Peaks & Pints suggests pairing our ham and pineapple sandwich special with the Wayfinder/Structures Linear Ashes. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Smokin’ With The Hula Dancers FRIDAY, FEB. 4 2022: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen heads to the Hawaiian Islands today with their Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Smokin’ With The Hula Dancers pineapple, ham, Polynesian sauce, red onions, green onions, tomato, and light mayo on French. PAIRING: Wayfinder Beer Linear Ashes We suggest pairing our Hawaiian sandwich special with Wayfinder’s Linear Ashes Rauchbier, a collaboration with Structures Brewing. The Beechwood smoked malt will
6-Pack of Things To Do: February 4-6 2022 Did you feel it? Did you reach up and lick the full new moon on the Lunar New Year? Did you stomp your feet and raise your glass high and sing, “The wonderful thing about tiggers is tiggers are wonderful things” and dance and shimmy and growl like the Year of the Tiger? There’s still a chance as you’ll discover in 6-Pack of Things To Do: February 4-6 2022. Cheers! COMEDY: Comedian and actor Michael Rapaport is taking over the stage at the Tacoma Comedy Club for two nights, Feb. 4-5. Rapaport
Named after both its founding region in New Zealand and the Sauvignon Blanc grape, Nelson Sauvin is an exciting, distinctive hop varietal that hits the kettles in 2000. Hailing from a small bay on the north coast of the country’s South Island, the hop sports a compact cone shape with a tapered end. Nelson Sauvin hops have vigorous spring growth and can lend either a dominant hop character to a beer or something much more subtle. Aromas and taste range from citrus to mango and gooseberry, which are supplemented by hints of pepper and allspice. Known to impart a cool
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 2.3.22 Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 2.3.22 includes new beer from Claim 52, Stoup, and Kings & Daughters with happy returns to 7 Seas Nomadic IPA and Skookum’s Murder of Crows. Cheers! 7 Seas Brewing Nomadic IPA: Brewed with Magnum, El Dorado, Idaho 7, Azacca, Mosaic, and Ekuanot hops for juicy, hoppy pine notes, 6.7% Claim 52 Brewing Thicc – Purple Kush: Fruited gose conditioned on red raspberry, boysenberry, cherry, and vanilla, 5% Claim 52 Weekend Whip – White Gummi: Fruit beer conditioned on pear, pineapple, peach, lime, tangerine, mango, and
Peaks & Pints suggests pairing our Burgerwich special with Skookum’s Murder of Crows imperial stout. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Go Burgerwich Or Go Home THURSDAY, FEB. 3 2022: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen keeps our February Stout Month a rollin’ with our popular Burgerwich sandwich special — roast beef, special sauce, arugula, Havarti, pickles, red onions on sourdough — which can be paired with a big stout. PAIRING: Skookum Brewery Murder of Crows The prevailing culinary wisdom here in America is that burgers pair best with hoppy beers. Peaks & Pints doesn’t disagree. Hops
A wine connoisseur loves the complexities and subtleties of a good glass of wine — a balance of sweetness, bitterness, acidity, and real body — which a good beer also sports. Fermentation-driven flavors found in craft beer are just as exciting as those found in wine. Craft beer can be just as elegant, just as refined, just as explosive, and just as flavorful — especially if it’s aged in spent wine barrels. Our to-go flight today highlights craft beers aged in Pinot Noir wine barrels or brewed with Pinot Noir grapes. Stop by our craft beer bar, bottle shop, and
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 2.2.22 Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 2.2.22 has hot drops for a mid-week hang. Cheers! Black Raven Brewing Element 1: Malt – Doppelbock: Brewed in collaboration with Skagit Valley Malting, this doppelbock is brewed with Pilsner, Munich, and Dark Munich malts, 6.8% Cascade Brewing & Blending Valley Flora: Barrel-aged red ale with pinot noir grapes, 10% Ex Novo Brewing Snacks And Naps: West Coast-style IPA brewed with Strata and HBC 586 for dank pine, slight fruitiness, and melon, 7.2% Fremont Brewing El Fremonto: Collaboration with El Segundo Brewing, this West Coast
Peaks & Pints suggests pairing our turkey sandwich special with Two Beer’s Pilsner. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Turkey 2022 WEDNESDAY, 2022: “OK, Peaks & Pints, rise and shine, and don’t forget your booties ’cause it’s cooooold out there today,” announced Brandon Crespin’s radio this morning. “I’ll heat things up,” he replied as he shut off his clock radio. Indeed, he added Chiptole to his housemade Thousand Island sauce renaming it, Two Thousand Twenty-Two Sauce, which he then adds turkey, bacon, Gouda, onion, and tomato on rye. PAIRING: Two Beers Brewing Pilsner If you follow
