Triceratops Brewing in Tumwater has announced the return of its award-winning hard sodas. Mashing-In News: Modern Times Rebuilds, Craft vs. Big Beer GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Wednesday, July 9, 2025 — Tom Hanks turns 69 today! From Portland’s taco-kissed beer fiestas to Vancouver’s cross-border collab jubilee, from Tumwater’s fizzy fruit revival to San Diego’s retro-futurist resurrection, today’s craft beer dispatch spans continents and contradictions. Czech exports rise as locals sip less. Texas bleeds taprooms. A new debate bubbles: Is great beer bound by size, or by soul? Pour a pint, clear your palate, and dive
Today’s sixer is a liquid mixtape for the synesthete soul. Peaks & Pints New Craft Six-Pack: July 8, 2025 Ah, Tuesday. That mercurial hinge between ambition and surrender, where the inbox looms and the hammock whispers. But fear not, weary wanderer of the workweek, for the Peaks & Pints cooler has cracked open its shimmering vault of fermented absurdities and radiant recalibrations. Today’s new sixer is a liquid mixtape for the synesthete soul: watermelon daydreams and guava sermons, trappist hymns and tart fruit cartwheels, sun-scorched IPAs that echo through Yakima canyons, and a cider so minty-peachy-perfect
What’s in your camp cooler, friend? Not the neon sports drink. Not that lone sad light lager your uncle insists is “just fine.” We’re talking real cooler magic—the kind forged under trail dust and pine boughs, cooled by glacier melt and sheer willpower, cracked open under skies inked in burnt sienna and loon calls. Peaks & Pints Tuesday Camp Cooler Flight is your curated lineup of trail-worthy wonders: regenerative lagers, riverbank citrus bombs, forest-steeped pale ales, bonfire-blasted West Coasts, and one midnight-smoked legend brewed in the language of embers. It’s a flight for hikers, paddlers, hammock philosophers, and wild-toothed summer
The Grit & Grain Podcast hosted another Tacoma-born beer podcast, Thru The Sightglass. Mashing-In News: Thru the Sightglass, Montavilla Brew Works Turns 10 GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Tuesday, July 8, 2025 — Kevin Bacon turns 67 today! Thru the Sightglass: A Year of Beer, Spirit, and Story In Episode 151 of the Grit & Grain Podcast, Austin and Julie of Thru the Sightglass roll back into Tacoma like vinyl prophets after a yearlong pilgrimage across the map of American fermentation. We’re talking creaky backroads and chrome tap handles. Brett-splashed basements and spontaneous fermentations under desert
Welcome, seekers of the strong and the strange. Today’s cider flight is not here to refresh you. It’s here to convert you to high gravity fruit worship, to orchard mysticism, to the sacred ritual of sipping something that kicks like a velvet boot to the solar plexus. These are the emperors and outlaws of the apple realm—imperial ciders that don’t politely fizz across the palate, but rather erupt, smolder, and sermonize. From the dragon-summoning swagger of Avid’s Black Dragon to the molten raspberry kiss by Incline Cider… from Seattle Cider’s monastic masterpiece to the Wu-Tang–blessed tropical cipher of Newtopia’s Venom…
Hiking Heather – Maple Pass Loop: Traverse a ridgeline among craggy peaks and fragile alpine meadows. Photo by WTA. Washington Trails & Taps Weekly Recap: June 30 – July 6, 2025 As the sun tiptoed into the first week of July, trails across Washington offered up their summer secrets—rushing waterfalls, alpine meadows in bloom, and marmots sunning on granite thrones. Meanwhile, burn bans crept across the map like a slow red tide, urging hikers to trade smoky campfires for silent stargazing. Here’s what the boots-on-the-ground and eyes-in-the-canopy had to say. 🌿 WTA Trip Report Highlights Palisades
The American Homebrewers Association Founding Board has named Roxanne Westendorf the 2025 AHA Recognition Award Winner. Photo courtesy of Homebrewers Association Mashing-In News: WSU Brew School, Pelican Fifth Coastal Nest GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Monday, July 7, 2025 — Ringo Starr turns 85 today! Brew School Goes Hybrid at WSU Washington State University Tri-Cities, located along the Columbia River in Richland and part of the WSU system, now offers an online brewing certificate program that combines virtual coursework with immersive, hands-on brewing camps in Yakima and Spokane—equipping students with both scientific knowledge and real-world experience
