“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
The 190th Oktoberfest in Munich will run from September 20 to October 5, 2025. Mashing-In News: Lager League Festival, Oktoberfest 2025 Changes GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Wednesday, July 30, 2025 — Arnold Schwarzenegger turns 78 Today’s craft beer news hops from Portland lagers to Munich gondolas, tracing the rise of health-conscious brewing, the return of iconic IPAs, and the ever-adapting rhythm of a maturing beer scene—from Seattle’s cider sips to Rhode Island resilience, and all the way to America’s best bars raising glasses coast to coast. Level Beer Launches Lager League Festival in Portland Level
Just when you thought summer had settled into its lazy lull, this week’s Peaks & Pints six-pack kicks open the fridge like a sunburned mystic with a cooler full of contradictions. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Tuesday, July 29, 2025 Tuesday’s Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack arrives like a heatwave hallucination: gourd in your glass, rice in your lager, fruit in your resin, and hops whispering things you probably shouldn’t believe—but will anyway. It’s a lineup brewed for midsummer contradiction and cosmic clarity—equal parts campfire Trataka, high-desert road trip, and beach chair enlightenment. Sip
History isn’t always dry, and neither is this flight. It begins in the wilds of Belgium, where ancient barrels and airborne microbes conspired to ferment mysticism into lambic. From there, it veers through balsamic operas, post-war wheat fizz, stainless steel sorcery, and finally crashes headfirst into a technicolor smoothie apocalypse, where fruit implodes, the rules of beer unravel, and your palate begs for both mercy and a spoon. This is no ordinary sour flight — it’s a centuries-spanning acid opera: part alchemy, part punk rock, part pastry séance. Each pour is a contradiction. Each sip, a reckoning. You will pucker.
Crucible Brewing rebrands as U-Neek Brewing / photo courtesy of Facebook Mashing-In News: U-Neek Brewing, Oregon Hop Festival GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Tuesday, July 29, 2025 — Geddy Lee turns 72 today! From brewery rebrands to hop harvest fests, beer cocktails to global tariffs, Tuesday’s craft beer headlines pour a full flight of transformation, tradition, and toast-worthy innovation—because even in a cooling market, the stories behind the suds keep bubbling over. Crucible Brewing Rebrands as U-Neek Brewing Crucible Brewing in Everett, Washington, is rebranding as U-Neek Brewing Company under new owners Erik and Johanna, who
Join Peaks & Pints as we uncap the elegance for the official Tacoma launch of Sierra Nevada’s new PILS Thursday, July 31. 6-Pack of Things To Do: July 28 to August 2, 2025 Because some weeks don’t ask politely. Some weeks burst through the door with jazz riffs, blueberry stardust, robotic puppets, and a mariachi band covering Slayer. This one? This week in Tacoma demands a toast—six of them, actually. So whether you’re sipping anarchic cider, worshipping at the altar of K-pop, or buying pottery you’ll pretend you needed, we’ve lined up six glorious reasons to
Mondays are for minor rebellions. For disregarding spreadsheets and instead contemplating the deeper, juicier truths—like what happens when apples consort with blueberries under the permissive gaze of a fermentation tank. Welcome to the Peaks & Pints Monday Blueberry Cider Flight, a tart-streaked, berry-bursting meditation on seasonal mischief and orchard alchemy. These are not your grocery store ciders, darling. These are wildflower whispers, ancestral apples, and blueberry dreams filtered through the minds of mad geniuses who still believe flavor can be a revolution. Drink the color purple. Taste the week differently. Peaks & Pints Monday Blueberry Cider Flight Seattle Cider VIVID
Washington Trails & Taps Weekly Recap: July 21–27, 2025 July barreled forward with bluebird skies and dry afternoons—and the wildfire threat in the background pulsed like a warning drum. Perfect weather coaxed crowds into the wilds: ridgelines glowed; glaciers glinted; trailheads overflowed. But the narrative this week was shifted by fire closures and increasing air quality concerns. Here’s what owners of trail‑dusty boots relay, and what the ranger beat is telling us. 🌿 WTA Trip Report Highlights Gothic Basin (North Cascades) Hiked July 21. Wildflowers ablaze, snow‑free trail, minor blowdowns easily manageable. No bugs reported, and the trailhead had plenty
