Tacoma Arts Live ignites the night: gospel-soaked LP And The Vinyl reimagine Beatles, Bowie, Stevie Wonder, and more — molten gospel, jazz, R&B, and rock all in one set at the Tacoma Armory. Tacoma Arts Month In the Cooler: Oct. 3 All October long, Peaks & Pints pairs Tacoma Arts Month happenings with beers from our 13-door cooler — because art deserves a pint after the applause, and beer tastes better when it carries a story from the stage, the gallery, or the street. LP And The Vinyl | Friday, Oct. 3 | Tacoma Armory Parade
Hop Selection in Yakima — Grit & Grain Ep. 161 dives deep into sticky cones & brewer camaraderie. Mashing-In News: Hop Selection Recap, Otherlands Breaks Rules GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Friday, Oct. 2, 2025 — Chubby Checker turns 84 today! Today’s craft beer news blends hop fields and fresh collabs with industry deep-dives—from Yakima’s sensory harvest rituals and Oregon–Japan beer dinners, to Bellingham lager experiments, Portland IPA debuts, Hood River fall fests, and big-picture reckonings on the state and sustainability of craft brewing. Grit & Grain Ep. 161: Inside Yakima’s Hop Selection Ritual In Episode
Tacoma doesn’t merely drink fresh hops — it baptizes them, remixes them, makes the season its own civic liturgy of chlorophyll and yeast. The brewers here don’t whisper about Yakima’s bounty; they drag it across bridges, hurl it into fermenters, weave it into saisons, pale ales, and haze bombs until the whole city thrums like vines still dripping dew. This isn’t some postcard of hop country — it’s Tacoma in real time, stitched from backyard trellises, Narrows breezes, and tanks buzzing with green voltage. Peaks & Pints gathered the clan under one flight board: five Tacoma breweries, five visions of
Vice Beer doesn’t just make beer — they stage-dive it. Born in Vancouver with one foot in Nintendo cartridges and the other in resin-slick hop cones, Vice has been rewriting the Pacific Northwest playbook in neon marker. Today they take the mic for the Grit & Grain Podcast at 4:30 p.m. in our Events Room, then roll straight into a four-beer tap takeover that’s less “taplist” and more “hop mixtape.” Expansion tales, harvest chaos, retro swagger — all will pour into our Wednesday beer flight. These are not polite beers. They’re the kind that blow dust out of the arcade
After you’ve participated in Tacoma Arts Month events today, make your way to Peaks & Pints. We have Vice Beer’s We Are All Made of Stars in our cooler. Dressing the Gilded Age | Washington State History Museum | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tacoma Arts Month returns again, rich with art, words, movement, and music. I’ve been writing about this month since its ragged inception — when a few dreamers convinced the city to make space for art to spill out of studios and into October’s damp air. Back then, I was at the helm of the
End of an era: Portland’s Upright Brewing to close after 16 years of farmhouse ales, lagers & cask beer. Mashing-In News: Oktoberfest Security Scare, Several Closures GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025 — Julie Andrews turns 90 today! From Munich’s Oktoberfest security scare to Portland’s Upright Brewing closure, new ownership in Vancouver, scholarships fueling fresh voices, and cider and beer celebrations across North America, today’s craft beer news spans endings, new beginnings, and the ties that keep brewing culture alive. Oktoberfest Grounds Closed After Bomb Threat in Munich Munich police temporarily closed the
And just like that, the steins clink hollow, the brass fades, the caramel malts retreat to memory. Peaks & Pints Fresh Hoptoberfest: The Ninth Pour has run its 30-day delirium — fresh hops glowing neon beside toffee-laced Oktoberfests, harvest colliding with history in one long month of froth. Today, we close the curtain on the Märzens and Festbiers, those malty anchors between summer’s exhale and winter’s dark inhale. But don’t mistake this for the end of fresh hop season — those lupulin bombs will keep thrumming through our IPA lines for weeks yet, proof the fields aren’t done singing. So