6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma: July 7-13, 2025 Welcome to the week, Tacoma—the midsummer fever dream where porchfront banjos collide with cyberpunk shrieks, tacos come with subwoofers, and joy parades itself unapologetically through every possible frequency of the human spirit. The city is humming—literally—with cello reveries on Broadway, Balkan jazz on back decks, harpsichord spells in churches, and bass drops that could exfoliate your soul. This is your Peaks & Pints 6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma for July 7–13, 2025: a curated, genre-fluid swirl of sonic rituals, rainbow revolutions, and community exaltations. From the gloriously life-affirming
Welcome to the electric afterglow of your childhood convenience store run—only now, everything is fermented, elevated, and vaguely existential. Today’s Peaks & Pints Sunday Beer Flight is a liquid love letter to soda nostalgia refracted through the blissed-out, small-batch lens of modern craft. This is Craft Soda Vibes, Evolved—a five-glass carbonated neon-dream that begins with two seltzered-up miracles from Sig Brewing and concludes in creamsicle canonization. Welcome to Peaks & Pinks Sunday Beer Flight: Craft Soda Vibes, Evolved. Peaks & Pinks Sunday Beer Flight: Craft Soda Vibes, Evolved Sig Brewing Did I DEW That?! 6% ABV Behold: Did I DEW
Kareem Kandi Jazz Trio performs live in the Peaks & Pints Events Room at 5 p.m. Sunday, July 6. Peaks & Pints Jambic & Lazz: Crooked Stave Funk It Up Peaks & Pints wants you to have a musty, horse-blanketed, spontaneously fermented good time this Sunday night — and who are you to say no to wild yeast and saxophone ecstasy? Yes, it’s the first Sunday of the month, which means Jambic & Lazz, our monthly communion of lambic beer funk and Kareem Kandi’s molten jazz trio, swirling together in our Events Room like microbes in
You fancy. You fermented oracle. You Funk It Up. Fancy Pants Sunday: Crooked Stave Funk It Up Welcome, thirsty pilgrims, to another edition of Peaks & Pints Fancy Pants Sunday, our weekly velvet-roped detour into the rarified realm of beers that demand your full attention, your cleanest tulip glass, and maybe—just maybe—a whisper of Gregorian chant in the background, for ambiance. This is not your tailgate lager, not your post-mow pounder. This is high-minded, high-priced liquid art—complex, decadent, sometimes baffling, always worth it. And this Sunday, we’re breaking out something wild, reverent, and unrepentant: Crooked Stave’s
Let us now praise the blessed yeast whisperers. Back in 2010, when most brewers were still shouting about IBUs and shoving pine cones into mash tuns, Chad Yakobson was quietly completing his master’s thesis on Brettanomyces fermentation and using it to conjure something far stranger and more sublime: Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project. It began in Denver as an open-source experiment—a love letter to wild yeast and oak—and slowly fermented into one of the country’s most thrilling houses of funk. No stainless temples here. No gimmick hops. Just Colorado-grown barley floor-malted by Leopold Bros, spontaneous fermentation from the local air,
Peaks and Pints Cooler New Beer and Cider Summer 2025 Behold, ye seekers of lupulin enlightenment and fermented divinity—the cooler hath spoken. Or rather, Peaks & Pints’ Cooler, that hallowed frostbox of dreams nestled in Tacoma’s Proctor District, now humming with the fresh pulse of new arrivals, more than 850 strong and growing—like a monastery of liquid art, temperature-controlled and temptingly within reach. Yes, even the ghosts of beers past have been gently ushered into glass and aluminum, resting between seasoned favorites and wildcard curiosities. Think of it less as a fridge and more as an oracle—whispering hop-heavy revelations, cider-spiked
Happy Fourth of July! We’re open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. today. Cheers! Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 7.4.25 This Fourth of July, Peaks & Pints doesn’t just hand you a six-pack of new arrivals—it hands you a Declaration of Intoxication, a sparkling revolution in 16-ounce bursts, brewed not with gunpowder and parchment but with hop thunder, tart seduction, and the kind of craft clarity that makes fireworks jealous. Jazzberry croons like Nina Simone on a raspberry bender; Fan Death detonates your frontal lobe with ghost hops and mango madness; Little Letters whispers liberty
Ah yes, the West Coast IPA—our shimmering, pine-scented inheritance. Bitter and bright, lucid as gospel truth, hopped like a fistful of electric citrus hurled through a pane of nostalgia and wild ambition. Today, Peaks & Pints invites you to worship at the altar of clarity and bite, to remember a time when IPAs weren’t afraid to be loud, lean, and a little dangerous. This is not haze. This is not pastry. This is resin, reckoning, and rebellion in a glass. The Pacific spine distilled into golden armor. We recommend sipping slowly, speaking less, and letting the sunshine in through Simcoe-stained
