Yakima’s sticky hop gods and Bavaria’s malt-drunk ancestors to bring you Fresh Hoptoberfest: The Ninth Pour — the latest installment in Tacoma’s autumn beer fever dream. Think of it as the moment in the franchise when the hero is wiser, the villain is juicier, and the explosions are bigger, greener, maltier. For thirty straight days — Sept. 1 through Sept. 30, 2025 — our taps will lock into ritual: two fresh hops pulsing with harvest electricity, two
Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Six arrivals, six reasons to abandon moderation Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Sunday, August 31, 2025 Today’s New Beer Six-Pack isn’t just a lineup, it’s a mischievous séance of barley and hops—six bottles of seasonal sorcery, each one a tiny riot of flavor and delirium, here to remind you that beer is best when it’s a little unholy. BEER ZOMBIES A NIGHTMARE ON HAZE STREET PART 2: It slashes in like a hopped-up fever dream—Mosaic, Citra, and Cascade dripping citrus-tropical blood, a double hazy IPA that stalks your palate
Every October, Proctor forgets its tidy porch-light manners and detonates into a pumpkin carnival. The Market stacks gourds like orange fortresses, jack-o’-lanterns grin from stoops with dental problems, sidewalks crunch under leaf confetti, and the air itself smells like nutmeg daring you to admit you love it. And now, beer joins the rebellion. Peaks & Pints’ Tap #23 has been officially claimed by Proctor Pumpkin Pandemonium — pumpkin beer’s mischievous soapbox, pouring steady until Halloween. Pumpkin beer is theater, not just flavor: part nostalgia, part ritual, part fleeting seasonal excess that collapses on November 1 like a soggy scarecrow. Love
Proctor in October isn’t just cozy porches and polite gourds — it’s a full-on autumn riot. Lantern grins on every stoop, sidewalks littered with leaf confetti, and now Peaks & Pints has joined the fray: Tap #23 surrendered to pumpkin’s mischievous ghost. Proctor Pumpkin Pandemonium Every October, Proctor becomes a kind of living pumpkin patch. Farmers haul them into the Market by the truckload, porches flicker with jagged-tooth lantern grins, sidewalks crackle with leaf confetti, and even the air smells faintly of nutmeg daring you to admit you like it. And now, beer joins the parade:
North 8th. North Tacoma. One block. One tree. And last month? Porchfest turned her curb into a carnival. Tacoma Silent Trees: Kwanzan Cherry Tree Speaks on North Eighth “I have watched the shade beneath me hold families as they push swings, my petals drift to lawns where porch light and content sighs mingle,” says the Kwanzan cherry tree on North Eighth Street between North Alder and North Cedar in North Tacoma. “I’ve seen Victorian frames and bungalow hearts refreshed and loved again. I’ve felt the pulse of a neighborhood that refuses demolition, that chooses memory over
Bellingham doesn’t just sit quietly at the top of the map; it hums, brews, and burns bright with a stubborn Northwest energy that’s half lumber town, half college fever dream, half alpine outpost. On August 30, 1890, four smaller towns — Whatcom, Sehome, Fairhaven, and little Bellingham — smashed together like malty tectonic plates and incorporated into the city we know today. Out of that mashup grew a place where mountains lean over the bay, trails bleed into taprooms, and breweries multiply like sparks off a campfire. Today, Bellingham beer is its own ecosystem — a city of lagers, IPAs,
Six ways to derail moderation, six portals into seasonal sorcery. ✨ Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Friday, Aug. 29 Today’s New Beer Six-Pack is less a tidy lineup and more a delirious séance of liquid archetypes—West Coast prisms bending light into citrus fire, pumpkin bonfires that learned gluten-free incantations, Märzen love letters, saison spells in monkish sunlight, fresh-hop parades crashing steins, and one sly NA trickster grinning in Cascade citrus drag—all conspiring to remind you that beer is never just beer, it’s a many-headed beast of seasonal sorcery. FORT GEORGE BREWERY MIRRORED REALITIES: Comet and
