Peaks and Pints Tap List includes Alesong Brewing & Blending Mocha Rhino Suit. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Alesong Mocha Rhino Suit 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 phone, click here for iPhone
The hefeweizen has been around a long time. Some beer historians say it was brewed as far back as the 11th century. In German, hefeweizen (pronounced HEH-feh-vite-zen) means yeast wheat, so called because the beer is traditionally unfiltered, leaving the tiny particles of yeast sediment to turn the golden beer cloudy and turbid. It may be this suggestion of solidity that leads Germans to occasionally refer to hefeweizen as bottled bread. The beer style can have a variety of flavors including clove, vanilla, apple, banana, even bubblegum. They have low amounts of hoppiness. Hefeweizens are made with more than 50
Instagram Outsider: Beer Run Day, Fresh Flow Contest, Aslan Water Ballet From National Independent Beer Run Day to the Fourth of July, from brewhouse unicorn pools to brewery water ballet, 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 Run Day, Fresh Flow Contest, Aslan Water Ballet. View this post on Instagram A post shared by
Variety is the spice of life. Variety is also a defining characteristic in hard cider. Like wine grapes, cider apples have the tannin, acid, sugar and aromatic precursors necessary to make a complex fermented beverage. Unlike wine grapes, these characteristics are rarely all contained within one variety. Therefore, most ciders are blends. Cider makers often blend inedible bitter-sharp and bittersweet apple varieties with crossover apples to create their signature house styles. Others are experimenting with single varietals, using just one type of apple to create ciders with a distinct flavor profile. Peaks & Pints enjoys ciders made with cider specific
One of the most crucial activities on the day before Independence Day is the “beer run.” That’s when people make last-minute beer runs to stock up for Fourth of July celebrations. In fact, the week leading up to today is among the largest sales weeks for craft beer each year. “For small and independent breweries, the Fourth of July period is like Black Friday,” says Bart Watson, chief economist for the Brewers Association, in a news release. “It’s easily one of the biggest beer holidays for to-go sales, and is a huge driver of on-premise sales as well.” It’s only
You’ve heard of gose. It’s German, a sour beer. Pronounced “go-zuh,” like the thing that wrecked New York in Ghostbusters. Reported to be between 200 and 1,000 years old, it’s sour and salty, a low-ABV session beer, which means it won’t get you sauced. The gose style is a wheat beer that balances a sour twang from lactic acid-producing bacteria, a distinct salinity and a subtle floral spice from added coriander. It’s made with a souring process using a natural bacteria like what you’d find in yogurt. This provides a natural acidity; a really nice tartness that helps balance. It has a
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 7.1.21 Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 7.1.21! Oh happy days! Baerlic Brewing My Other IPA Is An IPA: This clear, crisp West Coast IPA is brewed with El Dorado and Idaho 7 hops for notes of grapefruit and rind with a soft bitterness, 6.2% E9 Brewing Detour Ahead: Single hopped lager brewed and dry hopped with Palisades hops for flavors of nectar fruits and citrus, 5.2% E9 Vertigo: The hazy IPA is back, still massively dry hopped with Sabro and Nelson Sauvin hops for huge tropical fruit and coconut flavors, 6.9%
Much like Tacoma, people pushed out by stratospheric home prices in Seattle neighborhoods have snapped up houses in White Center, pushing up rents and making new mortgages harder to afford. Twenty years ago, people might not have considered the unincorporated King County neighborhood on the southwest edge of Seattle. But some 18,000 people who call White Center home did — either living through the neighborhood’s “Rat City” days, or recently moved there after the rough edges of White Center’s commercial core have been recently smoothed out by new businesses in the area’s historic business district. Today, the area’s hard drinking
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 6.29.21 Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 6.29.21 has some great new brews to keep you cool through the week (maybe not so much the North Coast Bourbon Barrel-Aged Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout XXXIII). Cheers! Breakside Brewery Portland’s IPA: Double dry hopped blend of Wanderlust and Breakside IPAs for hoppy notes of pine, grapefruit, and pineapple, 6.8% E9 Brewing Detour Ahead: Single hop lager brewed and dry hopped with Palisade hops for a floral, herbaceous and grassy nose, follow by nectar fruits and citrus flavors, 5.2% E9 Vertigo: Hazy IPA massively