Narrows Brewing is now open in Tacoma’s Proctor District. Mashing-In News: Narrows opens in Proctor, Urban Family coming to Pier 55 GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Thursday, July 3, 2025 — Tom Cruise turns 63 today Narrows Brewing Opened in Tacoma’s Proctor District Narrows Brewing officially opened its new Proctor District taproom yesterday at 2620 North Proctor Street in Tacoma, offering 12 house beers, four ciders, and a curated wine list in a 2,800-square-foot, 21+ space with a relaxed coastal vibe, light charcuterie, and rotating local food pop-ups—all designed to bring their “Damn Drinkable” ethos into
A deliriously diverse six-pack of sensory rebellion—from salted watermelon goses to marshmallow stout opulence, tropical haze bombs to smoothie-seltzer sorcery—each can a portal to a different corner of the flavor multiverse, none of them safe, all of them glorious. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 7.2.25 Consider this your permission slip to dive mouth-first into Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack for Wednesday, July 2, a six-pack of liquid lunacy, a cooler-curated constellation of recently arrived beers and quasi-beers so vivid, so seductively unhinged, they could double as a tasting flight and a personality test. Start
Ah, July 2. The real red, white, and BOOM. The actual moment—1776, sweaty Philadelphia, powdered wigs askew—when the Second Continental Congress leaned in, whispered “nah” to King George, and voted to break up with Britain harder than your last Mercury-in-retrograde situationship. And yet, like most things in American myth-making, the drama got rescheduled. The Pennsylvania Evening Post shouted it from the parchment rooftops that very night: “The United Colonies are Free and Independent States!” Mic drop. But alas, the printer didn’t roll until July 4, and like a bad tattoo date or your cousin’s wedding RSVP, that’s what stuck. One
Call the cryptids, rouse the monks, and cue the lupulin gospel choirs — it’s FRENZ NIGHT at Peaks & Pints. Tonight, 5 to 8 p.m., we’re throwing a collaborative birthday bash for two Pacific Northwest beer icons and one old guy: Bale Breaker and Holy Mountain are unleashing their joint creation, Frenz West Coast Pilsner, at Tacoma’s official release party tonight with several Bale Breaker and Holy Mountain beers on tap. We’re pouring a five-beer flight that walks the stylistic tightrope from holy-lager clarity to citrus-snarling IPA wizardry, beginning with the elegant hush of Second Death Helles and ascending through
Peaks & Pints hosts the Bale Breaker and Holy Mountain Frenz West Coast Pilsner Release Party on July 1. Mashing-In News: Frenz Release Party, Drink and Win GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Tuesday, July 1, 2025 — Dan Aykroyd turns 73 Bale Breaker + Holy Mountain = Frenz Bale Breaker and Holy Mountain Brewing unleash their cryptid-inspired West Coast Pilsner at Peaks & Pints’ Frenz Night at 5 p.m. Tuesday, July 1—celebrating the latest collab with Bale Breaker and Holy Mountain taps, mythical mayhem, and birthday cake for co-owner Pappi Swarner. (Peaks & Pints) Spokane Beer
This Monday curated six-pack isn’t beer, it’s a sensory séance—a genre-defiant tumble through dank cathedrals, tropical hallucinations, and dark, roasted dreams that dare you to believe in bliss again. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 6.30.25 Today’s curated six-pack of recent arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler begins with the barefoot zymurgical poetry of Echoes’ Pākehā, twirls into Funky Fauna’s forest-sprung Florific and abyss-kissed Timeless Void, genuflects before Holy Mountain’s shadowy Dark Kingdom and resin-lit Serpents & Blossoms, then cartwheels straight into Untitled Art’s raspberry-lemon dessert séance, where crumble becomes creed and beer becomes dessert
Drop the beat and cue the fruit — Peaks & Pints is turning Monday into a dance floor for your palate with Orchard Remix Vol. 1, a five-cider flight spun straight from the orchard’s VIP section. These aren’t your grandma’s apple ciders (unless your grandma moonlights as a DJ and throws basil in her cocktails). We’re talking strawberry basil seduction, tart blackberry soul, blood orange heat, blueberry jam from outer space, and a pineapple finale so fresh it might ask for your number. It’s fruit-forward, crushable, and just weird enough to make you believe in cider magic. Grab the vinyl.
