Boston-born haze royalty has arrived in the Peaks & Pints cooler — Trillium Brewing, the cult New England darling founded in 2013, now just a door-hinge away from your grasp. Trillium Brewing — Now Chilling in Tacoma Founded in 2013 by JC and Esther Tetreault in Boston’s Fort Point neighborhood, Trillium Brewing rocketed from cult New England haze whisperer to a name spoken in hushed, reverent pints across the craft beer cosmos. Now, thanks to Stoup Distro’s latest act of benevolent mischief — only the fourth time Washington has been graced with their cans — a
Once upon a Fargo frostbite, before the city had quite realized it needed its own unhinged Norse feberdrøm, four friends — scientist Mark Bjornstad, builder Darin Montplaisir, businessperson Jesse Feigum, and engineer Mason Montplaisir — were hunched over bubbling carboys and questionable life choices in somebody’s garage, plotting the beer revolution the way other people plot road trips or dubious tattoos. Seven years they brewed and schemed, polishing recipes like swords, polishing their Viking swagger like it was the prow of a longship about to sail into a land of light lager and utterly wreck it. They named it Drekker
No-Li’s Squatch IPAs stomp onto the world stage like boozy, citrus-fanged Sasquatches in tuxedos, hauling home gold, silver, and bronze as if Olympic medals were just shiny beer coasters. Mashing-In News: Squatches Win Big, Fresh Hop Fest Bigger GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Thursday, August 14, 2025 — Steve Martin turns 80 today! Today’s craft beer world is a delicious, hoppy pinball machine — and we’re bouncing between global victories, bold business moves, and enough fresh hop foam to crown a Yakima sunset. No-Li’s Squatch IPAs Win Big on the Global Stage No-Li Brewhouse’s Squatch Series
Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack is here to wreck your midweek in the best possible way. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Wednesday, Aug. 13 Today’s Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack is basically a hopped-up masquerade ball in liquid form—tropical predators prowling in guava heat, pumpkin pie waltzing with caramel spice, citrus and pine throwing elbows on the dance floor—each can a different kind of beautiful trouble, all dressed to kill and absolutely refusing to go quietly. ANCHORAGE BREWING WOLF CHILD: Single-hop Vic Secret lushness—pineapple pulp, passionfruit hush, and guava heat that pads in
Fast Fashion Brewing didn’t so much stroll onto the Seattle beer scene as it did kick down the door, grinning and clutching a bag of experimental hops called “Anchovy” like a contraband treasure. Born mid-pandemic from the restless brains of Masonry Pizza owner Matt Storm and Stillwater Artisanal mastermind Brian Strumke, the brewery started as a contract operation, a hazy-IPA-first, rules-later experiment in treating beer like couture—small-batch, trend-aware, irreverent, and always changing. Their big break came on a hop farm lawn in Yakima, cutting a deal to sponsor an entire acre of that candied-watermelon-and-pine Anchovy hop no one else had
After dozens of trials and test batches, Fort George Brewery is proud to present a beer so good that they named it “Pilsner.” Mashing-In News: Fort George Pilsner, Hall of Fame Beers GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Wednesday, August 13, 2025 — Danny Bonaduce turns 66 today! Today’s craft beer news pours like a flight you didn’t know you needed—beginning with Fort George’s crystalline Bear Creek Pilsner, proof that Astoria’s rain-fed water is as brew-worthy as Bohemia’s; shifting to Portland’s grand finale of Brews for New Avenues, the rare beer auction and philanthropic juggernaut aiming to
Picture this: three Coloradans—Geoff McFarlane, Dan Brown, and Jed MacArthur—stumble out of the 2015 winter fog in Idaho Springs. They’d fumbled into a former Buffalo Restaurant & Bar, decided trivia nights weren’t nearly enough, and turned that historic space into the now-iconic Westbound & Down Brewing taproom. There, a young brewer named Jake Gardner, once wrangling tanks at Hogshead, joined them to dream in hops and malt. They started small—but smart. By 2021, they had swallowed up Endo’s Lafayette brewery, turning it into a polished production facility and pizza-surrounded brewpub. A year later came a taproom in Denver’s Dairy Block,
