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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Short Throw On the Fly

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Brandon Tolbert gained notoriety as head brewer at The Answer Brewpub. In fact, his Answer Brewpub nabbed the 2015 Best New Brewery in Virginia. Three years later, while he was scribbling plans for his own brewery, Tolbert honed his skills at Final Gravity Brewing and Ardent Craft Ales. In 2019, he launched Short Throw Brewing with the help of Twelve Percent Beer Project in North Haven Connecticut, North Haven. In January 2021, RateBeer named Short Throw eighth “Best New Brewery in the World,” the second “Best New Brewery in the United States,” and once again for Tolbert, the Best New Brewery in the

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.25.22

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.25.22 Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.25.22 is glorious!  Feast your eyes on these. …👀 Fremont Brewing Snowpack: Brewed to support SheJumps Scholarship Program, which generates opportunities for progression-based education, community-building, and leadership development through skiing and backcountry avalanche certifications, this revamped hazy pale ale hits the nose with citrus, stone fruit, pine, and cereal notes, followed by a sweet lingering taste with mango and pine, 5.5% Fort George Brewery Deviation Works: Collaboration with the Portland ski and snowboard manufacturer Deviation Works, this American light lager is brewed with flaked corn and

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Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Pastrami Pop Life

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Peaks and Pints suggests pairing our spicy pastrami sandwich special with Scuttlebutt’s Pop Life IPA. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Pastrami Pop Life TUESDAY, JAN. 25 2022: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen rides the spicy cherry pepper train again this time pairing them with pastrami, spicy mayo, onion, provolone, Havarti, and balsamic drizzle on French. PAIRING: Scuttlebutt Brewing Pop Life IPA Pop Life is a hazy IPA brewed with the YCH Cryo Pop Blend showcasing aromas and flavors of tropical and stone fruit. Are we actually pairing this IPA because the can color matches the

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: X Marks Trappist Tuesday

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The origins of Belgian styles are rooted in classic Parti-Gyle, which means running additional water through the mash to collect a second beer with the remaining sugar. This old technique was abandoned for the newer style in which brewers sparge, which means rinsing the sugar from the malt by spraying hot water over the top of the mash in the lauter tun, which is essentially a giant strainer. It was common for Belgian monks to use the same malt for three distinct mashes. They would mix the grist with water and make a first mash. This would then be drained

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Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Descent Into Deliciousness

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Peaks & Pints suggests you pair our Italian Grinder sandwich special with Skookum’s Descent Dark Lager. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Descent Into Deliciousness MONDAY, JAN. 24 2022: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen tweaked our flagship Italian Grinder offering pepperoni, salami, Dijonnaise, provolone, tomato, and arugula on sourdough from open to close today. PAIRING: Skookum Brewery Descent Dark Lager The slightly spicy notes of the meat pair well with a malty beer like Descent Dark Lager with its super malty roastiness, caramel sweetness, and faint hint of coffee. THING TO DO: Because of COVID, Peaks

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Jan. 24-25 2022

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Jan. 24-25 2022 From ooey-gooey cookies to classic PB&J, who doesn’t love a little peanut butter in their lives? It’s National Peanut Butter Day, which means Peaks & Pints offers a to-go flight of peanut butter beers today. Get the most out of everyone’s favorite nut spread and pair PB beers with the following local events. Cheers! PEANUT BUTTER: People are nuts for the stuff, and not just schoolchildren cash-strapped college kids. Peanut Butter is great for removing crayon off wallpaper. It won’t fade the color. If you’re headed to a 1950s style dance peanut

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Peanut Butter Beer On the Fly

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People are nuts for the stuff, and not just schoolchildren cash-strapped college kids. Peanut Butter is great for removing crayon off wallpaper. It won’t fade the color. If you’re headed to a 1950s style dance peanut butter is easier to remove from hair than Vaseline. Peanut butter works taking rings and age spots off wooden furniture. Peanut butter (creamy) is an excellent product for removing tar and pitch off cars, scratches out of Plexiglas, and pen marks off leather furniture. You can polish stainless steel with peanut butter. Eating peanut butter makes a great quick fix for the hiccups. Last,

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Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: Willamette Valley