Migration Brewing’s Gambler 500 IPA bursts with notes of citrus and tropical fruits. Mashing-In News: National Homebrew Winners, Gambler 500 IPA GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Monday, June 30, 2025 — Mike Tyson turns 59 today Washington State Homebrewers Winners in the 2025 National Homebrew Competition On June 28, 2025, the American Homebrewers Association announced the winners of the world’s largest amateur fermentation contest—the National Homebrew Competition—awarding 120 medals across 40 categories of beer, mead, and cider at Boulevard Brewing in Kansas City, where standout brewers from across the globe, including Homebrewer of the Year Wayne
Peaks & Pints Sunday Sandwich Special: It’s savory, it’s refreshing, it’s ridiculously satisfying—like if your favorite gyro and your go-to deli roast beef got married on a Santorini rooftop. Peaks & Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: Tzatziki Beef Supreme Sunday, June 29, 2025: Peaks & Pints Kitchen Director Robby Peterson dropped a Tzatziki Beef Supreme for our Sunday Sandwich Special. It’s a Mediterranean daydream wrapped in pillowy naan and blessed by the gods of bold flavor. This sandwich doesn’t just whisper of Greek isles and sun-soaked lunches; it shouts with cool tzatziki tang, salty crumbles of feta,
Ah, summer. That sensual beast. That breathy, beer-slicked whisper that says: put down your spreadsheet, stop doom-scrolling your little apocalypse device, and drink something wildly alive. Today, Peaks & Pints offers you a sacred five-part ritual, a flight not of escape but of full-bodied arrival. We present Peaks & Pints Beer Flight: Summer Session, or five small, divine reasons not to do whatever it was you thought you had to do today. Say the mantra: sip, swoon, repeat. (And if your aura doesn’t tingle by the third pour, you’re not doing it right.) Peaks & Pints Beer Flight: Summer Session
This Peaks & Pints six-pack is a delirious dance of unicorn juice, spell-slinging IPAs, and tart Technicolor temptations—each can a tiny sermon in pleasure, brewed to baptize your Saturday in citrus, chaos, and crushable bliss. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 6.28.25 Today’s curated new beer six-pack is a glittering spellbook of bold hop hexes, neon sour incantations, and lagered revelations—each can a tiny prophet of pleasure, each pour a holy ritual for your weekend altar. From unicorn juice to tactical West Coasts, from Chuckanut’s whisper-light lager to a sour so THICC it needs its own
Peaks & Pints’ Saturday Sandwich Special, Bianca’s Flame, is named after Bianca Beach, the owner of Llamacita Sauces. Her Honey Habanero sauce is in today’s chicken salad. Peaks & Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: Bianca’s Flame Saturday, June 28, 2025: Peaks & Pints Kitchen Kylee serves up Bianca’s Flame — a bold, flavor-packed sandwich featuring cool, creamy chicken salad (with shredded chicken, green onion, carrots, celery, and a sweet kick of LlaMacita Honey Habanero Sauce) layered with tangy goat cheese and fresh arugula on soft French bread. PAIRING: Matchless Brewing All Fluff Hazy IPA On this partly
Born in the humid, hop-stained daydreams of three Portland neighbors — the artist, the scientist, the businessman — Great Notion Brewing exploded onto the scene like a technicolor juice bomb in 2016, unapologetically dragging the staid, old-school Pacific Northwest beer scene into a kaleidoscopic new era. With absurdly creamy IPAs, blueberry-muffin-fueled sours, and stouts so rich they might as well file taxes as luxury desserts, these mad alchemists dared to unbutton the flannel of tradition and get weird—deliciously, deliriously odd. From their humble Alberta Street temple to full-blown fermentation empires in Portland and Seattle, they’ve racked up gold medals, critics’
The Bale Breaker and Holy Mountain Frenz IPA collab leads off our curated Friday six-pack of new arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 6.27.25 Open the Peaks & Pints cooler and behold: a six-pack of fresh arrivals so vivid, juicy, and irreverently divine they practically hum with flavor intent. From Bale Breaker and Holy Mountain’s collaborative hop hymn to a fruit punch sour that tastes like your childhood juice box hit the afterparty, this lineup is a full-spectrum blessing. Crisp pilsners, citrus witbiers, and haze bombs await—ready to enlighten
