Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 11.3.21 It’s the middle of the week, and what better way to climb over that hump than with Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 11.3.21. Cheers! E9 Brewing Sekiu BA Barleywine: Aged in Heaven Hills Bourbon barrels for 12 months, this classic English barleywine offers notes of dried fruit and fig with rich caramel lingering on the palate, 10% Grand Teton Brewing Black Cauldron: Imperial Stout with beechwood-smoked malt, caramel, roasted malts and subtly spiced with American Chinook and Styrian Goldings hops, 9.5% Grand Teton Mocha Porter: Brewed with fresh Alpine Air
In the centuries before temperature controls, grain for brewing was dried over an open flame, imparting a smoky quality to the resulting malt. Over the years, brewers have learned ways to keep that often acrid flavor out of their beers. In Bamberg, Germany, the rauchbier (smoked beer) tradition is still going strong with a handful of breweries that produce different types of smoked beers, including Schlenkerla Rauchbier Märzen. While the beers of Bamberg are almost exclusively lagers, most American smoked beers have a dark ale as their base. Porters are most common, the most iconic of which is Alaskan Brewing
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 11.2.21 Wall o’sippers! Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock includes the latest Four Seasons monster from Mother Earth Brewing, Wayfinder’s Funeral Bock, Holy Mountain Primordial Sky Double IPA and more. Belching Beaver Brewery Dichotomy Double: Double IPA brewed with Idaho 7 and Galaxy as its two predominant hops sprinkled with Nelson and Citra for true hoppy bitterness and slightly sweet malt, 8.1% Breakside Brewing Cuddle Puddle: Northwest pale ale with orange and tropical fruit notes, plus a dry finish, 5.5% Dru Bru Bru Ski Patrol: Inspired by a Munich-style dunkel, this deep,
An extraordinary beer is always the right combination of essential elements. It’s beautiful, poured with care into the proper vessel for its style. It should be aromatic enough to encourage a swift, thirsty transfer of its potential goodness from nose to mouth. It should have a pleasant mouthfeel. And, of course, it must taste delicious. Peaks & Pints has poured many extraordinary beers over our five-year history, including the beer on tap during our 5th Anniversary Party tonight. But if you ask Peaks co-owner and beer buyer Pappi Swarner what beers he’ll crack open around his backyard fireplace with friends
Instagram Outsider: Halloween, Dry Ice, Dr. Nigel From tricks to treats, from Making Plans With Dr. Nigel to all the dry ice, 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: Halloween, Dry Ice, Dr. Nigel. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Boneyard Beer (@boneyardbeer) View this post on Instagram A post
Another scary Halloween is upon us. And, once again, it’s scarier than usual. We’re dealing with a pandemic and have to watch out for deranged anti-maskers and deadly overcrowded spaces. It’s enough to make you want to stay in and curl up with Food Network’s Halloween Wars instead. Because of COVID, many plan to spend Halloween trapped in their houses. If Halloween is your time to thrive, you can still have a good ol’ scary time at home. There are still pumpkins to carve, costumes to buy or make on your own, and scavenger hunts to be held inside the
You can stick your zombies, stuff your vampires, and ram your Frankensteins where the sun doesn’t shine. This Halloween is about one monster and one monster only-the chittering, flea-infested, nut-clutching, buck-toothed, beady-eyed demon-beast of the increasingly denuded urban treetop: our satanic friend the Proctor District Squirrel. You’ve probably noticed the little buggers getting extra excited — fighting, chasing each other, and squealing with devilish glee-as they scurry hither and thither in frenzied pursuit of their demonic master plan. Haven’t you felt the sheer visceral thrill of squirrelishness crackling in the air like some sort of evil rodent electricity? Head to
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 10.29.21 Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 10.29.21 includes Sierra Nevada’s Fresh Hop Celebration in cans, Bale Breaker’s winter IPA, Hoof Hearted’s Discount Nachos IPA, Skookum’s Scary Joy and others. … Abomination Brewing Harvester: Fruited sour brewed with strawberry, kiwi, and pear, 7.1% Bale Breaker Brewing High Camp: Named for the ski lodge atop of White Pass Ski Resort, this winter IPA is brewed with chocolate and rye malts, then dry-hopped with Mosaic, Simcoe, and experimental hop HBC 630 hop for aromas of caramel, coffee, citrus, pine, and spice, 7.3% Culmination Brewing