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The Willamette Valley is the largest river valley in Oregon. Part of the Cascades geological province that extends from British Columbia to northern California, the valley is an elongated, relatively flat body of land extending approximately 150 miles from the Columbia River south to the Calapooya Divide. The valley’s elevation, approximately 10 feet above sea level where the Willamette River joins the Columbia, rises to about 450 feet south of Cottage Grove. The Willamette Valley’s agricultural underpinnings create a perfect opportunity for close relationships between cidermakers and apple orchardists where farm to table and drinking local are deeply held Oregonian

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Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Seeing Deli Reubens

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Peaks & Pints suggests you pair our Turkey Deli Reuben sandwich special with Structures Brewing’s Seeing Things Double IPA. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Seeing Deli Reubens DAY OF THE WEEK MONTH DATE 2022: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen tweaked our Peaks Reuben flagship sandwich substituting in turkey, mayostard sauce, red onion, and tomato with sauerkraut and rye bread.  PAIRING: Structures Brewing Seeing Things Double IPA It’s an outstanding sandwich on its own, but it gets even better when paired with a pungent IPA. The backend bitterness of this double IPA doesn’t get lost amongst

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Instagram Outsider: Beer Candles, Pulling Nails, 7 Holy Years

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Instagram Outsider: Beer Candles, Pulling Nails, 7 Holy Years From The Lost Abbey Church Candles to How Do You Dru Bru?, from Holy Mountain’s 7th Anniversary to all the bottle and can shots, 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: Beer Candles, Pulling Nails, 7 Holy Years.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared

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Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Britpop Beer Cheese

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Peaks & Pints suggests pairing our spicy pastrami sandwich special with Double Mountain’s Sally Can Wait Export Dark Lager and accompanying Spotify playlist. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Britpop Beer Cheese SATURDAY, JAN. 22 2022: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen grabbed a pile of pastrami and added beer cheese, a pepper mix, including spicy cherry peppers, plus Havarti and red onion on sourdough for our Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Britpop Beer Cheese. PAIRING: Double Mountain Brewery Sally Can Wait Dark Export Lager The Peaks Kitchen couldn’t wait to create a sandwich special around

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Old Schoolhouse Beer On The Fly

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Casey and Laura Ruud purchased the floundering Winthrop brewery in 2008, changed the name to Old Schoolhouse Brewery, cleaned it up, and quickly turned it into an award-winning gem of a brewpub. Life happens, and the Ruud’s sold the brewery to three gentlemen who grew up in New Hampshire together, brothers Nathan and Jacob Young and Troy Anderson. Jacob and Nathan knew restaurants and bars inside and out. Troy coached high school track with Jacob and worked at Microsoft with Nathan. All three enjoy the outdoors, which is almost mandatory since the riverside brewery and gastropub is in Winthrop, which

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.21.22

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.21.22 What are you drinking this weekend? Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.21.22 offers many a treasure. Cheers! Belching Beaver Brewery Sling Yer Hook: Nine Year Anniversary barrel-aged imperial stout with a pinch of salt to balance the roasted coffee notes and chocolate-like malt character, 11% Belching Beaver SD Besties: Brewed with Coronado Brewing, this Neapolitan imperial milk stout has notes of strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla, 8.5% Crux Fermentation Project Noisy Boy: West Coast IPA with notes of citrus, pine, and even candy notes thanks to the orchestrated efforts of Mosaic,

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Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Olive Amusement

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Peaks & Pints suggests pairing our turkey pesto tapenade special with the Block 15 and de Garde Amusement saison. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Olive Amusement FRIDAY, JAN. 21 2022: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen created a Friday sandwich special of turkey, pesto, olive tapenade, red onion, goat cheese, bacon, and balsamic glaze on sourdough. PAIRING: Block 15 Brewing 2021 AmusemenT This saison is blended with nearly 2-year-old spontaneously fermented and oak aged wild ale from de Garde Brewing, producing a balanced and characterful blend with funky lemon notes that will cut nicely through the

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Jan. 21-23 2022

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Jan. 21-23 2022 This weekend brings famed Pink Martini back to Tacoma, plus Neo vs. The Blue Mouse, masks, RVs bigger than your home, masks, punk rock, Hendrix loving Hansen, masks and more. Cheers! MUSIC: Pianist Thomas Lauderdale and his legendary Portland-based jazz and classical pop ensemble will perform at the Pantages Theater Sunday night. Pink Martini’s blend of American swing, Latin rhythms and chamber arrangements, along with vocals in five languages, give the group’s largely original material mass appeal. Lauderdale of Portland, Oregon, founded the “little orchestra” Pink Martini in 1994. It has gone

