Bret Gordon left the University of Colorado with a degree in Economics and a passion for craft beer. He continued into the finance world, probably sipping an Avery Brewing beer here and there. It didn’t take long for him to realize that being at a desk was not for him and he wanted to become a professional brewer. That passion led him and his family to California where he went back to school to earn a Professional Brewing Certificate at the University of San Diego. He swore he would never go back to school, but beer will make you do
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 5.1.23 Kick off May right with Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 5.1.23 Baerlic Brewing Stay Fresh: Brewed with 100 percent Pilsner malt for a crisp and dry IPA with notes of candied orange, spring flowers, and dank grapefruit with a sturdy California-style bitterness, 6.7% Ecliptic Brewing Juicy Lager: Collaboration with Ravenna Brewing, this lager is brewed with a juicy mix of modern hops, including Enigma and Cashmere, for notes of white grape, red currant, and lime-orange citrus, 5.5% Fast Fashion Brewing Trippy Lifting: Extra pale ale brewed with New Zealand Cascade
E9 Brewing Sales Executive Sean Larson raises the Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales Champion, E9 Don of Time. Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales Champion It’s a simple equation: Water plus grain, hops, and yeast. But hidden within this simple formula is a universe of variety. American or English? Clear or hazy? Tropical or dank? Washington and Oregon brewers who brew the classic pale ale have choices to make. And in those choices lie the path to greatness. In March 2023, Peaks & Pints asked beer drinkers to nominate their favorite pale
Peaks & Pints bartenders Phaedra Miller and Brandon Crespin call today’s Tournament of Beer Northwest Pale Ales Championship Game. Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales Championship Vote and Party BRANDON CRESPIN: Oh, the carnage! Oh, the humanity! Oh, the late kettle additions! PHAEDRA MILLER: The prodigious pale ale throwdown finale is on! Voting for Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales Championship Game is live. Hello Tournament tribe! I’m Peaks bartender Phaedra Miller. After three weeks of voting, you have picked the most popular pale ales in the Pacific Northwest. What began as 64
New arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler. Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 4.28.23 Grab Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 4.28.23 for a refreshing weekend in the sun. OK, there are also a couple of big, delicious stouts. Cheers! Bizarre Brewing Floating In Light: Rotating pale ale brewed with pale English and German malts and flaked rice, plus this version has Comet, Nelson Sauvin, and Luminosa hops, 5.1% Block 15 Brewing Revolve 2023: Golden ale brewed with Northwest-grown grains then cellared two years with Brettanomyces in peach brandy barrels and bottled, riddled,
The Twang Junkies play The Valley Saturday night. 6-Pack of Things To Do: April 28-30 2023 The weekend is full of pale ale battles, romantic comedies, tomato plants and twang, among other distractions. Welcome to Peaks & Pints’ 6-Pack of Things To Do: April 28-30 2023. FINAL FOUR: The Pacific Northwest loves pale ales — at least according to the thousands that have voted in our Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pales Ales. Today marks the Final Four. We started with 64 of the Pacific Northwest’s best pale ales. Now, four premier pales face off for the
Peaks & Pints bartenders Max Tomhave and Brandon Crespin call today’s Tournament of Beer Northwest Pale Ales Final Four action. Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales Final Four April 28 BRANDON CRESPIN: And then there were four. … MAX TOMHAVE: Welcome to the Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales Final Four everyone! I’m Peaks & Pints bartender Max Tomhave and believe it or not there have been days during this pale ale tournament when, by noon or so, it was already obvious which pale would be moving on and which
Peaks & Pints bartenders Max Tomhave and Brandon Crespin call today’s Tournament of Beer Northwest Pale Ales Great Eight games. Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales Great Eight April 27 MAX TOMHAVE: The Great Eight is fully fleshed out: Georgetown Johnny Utah, Holy Mountain Kiln & Cone, E9 Brewing Don of Time, Bale Breaker Field 41, Fort George City of Dreams, pFriem Mosaic Pale, Boneyard Bone-A-Fide and Pelican Paddleback. Eight pale ales that — according to public online voting — are the best pale ales brewed in Washington and Oregon. Hello everyone. I’m