Westwood Farms is a new venture for Liz and John Coleman, shaped by both long-standing relationships in agriculture and a renewed vision for the future. Photo courtesy of A-OH Media Mashing-In News: Hops Happenings, Trap Door Tristan GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Monday, July 28, 2025 — Sally Struthers turns 78 today! Monday’s craft beer dispatch is a globe-spanning toast to roots—whether they’re sunk deep in Oregon soil, winding through the Andes, or fermenting in the fires of reinvention from L.A. to Wisconsin. From monks blessing fresh-hopped Belgian ale to new regenerative farms, brewing partnerships, and
There are beers that announce themselves with fanfare and fog machines, and then there’s The Vesper from Holy Mountain Brewing—a table beer so subtle, so spiritually spry, it practically genuflects as it pours. Fancy Pants Sunday: Holy Mountain Vesper It’s Sunday. The fancy pants are on, the light is slow, and the beer must whisper rather than shout. At Peaks & Pints, we honor these contemplative rituals with a brew worthy of soft-spoken devotion: Holy Mountain Brewing’s Vesper, a demure table beer that’s part Belgian chapel hymn, part Pacific Northwest farmhouse séance. Chosen not for bluster
A banh mi-inspired enlightenment with citrus-laced grace Peaks & Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: Phở Real Chicken Salad Sunday, July 27, 2025: Peaks & Pints Kitchen Kylee’s Phở Real Chicken Salad starts with a crunch: baguette, pickled daikon, carrot, and cucumber. Then comes the heat—jalapeño flash, creamy spicy mayo, and a rich swirl of peanut sauce—balanced by cool cilantro and tender chicken. This is Kylee’s nod to the Vietnamese classic, all dressed up for sandwich greatness. PAIRING: Holy Mountain Brewing The White Lodge To pair, we’re pouring The White Lodge, Holy Mountain’s revered Belgian-style witbier—a radiant blend
Once upon a Frisco snowfall and a Belgian memory, two Army veterans — Lee and Emily Cleghorn — decided they’d rather dry-hop dreams than deploy again. Outer Range Brewing was born not from boardroom bravado but a homebrew party, somewhere between a jug of haze and a flirtation with destiny. Lee, a 5th Special Forces commander with a Brussels-forged palate, missed the nuanced whispers of Trappist yeast and the hoppy sermons of New World IPAs. So they packed ambition, post-deployment clarity, and a daughter into a mash tun and enrolled in the American Brewers Guild — because if you’re going
Today’s Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack is a curated collision of juice and joy, brewed for hammock sprawlers, back porch philosophers, and those who believe in West Coast bitterness and dessert in a can. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Saturday, July 26, 2025 Today’s six-pack struts in with citrus on its collar, dankness in its step, and dessert on its mind—a wildly hoppy, tropically tangled, lime-zested lineup brewed for porch philosophers, mixtape romantics, and anyone who thinks beer should taste like poetry crashing a house party. OUTER RANGE BREWING CRUX: Brewed with Strata and
In 1762, George Washington received a shipment of English beer that arrived more heartbreak than hospitality — broken bottles, soured ale, and the faint scent of empire in decline. His July 26 diary entry doesn’t rage, but between the lines simmers a realization: British porter doesn’t travel well, and maybe it’s time we brewed our own damn beer. It was more than a ruined crate; it was the foam-laced beginning of American brewing self-reliance — a warm ferment of frustration and inspiration that would bubble its way into revolution. Not just a supply chain mishap, this was symbolic heartbreak. Imagine
Today’s Peaks & Pints Three 3-Way IPA Flight was a lupulin-lit love triangle — one crisp, one cloudy, one tropically unhinged — a triple-collab IPA odyssey from Fort George, Mirage, and Sunriver that riffed like a jazz trio of West Coast wizardry, haze-drenched euphoria, and beach-crashed citrus groove, each glass a new stanza in the gospel of hops. Ah, Fort George Brewery’s 3-Way IPA — the lovechild of PNW beer-nerd polyamory and high-level hop diplomacy. Since 2013, this annual summer shapeshifter has swirled into our taplines like a lupulin-soaked emissary of collaborative intent. Each year, Fort
In Episode 153 of the Grit & Grain Podcast, Rikki Welz of Haas Hops and Brian Estes of LINC Malt join forces at Peaks & Pints for a deep dive into the agricultural soul of beer, exploring how hops and grain shape flavor from the soil up. Mashing-In News: Soil-to-Glass Podcast, Sierra Nevada Pils Party GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Friday, July 25, 2025 — Matt LeBlanc turns 58 today! Friday in craft beer: from a soil-soaked séance with Haas and LINC on the Grit & Grain Podcast to pilsner pageantry in Tacoma, anniversary ales in
