Peaks & Pints suggests pairing our roast beef sandwich special with Reuben’s Stouter Limits. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Stouter Sandwich TUESDAY, APRIL 5 2022: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen digs into Tuesday with a hearty sandwich special of roast beef, goat cheese, garlic dill aioli, red onion, tomato, and spring mix on sourdough. PAIRING: Reuben’s Brews Stouter Limits Imperial Stout This imperial stout (12.5%) is the fourth release in Reuben’s 10th Anniversary Collaboration Series, a collaboration with the Homebrewers Guild of Seattle Proper — the homebrew club where Reuben’s co-founder Adam Robbings cut his
Today is National Caramel Day! Let’s get to learning. … Americans began making sugary syrups in the 1600s, but the delicious chewy caramel we know and love today was a more recent innovation. Caramel candy emerged during the 18th century and quickly became one of the most popular sweets on the market. In fact, Milton Hershey’s first business was the Lancaster Caramel Company. Caramel is made with butter, brown and white sugar, milk or cream, and vanilla. It is usually enjoyed as an ice cream topping, a candy filling, or as a flavor in craft beer, at least according to
Sweet, dry, easy-drinking, and naturally gluten-free, ciders are so hip right now. In an era where “gluten” is seen as only slightly less sinister than Satan himself, their sales have skyrocketed, making it one of the fastest growing segments of alcoholic drinks in the country. American craft cider has been enjoying something of a Renaissance these days — a market once dominated by UK imports like Magners and Strongbow now has plenty of stateside competition. It was only a matter of time before someone dreamed up a weekly flight devoted entirely to cider. Oh, wait, we did. Welcome to this
The most-hyped monsters to arrive in Tacoma this spring weren’t the potholes on North 27th Street in the Proctor District, but sea creatures inside the Peaks & Pints’ cooler. Their arrival at Peaks sparked a mini-sensation, proof of the enduring popularity these monsters have enjoyed ever since Jules Verne conjured one up to attack Captain Nemo. It was also the kind of discovery that gave Peaks & Pints bartender Mitchell Lovett his raison d’etre. A fan of drinking scary squishy things all his life, Lovett has completely immersed himself in the study of what he calls “sea creature beers.” Today,
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 4.1.22 Une Annee is a small family-owned Chicago craft brewery focused on Belgian and French styles. Their Hubbard’s Cave was developed as an alternative to their Belgian and French style ales, primarily imperial stouts and signature Fresh IIPAs. Satisfy your beer cravings with these fresh hits, your perfect mix and match Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 4.1.22 pack awaits. … Hubbard’s Cave Accident in Hubbard’s Cave: Stout with notes of chocolate, coffee, vanilla, brown sugar, caramel, and light roasted malts, 12% Hubbard’s Cave Coffee & Cakes: Imperial stout with SPUTNIK Coffee
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 3.31.22 Whut whut Thursday! Now is the time when we all fill our beer fridges for the coming weekend, right? Well good because Peaks and Pints New Beer in stock 3.31.22 has a whole bunch of new goodness for y’all, so read on and see what’s new and delicious. … Anchorage Brewing Anadromous: Black sour fermented in French oak foudres with Belgian yeast, aged for one year in Pinot Noir and whiskey barrels, then finished on marionberries and bottle conditioned, 9.5% Anchorage Interstellar Void: Mixed culture wild ale fermented and aged in Missouri
In the early 1980s, chemical engineer and homebrewer Will Kemper paid a visit to the brewmaster of the now-defunct Rainier Brewery in Seattle where he was told he couldn’t open a brewery because he wasn’t born into it. Good one. In 1984, Kemper, his wife, Mari, and Andy Thomas opened Thomas Kemper Brewery in Poulsbo, Washington. In 1992, Thomas Kemper merged with Hart Brewing, which went on to be Pyramid Breweries. The Kempers saw the ugly side of the business and became consultants with East Coast and international breweries. After a bunch of traveling, they moved back to Bellingham where