Peaks & Pints bartenders Amber Hamilton and Brandon Crespin call the Tournament of Beer Northwest Pale Ales Sweet 16’s last day. Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales Sweet 16 April 26 AMBER HAMILTON: It’s been 20 days since Peaks & Pints launched the Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales, and everything else pales in comparison. People are singing Tears For Fears’ “Pale Shelter”. Clint Eastwood’s film Pale Rider has received a bump in Northwest viewership. Everyone has switched to eating pasta, bread, and rice. I’m Peaks bartender Amber Hamilton and I’m really pale
Peaks and Pints bartenders Amber Hamilton and Brandon Crespin call today’s Tournament of Beer Northwest Pale Ales Sweet 16 action. Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales Sweet 16 April 25 AMBER HAMILTON: For the last two weeks Peaks & Pints presented you with a compelling question: What is the best pale ale brewed in Washington and Oregon? And you have responded in droves. Sick days have been used. Friendships have fallen apart. Distributor Sales Executives and Line Cleaners have hooked up — mass hysteria! BRANDSON CRESPIN: The competition has been whittled down to
Peaks & Pints bartenders Phaedra Miller and Brandon Crespin call the Tournament of Beer Northwest Pale Ales Second Round final day. Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales April 24 PHAEDRA MILLER: Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to the 2023 Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales from the historic Proctor District in beautiful Tacoma, Washington. I’m Peaks & Pints bartender Phaedra Miller and welcome to Day 12 of the Tournament of Beer. The last eight pale ales in the Second Round are rested from the weekend off and are ready to
Peaks & Pints bartenders Phaedra Miller and Brandon Crespin recap yesterday’s Tournament of Beer Northwest Pale Ales games. Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales April 22 PHAEDRA MILLER: Happy Saturday everyone! I’m Peaks & Pints bartender Phaedra Miller. For more than two weeks, Peaks & Pints challenged 64 of the Pacific Northwest’s best pale ales to go toasted maltiness-to-toasted maltiness in craft beer combat. Some fell easily by the wayside, either due to a rogue taproom employee or simply because they faced a superior opponent. Pint by pint, you drank your way through
Matthew Usher and Brittney Crowder call today’s Peaks & Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales Second Round action. Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales April 21 MATTHEW USHER: Hello beer enthusiasts. I’m Peaks & Pints bartender Matthew Usher. Sixty-four sudsy competitors (for the most part) were selected and seeded by the public in early March for the Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales, which is now 11 days into the competition. These Oregon and Washington brewed pale ales are working their way through the tediously constructed bracket and toward
There’s no shortage of things you can do to celebrate 4/20, like, say, visiting numerous dispensaries and buying copious amounts of deeply discounted cannabis and cannabis products, and then, you know, consuming them, perhaps in a Mrs. Butterworth’s bong or Cheech & Chong joint. Then, you’ll get the munchies because cannabis consumption activates certain receptors in our brains, directing hunger-fighting neurons to switch sides and stimulate our appetites. The most generic strains of weed can lube up an appetite, especially for anyone who doesn’t toke very often, but there is a rare class of cannabis out there digging endless pits
Peaks & Pints bartenders Matthew Usher and Brittney Crowder call today’s Tournament of Beer Northwest Pale Ales Second Round action. Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales April 20 MATTHEW USHER: Maybe if we all took a page from the friendly spirit of the craft beer movement, the world just might be a better place. It’s unlikely there is another fiercely competitive business that delights so much in hanging out together. If the market share is so small for each brewery, why cooperate with your competition? Maybe it stems from the David vs. Goliath
Peaks & Pints bartenders Phaedra Miller and Brandon Crespin call today’s Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales Second Round action. Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales April 19 PHAEDRA MILLER: Now it’s getting exciting. The hops are really starting to fly, and the water is so soft that you’ll have to beat the Charmin bear off with a bat. OK, so that’s a horrible analogy. Point is: This is serious. Hello, everyone! I’m Peaks & Pints bartender Phaedra Miller. Today, the Tournament of Beer officially kicks off its Second Round, meaning 32 Northwest