It will be 61 degrees and raining in Sydney, Australia, today. Sounds quite lovely. Let’s pretend we’re Down Under today in the only way possible — drinking beers made with Southern Hemisphere hop varieties. American craft breweries began seriously researching these hops in 2016 as many hops varieties grown in the United States are becoming more expensive and more difficult to get as the craft-brewing industry expands and more consumers embrace craft beer. The Southern Hemisphere brings wild, tropical and overwhelming bright, fruity characteristics from such hops as Nelson Sauvin, Galaxy, Ella, Vic Secret, Enigma, Motueka, Moutere, Wai-iti, Nectaron, Rakau,
In 2008, Craig Campbell and his wife, Sharon, began experimenting with making cider from dessert apples grown in their 400-acre commercial fruit orchards. Today, they blend American heritage, English, and French cider varietals with dessert apples to capture the best of what each variety brings to the bottle: sweetness, acidity, tannin and aroma. They call their cidery, Tieton Cider Works. We call today’s to-go cider flight, Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: Tieton. Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: Tieton Tieton Hazy Strawberry 6.9% ABV Unfiltered, cloudy-looking ciders are much like the hazy-style IPAs that have been taking the beverage
Instagram Outsider: Cowgirls, Dogboys, Beer On Fire From hammock beer to fishing beer, from cowgirls to dogboys, 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: Cowgirls, Dogboys, Beer On Fire. Montucky Cold Snack cowgirl photo by @emogoatmom View this post on Instagram A post shared by Cider of Destiny (@ciderofdestiny) View this post on Instagram
In 2010, Daniel Love opened Mother Earth Brewing Co. in Vista, California, just north of San Diego. After an expansion in Vista, he then set his sights on a larger expansion that saw the opening of its second location, one a fair distance away from San Diego County to Nampa, Idaho, a suburb of Boise. Quickly, it became Idaho’s largest brewery. In fact, Mother Earth has enjoyed double digit growth every year since it opened. For the past few years, Mother Earth’s best-selling beer in San Diego has been its Cali Creamin’ Madagascar vanilla cream ale, and it’s Valencia orange
Peaks and Pints Tap List includes Bale Breaker Moxee Made IPA. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Bale Breaker Moxee Made IPA 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 phone, click here for iPhone and
If you’re seeking a beer to take the edge off our scorching hot condition, consider the saison. After all, saison (SAY-zohn) is the French word for season — specifically the summer season. The beer style, also known as farmhouse ales, dominated the summer farmlands of the French-speaking Wallonia region of southern Belgium in the 18th century. The refreshing, lower in alcohol ale provided refreshment to thirsty farm workers on hot days, thus the farmhouse connection. Because the style emerged as a seasonal beer, often brewed in the winter and made without temperature controls, the original characteristics of the style were
Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 6.25.21 The sun is shining, and Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 6.25.21 has cold beer to help you beat the heat! Stop by our air-conditioned bottle shop and stock up for the weekend. Cheers! Bale Breaker Brewing Moxee Made IPA: Named after the town where Bale Breaker’s 30-barrel brewhouse stands, Moxee Made IPA is a crisp, clear homegrown IPA that showcases four generations of hop farming, two seasons of barley farming, and a whole lot of flavor with hoppy aromas of grapefruit, pineapple, and peach, 6.2% Fort George Brewery Sunrise Oatmeal
Simmer down now, people. It’s summer, and Mother Nature lets us know it in no uncertain terms. Today is expected to be the first of many extremely hot days felt across the northwestern United States. An anomalous upper-level ridge is forecast to slowly meander over the region through this weekend. Coinciding with the longest days of the year and widespread severe drought conditions, high temperatures are forecast to soar well into record-breaking territory. The usual warnings apply: If you’re old, frail, in bad health, have translucent skin, or just plain out of shape, take it easy — and drink cold,
Remember when you knew how to relax? It was probably before you had an iPhone, before you had kids, before you had a job that demanded 70 hours a week — plus weekends. Relaxation, we’re afraid, is a dying art. That’s why we offer a five craft beer to-go flight of tropical IPA chill today. So, pawn the kids off on Grandma, put your phone down, and get ready to swallow one seriously giant chill pill. Step one: Deep breath, South Sound. Step two: Grab the Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Tropical IPAs On The Fly. Step three: position a fan
6-Pack of Things To Do: Wednesday June 23 2021 While we wait for the giant iceberg four times the size of Manhattan to breaking off and float into Commencement Bay so we cool off on its surface, here is 6-Pack of Things To Do: Wednesday June 23 2021. Cheers! ROLLER SKATING: Racing around in circles really fast is fun. Whether on wheels or blades, skating is a cheap and accessible great time. People have laughs by racing, doing tricks or pushing each other down. Handholding couples can go for a spin to show the world just how cute they are.