Peaks and Pints New Craft In Stock 3.25.22 Happy Friday Peaks & Pints Pals! Load up your fridge for the weekend by raiding our cooler! It’s full of freshies! Just look at all this beautiful, beautiful beer and cider in Peaks and Pints New Craft In Stock 3.25.22! Cheers! Channel Marker Cider Cedar Ginger: The cedar and ginger in this cider are the perfect combination of refreshing and spicy, 7% Channel Marker Cran Clove Cyser: Cider with warm and spicy flavor of whole cloves and orange zest in a cranberry and apple cyser, 8% Channel Marker Habanero Lime: Feisty cider
6-Pack of Things To Do: March 25-27 2022 The Tacoma cultural scene springs into action the last weekend of March, with an album release party, classical piano concert, University of Puget Sound Jacobsen Series, and more. MUSIC: Performing a little bit Broadway, a little bit contemporary, a little bit punk, and a little bit blues, glam folk duo Champagne Sunday brings the energy and the talent to every powerful performance, including Saturday night at McMenamins Elks Temple’s Spanish Ballroom. Jessi and Jared Fredeen will perform their latest album, Balance, live with no instrument banned and Jessi’s huge, feminine voice will
Equilibrium was started by MIT scientists Peter Oates and Ricardo Petroni who were working on remediation of the Hudson River in the early 2000s. They became water chemistry experts trained to take the bad stuff out of the water. In the future, they put good stuff into water and called it beer. The two professional scientists became obsessed with New England hazy IPAs burning a path to Hill Farmstead Brewery and The Alchemist. Finally purchasing a homebrewing kit, Oats and Petroni strived to create scientifically balanced beer, which they did before brewing their first double IPA, named EQM, in 2015.
Tournament of Beer: Northwest Lagers bracket announced Peaks & Pints has unveiled the official bracket for its Tournament of Beer: Northwest Lagers, a voter-based public tournament seeking to crown the best pale lager brewed in the Pacific Northwest. Patterned after the NCAA Division I Basketball Tournaments, the Tournament of Beer features 64 regular craft lagers from Washington and Oregon, all seeded by public vote, and separated into four geographical regions: Northern Washington, Southern Washington, Northern Oregon, and Southern Oregon. These top 64 vote getters — the cream of the crispy bois — will compete Monday through Friday at tournamentofbeer.com, April 8-30.
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 3.21.22 Rainy Monday calls for Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 3.21.22! Aslan Brewing Cervisia: Mediterranean-style pilsner with melon and berry aromatics followed by flavors of lemon zest, berries, and cracker with a refreshing bitter finish, 5% Aslan Slow Sipper: Collaboration with Seattle’s soulful septet The Dip this easy drinking hazy IPA is smooth and full of citrus flavors, 5.9% Fort George Brewery Powercycle – Nectaron: New pale ale rotating series from the Fort George Brewers that will focus on a new dominant hop with each release — this one featuring Nectaron
Beginning approximately 15,000 years ago, ice dams on massive Lake Missoula in Montana began to break, sending torrents of deep water rushing through Idaho, Washington and Oregon. The process continued for thousands of years with up to 40 major floods eventually forming what is now the Columbia River Gorge. It’s a gorgeous area filled with waterfalls, hiking trails, outdoor recreation galore and craft breweries and ciders in a 40-mile stretch west to east — from Multnomah Falls to The Dalles, with Hood River somewhat in the middle. The ancient floods left Hood River with rich mineral soil. Double Mountain Brewery
Today is National Bock Day. In celebration, Peaks and Pints offers a bock-style, to-go flight of five beers: Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: National Bock Day On The Fly. Bock beer is a strong beer style generally 6.3 percent alcohol by volume and higher. It is believed to have originated in Einbeck — a town famous for brewing in the Middle Ages. Einbeck was one of the first cities to ban the use of gruit in beer in favor of hops to circumvent the Catholic Church’s high prices on gruit. The oldest written record of beer from Einbeck is from
Today’s beer flight is dedicated to anniversaries. Anniversaries can mean anything, really: revelry, remembrance, regret. It is marked by homages of love and resolve, of faith and friendship. In celebrations of weddings or births, college graduations or even death, they are our annual reminders of what to be thankful for, what we have lost, or what we have gained. In craft beer, anniversaries address the passing of time between the brewery’s founding and the present, and is often a celebration that touches the hallmarks of all such celebrations: On a significant date, a special beer is released (and often bottled