A decade after The Beer Bible, reflecting on 2015’s hazy IPA boom & buyout blitz. Mashing-In News: Boundary Bay Lives, Beer Bible Legacy GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Tuesday, August 12, 2025 — George Hamilton turns 86 today! From bittersweet goodbyes in Bellingham to crab feasts in Seattle, medal hauls in the hop fields, and a decade’s worth of brewing perspective, today’s craft beer news pours a full flight of stories worth savoring. Boundary Bay Brewery to Close Pub, But Beers Will Live On Boundary Bay Brewery will close its Bellingham pub on September 20 after
Six new reasons to skip whatever Monday thought it was doing. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Monday, Aug. 11 Today’s Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack is a passport stamp to everywhere you wish you were—Portugal’s tiled streets, Bavaria’s cobblestones, Yakima’s hop fields, and some sun-drunk, resin-laced freeway in your dreams—six pours caught mid-season, when summer’s still in your glass but autumn’s already texting you at midnight. DREKKER BREWING BAAAAAAAAINS KIWI PINEAPPLE: A technicolor smoothie sour with ripe kiwi and sun-drunk pineapple whipped into vanilla-salted, lactose-slick decadence that drinks like dessert in the middle of
6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma: August 11-17, 2025 Because this week in Tacoma isn’t content to simply “offer entertainment” like some timid cruise-ship buffet — no, it’s uncorking pear-soaked salvation for your Monday sins, parading shelter pets like fuzzy revolutionaries in need of co-conspirators, flinging cosmic superheroes across the Proctor District sky, waltzing you through centuries of scandalous couture, roasting politicians for sport, and stuffing an entire Broadway-kissed circus under a tent just to see how wide your grin can stretch. It’s big. It’s unruly. It’s everything your calendar didn’t know it was desperate to devour. Monday Pear
Mondays, frankly, need saving, and nothing rescues a day from the cubicle abyss quite like the pear in all its fermented glory — whether in the guise of a pear cider or its more aristocratic cousin, the perry. Here’s the gist: Perry is the old soul, born centuries ago in the orchards of England and France, made solely from fermented pear juice, often using heritage varieties so tannic and stubborn they’d rather rot than be eaten fresh. Pear cider, on the other hand, is the modern shapeshifter — essentially apple cider sweetened, blended, or infused with pear juice — brighter,
This week’s Washington Trails & Taps (Aug. 4–10) comes with smoky skies, strict campfire bans in Olympic, and the Sourdough Fire closing chunks of SR-20. Fewer trip reports, more reasons to check conditions before you go. Washington Trails & Taps Weekly Recap: August 4–10, 2025 If summer had a crescendo, it hit its peak this week. Trails pulsed with foot traffic and wildflower noise, while the smoky edge of wildfire season hovered at the margins. Here’s what hikers, rangers, and the land itself shared from Washington’s rugged storefronts. ⛰ WTA Trip Report Highlights Real-time trip reports
John Coleman of Coleman Agriculture offers the latest crop update from the hop yards of the Willamette Valley in Oregon. Photo courtesy of YCH Facebook. Mashing-In News: Historic German-American Lager, Willamette Valley Hops GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Monday, August 11, 2025 — Chris Hemsworth turns 42 today! Today’s craft beer dispatch spans continents, climates, and even realms of fantasy—from a once-in-a-lifetime Helles brewed with Bavarian monks for Portland’s Prost!, to Double Mountain’s cherry-rich sours years in the making, to Willamette Valley hops shrugging off a summer heat wave. We’ve got an 11% coconut-laced imperial stout
S’mores aren’t just a campfire treat — they’re a primal invocation, a memory trigger, a sticky-fingered rite of passage whispered into the DNA of anyone who’s ever sat too close to the flames. They’re the dessert that taught us how to linger, how to lean in, how to get a little messy and not care. Today, we take that magic, pour it into five glasses, and hand it to you in liquid form. This is not nostalgia in beer form; this is nostalgia amplified, boozed-up, and given a bourbon-barrel education. It’s chocolate and char, marshmallow and malt, graham and grain
Double dry hopping is the brewing equivalent of turning the stereo not just to 11, but to some secret, illegal frequency that rearranges the furniture in your brain. Dry hopping is that delirious late-stage alchemy where brewers fling fistfuls of fragrant, lupulin-laced green dreams into already-fermenting beer, letting volatile hop oils pirouette through the liquid, saturating your nose in a sensual riot of citrus, pine, and illicit botany without dragging bitterness along for the ride. It’s not a blunt-force “more hops = more bitter” move — it’s a surgical strike on your senses. It’s about coaxing every volatile oil, every