August 29 isn’t just another date on the slow-burn desert calendar — it’s the day Arizona itself started sketching its destiny. In 1856, a conference was called to hammer together the bones of what would become the Arizona Territory, a raw attempt to shape governance out of cactus and canyon, law out of dust. One-hundred-and-sixty-nine years later, Phoenix is still doing it — only now the conferences happen in breweries, and the governing documents are hazy IPAs, lagers, and stouts that rewrite what desert beer can taste like. Wren House and Roses By The Stairs aren’t just making beer, they’re
Hops For Habitat — Drink beer, save forests. Peaks & Pints teams with Drinking For Conservation Sept. 4 to raise pints (and funds) for The Nature Conservancy. Mashing-In News: Drink Beer For Science, Hops For Habitat GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Friday, August 29, 2025 — Rebecca De Mornay turns 66 today! From pint-powered conservation and fresh hop science to new hops, milestone brews, Oktoberfest revelry, and even a craft beer comedy on Prime Video, today’s craft beer news proves there’s no shortage of stories fermenting across the beer world. Drink Beer, Save Forests: Hops For
Join Drinking For Conservation at Peaks & Pints for Hops For Habitat — where every drink donates 50¢ to The Nature Conservancy. One sip = one small act of wild, delicious conservation. Hops For Habitat: Drinking For Conservation Returns to Peaks & Pints There are fundraisers, and then there are the wild, winking, slightly unhinged beer-soaked love letters to the planet known as Drinking For Conservation. This is not your typical “silent auction with lukewarm chicken and a stiff PowerPoint” affair. No, this is zoo keepers in bat wings, biologists arm-wrestling brewery reps, and a Tacoma
Thursday, August 28, the W.W. Seymour Conservatory stops being just a botanical jewelbox of palms, ferns, and riotous blossoms, and instead turns into something stranger: a cathedral of questions. Trivia in the Garden is Tacoma’s annual excuse to test how much you really know about the things that photosynthesize — orchids, begonias, bees, even the secret dirt habits of your favorite houseplant. It’s equal parts friendly competition, leafy pedagogy, and community reverie, the Conservatory’s glass dome glowing like a quiz-show lantern in the twilight. And what better way to pre-funk (or post-funk) such an event than with a flight of
Portland’s The Sports Bra is named one of USA Today’s Top 10 Sports Bars in America—shining the spotlight on women’s sports with every pour. Photo courtesy of Facebook Mashing-In News: Top 10 Sports Bra, New NA IPA With a Cause GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Thursday, August 28, 2025 — Jack Black turns 56 today! From Portland’s Sports Bra making USA Today’s list of America’s top sports bars, to Olympia’s Self Care Brewing releasing a non-alc IPA with a cause, to Elysian’s pumpkin beers earning their own Untappd badge, today’s craft beer news is a full
San Diego didn’t just join the craft beer revolution — it lit the fuse, rode the blast, and then taught the rest of America how to worship hops like they were gospel. From the early saints of Stone and Pizza Port to today’s haze-drenched surf towns and barrel-brooding warehouses, this city remains the West Coast’s sunstruck cathedral of beer. It’s a place where IPAs taste like ocean spray laced with citrus, where sours double as rescue-dog fundraisers, where barleywines brood like whiskey in the dark, and where the culture is equal parts bonfire and brewer’s lab. So today, Peaks &
Tacoma shuffle: Sig Brewing closing Sig South Friday, but main brewery + killer pizza stay open. Mashing-In News: Dr. Pat passes, Tacoma beer news GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Wednesday, August 27, 2025 — Tuesday Weld turns 82 today! From Tacoma breweries’ changes to college teams debuting their first official brews, today’s craft beer news pours out stories of loss, growth, innovation, and celebration across the Pacific Northwest and beyond. “Dr. Pat” McGovern, Archaeologist Who Revived Ancient Beers, Passes Away Dogfish Head has announced that Dr. Patrick McGovern — “Dr. Pat,” the world’s leading expert on