Today’s Peaks & Pints drop is pure poetic overload—six beers handpicked for the mango-chasers, the pastry pilgrims, the citrus-drenched downhill dreamers. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Thursday, July 24 Today’s Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack is a joyride through citrus vapor trails, dessert fantasies, and hazy hop hallucinations—six skillfully summoned beers brewed for pedal-powered prophets, porch philosophers, and flavor seekers who believe a pint should both soothe and slightly unhinge. Drink with intention. Exhale with style. Repeat as needed. BLOCK 15 BREWING GROUP RIDE IPA: A citrus-laced drafting line of tropical momentum—mango, grapefruit, and
Once upon a lava flow, high on Mount Etna’s northern slopes, Firriato Winery whispered sweet nothings to volcanic soil and coaxed out two wines of seismic charm and slow-burn elegance. Once upon a volcanic time, long before Sicily became the whispered darling of the wine world, there was Firriato. Born from obsession and sunlight in the early 1980s, Firriato Winery was the improbable lovechild of Salvatore Di Gaetano’s entrepreneurial grit and Vinzia Novara’s operatic vision. Together, they defied the “bulk wine” reputation that clung to southern Italy like old luggage, daring instead to bottle nuance, altitude,
This Wednesday, July 23, the Grit & Grain Podcast descends into the hallowed, cedar-scented halls of Peaks & Pints for a rare, soil-to-glass summit: a double live recording with Brian Estes of LINC Malt and Rikki Welz of HAAS hops, the elemental conjurers of barley and bitterness, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Tacoma’s Proctor District. To honor this communion of terroir and terpenes, of loam and lupulin, we present a flight brewed in their image — a five-glass tribute to the flavor architects working quietly beneath your pint. This is not a beer flight. This is an edible syllabus.
The 2025 Goose Island Bourbon County Stout lineup, photo courtesy of Goose Island Mashing-In News: Grain & Hops on Mic, Bourbon County 2025 GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Wednesday, July 23, 2025 — Woody Harrelson turns 64 today! From soil-to-glass storytelling in Tacoma to honeywine showdowns in Centralia, brewery closures across the pond, and coast-to-coast craft shifts—from Australia to Alberta—today’s craft beer news pours a full flight of flavor, fallout, and fresh perspective. Grains & Hops: Grit & Grain Podcast Double Header at Peaks & Pints The Grit & Grain Podcast records a special double episode
Today’s Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack is here—a Tuesday treasure chest of flavor and feeling, brewed for hammock days, campfire nights, and fantasy quests that start at the bottle shop. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Tuesday, July 22 It’s Tuesday, which means new beer has dropped at Peaks & Pints. We’ve got Dutch dessert dragsters. Lime-soaked lagers. A hazy spell cast straight from the Holy Mountain. Also: hop lightning, campfire lullabies, and one beer that practically speaks fluent Cologne. This isn’t just a six-pack—it’s a curated, contemplative tasting flight for your inner poet, your
Ah, the aluminum cylinder. Maligned by purists, underestimated by connoisseurs, reborn by craft alchemists into objects of art, rebellion, and outright joy. Today, on National Beer Can Appreciation Day, Peaks & Pints invites you to crack the code — and a few cold ones — in tribute to the can: that portable, recyclable miracle that once carried only the pale shame of macroswill, but now gleams with the mythos of Dale’s, the legacy of Rude Parrot, the ethereal florals of Fair Isle, the pastel phantasmagoria of Great Notion, and yes, the sheer audacity of a 32-ounce campfire-festooned crowler filled with
The Parkway Tavern in Tacoma turns 90 Saturday. Mashing-In News: Parkway Turns 90, Redmond Brewfest GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Tuesday, July 22, 2025 — George Clinton turns 84 today! From blackberry-soaked summer seasonals to balloon-lit beer festivals, Tuesday’s craft beer report is positively bursting at the seams with flavor, nostalgia, and the occasional child-related controversy. We raise a toast to Tacoma’s beloved Parkway Tavern as it hits the 90-year mark with a party steeped in memory and malt, and we head south to Redmond, Oregon, where hot air balloons and hopheads collide in glowing harmony.