Outer Planet Brewing saved! Capitol Hill taproom reopens in October. Mashing-In News: Outer Planet Back In, Streaming GABF GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025 — Barry Williams turns 71 today! Today’s craft beer news is packed with fresh beginnings and fleeting pours—Seattle’s Outer Planet finds a savior, Zupan’s freezes hops in time, Chuckanut shines local malt, Krispy King crowns lagers ahead of GABF, and Lagunitas’ Born Yesterday returns to bend space-hop physics once again. Outer Planet Brewing Finds New Owner After Farewell Party After announcing its closure and holding a farewell party on
September = fresh hop thunder, six pours deep Peaks & Pints New Fresh Hops Six-Pack: Sept. 29, 2025 Today’s Peaks & Pints New Fresh Hops Six-Pack is a lupulin parade of field fire and harvest voltage—Centennial fields igniting, Mosaic coups erupting, Chinook clouds sparking tropical light, and Citra squalls crashing in—six electrified proofs that fresh hop season doesn’t whisper, it sings in green neon. 7 SEAS BREWING YAKIMA VALLEY FRESH HOP IPA: Loza Farms Centennial and Nugget flood the glass—grapefruit zest, floral flare, and citrus heat coursing like Yakima fields plugged straight into your bloodstream, 6.2%,
6-Pack of Things To Do In Tacoma: Sept. 29-Oct. 5 2025 Because this week Tacoma doesn’t just schedule itself—it combusts into a fevered pageant of laundry-born cider gospels, last-call hoplit Oktoberfests, podcast pulpits dripping with fresh-hop gospel, Swiftian showgirl liturgies flickering ten feet high, Beatles and Bowie resurrected in jazz-soaked thunder, and a library bursting open as the official portal into a month-long kaleidoscope of art, story, and spectacle. Peaks & Pints Monday Incline Cider Flight: From Laundry to Legend | Monday, Sept. 30 Incline Cider Company didn’t start in some bucolic Northwest orchard — it started in an Arizona
Incline Cider Company began, improbably, in an Arizona laundry room, where Jordan Zehner and Lesley Shields fermented experiments in fruit, yeast, and wayward hops next to the spin cycle. What started as ambient-temperature fermentations and garage kegerators turned into backyard brainstorms with Jordan’s father, Chris — a wine-industry veteran who recognized that what they were brewing was already better than anything in the grocery cooler. By 2015, the Zehners, bolstered by Teresa, Jodran’s mother, and Lesley’s design and people-savvy, launched Incline as a family-driven leap into the still-nascent craft cider world. Armed with orchards, hops, and decades of distributor know-how,
Yellow Aster Butte at Mount Baker Wilderness in Washington / photo by Jeffhollett Washington Trails & Taps Weekly Recap: September 22–28, 2025 Late September delivered crisp mornings, fiery foliage, and smoky skies that opened and closed like theater curtains. From Baker’s high basins to Rainier’s ridges, hikers chased color, dodged haze, and shared trails with bears fattening for winter. 🌿 WTA Trip Report Highlights Yellow Aster Butte (9/28) — Peak fall color, berries still ripe, windy summit. Trailhead is busy but manageable. Pinnacle Saddle & Plummer Peak, MRNP (9/28) — Short, steep, massive Tatoosh payoffs; autumn
Portland’s oldest cider house, Cider Bite, closes Oct. 19. Mashing-In News: 3 Fonteinen Tasting, Energy Cone 2025 GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Monday, Sept. 29, 2025 — Bryant Gumbel turns 77 today! Today’s craft beer news spans continents and styles—from Seattle pouring legendary lambic and Yakima’s hop-fueled rites, to Portland losing a cider mainstay, Asia rewriting beer with tea and durian, and California, Sierra Nevada, and Lithuania all reminding us just how wide the brewing world truly is. 3 Fonteinen Comes to Seattle: Fair Isle Hosts Exclusive Tasting Fair Isle Brewing in Seattle will host a
Trap Door Brewing has always been less a static brewery and more a restless experiment in constant reinvention. Yes, Zane Singleton laid the foundation — UC Davis fermentation scientist, Sacramento native, a hop-mad chemist who set the house voice in crisp lagers, resin-sharp West Coast IPAs, and haze bombs that snagged medals. But the torch didn’t stop there. In 2019, Michael Parsons moved from taproom leadership into ownership, and by 2020, he was publicly recognized alongside founder Bryan Shull as co-owner, shaping the brewery’s next chapters from the business side while guiding its Main Street heart. That same year, Kyle