6-Pack of Things To Do: March 18-20 2022 The weather may be gray as we head into this last weekend of winter, but the entertainment calendar is definitely heating up. You can chill out at Model Train Show at the Foss Waterway Seaport, the acoustic show at The Valley, Compartment Number 6 at The Grand Cinema, and more. MODEL TRAIN SHOW: There are some hobbies better kept to yourself. You know, the ones you do alone in your basement late at night. And then there are some truly cool hobbies, like model railroads. These should be celebrated and dragged out
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 3.18.22 You survived the alluring Kelly-green sweatshirts over beige slacks, enormous Cat-in-the-Hat-style green and white hats, and green beer tears, and you’re now looking to chill over the weekend. Stop by for Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 3.18.22 and plot your course for Monday’s World Poetry Day. Cheers! Equilibrium Brewing Breaking Enigma: Imperial hazy IPA brewed with wheat and oats as a grain base then heavily hopped with Enigma and a touch of Citra for balance for notes of berries, tropical fruit, citrus, a touch of Pinot Gris, and dank earth
These days, beers with adjuncts such as fruit, marshmallow, and milk sugar have become common. Gone are the times when a pie-inspired beer felt radical. And here, now, is a weird phase in the billion-armed evolution of American beer, where ordering a sour made to taste like a slushie is a year-round staple. Slushie sours — also known as pastry sours or smoothie sours — are the evolution of the fruited kettle soured beers — gose and Berliner weisses — that made a resurgence and grew incredibly popular in the early part of the 2010s. Brewers donning aprons added non-traditional
Most of you probably took one look at the headline of today’s to-go beer flight and thought, “What the hell does Peaks & Pints know about St. Patrick’s Day? OK, maybe those weren’t your first thoughts exactly, but you might be a tad skeptical about our credibility, given the telling nature of our environment, beer list, cooler inventory, kitchen menu, and all the staff’s last names. Yet, we’ve tried black pudding, we have participated in the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade and heard the story of the Blarney Stone. And we’ve even sung some misty-eyed renditions of “Danny
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 3.16.22 Satisfy your beer cravings with Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 3.16.22; your perfect mix and match pack awaits. … Abomination Brewing Manticore’s Manifest: Collaboration with Spartacus Brewing, this triple hazy IPA is loaded with Citra, Nelson, Rakau, and Phantasm powder for notes of ripe peach, tropical citrus fruits, and Sauvignon Blanc grapes, 10% Abomination Twelve Lives & Still Wandering: Collaboration with Fat Orange Cat this imperial IPA is double dry hopped with Lotus, Cashmere, Citra, and mosaic, 9.5% BreakThru Brewing Hydro-Ponic: Collaboration with Halcyon Brewing, this hazy pale ale is
Peaks & Pints suggests you pair our crazy turkey sandwich special with Hoof Hearted’s crazy gose. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: What Happens WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16 2022: What happens when you pair Peaks & Pints Kitchen Director Robby Peterson’s sandwich special of turkey, bacon, roasted red pepper, raspberry cream cheese, and cucumber on sourdough with Hoof Hearted Brewing’s “That’s What Happens When You Put Ketchup On A Hot Dog”? Pairing the sandwich with any beer would be like skiing down a mountainside naked smeared with ketchup but this gose-stye ale brewed with raspberry, passionfruit, lime,
Named for the home of the Greek gods, Olympic National Park reigns as the fifth most visited national park in the country. The park sprawls across several different ecosystems, from the dramatic peaks of the Olympic Mountains to old-growth forests. Some of the world’s largest trees ― Sitka spruce, Douglas fir, Western red cedar, and Western hemlock ― grow in the Olympic National Park, including Quinault’s big Sitka spruce, which is 191 feet tall and 1,000 years old. Trails lead through mossy forests to stunning, venerable arboreal giants. And keeping a close eye on it all is the Washington’s National Park