Since opening in August 2017, Dwinell Country Ales has been named one of the “The Six Best Washington Breweries Outside Seattle” by The Stranger, as well as “Top Three Small Breweries” in the country by beer writer Jeff Alworth for Craft Beer & Brewing magazine. Located in downtown Goldendale, Washington, Dwinell founder Justin Leigh not only brews Belgian style farmhouse ales, but also mixed-culture beers, delicately hopped rustic ales, barrel-aged “country ales” aged in barrels from nearby wineries in the Columbia River and Yakima Valleys, natural wine, and French style ciders. Last year, Leigh planted Domaine, an heirloom French apple
Sunny Parsons founded Heathen Brewing in 2012 in a converted barn near his home in outer Vancouver. With “Progressive Ales for the Promiscuous Palate” as the mission statement, Parsons and co-owner and head brewer Rodney Stryker made small batches with local ingredients basically in the backwoods before opening their Feral Public House, a 2,000-square-foot restaurant and taproom in downtown Vancouver in 2015. Then, in October 2016, Heathen acquired a 20-acre vineyard in Brush Prairie. It opened the following April. Heathen just unleashed their big barrel-aged beers, plus a smoothie sour with Great Notion. Therefore, it’s time for a to-go flight
If you visit peaksandpints.com, you know we observe pseudo-holidays and exploit them into beer flights. But today — well, today is National American Beer Day, an occasion we’ll let serve as an excuse to enjoy made-in-the-homeland brews. Not that we really need one. Last year, as the Brewers Association reports, the number of breweries in this country was at its highest since the 19th century — and many of those 8,884-plus establishments turned out some pretty innovative, complex, and downright delicious stuff. Beer was once the unfussy option, the tonic of the masses. On Cheers, Norm simply orders beer —
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 10.26.21 Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 10.26.21 includes the return of Alaskan Smoked Porter, Stone’s Xocoveza Tres Leches, Ecliptic eighth anniversary pilsner and more. … 21st Amendment Brewery Fireside Chat: Rich, dark, English-style ale with spices, 7.9% Abita Brewing Christmas Ale: Brown ale brewed with 10 types of malted barley then hopped and dry hopped with Columbus, Cascade, Centennial, and Amarillo for a nice piney and citrus hop flavor and aroma, 5.5% Alaskan Brewing Smoked Porter: Robust woodsmoke aroma backs up the beer’s name even from a distance with the flavor
October in Washington brings juicy plums, the smell of boiling Dungeness crab, and pumpkin spice lattes. But for beer drinkers, October still means wet hop beers. One of the most seasonally specific styles that a brewery can make, wet-hop (or fresh-hop — there isn’t a difference) beers are brewed with just-harvested whole-cone hops rushed from farms to brew kettles to capture the most vibrant flavors and aromas of these pungent flowers before they begin to fade. This limits the brewing period to the very short hops harvest season every August and September, with the bounty arriving in early October, at
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 10.25.21 Week 7 of the 2021 NFL season concludes tonight when the Seattle Seahawks play host to Alvin Kamara and the new Orleans Saints. Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 10.25.21 has your back for the game. Cheers! Bale Breaker Brewing Brewshed IPA: Limited release collaboration with Washington Wild with a portion of beer sales to benefit WA Wild’s Brewshed® Alliance to defend, protect, and restore Washington’s wild lands and watersheds. Dry hopped with Simcoe, Citra, Chinook, and Strata hops for pine, zesty citrus, melon, pineapple and gassy notes, 6.6% Block 15
Instagram Outsider: Spooky Season, Pumpkin Prince, Sip Awards From Halloween prep to The Pumpkin Prince, from the Sip Magazine Best of the Northwest to a Fortune Teller, 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: Spooky Season, Pumpkin Prince, Sip Awards. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rachyl (@beersandbedtime) View this post
Born in the Hallertauer region of Bavaria, Germany, the Hallertau hop is found most commonly in German lagers, altbiers (German style brown ale), and Belgian ales. German hop researchers continue to tinker with the hop, creating a variety of strains. The hop usually has a second designation to denote where the hop is grown — the most common of these cultivars is the Hallertau Mitterfruh. Hallertau is one of four noble hops (also including Saaz, Spalt, and Tettnang), meaning that it grows in the wild rather than is selectively bred. Noble hops are best known for their flavor and aroma