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Ravenna Brewing On the Fly

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Former London-bound information-security architect Tommy Ortega, his wife, Elise Ransom Oretga, and several Ransom family members — including Tommy Ransom who was the real estate agent who found the Seattle neighborhood Ravenna location for the brewery — opened Ravenna Brewing on April 15, 2016 across from Ravenna Park. Ortega and Elise originally planned to call the brewery Ol Faithful Brewing after the couple’s name for their home — a Craftsman in Fremont built in 1907. Tommy Ransom eventually became head brewer for many years, just recently turning over the head brewer job to Audra Johansen, the University of Washington master’s

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Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Deep Cheesy Ham

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Peaks & Pints suggests you pair our fancy ham sandwich with Skookum’s Deep Cooler old ale. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Deep Cheesy Ham THURSDA, JAN. 20 2022: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Deep Cheesy Ham is a cheesy ham with Beecher’s Aged White Cheddar and Havarti smothering ham, red onion, tomato, and arugula on sourdough. PAIRING: Skookum Brewery Deep Cooler Old Ale Skookum added cherry wood smoke malt then aged in their old ale in whiskey barrels for 10 months for deep notes and aromas of dark fruit,

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Equilibrium Beer On The Fly

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In 2016, MIT graduates and friends Peter Oates and Ricardo Petroni opened Equilibrium Brewery in Middletown, New York. 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. It didn’t hurt they were trained in water chemistry. Four years later, lines 300 deep stood before their door waiting for their latest release. Since then, they opened a second site in Middletown to

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.19.22

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.19.22 Peaks & Pints is stoked to have more fun beer from Claim 52 Brewing, as well as all these delicious Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.19.22. Cheers! Claim 52 Brewing Alive In Tucson: Westcoast IPA brewed with 2-row barley, Crystal 15, and dextrose, plus hopped with Cryo Cascade and Cryo Mosaic, 6.3%. Claim 52 Stuffed Raspberry Gingerbread Cheesecake: Dessert sour brewed with milk sugar, then conditioned on raspberry puree, gingerbread cookie crumbs, and cheesecake, 6.5% Claim 52 Stuffed Baked Alaska: Dessert Sour conditioned on raspberry puree, marshmallow, yellow cake, and

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Revision On the Fly

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Jeremy Warren is widely admired for his mastery of hops, especially with his signature beer style, India pale ale. In 2012, Knee Deep Brewing Co. left Warren’s garage in Sparks, Nevada, and exploded onto the scene when the brewery’s Hoptologist won the prestigious Bistro Double IPA competition in Hayward, California, besting the legendary Pliny the Elder, among others. In 2015, Warren left everyone knee deep in tears when he departed the brewery. In March 2017, he and his head brewer, Jeb Taylor, opened Revision Brewing Company back in Sparks, Nevada. The brewery took a gold medal win for Revision IPA

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.18.22

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.18.22 Coming in today for a pint and to stock your beer fridge for the week? You know Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.18.22 has got you! Let’s run ’em down. … Fremont Brewing Coffee Cinnamon B-Bomb: Aged in 8- to 12-year-old American oak bourbon barrels and blended with 9-, 12-, and 24-month-old barrel-aged Winter Ales, this special edition adds cold brew coffee and cinnamon bark to complement the bourbon, oak, cacao, leather, toffee, and dark coffee notes, 13.5% Oskar Blues Brewery Double Dale’s: This year marks the 20th anniversary of

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Peaks and Pints joins Trappist Tuesday

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Peaks and Pints celebrates Merchant du Vin’s Trappist Tuesday campaign by offering a flight of Trappist beers every Tuesday. Peaks and Pints joins Trappist Tuesday If all this isn’t a hotly vivid, hallucinatory fever dream, and COVID continues to rage, and Peaks & Pints is compelled by the holy spirit to give up our craft beer lodge, our homes, our cars, and our cushy free beer samples gig for a life on religious contemplation, we will choose the Trappist life. Also known as the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, Trappists are Roman Catholics who