Today isn’t just Monday. It isn’t even just a Monday. It’s Belgian National Day, the kind of calendar oddity that causes monks to raise chalices, constitutional scholars to toast to long-dead kings, and Americans to wonder, “Is that the one with waffles or beer?” (Answer: Yes.) On July 21, 1831, a German prince named Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg swore allegiance to Belgium’s new constitution and became King Leopold I, a king of beer-loving people forged from revolution and stubborn charm. Since then, Belgians have marked this date with fireworks, fanfare, and a sensible number of Abbey ales. At Peaks & Pints,
You got your hops in my malt! You got your malt in my hops! Together, Rikki Welz and Brian Estes are the unexpectedly perfect pairing that makes the Grit & Grain Podcast taste like brewing brilliance. Peaks & Pints 6-Pack of Things To Do: July 21–27, 2025 Welcome to the week where history drinks with the present, where yeast gets philosophical, where stadium lights glow tie-dye, and where the air of Tacoma—notorious, beloved, occasionally misunderstood—is ready for its moment in the spotlight. This 6-Pack is your backstage pass to a week drenched in storytelling, salsa steps,
Trail Report: Huckleberry Mountain in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest is brushy in spots but clear, with large berry patches and views of Glacier Peak. Bug nets are strongly recommended. Washington Trails & Taps Weekly Recap: July 14–20, 2025 July, in all its shimmering glory, delivered the kind of week that makes the Pacific Northwest blush. Think: ridge trails humming with bees, mountain goats striking poses on granite outcrops, and that moment of alpine quiet when the only sound is your own breath—and maybe a pika squeak. But even amid all that splendor, fire danger edged
Evergreen State Brewing announced their moving their Tacoma location to Dock Street. Mashing-In News: Evergreen State Brewing moving, No-Li Brewhouse in the news GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Monday, July 21, 2025 — Jon Lovitz turns 68 today! From waterfront taproom upgrades and First Amendment brews to a rustic Belgian revival and the ripple effects of global tariffs, today’s craft beer headlines pour deep with flavor, community, and change. Evergreen State Brewing Taproom Relocating to Tacoma’s Historic Henry Building Evergreen State Brewing is moving its Tacoma taproom to the historic Henry Building on Dock Street, upgrading
There are rules, of course—meal sequences, responsible pacing, that little voice whispering maybe not five dessert beers in a row. To that we say: nonsense, darling. On this cloudy Tacoma Sunday, Peaks & Pints invites you to flip the script and plunge spoon-first into your sweet tooth’s subconscious. Welcome to Dessert First, our five-beer flight of marshmallow daydreams, berry-laced stardust, peanut butter smoke rings, coffee crème wizardry, and one bourbon-soaked mic drop disguised as a stout. This isn’t just beer—it’s a pastry opera in five movements. Lick the spoon. Skip the salad. Bring a friend who says, “I don’t usually
The Proctor Pick-Me-Up Six-Pack—a curated, gloriously chilled thank-you note to your shopper’s soul. Six liquid treasures, none of which can be found at the Proctor Farmers Market, Compass Rose, or Ice Cream Social, though they pair suspiciously well with all of the above. Proctor Treasures for Your Tote. And Now, Your Fridge Ah yes, the Proctor Sidewalk Sale—that glorious Friday through Sunday neighborhood ritual where the air smells like sunscreen and basil, your tote bags multiply like rabbits, and every other sentence you hear begins with “Wait, is this handmade?” It’s the kind of weekend that
Saturday, July 19 Forecast: patchy morning gloom tapering into sun-splashed denial by 3 p.m., with emotional visibility improving considerably if enjoyed under a patio umbrella. Welcome to Cloudy With a Chance of Hops, our soft-focus meditation on haze, wheat, and that most Pacific Northwest of weather phenomena: the slow-rolling fogbomb. These are not beers that punch—they glide. No bitterness, no bar fights. Just five mist-kissed pours brewed for hammock lounging, ferryboat zoning, or staring at the sky like it owes you a better metaphor. This is your brain on soft light and Citra. Peaks & Pints Beer Flight: Cloudy With