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 3.15.22 Tuesday is a great new brews day! Welcome to Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 3.15.22! Belching Beaver Brewery Polamo: New, easy-drinking pale ale with hops and citrus, 5.6% Block 15 Brewing Cosmic Cold Brew: The Corvallis brewery’s Nebula Stout conditioned with a 24-hour cold extraction of freshly roasted coffee beans from Bespoken Coffee Roasters, 7% Block 15 Emerging Sunshine: Crisp golden IPA bursting with citrus, mango, and floral hop notes, 6.75% Block 15 Selection Series, Chinook: Single hop IPA with vibrant candied citrus, pine, and light rose notes, 7% Counterbalance
Just as a trout delivered Matilda’s lost wedding band from a pond, Merchant du Vin expects their containers filled with Orval to be delivered to US soil, albeit with a substantial delay due to global freight woes. Because of that, the seventh annual Orval Day will be moved from Saturday, March 26 to Saturday, May 21. For each bottle of Orval Trappist Ale sold that day Merchant du Vin will donate 50 cents to charity partner, the National Forest Foundation. As part of Merchant du Vin’s Trappist Tuesday program, Peaks & Pints suggests you drink Orval anyway today in our
6-Pack of Things To Do: March 14-15 2022 Welcome to the 6-Pack of Things To Do in the greater Tacoma area — home of many epiphanies, countless transformations, laughter and tears and awakenings of every flavor you can name, and most you really can’t, because Tacoma. Cheers! DREAM TEAM: Reuben’s Brews continues their 10th Anniversary celebration reuniting their friends Fort George Brewery and Great Notion Brewing — the team behind the spectacular 2017 Fort George 3-Way IPA. The Seattle brewery brings the other two breweries back, this time to Seattle, to meld minds and brewer paddle techniques for the satisfying
Long before Washington state had legal weed, it had apples. In 2008, Craig Campbell and his wife, Sharon, began experimenting with making cider from dessert apples grown in their 400-acre Eastern Washington commercial fruit orchards. They opened Tieton Cider Works. Since then, the Pacific Northwest craft cider scene has exploded. Add to all the great Washington and Oregon cider our sparkling blue skies, stunning scenery, and plenty of places to hike, bike and otherwise work off our cider bellies, and there’s no place in the world to drink craft cider. In celebration of the Northwest Cider Association’s 2022 NW Cider
Instagram Outsider: Women’s Day, Moisture Festival, Spring Forward From International Women’s Day brewing sessions to Hale’s Ales’ final Moisture Festival, from Finnriver’s heart to spring forward, Peaks and Pints Instagram Outsider returns today with a photo essay of Instagram posts from the past week. Be sure to keep tagging us @peaksandpints and @ciderofdestiny for your chance to be featured on Peaks and Pints Instagram Outsider. Until we meet back here again next week, enjoy Instagram Outsider: Women’s Day, Moisture Festival, Spring Forward. View this post on Instagram A post shared by We ❤ to Imbibe Craft Beer (@imbibebeer)
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock: 3.11.22 What are you drinking during this rainy weekend? Peaks & Pints has new beer in our cooler! 54°40′ Brewing 1862: Light bodied, dry, and crisp Mexican lager with a delicate touch of sweetness on the end, 4.3% Bale Breaker Brewing Clarity Rarity Release No. 8: Brewed with experimental hops HBC 685 and HBC 344, this Bale Breaker staff favorite hazy IPA has ripe fruit aromas of pineapple, orange, cantaloupe, and nectarine, 7% Ex Novo Brewing Bailiwick: Dry Irish stout brewed in collaboration with Single Hill Brewing with roast, chocolate, and coffee notes
Peaks & Pints suggests pairing our French Dip special with New Holland Brewing Dragon’s Milk Reserve Rye Barrel-Aged Stout with Cinnamon, Toasted Chilies And Vanilla Extract. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Dragon Dip FRIDAY, MARCH 11 2022: Welcome to French Dip Friday folks! Roast beef, horseradish cream cheese, and red onion on French are ready for a stout pairing PAIRING: New Holland Brewing Dragon’s Milk Reserve Rye Barrel-Aged Stout with Cinnamon, Toasted Chilies And Vanilla Extract This New Holland Dragon’s Milk Reserve (11.8%) is aged in rye whiskey barrels for earthy and spicy notes to