Terpenes are naturally occurring hydrocarbon chains found in all organisms. These hydrocarbons are made up of building blocks of five carbon chains known as isoprenes (isoterpenes, C5H8). Terpenes are important in brewing for their role in hops, specifically, but not isolated to, its presence in hop essential oils. Throughout the brewing process many of the natural terpenes that come from the grain, hops, and spices are lost. Terpenes are sensitive compounds and when exposed to high temperatures (such as those that occur when boiling wort) the more volatile ones such as myrcene and beta-caryophyllene are damaged and lost. The loss
6-Pack of Things To Do: Tuesday June 22 2021 Peaks & Pints is not entirely certain this actually is happening. We have a sneaking sense it was all a hotly vivid, hallucinatory fever dream, a desperate concoction wrought by 90-degree temperatures and fervid hoping and a bit too much barleywine — despite the fact this 6-Pack of Things To Do: Tuesday June 22 2021 is right here, with local events and a beer flight (natch). We never thought it would be back this week, or maybe ever again, for various unimportant reasons. What a miracle. Deep pranams to all who
Formed in 2003, the Hop Breeding Company, or HBC, is a joint venture between John I. Haas and Yakima Chief Ranches. It’s a match made in hop heaven as they have released HBC 394 (Citra), HBC 369 (Mosaic), HBC 366 (Ekuanot), and the focus of our beer flight today, HBC 438 (Sabro). Released in 2018, Sabro is an aroma hop that is notable for its complexity of fruity and citrus flavors. It imparts distinct tangerine, coconut, tropical fruit, and stone fruit aromas, with hints of cedar, mint, and cream. Sabro’s pedigree is the result of a unique cross pollination of
Summertime. For some, that means time to slow down, fire up the grill, stroll through free street fairs, maybe make out in the back of a car at the drive-in. Not Peaks & Pints. Summer is an adventure. This year we’re playing hard and going large — from Snowboarding on Mount Hood, to paddling the Wentachee River, from conquering the rugged Washington coast, to unwinding in a tree house. And we’re bring hard cider with us. In fact, since it’s Monday and we feature a to-go cider on this day of the week, our flight today encompasses the cider we’re
Instagram Outsider: Sig Is On A Boat, pFriem pFalls, Father’s Day Beers From boat beers to Multiplayer Guild Collabs, from pFriem pFalls to Father’s Day, 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 for your chance to be featured on Peaks and Pints Instagram Outsider. Until we meet back here again next week, enjoy Instagram Outsider: Sig Is On A Boat, pFriem pFalls, Father’s Day Beers View this post on Instagram A post shared by Cider of Destiny (@ciderofdestiny) View
In 1982, you were 19 years old. A lot happened that year. Aspartame’s claim to fame, Diet Coke was introduced, Michael Jackson Thrilled you, and you graduated Foss High School and entered Washington State University. You donned a pledge pin and dove into an architecture degree. A Californian fraternity brother handed you a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale bottle in 1983. That beer launched your love affair with craft beer. The thought of being a father wasn’t a thing. The thought of discovering more craft beer was a thing. Today, you’re a father with your spouse and offspring doting on you
It usually takes two to tango for collaboration, but 47 Washington state breweries hit the dance floor for the Multiplayer Guild Collab IPA project, a beer collaboration to benefit the Washington Brewers Guild. Even though beer drinkers are emerging from isolation with pent-up energy and Band-Aids on their arms, the annual Washington Brewers Festival on Father’s Day weekend is, once again, is postponed due to the pandemic. Yes, it’s a fun weekend for craft beer drinkers to try new beers, but it’s also a thrill for brewer to hangout and talk shop. The Washington Brewers Guild, Crosby Hops, Blind Tiger
Independent Cider Lavender Perry is available at Peaks & Pints in Tacoma’s Proctor District. Perry of Peaks and Pints’ eye Poor pears. They’re never quite number one in the English language, are they? You never hear: “pear of my eye,” “visiting the Big Pear,” and “a pear a day keeps the doctor away.” Pears are also a bit unfairly overlooked when it comes to pear-based alcohol: did you know that what we label as “pear cider” has an official, long-standing name? Perry is the drink’s rightful moniker, and while it is a cider, we’d all do
Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 6.18.21 Happy Friday! Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 6.18.21 has the goods for Father’s Day weekend! Best of Hands Barrelhouse 2021 — A Spruce Odyssey: IPA brewed with Sitka spruce tips, Citra, and Azacca hops showcasing floral and lime-like flavors melding with those of mango, peach, subtle herbal-spiciness, and cherry skins from the hops, 6.5% Best of Hands Buckets of Metrics: Hazy double IPA brewed with Citra and HBC-586 hops for flavors of mango salsa, guava, herbal-woodiness, citrus pith, and pine tar with a long resinous finish, 9% Breakside Brewery Ideal
Your mother? She’s easy. She likes spending time with you. She likes brunch. She would love that new Coach bag … but she’s way too selfless to buy it for herself. On Mother’s Day, you can be the hero. Father’s Day is another story. Your father is not easy. His hobbies mostly involve television, not that we’re stereotyping or anything. And if he needs something, he buys it for himself (or tasks Mom with it). What the heck could Dad possibly want? Beer and you. Peaks & Pints suggests five things to do with dad this weekend and a to-go
Rejoice, o cherry tart lovers of the South Sound! Today, June 17, is National Cherry Tart Day! Ok, so it’s not like you had this holiday on your calendar, but maybe you should as Peaks & Pints carries many cherry-flavored beer, cider, and mead. See what we did there? Cherries can balance otherwise heavy beers or add extra freshness and flavor to the lighter styles. Cherries have been added to beer for centuries, especially with Belgian lambic styles, which are called krieks. Cherry beer is no longer a throwback to centuries past. North American brewers are adding cherries to their
Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock: 6.15.21 Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock: 6.15.21 includes the new Bale Breaker Home Grown IPA, new Airways beers and Reuben’s annual Hazelealicious P.O.G. Airways Brewing Air West IPA: West Coast Style IPA, brewed with Three Magnets Brewing, that’s super tasty, balanced, clear, and dry, 6.5% Airways Biergarten Kellerbier: Amazingly drinkable lager brewed with all-German ingredients, naturally carbonated, and lagered for six weeks to develop its smooth, balanced flavors, 5.2% Anderson Valley Brewing Tropical Hazy Sour: Kettle soured with real guava and passionfruit, 4.3% Bale Breaker Brewing Home Grown No. 7: Crisp,
Though strong Belgian pale ales have existed for centuries, the “tripel” name wasn’t used until the Trappists monks at Westmalle Abbey changed the name of what they’d call “superbier,” their heaviest pale ale, in 1956. The Flemish Dutch word for triple, tripel suggests three times malt and strength. Much of tripel’s mystique comes from the innocent deep golden color, soft maltiness and customary, intriguing yeast stamp. That is followed by a sucker punch in the range of 8 to 9.5 percent ABV, a combination that offers culinary-quality complexity rivaling any darker brew. The burnished golden color, sometimes glinting of orange,
In addition to growing a certified-organic heirloom-variety apple orchard on their historic 50-acre farm in Chimacum, Washington, Finnriver Farm & Cidery co-owners Keith and Crystie Kisler, co-owner Eric Jorgensen, head cidermaker Andrew Byers, and crew farm and ferment on the acreage. They grow organic veggies and fruits, which in turn are sold at local farmer’s markets and through Community Supported Agriculture, or CSA. They even operate a grainery — growing and milling their own wheat crops into organic flours, which Port Townsend bakers and restaurants appreciate. Finnriver is also a certified B corporation, meaning that a positive impact on society,
Instagram Outsider: Can Face Plant, Hellbent Band, Pride Beer From the joy of new cans to brewhouse air guitars, from brewery anniversaries to Pride beer, 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 for your chance to be featured on Peaks and Pints Instagram Outsider. Until we meet back here again next week, enjoy Instagram Outsider: Can Face Plant, Hellbent Band, Pride Beer View this post on Instagram A post shared by Triceratops Brewing Company (@triceratopsbrewing) View this post on
Fifteen minutes of fame used to sound too short. But in 2014 — with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and a thousand other ways to get news instantly — fame was more fleeting than ever. One minute you’re watching the world take the Ice Bucket Challenge, and the next minute, it was all about a Mountie-inspired hat, a nipple debate, and a selfie — and a booty — that broke the Internet. The year also saw the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown, the death of Robin Williams, Ebola, the missing Malaysia Airlines flight, midterm elections, bad calls by the National Football