Friday’s Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack hits like a velvet riff across the taste buds. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Friday, Aug. 8 Today’s Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack reads like a mixtape of masterstrokes—new styles born in hop fields, medals clinking like applause from the gods, haze that sways like jazz in a linen suit, and lagers so light they practically levitate. This isn’t just beer. It’s form, finesse, and full-body flirtation. BALE BREAKER BREWING FIELD 41 YAKIMA PALE ALE: A reimagined Field 41 with lower ABV but not an ounce less
Some breweries are built with stainless steel, spreadsheets, and a small fortune in investor cash. Roses By The Stairs Brewing was stitched together with skate decks, desert dust, and indie rock heartbreak. Born from the bones of Phoenix’s beloved Easley’s Fun Shop — yes, the one with the wigs and latex ghouls — Roses is what happens when a former engineer named Jordan Ham says, “What if we brewed beer the way punk bands write love songs — with thrift, sweat, and an unapologetic crush on chaos?” At first glance, you might think you’ve walked into a post-industrial garage show
Tune in to Grit & Grain Podcast Episode 155 to learn what happens when a family opens a brewery inside a haunted city hall, teaches themselves decoction mashing, and then starts winning medals like they’re collecting Pokémon. Mashing-In News: Renton Reinheitsgebot, Craft Beer Meets Butcher GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Friday, August 8, 2025 — The Edge turns 64 today! Today’s craft beer report pours a full glass of global trends, bold innovation, and small-town excellence—from Renton’s Four Generals mastering German styles on the Grit & Grain Podcast to Schilling’s carbon-neutral cider, Sierra Nevada’s hazy celebration,
Today’s new beer six-pack isn’t just a vibe—it’s a cinematic universe of citrus chaos, pink lemonade flirtation, joystick nostalgia, and freedom-soaked haze. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Thursday, Aug. 7 From Great Notion’s pink lemonade reverie to Logan’s joystick-smashing collab chaos, from Lucky Envelope’s hop-drenched nostalgia bombs to Old Schoolhouse’s pine-kissed pathfinders, this new beer six-pack is a love letter to boldness, weirdness, and the kind of beer that winks as it walks away. GREAT NOTION BREWING PINK LEMONADE: A tart daydream of Meyer lemon zip and strawberry swoon, a blushing, puckered whisper of summer
Before there was “IPA,” there was survival. The India Pale Ale didn’t begin in a haze or with a taproom brawl over who dry-hops best—it began with British brewers, warm beer, and oceanic anxiety. In the 18th century, ales spoiled during the months-long voyage to colonial India. The solution? Hop it like hell. Hops, with their antiseptic bitterness and oil-slicked magic, preserved the beer on its voyage—and in the process, birthed a style. But like all creation myths, the truth is foggy: some IPAs made the trip, some didn’t; some were loved, some brewed solely for thirsty colonizers. Regardless,
Brew Five Three, Tacoma’s beer and music festival, will be held in the historic Tacoma Armory on Saturday, August 9, 2025, transforming the former military hall into a vibrant beer-and-music festival with craft pours, live bands, food trucks, and dog-friendly fun. Photo courtesy of Tacoma Arts Live Mashing-In News: Brew Five Three, GABF on sale GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Thursday, August 7, 2025 — Charlize Theron turns 50 today! Happy National IPA Day! As hop lovers across the country raise a glass to the iconic India Pale Ale, today’s craft beer news pours out a
Sometimes you want the neon haze and triple-dry-hopped glitter bomb. And sometimes — blessedly — you want structure, tradition, and malt melodies that feel like your bones already know the lyrics. Today’s Peaks & Pints flight is the latter: five German-style beers brewed stateside by those who respect the Reinheitsgebot but still sneak out to dance with the hops after curfew. From the dunkel’s soft mahogany murmur to a Festbier brewed with legit German co-conspirators, this is a beer flight that zigzags between reverence and irreverence — just like all the best drinking songs. Peaks & Pints German-Style Beer Flight