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 10.22.21 Another round of cans has made it into Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 10.22.21 for the weekend. The always reliable (and delicious) Great Notion is back with their newest round of sour smoothies, IPAs and a pilsner, plus more! Aslan Brewing Gold Goose Organic Canadian Lager: Brewed with Pilsner malt from Armstrong, B.C. and Aslan’s favorite low alpha European hop, triple decoction mashed, and fermented at 8°C, thoroughly aged and 100 percent naturally carbonated, for a clean, malty, good old days pale lager with just enough hops for balance, 5%
An impressive bomb cyclone is centered about 500 miles west of the Washington state coast. Thankfully, the storm is tracking north and may not have much of an impact on the Puget Sound. That said, expect today to be breezy in the South Sound with gusts up to 30 mph. Expecting the full force of the bomb cyclone, Peaks & Pints gathered a few winter warmers as our to-go flight today. These brews are not within a narrowly defined style; rather, they’re a broad range of beers that offer bold flavors, often with sweet maltiness and lots of alcohol. In
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 10.21.21 Did you hear a Bomb Cyclone of rain arrives to the South Sound this weekend? Does your refrigerator need more beer? Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 10.21.21 to the rescue! Holy Mountain Brewing Autumnal Rustic: Saison brewed with Pilsner, Munich, rye, purple barley, spelt, and Scots bere barley grains, then hopped with freshly kilned Local hops, with additions of Saaz, Cashmere and New Zealand Cascade for a classic, complex, dry, and yeasty farmhouse ale, 6% No Boat Brewing Illuminaughty: Double IPA brewed with massive late additions of Simcoe, Cascade, and
Happy National Apple Day! That’s right; Oct. 21 is National Apple Day. Apple pie. Apple sauce. Apple crisp. National Apple Day celebrates the apple in all its various forms and reminds us that apples are shiny, tasty, and healthy. “An apple a day keeps the doctor away,” “Apple of my eye,” and “as American as apple pie” are all very common phrases in our language. Be it good health, familiarity or love, all are used to denote something we hold to be very important to our concept of culture in America. They also call attention to a humble fruit that
“Invention, my dear friends, is 93 percent perspiration, 6 percent electricity, 4 percent evaporation, and 2 percent butterscotch ripple.” Those are the words of Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory. Brewing beer could be said to be much the same, especially these days, when creative beer makers are using all kinds of sweet treats in their recipes, from candy and cinnamon rolls to cereal and cookies. While the notion of a sweet beer may be sickening to those who prefer their hops, malt, yeast, and water to be unadorned by ingredients more commonly seen in the sticky
The Lost Abbey Brewing Company is a brewery in San Marcos, run by Director of Brewery Operations Tomme Arthur. The Lost Abbey specializes in producing Belgian-inspired beers, barrel-aged beers and sours. The Lost Abbey, Port Brewing Company and The Hop Concept beers all come from the brewhouse within The Lost Abbey. It can be a bit confusing when referring to three different breweries that are technically located under the same roof, but there’s a reason why it’s done this way. The beers that come from these three brands allow the brewery to experiment in different ways without confusing or overloading
Peaks and Pints New Craft in Stock 10.19.21 Peaks and Pints New Craft in Stock 10.19.21 welcomes barrel-aged wheated coffee imperial stout, Belgian-style quad, cinnamon dolce milk stout, and others. … Avery Brewing The Reverend: Divinely complex and beautifully layered Belgian-style quad with hints of dark cherries, currants, and molasses, complemented by an underlying spiciness, 10% Backwoods Brewing Pecan Pie Porter: Brewed with whole pecans, five different grains — including chocolate and caramel malt — this seasonal porter gives off subtle chocolate notes, complimented with hints of vanilla and pecan, 5.9% Boulevard Brewing Magic Drip: Barrel-aged wheated imperial stout with