The Single Hill 2025 Energy Cone collab crew loses their minds over CLS Farms Zappa hops. Single Hill Hillstory: Energy Cone 2025 Single Hill Brewing’s cofounder and “Director of Liquids,” Zach Turner, suggests Brandon Wiley, Bottleworks’ manager, should grab a breakfast burrito for Dwayne Smallwood of Bridge & Tunnel. Every harvest has its own scripture, and in Yakima, scripture is written in resin, sweat, and steam. Single Hill Brewing’s Energy Cone is no ordinary IPA — it’s a once-a-year hymn to the hop gods, first dreamed up in 2020 with Bottleworks and
Every harvest writes its own delirious scripture, and Single Hill Brewing keeps revising the gospel in resin, steam, and sweat. This year’s Energy Cone — first dreamed up in 2020 with Bottleworks and Full Throttle Bottles and now brewed with five bottleshops in full Devo-hat glory — is the centerpiece of a flight that spans their wide orbit: Skyfinder, a Strata-and-Simcoe rocket ride through citrus nebulae; Flight Cancelled, a malt-kissed Czech amber that makes missing your gate feel divine; Last Light, a black-cloaked fresh hop IPA glowing like embered grapefruit under Yakima stars; and Quiet Legend Pale, a bright, balanced
Portland’s Breakside Brewery has never been content with mere excellence; since its 2010 birth in a humble Northeast Portland brewpub under the restless vision of founder Scott Lawrence — and later joined by brewmaster Ben Edmunds, whose hop-saturated brain has become legend — it’s grown into one of the Northwest’s loudest, brightest beer houses, now spilling gold from three breweries, five taprooms, and a trophy cabinet sagging with medals from GABF to World Beer Cup. Breakside is the brewery that made IPA into something operatic, that turned West Coast bitterness into a symphony, that proved unhinged creativity could still march
Grit & Grain tastes 15 pumpkin beers, spice & oddballs included. Mashing-In News: Pumpkin Beers, Vice Beer Turns Three GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Friday, Sept. 26, 2025 — Linda Hamilton turns 69 today! Today’s craft beer news pours out a seasonal feast—pumpkin ales on trial, fresh hops in bloom, anniversaries raging, gothic cider rising, and even Simcoe and Sierra Nevada pausing to reflect on their legacies. Grit & Grain Samples 15 Pumpkin Beers in Episode 160 In Episode 160 of the Grit & Grain Podcast, the hosts taste through 15 pumpkin beers—praising classics, questioning oddballs,
Autumn doesn’t politely arrive; it comes stomping in with gourds under both arms, spices flying, fields glowing, and breweries all but possessed by nutmeg spirits. Pumpkin beers are America’s oddball genius — equal parts pie, pint, and pagan harvest hymn. They can be sweet, spiced, silky, boozy, restrained, or absurdly decadent — but they all whisper the same thing: it’s October now, you fools, drink accordingly. And today the gospel gets louder: the Grit & Grain Podcast records Episode 160 live at Peaks & Pints at 3:30 p.m., tracing the history of pumpkin beers from colonial brews to modern pie-in-a-glass
Grit & Grain goes live at 3:30 p.m. in Peaks & Pints to put pumpkin beers on trial. Mashing-In News: Pumpkin Beer Podcast, Early Harvest Fresh Hop Winners GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025 — Kevin Sorbo turns 67 today! Today’s craft beer news balances nostalgia, innovation, and big moves: Grit & Grain goes live at Peaks & Pints to put pumpkin beer on trial, fresh hop winners are crowned in Bend, and the Brewers Association takes a hard look at how to reach Gen Z. Plus, Liz Garibay shares how
September pours itself straight into your glass — six fresh harvest spells, tart berry symphonies, and even a cider-donut carnival. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack: Sept. 23, 2025 Today’s Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack is a riotous harvest opera in six delirious movements—wet hops hurled from the bine, berries spun into tart symphonies, lagers wired with green electricity, and cider-donut spice carnivals—all proof that September doesn’t just change the light, it pours the season straight into your glass. FUTURE PRIMITIVE CENTENNIALS FOR MILLENNIALS: Crosby’s wet-hopped Centennial blazes with citrus zest and floral bite, a
Skagit Farm to Pint Fest returns Sept. 27 with 15 beer + food pairings. Mashing-In News: Skagit Farm to Pint Fest, Giant Volatile Substance GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025 — Bruce Springsteen turns 76 today! From Skagit Valley’s farm-to-pint bounty to a 20,000-gallon IPA can in Portland, today’s craft beer news spans festivals, collaborations, and bold experiments. Chuckanut teams up with Austin’s ABGB on a Czech dark lager, Von Ebert goes larger-than-life with Volatile Substance, and hop science dives deeper into oils and thiols. Meanwhile, stories of heritage (such as Saaz hops