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Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Hamzola

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Peaks & Pints suggests pairing our Hamzola sandwich special with Level Beer’s Dunkels and Dragons. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Hamzola MONDAY, JAN. 17 2022: Peaks & Pints Chef Boyaarondee discovered Robby Peterson’s D&D notebook and deciphered the Dungeon Master Peterson’s favorite sandwich for the 1990s — “Hamzola.” Boyaarondee embarked on a sandwich journey that led to ham, gorgonzola, Havarti, bacon, “mayosturd,” onion, and tomato on rye. Many Slaads and Bulettes knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Hamzola during those days, we can tell you! PAIRING: Level Beer Dunkels

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Jan. 17-18 2022

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Jan. 17-18 2022 We are all unique individuals and together, we comprise a community. Our willingness to shine our brightest contributes to the world. When we are fulfilling our destinies, working toward our own greatest good, it lifts the vibration globally. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Dream” will be a focus today and tomorrow in Tacoma. Not all of us are crusaders like Dr. King, but we all have dreams. What’s yours? DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY: Celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with the Washington State History Museum with an all-day virtual program.

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Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: Bend Oregon

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Named for a sharp hook in the Deschutes River in Central Oregon’s high desert, Bend wasn’t on everyone’s radar; decades ago, it was a bump on the state highway between golf resorts Black Butte Ranch and Sunriver. Lumber ruled the roost until the two large timber mills closed in 1994. Now what? Boom! Bend underwent a housing boom — and an image boom — in the mid ’90s. Suddenly mountain biking wasn’t just for teenage boys, kayaks outnumbered suits and ties, and microbrews poured in Mount Bachelor’s ski lodges; Bend became a paradise for outdoor adventures and outdoor beer and

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Peaks and Pints Tap List: Holy Mountain Drinking The Cup of Judgment

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Peaks and Pints has tapped Holy Mountain Brewing’s Drinking The Cup of Judgment hoppy pilsner. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Holy Mountain Drinking The Cup of Judgment Peaks and Pints houses a mind-boggling array of suds: 850-plus bottled and canned in our cooler, with another 28 on tap for pint and Campfire Crowler fills. While craft beer remains our foundation, you don’t have to be embarrassed for ordering artisan craft cider, wine, cold brewed coffee and kombucha as those delights are on tap too at Peaks & Pints. To follow our tap list live from your

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Instagram Outsider: Stivo, Hop Tricks, Snowshoe Beer

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Instagram Outsider: Stivo, Hop Tricks, Snowshoe Beer From snowshoe beer to Hop Tricks, from taproom closures to how to make condensation, 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: Stivo, Hop Tricks, Snowshoe Beer.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Incline Cider House Tacoma (@inclineciderhouse)   View this post on Instagram   A

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Browns On The Fly

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According to The Oxford Companion to Beer, “the term ‘brown ale’ can easily be confusing, or at least not much more useful than the term “red wine.’” That confusion, however, is part of its allure, as the style leaves brewers plenty of room for interpretation. The brown ale has origins in 17th century England, where it was a name given to a dark-colored, mild ale. The American Brown is a style that home brewers have helped define over the past 30 years. The contemporary American Brown is flavorful, balanced, and medium bodied, with more overall character than its early English

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Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Chicken Pow!

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Peaks & Pints suggests pairing our spicy pulled chicken special with Block 15’s Fresh POW! IPA. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Chicken Pow! SATURDAY, JAN. 15 2022: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen invented our sandwich special while watching the SUPR Personal Training fitness class inside Peaks this morning. SUPR owner Daryl Marie went for the burn inspiring pulled chicken, Frank’s Hot Sauce, mayo, Havarti, red onion, and pickles on sourdough. PAIRING: Block 15 Brewing Fresh POW! The wintry IPA features a soft malt base beneath an avalanche of resinous, citrusy, and tropical hop varietals, which

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Pilsners On The Fly

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In the world history of beer, pilsners are relatively recent. Around 1840, eons before marketers invented “drinkability,” Czech brewers in Bohemia created pilsner, a light beer that didn’t taste like bath water. The primary source of the innovation was the use of bottom-fermenting yeasts, which yielded a livelier, more consistent beer than the traditional top-fermented brews. Today, the best pilsners are still found in continental Europe, partly because of demand and partly because it’s home to the style’s signature Saaz hop, Pilsen’s soft water and crackery, paler malt. German and Bavarian styles tend to emphasize bitterness and spicy hop flavor. But