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 4.18.23 To those of you not rushing out the door to H&R Block or logging onto TurboTax, congratulations. You can kick back and reward yourself with Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 4.18.23 while your brethren fight to get their taxes filed. Cheers! Away Days Brewing Dope Days: Strong, sweet London brown ale brewed with Deadstock Coffee beans for notes of brown sugar, syrupy dark fruits, caramel, bread, fudge, spice, and smooth roast, 5.9% Bombastic Brewing Pandemonium: Imperial stout brewed with peanut butter, marshmallow, and vanilla to bring back the classic fluffernutter,
Peaks & Pints bartenders Amy Kirk, left, and Nicole Allen call today’s Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales final First Round games. Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales April 18 AMY KIRK: Hello Peaks & Pints Pals! I’m Peaks bartender Amy Kirk. Low and behold, today marks the closing of the Peaks & Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales First Round action. After today’s battles the bracket will officially be down to 32 Washington and Oregon brewed pale ales, and brewers will start hiring cheerleaders. Honestly, if it gets any more exciting,
In the rolling farmland of Chimacum Valley along a salmon stream just south of Port Townsend, the Finnriver orchards stretch across 80 acres using more than 20 different varieties of apple tree. Their mission is to reconnect people to the land that sustains us and to grow community. They seek to create deep-rooted and fruitful connections at their farm-based taproom and rural gathering space. Finnriver’s farm and orchard is Certified Organic and Salmon Safe, and the company is a Certified B Corporation, seeking to make business a force for good. Finnriver also makes exceptional cider, thanks to head cidermaker Andrew
Peaks & Pints bartenders Amy Kirk, left, and Nicole Allen call today’s Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales action. Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales April 17 NICOLE ALLEN: More than a week ago we pitted 64 of the Northwest’s best — voted in by the public — in a head-to-head battle of pale ales. Today marks the second to last day of First Round action. Tuesday, the last eight Washington and Oregon brewed pale ales will enter the arena bright eyed and fresh. At the end of that day, four pale ales
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 4.15.23 Head inside your home or tent with these new arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler. Cheers! Bale Breaker Brewing Homegrown Beer No. 10 Spring: IPA grown 100 percent on Bale Breaker’s farm for papaya, pine, citrus, and bitterness, 7.2% Fremont Brewing Kush – Chronic IPA: Brewed with Citra, Mosaic, and Citra Cryo hops, plus a water-soluble botanical terpene blend, this IPA hits the nose with grapefruit and other citrus with skunky, dank weed, resinous, and grassy aromas, followed up by tropical notes, dominated by pineapple, 7% Kings & Daughters Brass Tacks:
Now that Structures Brewing has opened their second location, their beer is flowing back into the market. Founder James Alexander wanted to open a second location since opening in 2015 but kept his head down brewing Belgian farmhouse and mixed fermentation beers and hazy IPAs. During the pandemic Chuckanut and pFriem Family Brewers head brewer Bryan Cardwell and longtime friend of Structures has joined the ownership expanding their beer portfolio. Last month, Structures opened their second location in the former Chuckanut Brewery, which was taken down to the studs. It’s beautiful with two massive glass garage doors in that overlook
Peaks & Pints bartenders Phaedra Miller and Brandon Crespin announced yesterday’s winners. Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales April 15 PHAEDRA MILLER: Welcome Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales April 15! I’m Peaks & Pints bartender Phaedra Miller. The subject of pale ales is, like the subject of burgers, vexed and fraught with controversy. What constitutes a great pale ale? Who makes the best pale in the Pacific Northwest? Everyone seems to have his or her own favorite, and everyone’s an expert. In March, we polled the public asking what