6-Pack of Things To Do: February 2-3 2022 Remember: If groundhog Punxsutawney Phil leaves his hole and sees his shadow, it means we will have six more weeks of winter. If he nibbles on the bark of a neighboring tree, it means we must be better about attending our jazzercise class. HAPPY TWOSDAY: OK, campers, rise and shine! Peaks & Pints has invited Two Beers Brewing to run two of their beers through a double Randle beer infuser on Groundhog Day. We’re calling it Peaks and Pints Two Beers Twosday with Groundhog. That’s right! Today is 2/2/22. Of course, we
February kicked off yesterday with a New Moon in Aquarius ushering in the energy of new beginnings and change, and today, we will experience what some are calling the first of the last three 222 days of the century, occurring Feb. 2, 2022, Feb. 20, 2022, and Feb. 22, 2022. In numerology, the 222 sequence of numbers are often referred to as Angel Numbers. Also, the number 2 in numerology references the energy of duality, partnership, relationship, and balance. The key lessons when dealing with the number 2 are generally centered around compromise, acceptance, compassion, cooperation, harmony, and craft beer.
Peaks & Pints suggests pairing our roast beef and beer cheese sandwich special with Revision’s Filbert Fudge stout. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Beef And Stout TUESDAY, FEB. 1 2022: With February Stout Month on the Peaks & Pints Kitchen’s mind, they whipped up a roast beef, beer cheese sauce, horseradish mayo, red onion and crispy onion on sourdough sandwich special to pair with stouts. PAIRING: Revision Brewing Filbert Fudge Revision’s 12-percent imperial stout brewed with whole toasted hazelnuts, cacao nibs, and vanilla beans will nestle up to the sandwich like a warm, delicious blanket.
Peaks and Pints’ staff knows February’s a struggle with cold rain and wind in the South Sound, and that’s why we make it rain stouts every day this month. First, stouts are one of our favorite craft beer styles, and second, it’s cool to sip a single style from several brewers side-by-side. Not all stouts — a style marked by the use of roasted malts and barley — are created equal though, with alcohol levels, recipes, flavorings, and textures running the gamut. From the traditional stouts that emerged after porter rose to popularity in England in the 1800s to today’s pastry
Peaks & Pints suggests pairing our Chicken Pesto sandwich special with Little Beast’s Folkvangr Barrel-Fermented Dark Saison. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Pesto Chicken Folkvangr MONDAY, JAN. 31 2022: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen offers a Chicken Pesto sandwich special with white balsamic, Havarti, red onion, tomato, and spinach on sourdough. As you know, pesto pairs well with saisons. Welcome to Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Pesto Chicken Folkvangr. PAIRING: Little Beast Brewing Folkvangr Folkvangr is a barrel-fermented dark saison brewed with a Norwegian farmhouse strain of yeast, chocolate wheat, and kilned coffee malts,
6-Pack of Things To Do: Jan. 31-Feb. 1 2022 According to weather reports February will enter like a snow leopard and leave like a Bono, so we have that going for us. It’s Black History Month, which the Tacoma Public Library has a bunch of BHM events scheduled. Enjoy Stout Month at Peaks & Pints, check out Afghanistan animation, drink cherry cider, become a Tapmaster, and get your shaman on. Just keep an eye on the weather before you leave the house — apparently February can be wild as wild as snow leopards and Bono. FEBRUARY STOUT MONTH: Now in
Since the Seahawks weren’t in yesterday’s NFL Championship Games, did you hike, ski or snowboard instead? Cherries significantly improved recovery time after workouts. Researchers suggest that the powerful antioxidant compounds in cherry juice likely decreased oxidative damage to the athletes’ muscles — the damage that normally occurs when muscles are worked to their max — allowing the muscles to recover more quickly. Great. Sounds delish. Well, apparently cherry juice is great for slackers too, having shown benefits for those of us with diets lacking in fruit and vegetables (which is, let’s face it, is most of us). A single glass
Peaks and Pints celebrates February Stout Month by tapping six stouts through the month. Peaks and Pints Escape To Stout Mountain Now in its sixth year, this year’s Peaks & Pints February Stout Month celebration — this year titled “Peaks and Pints Escape To Stout Mountain” — has all the things you’d expect: powerlifters with snarky comments, scads of barrel aged stouts; banished porters trying to sneak on draft; Fremont Brewing grabbing headliner status; in-jokes for those who have actually climbed Stout Mountain near Salem; and lots of frenetic action in lieu of supply chain co-operation.
Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: NFL Buffalo Wingwich SUNDAY JAN. 30 2022: In celebration of the NFL Championship Games today, the Peaks & Pints Kitchen whipped up an NFL Buffalo Wingwich, a take on buffalo wings with chicken, Buffalo aioli, blue cheese, red onion, and romaine on sourdough. PAIRING: Equilibrium Brewing Mass x Acceleration Buffalo Wingwich special has big, brash flavors that need a beer to tackle them. Equilibrium Brewing’s Mass x Acceleration double IPA brewed with Mosaic and Amarillo is a Force to be reckon with. This juicy elixir hits the nose with dank orange juice followed by
If today’s NFL conference championship games are anything like last weekend’s divisional rounds, then hold onto your craft beer tight because it could be another couple of thrillers. The Bengals travel to Arrowhead Stadium to take on the two-time defending AFC-champion Kansas City Chiefs, in what will be Cincinnati’s third-ever appearance in an AFC Championship Game. Cincinnati won both of its previous AFC Championship appearances — vs. San Diego in the 1981 season, and vs. Buffalo in the 1988 season. On the NFC side, the Los Angeles Rams host the San Francisco 49ers in a battle of NFC West rivals.
Peaks & Pints suggests pairing our fancy French Dip special with Stone Brewing Sublimely Self-Righteous Black IPA. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Self-Righteous French Dip SATURDAY, Jan. 29 2022: Sliced roast beef, rosemary mayo, Havarti, Beecher’s White Cheddar, red onion, soft, crusty French bread, and a dip of au jus, into which the cut surface of each half of the long-sliced loaf is briefly immersed. Peaks & Pints’ French dip special is ready to pair with a black IPA. PAIRING: Stone Brewing Sublimely Self-Righteous Black IPA This hop-heavy IPA is brewed with dark malt so
Originating in 2005 and held every year during January, Strange Brewfest Port Townsend is a showcase in deviance from any archetypical extreme beer festival. Where most thematic beer fests involve high alcohol and barrel-aged brews, Strange Brew delineates itself with a truly outré mélange of beers that simultaneously capture the imagination and leave you scratching your head — pho beer, old fashion beer, pickle beer, baked beans beer and on and on. Sadly, Strange Brewfest has been canceled for obvious reasons the last two years. Strange Brewfest #17, though, is on the books for Feb. 3-4, 2023. Today, Peaks &
Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 1.28.22 You made it! It’s Friday! Time for a little reward … Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 1.28.22 Block 15 Brewing Love Potion #9: Concocted by gypsies and guaranteed to help you find love, Love Potion #9 is a romantic sweet stout brewed with a tantalizing blend of specialty dark malts and conditioned on chocolate and Willamette Valley-grown red and black raspberries, 6.3% Block 15 The DAB Lab – Citra: IPA brewed with Citra hops from BT Loftus Ranches for luscious, citrus hop character, paired with distinctive and intense tropical aromatics,
6-Pack of Things To Do: Jan. 28-30 2022 January is ending, and even though the omicron variant has caused cancellations and postponements of numerous events, there’s still plenty of fun to be had around Tacoma. Check out 6-Pack of Things To Do: Jan. 28-30 and enjoy your weekend. Cheers! MUSIC: The shelf life for punk bands isn’t a long one. See: Drug abuse. It seems like even the ones lucky enough to make it out of the 1970s have been dying off. Whether it’s because of overdoses (Dee Dee Ramone), cancer (Joey Ramone), heart attack (Joe Strummer) or general band