You fancy, Firestone Walker XXV Anniversary Ale! Fancy Pants Sunday: Firestone Walker XXV Anniversary Ale Founded in 1996, Adam Firestone, along with his brother-in-law David Walker, launched Firestone Walker Brewing Company quite humbly, inside a nondescript shed on the family’s Santa Ynez Valley vineyard. This year, the California Central Coast brewery celebrates their 25th anniversary the same way they celebrated past anniversaries by releasing an Anniversary Ale. The two founders and their brewmaster, Matt Brynildson, managed to stay the course during the pandemic and continue the annual rite — the creation of XXV Anniversary Ale, blended
Instagram Outsider: Hello Heidelberg, Halloween Prefunc, Big Bad Wolf From the Heidelberg Beer resurrection to Halloween decorations, from running races to fall colors, 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: Hello Heidelberg, Halloween Prefunc, Big Bad Wolf. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mother Fern Brewing (@motherfernbrewing) View this post on
If it were socially acceptable to drink beer in the morning, one with Amarillo hops would be the perfect way to start the day — combined with a balanced breakfast (of course). Amarillo provides a super-citrusy aroma verging on oranges, lively grapefruit flavor (with some pine) and a medium-high bitterness, that is sure to wake the taste buds. Wake up to Amarillo hops and our to-go beer flight, Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Amarillo On The Fly. Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Amarillo On The Fly Structures Endless Bummer 4.5% ABV Structures’ Endless Bummer pale ale made its debut during
A small cadre of Belgian iconoclasts go on quietly stirring the imagination of brewers around the world, showcasing deliciously dry, hop-forward beers, rustic farmhouse offerings, bold and complexly balanced strong ales, and all manner of tart and funky brews, including the unparalleled sensory experience that is authentic lambic. Gueuzerie Tilquin is one of those iconoclasts. Pierre Tilquin founded the small family brewery based in Bierghes, Brussels, in 2009. He exclusively blends lambic beers, such as the one represented in today’s Peaks & Pints to-beer flight, Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Gueuzerie Tilquin On The Fly. Tilquin purchases worts from Boon,
Like many brewers in Northern Oregon, Kyle Larsen got his start at Full Sail Brewing. Then, in 2010, he walked across the street to Double Mountain Brewery and became head brewer for two other Full Sail alums — Matt Swihart and Charlie Devereaux — while earning a Masters in Brewing Science and Engineering from Heriot Watt University, a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. After a long stint at Siren Craft Brew in the UK, Larsen returned to the Columbia Gorge to add his talent to Thunder Island Brewing, then Trap Door Brewing in Vancouver, before he and his
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 10.14.21 Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 10.14.21 includes Belching Beaver’s new IPA, the first beer in Block 15’s new Maltsters Series, and two IPAs from Kings & Daughters. Cheers! Belching Beaver Brewery In Circles: Collaboration with Yakima Chief Hops in Yakima, this hazy IPA is brewed with Cru Hop Original Blend, Loral, Ekuanot Cryo, Sabro Cryo, and Idaho 7, 7% Black Raven Brewing Festivus: Holiday pale with cranberries, citrus fruit peels, and seasonal spices, 7.1% Block 15 Brewing Duke IV: Hefeweissbier in the old German tradition, brewed with imported German wheat
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 10.13.21 A new shipment of Moonraker beers and other treats are a part of Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 10.13.21. … 7 Seas Brewing Heidelberg Beer: A true pre-prohibition style lager, brewed at the original facility in Tacoma, Washington, 4% Beer Zombies Evil Haze: A big DDH hazy DIPA with Citra, Mosaic, and Galaxy for fresh pineapple, ripe mango, and juicy peaches blended with a blueberry lemonade back end, 9.666% Beer Zombies Zombie of Dankness: West Coast double IPA with Mosaic, Citra, Simcoe, El Dorado, and Amarillo hops for grapefruit zest,
In 2017, restaurateurs Grant Tondro, Zak Higson, and Nate Higson opened Urge Gastropub & Whiskey Bank in San Marcos, California, the coastal offshoot of their Urge American Gastropub in Rancho Bernardo. The kicker? They hired Mike Rodriguez to run their attached Mason Ale Works creating an elevated brewpub atmosphere. Rodriguez brewed at Kansas City’s Boulevard Brewing for several years before spending five as head brewer at The Lost Abbey. While Rodriguez moved on rather quick, Tondro and brothers Higson hired another former head brewer from San Marcos’ The Lost Abbey, Matt Webster, to brew beers that paired well with their