Hops are usually patient creatures, coaxed and crossbred for a decade or more before their names are whispered into the world. But Dolcita™ — once just a number (HBC 1019) scrawled on a breeding sheet — didn’t wait. Born in 2016 in the Yakima Valley, she sprinted from seedling to stardom, bypassing whole stages of the breeding gauntlet as if to say, I’ve already seen the future, and it smells like pineapple cream and peach candy. Yakima Chief Hops and Yakima Chief Ranches, with their alchemical partners at the Hop Breeding Company, fast-tracked her destiny — the first hop to
Seattle says goodbye to a legend — Gordon Bowker, co-founder of Starbucks + Redhook, has died at 82. A visionary who shaped coffee, beer, and culture. Mashing-In News: Gordon Bowker Dies, Alchemy Cider Opens GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Tuesday, August 26, 2025 — Melissa McCarthy turns 55 today! From Seattle icons and crypto distilling firsts to gothic-metal cideries, heritage beers, and one writer’s epic 24-beer State Fair quest, today’s craft beverage news spans legacy, innovation, and plenty of bold new flavors Seattle Icon Gordon Bowker, Co-Founder of Starbucks and Redhook, Dies at 82 Gordon Bowker,
Let’s kick off your Monday with Finnriver Farm & Cidery — a cidery born when a wilderness educator, a dreamer, and a sweaty spreadsheet (yes, truly) converged in Chimacum, Washington, circa 2008. What began as a scrappy effort to salvage a family farm with apples sold to neighbors has grown into one of the Pacific Northwest’s torchbearers of organic, community-rooted cider-making. The founders — Keith, Crystie, and Eric — leaned on wisdom from mentors, conservationists, and local soil as they planted orchards, rebuilt old dairy barns into fermentation sanctuaries, and coaxed wild-foraged botanicals into bottles. They fused orchard science with
Wing Lake in Washington state is a turquoise alpine jewel tucked beneath Black Peak in the North Cascades, reached by a rugged trail past Heather Pass and Maple Pass, where larch forests, wildflower meadows, and towering granite walls frame one of the state’s most photogenic backcountry camps. Washington Trails & Taps Weekly Recap: August 18–24, 2025 Late-summer rhythms continue to thrum through Washington’s wild places—daylight lingers, wildflowers nod in alpine breeze, and trail dust rises with every sunrise. This week brought summit glory, cheeky wildlife encounters, and a wildfire reminder in Olympic’s backcountry. Here’s what dispatches
Mashing-In News: Fresh Hop Season, Midwest IPA GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Monday, August 25, 2025 — Gene Simmons turns 76 today! From fresh hop fever and Mariners baseball tie-ins to the rise of Midwest IPA, fruit beer finesse, used-equipment lessons, and even a Wrangler x Coors Banquet fashion collab, today’s craft beer news shows just how wide the brewing world’s frontier really is. Fresh Hop Frenzy: Grit & Grain Podcast Previews 2025 Season Episode 157 of the Grit & Grain Podcast previews the 2025 Pacific Northwest fresh hop season, with the hosts cracking open beers and spotlighting the breweries
Adam Levy’s music is a hushed, soul-soaked conversation between jazz, blues, and folk—equal parts smoky restraint and lyrical clarity, where every note feels like a secret gently confessed. Photo courtesy of Adam Levy Blues Vespers, hosted by Pastors Dave Brown and Dave Wright Tonight, Blues Vespers returns to Kilworth Chapel not merely as a concert, but as communion—a sonic liturgy hosted by Pastors Dave Brown and Dave Wright, where the sermon is in the strings and the prayers rise in 12-bar blues. As the sun exhales behind the Sound and stained glass burns amber in the
Some breweries build stainless temples; Jester King Brewery built a farm. A real one—goats bleating, Great Pyrenees on patrol, orchards and prairie grass swaying in the Texas heat—then infused every beer with that same feral, elemental hum. Since 2010, they’ve been brewing like mystics on Austin’s outskirts, treating yeast as gospel, barrels as altars, and fruit as liturgy. Their farmhouse ethos isn’t a gimmick; it’s geography and philosophy colliding—wild ales, saisons, hazies, and hybrids all singing in the register of soil, sun, and spontaneous fermentation. Drinking Jester King is less about tasting beer and more about stepping into a living