Back to the Future Part II may have predicted tablets, flat screen televisions and video conferencing in 2015, but not even Doc Brown could have foreseen Jon Snow’s fate. In fact, the year 2015 hosted many unpredictable scenarios and return-to-forms, from Justin Bieber’s chart-topping comeback to Steve Harvey crowning the wrong Miss Universe. There were goodbyes (Jon Stewart, David Letterman, Mad Men) and hellos (Adele!, a baby panda named Bei Bei, wine ice cream). “Star Wars” reawakened, and Caitlyn Jenner emerged. There were only 3,464 craft breweries at the beginning 2015, which has more than doubled. Today, Peaks & Pints
6-Pack of Things To Do: Friday June 11 2021 You’re gonna “crush” it, you’re gonna pwn it, you’re gonna kill it and conquer it and lord over it like some sort of scowling fur-lined dragon-humping wizard from the Lost Kingdom of HR Puffinstuff Now Streaming on HBO. You’re going to rule Friday, and 6-Pack of Things To Do: Friday June 11 2021 has your back. Cheers! DADS: LeMay — America’s Car Museum hosts their ninth annual Hoods Up for Father’s Day through July 1. It’s hoods up at the car museum in Tacoma with more than 100 engines on display
It’s chocolate and it’s cake. But German chocolate cake is a pure American creation — the Germans had nothing to do with it. The name comes from Baker’s German’s Sweet Chocolate, which is still around today. It was called “German’s” chocolate after Samuel German, who invented the sweetened chocolate while working for Baker’s Chocolate, which was then owned by General Foods and is now owned by Kraft. It’s a chocolate that includes sugar, which provides a shortcut for bakers. Anyway, it’s one of our favorite cakes with its chocolaty layers slathered in the coconut pecan frosting. As you might have guessed;
Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock: 6.10.21 When the thirst takes hold of you, dive into Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock: 6.10.21. Cheers! Aslan Brewing Totality Pilsner: Hopped on Barbe Rouge, Centennial, and Huell Melon with Pilsner malt from Skagit Valley for soft floral, citrus, melon, and piney hop flavors, plus a subtle bitter finish, 4.5% Buoy Beer Stonefruit Brett Saison: Second batch of the Buoy Foeder series based on the spontaneity of the Brett yeasts strains with part of the batch infused with stone fruit, 7.1% E9 Brewing Puppies vs. Kittens: Double dry hopped IPA, brewed
Have you ever let go of your demand on the present moment? What might happen if you do? Have you ever tried it? What happens if you forgo your poisonous insistence that something, somewhere is always wrong, broken, and flawed? You might, just might, uncover a life of surreptitious, messy, imperfect bliss. The panic might subside. The veil might lift. You might just become, as they say, more fully awake to the moments of your life, free of bogus dissatisfaction telling you, every moment of every day, that something is always wrong. You might, just might, live much, much better. Can you
You know what would go great with your craft beer? Some music. Few things go together like drinking craft beer and listening to music. It’s a combination so universal, it’s no wonder why brewers like to have their beverages associated with their customers’ favorite bands and artists. Some have even brewed beers with the style and artistry of these musicians in mind. In fact, Felipe Reinoso Carvalho, Ph. D., a researcher in Brussels who found you can enhance the flavor perception of your favorite brew by listening to the right jams. You’re constantly surrounded by sensory stimuli, like sound, sensation, scent,
Peaks and Pints Tap List includes Brouwerij De Molen Mout and Mocca imperial stout. Peaks and Pints Tap List: De Molen Mout and Mocca 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 phone, click here
With sweets, decorations and costumes lining store shelves in preparation for Halloween, fall may seem to be candy season. It’s really June, though, that takes the candy-encrusted crown as National Candy Month, and Peaks & Pints is one option to celebrate. There’s something so sweet about sweet. The cavemen knew it; they were willing to risk limbs and whatever other body parts weren’t covered in hair in order to grab honey from beehives. Over many, many thousands of years, the preferred form of sweet evolved from honey to all kinds of confections, including craft beer. Today, Peaks & Pints presents
We received our second vaccination shot buzzed on French cider. We forgot our scheduled morning tasting with Joan Harkins, president and CEO of French Cider and Spirit. Despite the noon vaccination appointment, the French cider tasting happened anyway because, well, French cider. The morning sun lit the flutes of traditional and heritage Normandy ciders as Harkins poetically described each pour as if she were leaning against a barrel in Normandy. Yes, the alcohol remained below 5 percent per pour, but when in Domaine Dupont, as some say. Oh, the sweet, slightly carbonated taste of France. The chosen ciders arrived last