Instagram Outsider: World Apple Day, Fresh Hop Fest, Green Tacoma Day From World Apple Day to Fresh Hop Fest, from autumn scenes to Green Tacoma 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 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: World Apple Day, Fresh Hop Fest, Green Tacoma Day. View this post on Instagram A post shared by C E C E
Peaks and Pints Tap List includes Black Raven Brewing’s Second Sight Scotch Ale. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Black Raven Second Sight Scotch Ale 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
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 10.8.21 Happy Friday! Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 10.8.21 includes just a few of the many beers available for your weekend drinking. … Evil Twin Brewing Your IPA Is Crazy, But It’s Not Crazy Enough To Be True: This super juicy, creamy, boozy double IPA has dank notes with a strong hop flavor, 8.5% Ex Novo Brewing Imminent Domain: Hazy IPA offers juicy stone fruit and citrus, 7.2% Ferment Brewing Fresh Hop Chinook IPA: A hit at the Hood River Fresh Hop Fest, this IPA is brewed with fresh Chinook hops
Fresh hop season is a perk you get for living in the Pacific Northwest, with farm-fresh, bright-green hops throwing off beautifully idiosyncratic farm-y notes in beer made just a car ride from where the hops are grown. It’s more than just another feel-good “buy local” movement — with the yearly harvest comes a torrent of fresh-hop beers made from hops are at their peak of freshness, bursting with aroma from rhizome to rhizome. Why the time-sensitive frenzy? For something so associated with brash bitterness, hops are surprisingly delicate — breaking down almost as soon as they’re harvested. The Northwest leads
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 10.6.21 Our quarterly inventory count is complete and we’re opening our cooler doors for Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 10.6.21! Abomination Brewing Wandering Into the Fog (Galaxy): Brewed with Mosaic, Pacific Jade, Citra, Summit, and Galaxy hops, this double IPA has notes of passionfruit, citrus, peach, and some mild grassy herbal spice, 8.6% E9 Brewing After Thoughts: West Coast IPA brewed and dry hopped with their favorite hops imparting loads of citrus and tropical fruit aromatics and flavors, 6.5% Fat Orange Cat Brew Box Of Raining Cats: Hazy IPA brewed with
Mother Fern Brewing founders Bethany Carlsen and Greer Hubbard will tap their beers and hang Thursday, Oct. 7 at Peaks & Pints. Photo: Kristin Parker / @dandelionsanddirt Q&A with Mother Fern Brewing Prohibition ended Pacific Brewing & Malting Company and other Tacoma breweries’ heydays. But it didn’t stop Tacoma from drinking. Under the shadow of alcohol prohibition in America, those who stole away to secret speakeasies and basements to drink outside the law were shamed as “scofflaws,” criminals. In downtown Tacoma during those days, the police would emerge from their City Hall Annex police stable on
Left Hand Brewing Company was incorporated in September 1993, and in November of that year they found a home in Longmont, Colorado. The brewery was named Left Hand, after Chief Niwot (meaning left-handed), a Southern Arapahoe chief who wintered his tribe in the Boulder Valley area of Colorado. They opened their doors for business on January 22, 1994. In their first 20 years, Left Hand merged with Tabernash Brewing from Denver, founded a distribution company, and released Milk Stout Nitro — founding America’s original nitro bottles, and even survived a 500-year flood. In 2008, they tackled their first expansion and
Fresh hops are brewed during a very brief window of the year when hops are being harvested. It’s the one time brewers can use hops directly after they’re picked from the vine and before they are processed in any way; normally hops are dried and then pelletized. During fresh hop season, the hop cones go straight from the vine to the beer in a matter of hours. The result is a wonderfully aromatic, fresh-tasting creation. But fresh hop beer isn’t easy being green. The brewhouse fermenter sits empty waiting for the phone call. It’s an eternity if there’s only three
Peaks and Pints Tap List includes Bale Breaker and Cloudburst Collaboration Citra Slicker Wet Hop IPA. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Bale Breaker Citra Slicker 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