Renton’s former city hall and jail aligned with Four Generals’ ethos of preserving tradition while forging something new. They even kept parts like the holding-cell gate as literal touchpoints to Renton history. Mashing-In News: Four Generals salute, Hopsource returns GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Wednesday, August 5, 2025 — Ginger Spice turns 53 today! Today’s craft beer dispatch spans the globe and the gut: from decoction lagers and haunted cells in Renton to a resurrected Cardiff pub mired in handpump controversy; from Portland throwbacks and Ballard goodbyes to WSU’s inclusive brewing future and Yakima’s hop-forward trials—sip
Tacoma Armory—once the gritty heartbeat of military bravado, now a majestic temple of sudsy spectacle. Photo courtesy of Facebook Tacoma Armory: From Drill Hall to Brew Five Three Oh, the Tacoma Armory—once a mighty fortress, now a boozy carnival of civic delight. Born from Tacoma’s early 1900s swagger and a city’s collective urge to shout, “We’re here, damn it, notice us!” this sturdy 20,000-square-foot edifice sprang forth in 1908, decked with battlements, rifle ranges, stables, and an absurdly charming pool. Imagine New Year’s Eve 1908: polished leather boots gliding, champagne droplets shimmering mid-air, brass buttons gleaming
National Night Out is when America collectively leaves the porch light on, pours something cold, and pretends — just for a few golden hours — that we’re all on the same team. It’s block parties, suspicious potato salad, borrowed folding chairs, and that neighbor you only see once a year asking if you have any more of “that good beer.” Today’s flight is five pours of civic engagement through malt and hops: from lagers that say welcome to stouts that say stay awhile. Whether you’re in it for the conversation, the grill smoke, or the excuse to linger under the
A crisp, crushable lager with mild malty character and hops that provide light lime notes — brought to you by Cal Raleigh and Scuttlebutt Brewing. Mashing-In News: Big Dumper Beer, Cat’s Meow at Leikam GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Tuesday, August 5, 2025 — Maureen McCormick turns 69 today! Today’s craft beer news pours a full flight of celebration and caution—featuring celebrity collabs, cat-themed anniversaries, tax-fueled industry fights, and the ever-slippery slope of national sales data—because in the world of beer, every pint tells a story, and not all of them are brewed with foam and
A new beer six-pack that can’t decide if it’s clinging to summer’s heat or leaning into autumn’s slow exhale. Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Monday, Aug. 4 Some Mondays drag in like a wet sock; this one strolls in wearing a sun hat and a mischievous grin, hauling a six-pack that can’t decide if it’s still summer or already autumn. It’s Bohemian blankets on the grass and Bavarian hearths, pilsners that flirt with tropical fruit, saisons that taste like a seasonal handshake, and hazy IPAs with just enough swagger to cause a scene. This is
At 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, the Grit & Grain Podcast crew—Matt McLaren, Ron Swarner, and Bethany Carlsen—will take the Tacoma Armory stage to record live at Brew Five Three, weaving crowd chaos and beer magic into spontaneous stories. Grit & Grain Podcast does 2025 Brew Five Three Tacoma’s summer-sun street sermon to beer, music, and civic joy—Tacoma Arts Live’s Brew Five Three, the 253’s annual “Beer & Music Festival”—spills from the historic Tacoma Armory onto a Yakima Avenue closed just for you and a few thousand of your closest pint-sipping friends. From 1–7 p.m., the
Mondays, if we’re being honest, are best met with something a little subversive — a reminder there’s a whole world beyond your inbox and that sad third cup of coffee. Enter our Monday European-style Cider Flight: four distinct glasses of liquid passport stamps, each steeped in centuries of orchard gossip, political intrigue, and terroir so vivid you could almost taste the soil. From an Italian rebel reborn in the shadow of Mont Blanc, to a Yorkshire pear waltz in silk gloves, to Normandy apples dressed for a rain-slicked promenade, to Willamette Valley fruit channeling its inner French poet — it’s
Your week: planned. Your excuses: gone. Your options: glorious. 6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma: Aug. 4–10, 2025 Because this week in Tacoma isn’t content to merely “offer options” — it’s flinging open the beer taps, unspooling banjo strings, detonating punk riffs, summoning Shakespearean fairies, and tossing you straight into Ari Aster’s cinematic furnace, all before the ink dries on your tasting tokens. Grit & Grain Podcast | Wednesday, Aug. 6 This Wednesday, the Grit & Grain Podcast rolls tape with the fine fermenters at Four Generals Brewing, cracking open a conversation sure to include