Great Notion is the brewery that looked at Portland’s damp evergreen skyline and thought, nah, let’s repaint it in neon fruit. Founded in 2016 by three homebrewing dads with more hop ambition than sense, Great Notion became an instant cult—transforming hazy IPAs into technicolor visions and sours into juice boxes for grown-ups who never wanted to retire their crayons. Their cans, wrapped in cartoon-surreal artwork, aren’t just labels but portals: invitations to step into something mischievous and slightly unruly. They don’t brew so much as remix—layering hops like DJs dropping reckless beats, stacking fruit until it feels like a farmers’
Six fresh arrivals, six portals into hop-soaked mischief and fruit-drunk sorcery. From hazy galaxies to sour spells to a smoothie-thick fruit tsunami, this week’s lineup laughs at moderation and dares your palate to keep up. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: August 22, 2025 Today’s New Beer Six-Pack is a delirious parade of hop-soaked mischief and fruit-drunk sorcery, six unruly vessels of liquid rebellion hellbent on detonating your palate and reminding you that moderation is a tedious myth. FORT GEORGE BREWERY TRAIL NAMES CRYO FRESH HOP WEST COAST PILSNER: A collaboration with Tall Trees Brew Lab,
Chris Staudinger has finally cracked open Tacoma’s vault with Secret Tacoma, his mischievous love letter to the city’s hidden histories. It’s a book stitched together from years of storytelling on his Pretty Gritty Tours, where alleys, archives, and whispered rumors turned into chapters of wonder. You’ll find stories that dodge the tourist gloss, instead unearthing the oddities, fires, secrets, and near-forgotten folklore that make Tacoma hum. And this week, the author himself is popping up to spill even more: Friday, Aug. 29 at Crescent Moon Gifts and Saturday, Aug. 30 at Pacific Northwest Shop in the Proctor District, Staudinger will
Mashing-In News: Viking Beer Fest, Beer & Blues GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Friday, August 22, 2025 — Kristen Wiig turns 52 today! Today’s craft beer news brings a full pour of Northwest festivals, industry shifts, and brewing culture— from Des Moines blues paired with local brews and Beaverton Vikings raising horns, to barley hitting historic lows, Pliny the Younger reflections, and even bobbleheads of beer barons. Northwest Craft Beer Meets Live Blues at Poverty Bay Fest This Saturday The 2025 Poverty Bay Blues & Brews Fest hits Des Moines Beach Park this Saturday, August 23, 2025, pairing dozens of
Once upon a Stockholm whim, brewer Henok Fentie and artist Karl Grandin decided beer didn’t have to behave. It could be as wild as a surrealist canvas, as decadent as cake batter, as sacred as liturgy. In 2011, they conjured Omnipollo, a nomadic experiment in liquid and light—brewing wherever inspiration struck, slapping bottles with Grandin’s psychedelic hieroglyphs, and insisting that recipe and design were one inseparable creation. They brewed Leon, Nebuchadnezzar, Fatamorgana, Zodiak—names that read like Tarot pulls, liquids that bent festivals and palates to their will. And then the church. Literally. In 2020, the wandering duo claimed a deconsecrated
Oktoberfest Northwest turns 20 with wiener dogs & lederhosen chaos. Mashing-In News: Oktoberfest Northwest Turns 20, Burke-Gilman Brewing Turns 7 GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Thursday, August 21, 2025 — Kim Cattrall turns 69 today! Craft beer never sits still—it throws a four-day birthday bash in Seattle, dons lederhosen in Puyallup and Big Bear, packs up a WWII museum for a Colorado move, and still finds time to wrestle with tariffs, shifting drinking habits, forgotten styles, and college beer culture’s evolution. Here’s what’s bubbling in today’s craft beer world. Burke-Gilman Brewing Turns 7 with a 4-Day
Six portals, six mischievous reasons to mock restraint: hazy stargates dripping mango stardust, pale ales grinning like campfire tricksters, dank hop comets colliding with your tongue. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: August 20 Today’s New Beer Six-Pack is a riotous carousel of hazy stargates, sticky hop bombs, and sly pale ales daring your palate to abandon restraint and cartwheel through galaxies of citrus, pine, and dank delight. BLOCK 15 BREWING SPACE CANDY IPA: This juicy, hop-forward hazy IPA drifts in like a psychedelic comet, all mango-flesh nebulae and dank pine stardust, a lush, hazy joyride