Step inside the Tacoma Armory tonight for Tacoma Arts Live’s “Live at the Eleanor” show, and let Angie Lynn and Walker Sherman melt your beautifully bruised little heart with harmony, soul, and songs soaked in truth. In honor of their magnetic collaboration—a LGBTQ+ woman and a straight man singing from the same scarred hymn book—we present Peaks & Pints Duets & Drafts Flight, a five-part symphony of beers born from the sacred act of brewing together. These aren’t just beers—they’re love letters written in hops and yeast, the delicious proof that when creative minds collide, flavor gets louder, weirder, and
The Grit & Grain Podcast recorded its 150th Episode this week. Mashing-In News: Beer Fest Fever, Baerlic Turns 11 GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Friday, June 27, 2025 — Tobey Maguire turns 50 today! Grit & Grain Beer Fest Fever The Washington Brewers Festival and Firestone Walker Invitational have come and gone, and the Grit & Grain crew was lucky enough to be on the ground for both. In Episode 150, they’re recapping the magic—their favorite beers, favorite moments, and the unforgettable folks who made both festivals shine. Don’t miss their Instagram highlight videos from the
The sun is on sabbatical. The clouds have opinions. The air smells like wet bark and memory. Today, we don’t chase brightness—we embrace the spectral, the smoky, the deep. This is your cloudy-day communion, your fog-kissed flavor séance. Your Peaks & Pints Cloud Cover Beer Flight, a five-part hymn for those who know that gray skies are just another form of poetry. This Cloud Cover flight pairs with your favorite hoodie, Leonard Cohen lyrics, and staring meaningfully into the middle distance. Peaks & Pints Cloud Cover Beer Flight Holy Mountain The White Lodge 5.3% ABV A saison whispered into existence
A scene from Brew Five Three 2014 in downtown Tacoma. Mashing-In News: Brew Five Three, Leavenworth Oktoberfest GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Thursday, June 26, 2025 — Nick Offerman turns 55 today! Brew Five Three Early Bird Tickets Brew Five Three — the 253’s beloved Beer and Music Festival — returns to downtown Tacoma on August 9 at the Tacoma Armory, transforming the venue into a lively celebration of regional beer, cider, food trucks, games, raffles, and live music, all while raising funds for Tacoma Arts Live’s year-round events and youth arts education programs; early-bird tickets
Let’s be clear: Firestone Walker Brewing doesn’t just make beer—they summon it, conjuring bold, collaborative magic from the heart of Paso Robles like hop-fueled alchemists with solar-powered grins. And nowhere does that artistry shine brighter than at the recent 2025 Firestone Walker Invitational Beer Fest, a sun-drenched symphony of rare pours, bucket-list brewers, and one utterly unforgettable spirit of camaraderie. Over 65 breweries. 4,000 blissed-out fans. And a festival collab beer—Wandering Don—that tastes like high-fiving your taste buds with tropical thunder. But Firestone’s collaborative fire doesn’t flicker after the tents come down. It glows year-round through creative mash-ups with legends
Grit & Grain welcomes Austin and Julie Davis of Thru the Sightglass for a podcast recording at Peaks & Pints on Wednesday, June 25. Photo courtesy of Thru The Sightglass Mashing-In News: Thru the Sightglass on Grit & Grain Podcast GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Wednesday, June 25, 2025 — Carly Simon turns 82 today! Thru The Sightglass on Grit & Grain Podcast Today What happens when two voices of reverent curiosity and stainless-steel soul step behind the mic together? Grit & Grain welcomes Austin and Julie Davis of Thru The Sightglass for a radiant collision
Tuesday is a great New Brews Day at Peaks & Pints in Tacoma. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 6.24.25 Let us now praise the sacred six—the righteously strange, the joyously deranged, the epiphanic hop-fueled revelers that make up this glorious, spirit-spangled six-pack of liquid enlightenment. From 7 Seas’ Hold Fast, a resinous West Coast prayer of citrus and pine that dares your tongue to surf the chaos, to Pelican’s Tsunami Export Stout, a silky black wave of roast and redemption that gently obliterates your defenses—this is not just beer, darling, it’s an invocation. Then comes
Gigantic Brewing’s Sunshine Superstar West Coast IPA pairs well with the Peaks & Pints Tuesday Salvator Deli Sandwich Special. Peaks & Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: Salvador Deli Tuesday, June 24, 2025: Peaks & Pints Kitchen Nick’s Tuesday Sandwich Special features chicken, salami, spicy mayo, blue cheese, olives, onion, and arugula on sourdough. PAIRING: Gigantic Brewing Sunshine Superstar IPA Pair the bold, funky flavors of this sandwich with the punchy brilliance of Gigantic Brewing’s Sunshine Superstar IPA. This West Coast-style IPA offers a radiant burst of citrus, pine, and tropical fruit that cuts through the sandwich’s richness,