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.14.22

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.14.22 Cozy up to Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.14.22. Take these bottles and cans to meet your house plants and creatures at home.🪴 Pop one of these open before enjoying one of the events in our 6-Pack of Things To Do this weekend, and thank you so much for supporting our small business! Block 15 Brewing The DAB Lab, Juice Joint: Dank and citrusy kettle additions are paired with a tropical and herbal dry-hop — a heady IPA combination that’s packed with resin- dipped pineapple skunk and freshly squeezed twisted

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Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Robby Pastrami

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Robby Pastrami whipped up an obvious sandwich special for National Pastrami Day. Pair it with Structures’ Who Goes There (Batch #2). Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Robby Pastrami FRIDAY, JAN. 14 2022: Peaks & Pints Kitchen Director Robby Peterson is known as “Robby Pastrami” by his kitchen colleagues. Pastrami is his life. Robby invented Peaks’ flagship sandwich Pesto Pastrami, and numerous pastrami specials at Peaks. Today, Robby dons a particular pastrami smile as it’s National Pastrami Day. He’s whipped up a pastrami special that keeps all the focus on his favorite meat: pastrami, Havarti, mustard,

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6-Pack of Things To Do: January 14-16 2022

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6-Pack of Things To Do: January 14-16 2022 The vast and impossible, beautiful and terrifying, liberating and wildly deity-drunk hallucination continues. 6-Pack of Things To Do: January 14-16 2022 offers a weekend of masked merriment. Cheers! BURPEES AND BREWS: Nothing builds community faster than a room full of people performing burpees and then laughing about it over beers afterward. Yes, indeed, exercise can be tough, and sometimes it takes a bit of extra effort to get off the couch and get moving. As it turns out, the best form of motivation often comes in the form of a beer at

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Reuben’s Brews On The Fly

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Englishman Adam Robbings’ beer recipes had much success at homebrew competitions, including winning the silver medal at the National Homebrewing Competition in 2012, and his talent, along with a Kickstarter campaign that raised close to $11,000, eventually earned him, and his wife Grace, their own brewery — Reuben’s Brews officially opened in Seattle’s Ballard district in August 2012, which they named after their son, Reuben. Since then, the team has accrued an astounding number of accolades, including more World Beer Cup medals than you have fingers and toes. Today, Peaks & Pints presents a to-go flight of Reuben’s beers —

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Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Finnish It

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The Ale Apothecary went old school creating Sahati and the Finnish-style saison pairs well with our chicken pesto sandwich special. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Finnish It THURSDAY, JAN. 13 2022: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen whipped up tasty chicken sandwich with pesto, provolone, white balsamic, tomato, and arugula on French. PAIRING: The Ale Apothecary Sahati The Ale Apothecary went old school creating this Finnish saison using a 200-year-old Engelmann spruce tree needles to filter the beer and impart resinous oils. The addition of barley and rye malt, and Goschie Farms Cascade hops, produces an

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Super Mario Bros. On The Fly

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Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto’s character Mario has appeared in more video games than any other. While he first appeared wielding a hammer as “Jumpman” against his nemesis Donkey Kong, it was the 1983 arcade game Mario Bros. that introduced his brother Luigi and cemented the pair as Italian American plumbers-slash-adventurers. But the mustachioed mascot’s defining moment came in 1985 with the release of Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo Home Entertainment System, which teleported the brothers to the Mushroom Kingdom to save Princess Peach from the mischievous Bowser, King of the Koopa. Today, Mario and Luigi make the jump to

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.12.22

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.12.22 Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.12.22 for your consideration. … E9 Brewing Dear God: Double dry hopped double IPA fermented initially with Motueka and Amarillo hops then dry hopped again with Belma and Nelson hops, 8% E9 So What: West Coast style IPA brewed with predominantly 2-row and a small amount of Carahell malt then Fermented and fined clear, which lets the classic Citra and Mosaic aromatics of citrus, peach, melon, and tropical fruits shine through from a massive double dry hop regimen, 6% Eel River Brewing Unkindness Chapter II: Raven’s Eye