Campfires are banned in Olympic areas as of Aug. 1. Washington Trails & Taps Weekly Recap: July 28 – August 3, 2025 Summer’s crescendo hit full volume this week: alpine ridges glowed under sun-baked skies, marmots practiced their stage whisper across granite outcrops, and trails burst at the seams. But fire danger and park closures sharpened the backdrop—smoke-shrouded valleys and stricter camping rules reshaped the scene. Here’s what hikers and rangers reported from the front lines. 🌿 WTA Trip Report Highlights Gothic Basin Revisited (North Cascades) Hiked July 29. Trail still snow-free and buzzing with alpine
The Grit & Grain Podcast is back with part 2 of their raw ingredients special, featuring Rikki Welz from Haas Farms and Brian Estes from LINC Malt. Mashing-In News: From Field to Foam, Hopworks Vancouver Closing GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Monday, August 4, 2025 — Billy Bob Thorton turns 70 today! Today’s craft beer news is a full pour of farewells, fresh starts, and flavor trends—from hop-and-malt origin stories and all-ages taproom makeovers to brewery closures, leadership shakeups, market shifts, and fruit beer’s billion-dollar bloom. From Field to Foam: Haas and LINC Tell Beer’s Origin
Some breweries make beer. Cloudburst makes moods. Not the polite, “sure, that’s fine” variety — the big, weather-shifting, conversation-hijacking kind. The kind that show up with swagger, a sly grin, and a second pint already in hand. Based in Seattle and wholly uninterested in coloring inside the lines, Cloudburst is the sort of outfit that will hand you a pilsner painted in tropical hop oil, then follow it with a sharply bitter IPA so clear it feels like a dare. They’re irreverent, restless, and almost suspiciously good at making beers that don’t just taste great — they tell you a
Saturday’s Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack is a love letter to opposites—shadows and sunlight, pine and pumpkin, barnyard funk and blueberry fizz—where summer isn’t gone, but fall is already lacing up its boots. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Saturday, Aug. 2 Saturday’s Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack is a love letter to opposites—shadows and sunlight, pine and pumpkin, barnyard funk and blueberry fizz—where summer isn’t gone, but fall is already lacing up its boots. CLOUDBURST BREWING NO MISTAKES: This schwarzbier is a shadow in lager form with silky roast, cocoa hush, and crisp-edged
The Spaghetaboutit: spaghetti, meatballs, garlic-herb sourdough, molten mozzarella + provolone. Messy. Saucy. Scandalous. Peaks & Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: The Spaghetaboutit Saturday, August 2, 2025: Peaks & Pints Kitchen’s Kylee delivers The Spaghetaboutit—less a sandwich, more a brazen act of Italian-American brilliance wedged between garlic-herb sourdough. Picture spaghetti tangled like a scandal in the piazza, meatballs lounging in marinara as if they own the block, mozzarella and provolone melting into slow-motion seduction. It’s gloriously messy, dripping sauce like a love letter you can’t unread, hefty enough to derail your afternoon, and so unapologetically over-carbed it could
Some beer lineups cling to summer’s last suntanned gasp; this one flirts shamelessly with autumn, dangling IPAs like golden leaves in the breeze while pumpkin, spice, and malt start whispering about sweaters and longer nights—six pours caught deliciously between sunburn and scarf weather. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Friday, Aug. 1 Some beer lineups cling to summer’s last suntanned gasp; this one flirts shamelessly with autumn, dangling IPAs like golden leaves in the breeze while pumpkin, spice, and malt start whispering about sweaters and longer nights—six pours caught deliciously between sunburn and scarf weather. AYINGER
August is National Peach Month, and even if the Allman Brothers aren’t your jam, now’s the time to devour a sun-warmed peach like it’s a spiritual epiphany — skin-on, juice-down-your-wrist, barefoot beside something green and quietly judgmental. Or better yet, drink it. Because peaches aren’t just fruit — they’re edible sunshine, the soft punctuation mark of summer, a fuzz-draped love letter from nature’s most seductive prankster. Cultivated for millennia in ancient China, paraded across continents by Spanish explorers and Indigenous fruit-tree visionaries, the peach has long been humanity’s golden orb of sensual optimism. Queen Victoria demanded hers wrapped in linen.