Today’s lineup is a mossy meditation on West Coast clarity, New Zealand breeze, and Bellingham haze—brewed for trailhead tailgates, ferryboat daydreams, and hammock-induced existential reboots. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Friday, July 18 2025 Welcome to the Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack, your daily dispatch from the misty, pine-slicked edges of Cascadia where hops grow like weeds and every can crack echoes off Mt. Rainier. Today’s lineup is a mossy meditation on West Coast clarity, New Zealand breeze, and Bellingham haze—six selections brewed for trailhead tailgates, ferry boat daydreams, and hammock-induced existential reboots. It’s
Ah yes, St. Arnoldus of Soissons—the myth, the monk, the medieval microbiologist who looked upon the tepid, parasite-laced waters of 11th-century Belgium and thought: “Nope. Let’s boil that hellscape and add hops.” Canonized not just for his piety but for his prescience, St. Arnoldus urged the masses to “drink beer, not water,” which in retrospect is perhaps the most righteous public health campaign ever disguised as day drinking. He is the patron saint of brewers, alewives, and those of us who’ve seen God in the golden shimmer of a Belgian tripel—and on July 18, we raise our chalices not just
In Episode 152 of Grit & Grain, the crew returns from a summer break to swap mountain, camping, and beer fest stories while diving into the latest Brewers Association data on craft beer’s evolving landscape. Mashing-In News: Matt Swihart, Thorsten Geuer GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Friday, July 18, 2025 — Kristen Bell turns 45 today! As the summer sun climbs and cold pours flow, the craft beer world is bubbling with bold debuts, nostalgic returns, and thought-provoking industry reckonings—from mountaintop podcast musings and 30-year throwbacks to billion-dollar projections and pint-glass celebrations. From Peak to Pint:
Welcome, haze chasers, coconut crooners, and citrus zealots—we’ve assembled a swirling, hop-spun six-pack built for the blissfully unhinged. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Thursday, July 17, 2025 Welcome to the Thursday New Beer Six-Pack, a swirling, hop-spun meditation on fruit-forward delirium, diesel-soaked pine, and one imperial daydream designed to make your socks roll down of their own accord. Today, we tap into neon haze visions from Ravenna, citrus sermons from Structures, and dank tropical mind games courtesy of Vice and Mother Earth. It’s a lineup brewed for the blissfully unhinged—those who believe peach sherbet belongs
Step into the soft-glow kaleidoscope of São Paulo’s Japas Cervejaria, where beer is not simply brewed—it is braided. Braided from threads of Japanese heritage, Brazilian vibrance, and radical feminine intuition. Founded by three women of Nipo-Brazilian descent who reappropriated the word “Japas” with righteous elegance, this brewery weaves ancestral memory with modern moxie, crafting beers that sip like origin stories told under paper lanterns. Each pour is a page from a family scroll rewritten with rice, jasmine, citrus, and wit—equal parts reverent and rebellious. Today’s flight is your boarding pass. Begin with Sawā Strawberry, a strawberry sour that pirouettes between
Oregon City Brewing, Reuben’s Brews, and Sunriver Lead Northwest Wins at U.S. Open Beer Championships. Mashing-In News: U.S. Open Beer Winners, Washington Beer Awards GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Thursday, July 17, 2025 — David Hasselhoff turns 73 today! The Pacific Northwest continued to impress at the U.S. Open Beer Championship in Oxford, Ohio, as Oregon City Brewing led the charge with five medals, while Seattle’s Reuben’s Brews and Oregon’s Sunriver Brewing each claimed four. Back home, the final hours are ticking away for breweries to enter the 2025 Washington Beer Awards, with registration closing tonight
On this day in 1909, Tacoma put on its fanciest hat, gathered its loudest marching band, and declared itself center stage at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle. Tacoma Day was a spectacle—15,000 proud residents parading through 20 blocks of downtown Seattle, speeches about Mt. Rainier and industrial supremacy, fireworks over Elliott Bay, and a not-so-subtle reminder that the City of Destiny had every right to strut. Today, Peaks & Pints raises a taster glass (or five) to Tacoma’s chutzpah with a beer flight brewed entirely within city limits. No I-5 traffic jams. No bridges. No Seattle collabs. Just Tacoma breweries