Melted Mondays are here! Melted Mondays Launch at Peaks & Pints Because Mondays were never meant for clean eating or tidy resolutions — they were made for surrendering to the holy trinity of bread, cheese, and heat, dripping like a benediction into your week. Melted Mondays is not just a sandwich special, it’s a ritual: one hot, gooey creation each week, paired with a beer that knows how to listen and a soup that knows how to sing. It’s excess disguised as therapy, comfort disguised as art, molten cheese disguised as salvation — all waiting to
Tieton Cider Works is less a newcomer and more a long-whispered family saga given fruit and fizz. Their land — Harmony Orchards — has been growing apples in Tieton, Washington, since the 1920s, and in 2008, Craig Campbell (third-gen orchard keeper, WSU horticulture alum) decided to test what cider apples and perry pears could do beyond dessert fruit. What started as a modest block of trial trees expanded over decades into the largest acreage of specialty cider apples and pears in Washington. Now, pressing, blending, fermenting, and packaging all happen just north of downtown Yakima, in a facility that feels like
Freddy twirls, Jason pirouettes, Chucky struts—Tacoma Arts Live’s “Cadaveret” turns horror icons into campy cabaret in the Tacoma Armory Roosevelt Room Thursday. 6-Pack of Things To Do In Tacoma: Sept. 22–28, 2025 Because sometimes Tacoma doesn’t just stack a week of events, it unleashes a riotous buffet of hop-soaked rituals, gourd séances, sequined slashers, indie-sleaze sweat storms, haunted cantina fundraisers, and even a free forest run that makes your lungs taste like incense — all colliding in one glorious stretch where the city feels like it’s vibrating too hard to stay inside its own skin. Fresh
Washington Trails & Taps Weekly Recap: September 15–21, 2025 Autumn settles in: berries fading, foliage popping, and smoky horizons reminding us that fire season still lingers. Trails saw everything from alpine lake loops to long, talus-heavy traverses. Here’s the latest from boots on the ground. 🌿 WTA Trip Report Highlights Tank Lakes, Big Snow, Gold & Chetwoot — Sept. 21 Multi-night Necklace Valley odyssey: talus fields, smoky summits, fish in alpine lakes, and mining relics near Williams. Wild, rugged, and a 9/10 difficulty according to “No Trip Report Tim.” Mount Roosevelt, Snow & Gem Lakes, Wright Mountain — Sept. 21
Michael James Jackson Foundation brings BIPOC awardees to Yakima for hop harvest + hands-on learning. Photo courtesy of Instagram Mashing-In News: Boundary Bay Bids Farewell, Michael James Jackson Foundation in Yakima GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Monday, Sept. 22, 2025 — Joan Jett turns 67 today! Today’s craft beer news blends farewells, foundations, and fresh ideas—Bellingham packs Boundary Bay’s final block party, Heater Allen shares lager wisdom, MJF scholars join Yakima hop harvest, Britain embraces its own Oktoberfest, and breweries turn to KPIs to sharpen efficiency. Boundary Bay Bids Farewell with Packed Block Party in Bellingham
There’s a reason the 21st of September refuses to fade from memory. Earth, Wind & Fire etched it into the permanent soundtrack of joy — “ba-de-ya, dancing in September,” brass horns blazing like eternal harvest trumpets, love itself changing the minds of pretenders while chasing the clouds away. It’s not just a song anymore, it’s a ritual, a secular hymn so beloved it birthed its own celebration: A Grammy® Salute to Earth, Wind & Fire: The 21st Night of September, a star-studded reminder that one night on the calendar can vibrate forever in our collective bloodstream. September 21 is disco
Peaks & Pints Fresh Hop Six-Pack — harvest hallucinations in six green spells. … Peaks & Pints New Fresh Hops Six-Pack Sept. 19, 2025 Today’s Peaks & Pints Six-Pack is a hop-harvest séance—fields picked at dawn, cones hurled straight into kettles, and pints glowing with citrus, pine, and tropical static, six lupulin spells brewed to taste like September itself still breathing green CLOUDBURST BREWING CONSTANT LUPULIN SATISFACTION: The Seattle brewery collaborated with CLS Farms to pour pine-sharp Chinook, blood-orange Cascade, and rosy Meyer-lemon Vista into one IPA sermon of hop terroir and lupulin lust, 6.5%, 16oz.