6-Pack of Things To Do: March 11-13 2022 If you liked rainy weather, you’re gonna LOVE tomorrow … and the day after that … and the day after that! But cheer up — Peaks & Pints’ 6-Pack of Things To Do has plenty of indoor options. Cheers! ART: Walk among sunflowers or lay beneath the stars to the sound of modern-classical music as world-famous art is brought to life at Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience. The digital art installation and interactive space runs at the Tacoma Arts Live hosted Tacoma Armory through April 16 with timed entries. Visitors can surround
You won’t find any piñatas or enormous velvet sombreros hanging from the ceiling at Peaks & Pints, but you will find beers brewed to taste like Mexican hot chocolate — albeit cold. Hot chocolate originated in Mesoamerica before being co-opted by the Spaniards (and sugar high kids the world over). Mexican chocolate is much different from the rich, cocoa butter compound most folks have floating around their kitchen. The secret ingredients? Granulated sugar and cinnamon. The granulated sugar gives the chocolate a gritty texture that’s muy differente compared to the smoother, European-style chocolate. Cinnamon, or canela, is the other secret
This year’s Peaks & Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Lagers centers around American and international light and pale lagers. Sunday, March 13, marks the last day to nominate your favorite regular lager brewed in Washington and Oregon into the Tournament, which begins April 8. Apparently, there’s a bit of disappointment Vienna lagers weren’t included in the Tournament. We apologize; most likely, someday, they’ll be a Tournament of Beer: Northwest Vienna Lagers. In the meantime, stop by Peaks & Pints today and grab our to-go flight, Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Vienna Lagers On the Fly. Introduced in 1841, Vienna lager
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 3.9.22 Happy Hump Day Peaks & Pints Pals! It’s been a pretty, pretty, pretty good week of new craft beer arrivals so far, including Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 3.9.22. Cheers! Backwoods Brewing S’mores: Golden milk stout finished with chocolate, marshmallows, and vanilla, 5.5% E9 Brewing Starbreaker: Slightly hazy unfiltered IPA copiously dry hopped with Idaho 7, Cashmere, and Strata hops for loads of tropical fruit and piney resin characteristics, 6.4% Ecliptic Brewing 5000: Ecliptic’s 5000th brewed batch is celebrated with this golden barleywine aged in Old Tom gin barrels for
Your plan was simple: Rent a room, find a job at Mount Rainier National Park, work a quarter, then fly back home. The mountain, however, quietly cast a spell on you. At about the time you should have been moving out of your room, you were casting a dry fly to rainbow trout. You tried to pack again but ended up pitching a tent next to a waterfall. And at the point you should have been tendering job applications for computer jobs back home, you were 200 yards away from Camp Muir. You now own a cabin just outside Mount
Trappists monks make other sought-after, high-quality goods besides insanely delicious beer. Many make cheese; some make wine and distill liquor; but 11 Trappist breweries have the “Authentic Trappist Product” seal of approval to brew using beautiful yeasts, all with their own distinctive smell and taste. The seven OG Trappist breweries have deep roots in Europe — Chimay, Rochefort, Orval, Achel, Westmalle, and Westvleteren in Belgium, and La Trappe in the Netherlands, although a lack of monks forced Achel to turn in their beer robes in January 2021. Stift Engelszell wears the ATP patch in Austria. Tre Fontane Abbey is legit
Peaks & Pints suggests pairing our turkey dip special with Fast Fashion’s Pils. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Turkey Dip Zoolander MONDAY, March 7 2022: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen struts its stuff with the Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Turkey Dip Zoolander — a turkey dip featuring horseradish-cilantro mayo, red onion, and Gouda on French with a side of au jus. PAIRING: Fast Fashion Brewing Pils Collaboration with Halfway Crooks Beer in Atlanta and Resident Culture Brewing in Charlotte, this pilsner is hopped with Hersbrucker and Tettnang for a bigger body and sweeter