Imagine, if you will, a brewery born not in polished labs or sterile boardrooms but hewn from concrete, sweat, and raw, skate-scarred ambition—a place where plague doctors toast with IPA and misfits finally find their temple. Welcome to Black Plague Brewing, the Oceanside haunt conjured into existence in 2017 by ex-pro skater Jordan Hoffart and his beer‑alchemy comrade Jarred Doss, who didn’t just launch a brand—they forged one, with welding torches, DIY bravado, and a gothic snarl. This isn’t your uncle’s brewery. No, here you’ll find Tony Hawk–infused collaborations (yes, Tony freaking Hawk), punk shows in cavernous taprooms, milk stouts
The latest outpost from Sunriver Brewing Co. has opened its doors in Redmond, Oregon. Mashing-In News: Sunriver Redmond Pub, Top 40 Brewers GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Tuesday, June 24, 2025 — Mick Fleetwood turns 78 today! Sunriver Brewing Redmond Pub is Now Open Sunriver Brewing Co. has opened its sixth location in Redmond, Oregon, with a grand opening set for July 5, 2025. Located in the Westmount building across from Ridgeview High School, the new Redmond Pub sits in a growing residential area alongside Backporch Coffee Roasters. It aims to be a family-friendly neighborhood hub.
Did you know the word “pineapple” was once used to describe pinecones? Back in 1398, that’s precisely what it meant—until European explorers encountered a tropical fruit that reminded them of the spiky cones. By 1664, the fruit had officially claimed the name, and “pinecone” was coined in 1694 to clear up the confusion. Historians trace the pineapple’s roots to Brazil, and Christopher Columbus and his crew were likely among the first Europeans to taste it. The fruit quickly captured the hearts (and palates) of European royals, eventually becoming a coveted delicacy and a symbol of hospitality—only the most gracious hosts
Alesong Brewing & Blending turns nine this weekend. Photo courtesy of Alesong Good Morning, Mashing-In News: Alesong Turns 9, Cal Raleigh’s Big Dumper Beer GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Monday, June 23, 2025 — Frances McDormand turns 68 today! Alesong Celebrates 9 Years Saturday Alesong Brewing & Blending will celebrate its 9th anniversary on Saturday, June 28, at its scenic Eugene, Oregon brewery with the release of its annual Canniversary Collaboration IPA. This year’s “9th Canniversary” West Coast IPA, brewed with fellow Oregon Great American Beer Festival winners Sunriver and Grand Fir Brewing, features modern hop
Consider the saison. History did. In 19th-century Belgium, farmers brewed saisons—“farmhouse ales”—using leftover grains from the fall harvest. It was a practical solution: repurposing excess grain, staying busy during the off-season, feeding livestock with spent mash, and keeping seasonal workers refreshed and hydrated in the hot summer months. That’s what you call a win-win. Back then, saisons were typically around 3.5% alcohol by volume—light, sessionable, and perfect for warm weather. As for their signature funk? Farmers often re-pitched the same yeast year after year to save money, unintentionally cultivating wild, multi-strain fermentations that defined the style’s unique character. Today’s saisons
Grab these six beers and celebrate the longest day of the year! Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 6.20.25 Six ways to toast the longest day—crack one open and let the light in on these new arrivals to the Peaks & Pints massive cooler. Happy Solstice! BLACK PLAGUE BREWING DOUBLE TROUBLE: Double IPA brewed with Mosaic, Strata, Citra, and Columbus Cryo hops, delivering juicy bursts of pineapple, tangerine, and mango over a clean malt backbone, earning praise for its bold yet balanced flavor, 8%, 16oz CHUCKANUT BREWERY JAPANESE LAGER: Crisp, refreshing rice lager brewed with noble
Happy Friday! Peaks & Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: Provence Provocateur Friday, June 20, 2025: Peaks & Pints Kitchen Aaron had southeastern France on the brain for his Friday Sandwich Special featuring sun-dried tomatoes, provolone, peppery arugula, tender chicken, mayo, oil & vinegar, and salt & pepper. PAIRING: Russian River Brewing Jannemie Saison Layered with sun-dried tomatoes, provolone, peppery arugula, and tender chicken, this French bread sandwich brings bold, savory flavors balanced by a splash of oil and vinegar. To match its herbaceous zip and creamy richness, we’ve paired it with Russian River’s Jannemie, a delicately tart