Munich wakes today in full roar, the Theresienwiese once again detonating into a carnival of dirndls, brass bands, and rivers of foamy gold—Oktoberfest, the original cathedral of beer. For two delirious weeks, the “Big Six” breweries will pour oceans of festbier into mugs the size of flowerpots while half the world pretends it knows the words to “Ein Prosit.” It’s history as ritual, ritual as excess: beer that isn’t just consumed, it’s weaponized joy, an annual Bavarian thunderclap you can practically hear from here. And because Peaks & Pints refuses to let Munich have all the fun, we’re throwing our
Roy Farms hop and UC Davis ferment guru Shanleigh Thomson lit up the fest—streaming Insta Live for a cider-soaked reel of guidance and grins. Cider Summit Seattle 2025 Recap It felt like a cider comet had returned to its proper orbit: the 2025 Cider Summit Seattle dropped back into its original South Lake Union Discovery Center Lawn home, the corner of Westlake and Denny humming with 40 producers and roughly 150 expressions of apple sorcery, mead mischief, fruit spirits, and cocktails that made you question the very notion of “juice.” Saturday, Sept. 13, arrived painted in
Out in Yakima, tractors are dragging mountains of cones off the bine, the kilns are roaring, and the valley air smells like resin, grass clippings, and citrus oil all at once. Down in Oregon’s Willamette, the fields are buzzing with the same manic harvest energy, farm crews moving fast before the cones wilt, brewers idling on the edges of fields like kids waiting for a parade to start. This is the moment—the weeks when hops are alive, pulsing with oils and sunlight, barely hours from bine to brewhouse. And so, Peaks & Pints answers in kind: five fresh hop pours
OSU debuts the “Longest Bar in College Football.” Mashing-In News: European Beer Star Awards, 190th Oktoberfest New Rules GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Friday, Sept. 19, 2025 — Jeremy Irons turns 77 today! Today’s craft beer news runs the gamut—from Pacific Northwest medal wins in Munich to Seattle pub milestones, fiery snack-beer collabs, and fresh Oktoberfest rules abroad—plus hops under climate stress, legal battles over distribution, mindful tasting lessons, and even Oregon State’s bid for the “Longest Bar in College Football.” PNW Breweries Shine at 2025 European Beer Star Awards Leavenworth’s Icicle Brewing earned a silver
Today’s Peaks & Pints Six-Pack = fresh hop delirium in full bloom. Peaks & Pints New Fresh Hops Six-Pack: Sept. 18, 2025 Today’s New Beer Six-Pack is a green-gold delirium of the season—fields picked at dawn, cones still sticky with resin, lightning-bright citrus and fruit tearing through malt backbones, six lupulin storms brewed so fresh you can almost hear the vines still humming. FERMENT BREWING FRESH HOP CENTENNIAL IPA: Bursts alive with harvest-bright Centennial—floral blaze, lemon oil, and pine crackle sparking like freshly cut fields wired straight into your pint, 6%, 16oz. FORTSIDE BREWING FRESH CUT:
Sometimes a performance politely stays in its lane; Tacoma Arts Live’s Lemon Sessions: Migrations, Forced & Chosen detonates the lanes entirely. On Thursday and Friday, Sept. 18 and 19, 7:30 p.m. at the Tacoma Armory Parade Floor, fiddles braid into Cuban trios, Andean heartbeat meets Persian verse, Filipino lullabies cross the ocean on a tide of projected color while Tacoma poet Claudia Castro-Luna stitches sky-high lines across the parade floor. Produced by Tacoma Arts Live and hosted by Silong Chhun, painted alive by Deepti Agrawal, Fulgencio Lazo, and Saiyare Refaei, it’s less concert than kaleidoscope, less lecture than living archive—a
Cheers to the Land returns with 18 Oregon beers & ciders for farmland protection. Mashing-In News: Cheers to the Land, Lupulin Exchange GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025 — Jada Pickett Smith turns 54 today! Today’s craft beer news spans farmland to fresh hops, with Oregon brewers uniting for Cheers to the Land, Portland hosting back-to-back fests, and Alesong debuting a new Festbier. On the business side, the Lupulin Exchange expands to Europe with Yakima Chief, the Fed’s rate cut offers breweries modest relief, and Beer30 launches Craft University for free brewer education.