You have dragged your weekend-weary, sorry self through the first day of work-week drudgery. It wasn’t easy, though, and you deserve a little reward. On your walk over for a much-needed ice cream cone at Ice Cream Social stop by Peaks & Pints and grab our imperial cider flight, Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: Imperials. Every Monday, Peaks & Pints offers a flight of ciders. Today we’re bumping up the alcohol by volume greater than eight percent. So, skip the OG magnum of Yellow Tail Shiraz and grab our afterwork reward you were looking for. Stay for dinner. Peaks
Instagram Outsider: 7 AM Cryo, Brave Noise At Home, WA Beer Open House From early morning beers in the woods to homebrewing Brave Noise world-wide collaboration, from Sue Kidd tributes to Washington Beer Open House pics, Peaks and Pints Instagram Outsider returns today with a photo essay of Instagram posts from the past week. Be sure to keep tagging us @peaksandpints and @ciderofdestiny for your chance to be featured on Peaks and Pints Instagram Outsider. Until we meet back here again next week, enjoy Instagram Outsider: 7 AM Cryo, Brave Noise At Home, WA Beer Open House. View this
R.I.P. Armand Debelder Armand Debelder, who was the owner, head brewer and blender of Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen until 2019, when he retired due to severe illness, has passed away. “It is with a heavy heart and great sadness that we announce the passing of Armand. The inspirer of 3 Fonteinen and an inspiration for many, a gentle teacher to his team, Opa Geuze to the brewery kids, and as a second father to some of us,” states Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen in a release. Founded in the municipality of Beersel, Belgium in the 1880s, 3 Fonteinen began
There are so many worthy breweries in Washington state that you could never dream of covering them all in a day, but you can get a taste of several if you plan right. The Washington Beer Commission invites you to visit some of our state’s many innovative, esteemed, and downright friendly craft brewers noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 5. The WBC calls their annual event the Washington Beer Open House. We call it an excellent theme for our daily to-go beer flight. We suggest you pick a region and make a day of it. May we suggest you pick
Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 3.4.22 Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 3.4.22 has your weekend adventures. … 450 North Brewing Slushy XL Blueberry Muffin: Fruited sour conditioned on blueberry, blueberry muffins and vanilla cream, 5.3% 450 North Slushy XXL Fast Froot Munchies: Fruited sour conditioned on strawberry, pineapple, mango, and banana, % ABV NA 450 North Slushy XXL Filet of Fruit: Fruited sour conditioned on passionfruit, dragonfruit, starfruit, and jackfruit, %ABV NA Boulevard Brewing Cinnamon Bun Ale: Imperial brown ale with aromas and flavors of cinnamon and vanilla, minus the sticky hands, 9.5% La Trappe Practise
Peaks and Pints suggests pairing our pastrami on rye sandwich special with Silver City’s Copper Mountain Maibock. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Mountain Of Flavors FRIDAY, MARCH 4 2022: Happy Friday! Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Mountain of Flavors is pastrami, blue cheese, beer mustard, crispy onions, and provolone on rye. PAIRING: Silver City Brewery Copper Mountain Maibock Early spring is the ideal time to indulge in blue cheese and seasonal maibock beers, which are traditionally brewed in the dead of winter in anticipation of the coming spring. The Copper Mountain Maibock pairs well
6-Pack of Things To Do: March 4-6 2022 R.I.P. Sue Kidd FILM: The Batman starts its run at The Grand Cinema today. It’s has the makings to be one of the best in the series. It’s directed by Matt Reeves (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, War for the Planet of the Apes), which is extremely cool. The casting, the color palette, the odd contouring of the Batman costume itself, the burly runtime, and Robert Pattinson in the suit — it looks like a hard-boiled super noir. Noon, 3:45, and 7:30 p.m., Friday-Sunday, March 4-6, The Grand Cinema, 606
Sue Kidd, a longtime food writer for the Tacoma News Tribune, Dine Pierce County and other publications, died Tuesday from an aggressive form of cancer. She was 52. That’s how the sad news is written in newspapers. As the founder of the now defunct alternative newsweekly Weekly Volcano in November 2001, I would have written it with more F-bombs as Sue (I’m using her first name for this story) was a skilled F-bomb practitioner. She was also a top-notch food critic and feature writer. She ran circles around my Volcano coverage of the local food and beverage scene. Every Wednesday