“The magnitude or intensity that must be exceeded for a certain reaction, phenomenon, result, or condition to occur or be manifested” is the definition of “threshold” in most dictionaries. Threshold is also the passion project for Portland, Oregon, couple Jarek and Sara Szymanski who opened Threshold Brewing & Blending the beer-centric neighborhood of Montavilla two years ago this month. “Our aim at Threshold is to continue what we’ve been doing since we first fell in love with brewing: share our craft with others, brew the beers we love, push boundaries and connect with our town and neighborhood. Threshold is about a
Peaks & Pints bartender Matthew Usher recommends you enjoy Heathen Brewing’s Pele’s Potion Smoothie Sour. Three Beer Minimum: Our Choice, Most Popular, Your Choice Let this be your rallying cry. Let it be your new hot-button topic, a raw naked wildfire underground grassroots crusade, your juiciest of incentive programs, your inspired call to try new craft beer. It’s a new old column called Three Beer Minimum. It’s maximum fun. The rules are simple: You visit Peaks & Pints, drink the suggested Peaks bartender’s choice listed below (pictured above), next drink the crowd’s favorite beer purchased at
You’ve done a great job of sticking to that New Year’s resolution. So, it’s time to reward yourself by celebrating National Chocolate Cake Day today, with a sip of rich cocoa goodness. That’s right! In the spirit of National Chocolate Cake Day — which has yet to be declared an official holiday — we’re playing to our craft beer. Luckily for us craft beer lovers, there are many delicious and unique chocolate beers being crafted by U.S. breweries — just in time for this national day. Chocolate adds complexity, well-roundedness, and smoothness to a beer’s flavor, whether its chocolate is added to
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.26.22 Mid-week Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.26.22 can drop! E9 Brewing French Lop: Dry hopped can conditioned saison with notes of grapefruit, lime, and tropical fruit, 5.7% Holy Mountain Brewing The Chariot – Seventh Anniversary: Double IPA made with a Pilsner, 2-row, malted spelt, Golden Naked Oats, mash hopped with whole leaf Mosaic, whirlpool hopped with Mosaic, Strata, Nelson, and Chinook Cryo, and dry hopped with an insane amount of the same combination, 8% Holy Mountain Seventh Anniversary Hoppy Pilsner: Brewed with Genie Pilsner malt, touch of malted oats, subtle
Peaks and Pints suggests pairing our fancy ham sandwich special with Pinkus Organic Münster Alt. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Day of 1000 Münsters WEDNESDAY, JAN. 26 2022: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen added housemade Thousand Island to ham, Havarti, Beecher’s White Cheddar, and onion on sourdough. PAIRING: Brauerei Pinkus Müller Organic Münster Alt Organic Münster Alt is made from Bioland malt, top-fermenting yeast, hops, and first-class brewing water according to the tried-and-tested brewing method, strictly in accordance with the German Purity Law. The herbaceous nose is complimented by notes of honey, buttered biscuit, toasted
6-Pack of Things To Do: Jan. 26-27 2022 Peaks & Pints’ 6-Pack of Things To Do is how we make it through. Well, that, and bourbon barrel-aged old ales. And music. And heart-meltingly stupendous sitcom reunions on HBO Max. And trying, valiantly, not to scream every few seconds. And so on. Shall we? TACOMA NIGHT MARKET: The aim is simple: Provide Tacoma with a monthly, well curated night-market destination with revolving vendors and offerings, where people can gather, have a drink, enjoy local food, bring their families, and support our local artists and crafters. This week, Tacoma Night Market isn’t
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