Join the Grit & Grain Podcast at 3:30 p.m. today in the Peaks & Pints Events Room as they dive into the Brewers Association’s New Brewer May–June 2025 Industry Report. Photo courtesy of the Brewers Association Mashing-In News: Jack McAuliffe Dies, Stone Distributing Sold GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Wednesday, July 16, 2025 — Will Ferrell turns 58 today! Today, the craft beer world reflects, recalibrates, and raises a glass. The Grit & Grain Podcast invites beer lovers and industry insiders to Peaks & Pints today at 3:30 p.m. for a deep dive into the Brewers
Peaks & Pints Tuesday New Beer Six-Pack is less “variety pack” and more kaleidoscopic spirit quest in six liquid acts. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Tuesday, July 15, 2025 Behold, dear disciples of the divine six-pack, the latest Peaks & Pints Tuesday New Beer Six-Pack—a radiant sextet of sudsy seraphim, each arriving like a flavor-drenched telegram from the edge of fermented possibility. Today’s lineup is part dream journal, part protest poem, part dessert cart, and all unapologetic vibe. We have caffeinated tuxedo stouts sashaying across midnight lounges, saisons that flirt like herbalist ballerinas, and IPAs
Teriyaki chicken in a passionate embrace with Havarti. Pineapple doing its sweet sun-kissed shimmy. Mayo and romaine, because even tropical indulgence needs a crisp, creamy backbone. All pressed lovingly into a French roll that thinks it’s on sabbatical in Maui. Peaks & Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: The Hula Melt Tuesday, July 15, 2025: Behold The Hula Melt, our sun-dazed ode to edible escapism, where teriyaki chicken does a slow dance with melty Havarti beneath a pineapple sunburst, while mayo and romaine offer a creamy, verdant crunch like a polite beach towel handshake. All of it cozied
On this day in 1954, a peculiar silver dart known as the Boeing 367-80 — the “Dash 80,” if you were lucky enough to be on the inside of Seattle’s holy sky-factory — lifted from the soggy, hopeful banks of Renton Field and tore a giddy hole through the sky. It was sleek. It was rebellious. It didn’t care if TWA gave it side-eye. It flew like the future itself, a jet-fueled middle finger to the era of sputtering propellers and stewardesses in girdles. And when Boeing test pilot Tex Johnson — all guts, swagger, and cowboy DNA — famously
Mashing-In News: Lagerhead Beer Fest, Brewing Hope GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Tuesday, July 15, 2025 — Linda Ronstadt turns 79 today! Today’s craft beer news flows with purpose, pride, and unexpected hops of innovation—from Snoqualmie’s conservation-driven Lagerhead Beer Fest and Stoup Brewing’s pint-for-a-cause launch, to global stories of brewing transformation in Ghana and Australia. Whether you’re chasing lagers in the Cascades, exploring Boise’s beer-soaked backstreets, or decoding Yakima Chief’s new hop matrix, there’s something here for every brewer, drinker, and cider sipper with a thirst for what’s next. Lager Than Life: Snoqualmie’s Beer Fest Pours With Purpose Lagerhead Beer
6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma: July 14-20, 2025 Welcome, seekers of the strange and sublime, to the sacred scroll of summer offerings—your Peaks & Pints 6-Pack of Things To Do, July 14–20 edition. It’s a week stitched together with orchard ghosts and Broadway dreams, flannel-fueled resurrections and honky-tonk confessions, speed-freak sermons and paint-splattered sidewalk rites. It’s Tacoma, in all its beautifully unhinged glory: cobblestone nostalgia and citrus-laced IPA, 200-mph cinema and ceramic goat planters, all humming in perfect, chaotic harmony. If you don’t find something to love in this lineup, check your pulse—or at least your playlist. Peaks
Before the condos and breweries, before the concrete silenced the cobblestones, Tacoma’s Fruit & Produce Row thrummed with the sweet industry of the orchard. In the early 1900s, the stretch along Dock Street and Pacific Avenue was a pulpy artery of commerce, where crates of apples, pears, and cherries arrived by train, were packed in sawdust and railcars, and departed by ship to the hungry West Coast. Stamped with names like Wenatchee, Yakima, and Hood River, the fruit flowed through Tacoma like lifeblood—sticky, fragrant, and vital. On Monday, July 14, Peaks & Pints raises a cider-stained toast to this legacy