Wednesday, Aug. 20, Tacoma becomes a stage with a split spotlight: Matt McLaren and Erina McLaren both taking their turns, one in Peaks & Pints’ Events Room and the other under Old Town Tacoma’s cedar sky. You could call it a family double feature; we call it proof that beer and music are never far apart when the McLarens are involved. Matt is the brand manager at Orcas Distributing, which means he spends his days making sure the region’s most boujee and far-flung beers find their way to your glass. He’s also one of the co-hosts of the Grit &
Grit & Grain Podcast breaking down the 2025 fresh hop harvest at 3:30 p.m. today at Peaks & Pints in Tacoma. Mashing-In News: Grit & Grain Waxes Fresh Hops, Netflix House of Guinness GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Wednesday, August 20, 2025 — Robert Plant turns 77 today! From fresh hops to pirate bars, today’s craft beer report spans harvest previews, new brewery expansions, star-chef pairings at GABF, global inclusivity efforts, and even Disney’s first-ever rum-soaked tavern. Grit & Grain Podcast Breaks Down This Year’s Fresh Hop Harvest Grit & Grain Podcast Episode 157 previews the
Meet Tropic Thunder: ham, cheddar, pickled pineapple, oranges, guava vinegar, onion, and arugula crashing into French bread like a tropical storm in a deli case. Paired with Westbound & Down Juice Caboose Hazy IPA, which boasts all mango-citrus haze and juicy bravado, it’s a riot of sweet, salty, tangy, and bitter flavors that somehow sing in harmony. Peaks & Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: Tropic Thunder Tuesday, August 19, 2025: Some sandwiches just want to pick a fight. Peaks & Pints Kitchen Jorgen’s Tropic Thunder throws ham and Beecher’s cheddar into the ring, then blindsides them with
They started like so many great bad ideas do: two brothers-in-law, a five-tap kegerator, Rochester weather ping-ponging between garage heat and basement frost, and a rumor mill that turned their house pours into a neighborhood pilgrimage. Paul Grenier and Dave Luckenbach brewed “hundreds and hundreds” of batches, the crowd grew from friends to friends-of-friends, and one day the basement looked less like a hobby and more like a calling. In early 2018, they shoved all the chips in. A Livingston County business-plan contest gave them seed money (before half the judges had even tasted the beer), they dropped the placeholder
Mashing-In News: Elysian Pumpkin Fest, Farmtoberfest GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Tuesday, August 19, 2025 — John Stamos turns 62 today! From pumpkin kegs in Seattle to puppies and pints in Mount Vernon, Sasquatch-themed homebrewers in Idaho to UK awards in London, today’s craft beer news pours out festival announcements, milestone celebrations, industry challenges, and even soup spiked with PBR. Over 60 Seasonal Beers Await at Elysian’s Pumpkin Fest Seattle’s Great Pumpkin Beer Festival returns Oct. 3–4 at Elysian Capitol Hill Brewery with more than 60 seasonal beers, live music, food trucks, and its signature tradition: tapping a massive pumpkin
Today’s Peaks & Pints new beer six-pack is basically a candlelit banquet disguised as cans and bottles. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six Pack: August 18 Today’s New Beer Six-Pack is a midnight feast laid out under cathedral lights and neon strobes—lagers cloaked in caramel hymnals, stouts dripping cheesecake sins, IPAs roaring citrus choirs and candy-funk storms, all plotting to seduce your palate into forgetting the calendar, the weather, the rules, and maybe even your own name. LARRABEE LAGER OKTOBERFEST: Amber glow in a stein, all caramel breadcrust and Alpine toffee swagger, a malt hymn that
6-Pack of Things To Do In Tacoma: August 18-24, 2025 Tacoma, behold your week: a delirious sprawl of cider flights and folk ballads, carnivorous musicals and resurrected newspaper boxes, Latin-flushed dance floors and one very large neighborhood food orgy. It’s the kind of lineup that laughs in the face of tidy calendars, tosses confetti into your inbox, and dares you to keep up. Pineapple gods crash Monday, Erina McLaren hymns Old Town into reverie, the Weekly Volcano turns rust to radiant gospel, Audrey II demands your soul at the Blue Mouse, Sábado Sabor rewrites the meaning of Saturday night, and