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Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Barbecue With The Browns

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Robby Peterson’s Peaks & Pints crazy fancy sandwich pairs with pFriem’s Rye Whiskey Barrel Aged Imperial Brown. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Barbecue With The Browns WEDNESDAY, JAN. 12 2022: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen Director Robby Peterson donned a white lab coat when he created today’s sandwich special. He lathers pastrami with money mustard barbecue sauce, Havarti, and blue cheese then adds pepperoncini, red onion, and tomato on sourdough  PAIRING: pFriem Family Brewers Rye Whiskey Barrel Aged Imperial Brown Aged in rye whiskey barrels for a year, pFriem’s imperial brown Ale offers rich notes

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Jan. 12-13 2022

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Jan. 12-13 2022 This is the year. No, really. This is it. This is the year you resolve to let it all hang out and lick the fingertips of the divine and stop holding back and stop quivering with unchecked anticipation/dread as you realize that, if you care a whit for self-definition and spiritual nuance and double masking and deep karmic social distancing in this rain-hammered, Covid-ravaged world, then jump on 6-Pack of Things To Do: Jan. 12-13 2022 and resolve. Cheers! FROLIC FOR FISHERS: Drinking For Conservation — a sub-organization of the Point Defiance

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Cocoa Nibs On The Fly

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The cocoa bean or simply cocoa, which is also called the cacao bean or cacao, is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, from which cocoa solids and cocoa butter can be extracted. Chocolate is typically made from cacoa nibs, sugar, and cocoa butter, all of which must be (hopefully organically) processed before it becomes something you’d recognize and want to put into your mouth. Most cocoa beans originate in Peru, Belize, or Madagascar and then stored in a climate-controlled room where inferior beans are removed. The good ones are then slow roasted in a modified coffee roaster,

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.11.22

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.11.22 It’s Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.11.22! Which one of these beers are you grabbing first? AleSmith Brewery Porter: This rich, sultry brew showcases complex notes of biscuit, caramel, and chocolate with a velvety finish, 7.5% Hopworks Urban Brewery Stoner Fruit Apricot Sour: Sour with bright notes of apricot on the nose and a light, tart malt body that finishes fruity, 5.6% Pelican Brewing Superswell: Double pilsner with sweet, toasty biscuit flavors, spicy and herbal hop notes, with a snappy, refreshing finish, 7.4% pFriem Family Brewers Mosaic Single-Hop Pale: This

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Raspberries On The Fly

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These days, beers with adjuncts such as spices, chocolate, and fruit have become as common as billionaires burning rocket fuel to manage their insecurities. Gone are the times when a pie-inspired beer dropped jaws. And here, now, is a weird phase in the billion-armed evolution of craft beer, where ordering a stout made to taste like a candy bar or a fruited sour resembles a smoothie. We’re seeing an influx of sours brewed with fruit in many ways, from puree to infusion, with the goal re-creating a nostalgic flavor in beer form. Today, Peaks & Pints presents a to-go flight

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Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: French Dip Revival

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Peaks & Pints suggests pairing our French Dip special with Triceratops Revival Coffee Milk Stout, which benefits Revival Motors & Coffee Co. in Olympia. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: French Dip Revival MONDAY, JAN. 10 2022: Peaks & Pints Kitchen’s Capt. Caleb Cook dropped Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: French Dip Revival on a Monday! We’re talking roast beef, rosemary mayo, Havarti, and red onion on French with a side of au jus. PAIRING: Triceratops Brewing Revival Coffee Milk Stout Triceratops brewed their Revival Coffee Milk Stout with their friends at Olympia’s Revival Motors

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6-Pack of Things To Do: January 10-11 2022

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6-Pack of Things To Do: January 10-11 2022 If we all agree on one thing, it’s that human life is a slippery, ephemeral whim, a puff of sacred nonsense designed by gods drunk on irony and Spider-Man and quantum physics. All your normal reference points of local events are not merely ever in flux, but prone to being completely, ferociously upended, transformed, and blasted anew in a blip of a global cataclysmic OMGWTF. You crave some innate, inviolable calm amidst the chaos? There’s only one place to get it: Peaks & Pints 6-Pack of Things To Do: January 10-11 2022.

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