Citrus sunshine wrapped in buttery layers, now flirting shamelessly with Samuel Smith’s Organic Chocolate Stout — orange crackle meets cocoa velvet, pastry meets midnight. Peaks & Pints Introduces Orange Phyllo Cake Peaks & Pints’ kitchen has a new obsession: layer upon layer of whisper-thin phyllo, brushed with butter like edible silk, tucked around a golden burst of orange zest and nutty sweetness. It’s a dessert that flakes and sighs in equal measure, citrus-bright and feather-light, like the Mediterranean sun captured in pastry form. One forkful crunches, another melts, and suddenly you’re grinning like someone just slipped
Red. Amber. Call it chromatic chaos in a taster glass. Historians will tell you “amber” was a West Coast invention to bridge the gap between pale and brown, while “red” hails from Irish hearths and roasted malt. American brewers tossed in caramelized grain, citrus hops, and a shrug, and suddenly there was no difference at all. At the Great American Beer Festival they even share a single catchall category, like distant cousins crammed onto the same barstool. What’s left is a spectrum of glowing ales that refuse to sit neatly in any box—reds pretending to be ambers, ambers moonlighting as
Farewell pints: Boundary Bay closes after 30 years with a final street fest in Bellingham. Mashing-In News: Boundary Bay Farewell, AHA 2025 Strategic Plan GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025 — Doug E. Fresh turns 59 today! From heartfelt farewells in Bellingham to Bavarian block parties in Portland, from fresh hop fests to boundary-pushing beers abroad, today’s craft beer news pours a full spectrum of stories—celebrations, closures, and the flavors that keep pushing the culture forward. Boundary Bay Brewery Closes with 30th Anniversary Farewell Bash After 30 years as a beloved Bellingham institution,
Six cans and bottles, six spells, one delirious season in your glass. Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack Sept. 16, 2025 Today’s Seasonal New Beer Six-Pack doesn’t just toast autumn—it howls it into being: pumpkin spice cannonballs into citrus haze, festbier steins clashing like golden thunder, fresh hops crackling green lightning, and malty hymns rising like smoke from a harvest bonfire—six delirious spells bottled for the turning of the year. 21ST AMENDMENT BREWERY PUMPKIN HAZE IPA: They swirl pumpkin purée and spice through a Citra-soaked haze—mandarin, stone fruit, and nutmeg colliding like pumpkin pie cannonballed into a
Sometimes a flight isn’t just beer, it’s séance and symphony, oak and chaos, tart lightning trapped in glass. Today at Peaks & Pints, we’re dragging the barrel-aged sours into the light where they belong, where microbes, wood staves, and time itself have done their slow, feral alchemy. These aren’t your easy Sunday lagers. These are living, breathing creatures: fermented by wind and wild yeast, bent through barrels that once held wine, rum, tequila, brandy. They taste like fruit struck by cathedral bells, like barnyards reborn as champagne, like sunlight refracted through old oak and forgotten prayers. This Tuesday flight is
Weihenstephaner brings Bavarian vibes to Portland’s Oktoberfest (Sept 19–Oct 10). Mashing-In News: Turning 40, Freshies & Friends GOOD MORNING, SOUTH PUGET SOUND! Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025 — Amy Poehler turns 54 today! From Bavarian beer gardens in Portland to fresh hops in Marysville, milestone anniversaries for Bell’s and the BJCP, new leadership in barley, awards season at Brewbound, and even a spicy Thai somtum ale—today’s craft beer news is a global mix of tradition, innovation, and celebration. Weihenstephaner Brings Bavarian Flavor to Portland Oktoberfest Downtown Portland’s Hotel Zags and PLS on Sixth are transforming their patio
Oregon has a way of making cider that feels less like a beverage and more like a collective love letter to land, fruit, and stubborn creativity. From Hood River to Bend, Willamette Valley to Portland, every cidermaker in this flight cut their teeth in the same state but plays a different chord — Double Mountain chasing rosé elegance with pink-fleshed apples, Portland Cider racking up medals by turning the spice rack into an incantation, 2 Towns rewriting the berry gospel with marionberries, Bauman’s elevating brunch into liquid peach poetry, and Tumalo catching high-desert light in a farmhouse bottle. The through-line
6-Pack of Things To Do In Tacoma Sept. 15-21, 2025 Because Tacoma this week doesn’t merely offer things to do—it bends spacetime into a delirious carnival of them: pianos turned séance machines, pumpkin pints debated in real time like gourds on trial, ancestral migrations re-mapped in light and sound, Italian demons chewing through cinema seats, banjos vibrating highways into memory, and blues transfigured into prayer. It’s spectacle and sermon, ritual and riot, art and ale all colliding in a single week—Tacoma’s cultural bloodstream surging so hot and strange you’ll wonder how the city can possibly hold it all without bursting