McMenamins has launched two new THC- and CBD-infused sparkling beverages today. Mashing-In News: IPA Layers, THC Sips, Shifts GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Friday, August 1, 2025 — Chuck D turns 65 today! Today’s craft beer news serves up everything from new THC sippers at McMenamins to Fremont’s big Extra Lush release, Oakshire’s Washington retreat, Rogue’s national sales push, and the latest shakeups from Yakima to Australia—all against the quiet burp of International Beer Day—no parades, no proclamations, just another Friday where your pint quietly shrugs and says, “Cheers anyway, darling.” McMenamins Drops THC Beverages for
Wright Park, 1926 — They stand like punctuation marks at the end of a waltz, stoic beneath the tulip tree’s whispering crown, bowties sharp, love sharper. The Jazz Age hums somewhere behind them, but here, under this green cathedral, time tilts its head and forgets to hurry. Tacoma Silent Trees: Tulip Tree Speaks at Wright Park Planted around 1895 at Wright Park, the tulip tree has stood like a green lighthouse in the midst of a shifting city, quietly absorbing 130 years of Tacoma’s weather, whispers, and wayward romances. “I’ve stood here longer than your grandparents’
In 1980, long before IPAs wore yoga pants and grocery stores had beer sommeliers, Ken Grossman lit a homebrew burner in Chico, California, and accidentally rewrote American beer history. Sierra Nevada Brewing wasn’t built for market share — it was a hops-soaked rebellion, a malt manifesto, a piney push against the bland tyranny of yellow fizz. From Pale Ale to Celebration, they taught a nation how to taste again — and somehow, miraculously, never lost their soul to scale. Sierra Nevada is the brewery that always knew beer is both art and audacity — brewed with integrity, distributed with swagger,
Peaks & Pints and Sierra Nevada Brewing host a fancy shindig for the PILS release tonight. Mashing-In News: Sierra Nevada PILS Launch, Tumwater Artesian Brewfest GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Wednesday, July 30, 2025 — Za Brown turns 47 today! From pilsner launches and powerhouse brewfests to brewing empire expansions and flavor breakthroughs in NA beer, Thursday’s craft beer headlines tap into celebration, innovation, and a few cautionary tales—proof that the world of beer never sits still, even when the lager’s perfectly chilled. Sierra Nevada PILS Glides into Tacoma with a Jazz-Laced Launch at Peaks &
Today’s Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack is not so much a beverage list as it is a sensory séance, a hazy-eyed hop chorus humming from hammock to Camaro, from pumpkin whisper to Bavarian bread hymn. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Wednesday, July 30 Wednesday’s Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack pirouettes straight out of the fermenter like a sun‑dazed dreamscape of foggy citrus, pine‑zapped nostalgia, and just enough spiced rebellion to make your tongue thank your better judgment for going to the bar. It’s hammock weather. It’s Camaro weather. It’s weather for autumn fantasies
Today’s mood: smoky, creamy, and a little bit outlaw. Peaks & Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: The Gouda Ranchero Wednesday, July 30, 2025: Peaks & Pints Kitchen Brittany’s The Gouda Ranchero is a sandwich so swaggering, it should come with a Stetson and a warning label. This is where turkey sheds its cardigan and kicks open the saloon doors, where thick-cut bacon winks from under a sunburst of bell peppers and tomatoes, all lounging in the warm, smoky arms of melted Gouda. But wait — then comes the salsa ranch, creamy and zesty like a desert sunrise
“Pass Go, Collect Pours” — A Five-Glass Journey Across the Board On July 30, 1935, Monopoly was officially registered as a trademark, forever changing the fate of rainy weekends, sibling rivalries, and property tycoons in training. Today, we honor that legacy with a beer flight built not from deeds and dollars, but from hops, barrels, malts, and mild regrets. This is Monopoly, but the stakes are boozier and the currency pours foam. Whether you’re chugging your way out of Jail, sipping under the crown on Boardwalk, or making mid-board moves on Kentucky Avenue, this flight is a roll of the