Peaks & Pints bartenders Phaedra Miller and Brandon Crespin call today’s Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales action. Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales April 14 PHAEDRA MILLER: Welcome to Day 6 of the Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales. I’m Peaks & Pints bartender Phaedra Miller and even in this era of pastry stouts, smoothie sours, and now German IPAs, the pale ale remains one of America’s popular pints, and pale ale fans — of which you are undoubtedly one — are insanely opinioned about what the consummate pale should look and
Peaks & Pints bartenders Amber Hamilton, left, and Trish Ortega are back calling the Tournament of Beer Northwest Pale Ales action. Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales April 13 AMBER HAMILTON: The showcase ingredient in pales ales is hops, which come from the plant humulus lupulus. This is a vine-like plant that produces hop flowers known as strobiles. Within these strobiles are two prized contributions to brewing: alpha acids and hop oils. Alpha acids provide the bitterness in beer that gives the drinker the crisp, clean finish, and acts to balance the sweet
Van Steenberge is a Belgian brewery in East Flemish Village of East Flanders, Belgium. The brewery started out in 1784 after it was founded by Jean Baptiste De Bruin. The brewery is considered to be a family brewery since its ownership and management has been passed on to several family generations after Jean Baptiste De Bruin’s death. Many beer connoisseurs who claim to have cut their teeth on Belgian beer often mention Van Steenberge’s Piraat and Gulden Draak in the same breath. As if that reputation is not enough their Flemish Red-Brown Ale, Monks Cafe (a recipe that dates to
Peaks & Pints bartenders Amber Hamilton, left, and Trish Oretga call today’s Tournament of Beer Northwest Pale Ales First Round action. Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales April 12 AMBER HAMILTON: Ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Peaks & Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales. I’m Peaks bartender Amber Hamilton. Sixty-four Northwest brewed pale ales were selected and seeded by readers throughout early March for the Tournament, which is now four days into the competition. With me is fellow bartender, Trish Ortega. TRISH ORTEGA: Thanks Amber! And thanks for bringing in those
Peaks & Pints bartenders Amy Kirk, left, and Nicole Allen call today’s Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales action. Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales April 11 NICOLE ALLEN: Welcome back to the 2023 Peaks & Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales. I’m Peaks bartender Nicole Allen and most of you look at lunch as an excuse to escape the desk for an hour (or two), unwind with friends and talk smack about everyone else at the office. But to many South Sounders, lunch is the most important meal of the day.
Peaks & Pints bartenders Amy Kirk, left, and Nicole Allen call today’s Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales action. Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales April 10 NICOLE ALLEN: Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to the 2023 Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales from the historic Proctor District in beautiful Tacoma, Washington. I’m Peaks & Pints bartender Nicole Allen and six years ago we challenged the public to vote for their favorite Washington brewed IPAs. We tallied the nominations and seeded 64 top vote getters in a tournament-style beer combat, IBUs versus IBUs —
You know the story by now, but here it is anyway. … Founded by brewers Jack Harris and Chris Nemlowill, the two combined their brewing expertise from previous Oregon coast gigs at Bill’s Tavern and Astoria Brewing Company to open Fort George Brewery in March 2007. Harris and Nemlowill drove their first 8.5-barrel brewhouse — nicknamed “Sweet Virginia” —from the East Coast and through a tornado to open a small pub in the Fort George Building on Duane Street in Astoria, Oregon. In 2009, they bought almost the entire city block, including the Lovell Building, where they installed a 20-barrel
Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales April 8 PHAEDRA MILLER: Welcome to day two of the Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales from the historic Proctor District in beautiful Tacoma, Washington. I’m Peaks & Pints bartender Phaedra Miller. With me is Peaks’ bartender Brandon Crespin. BRANDON CRESPIN: What’s up everybody! Sixty-four Washington and Oregon brewed pale ales were chosen by the public for the Tournament of Beer, which kicked off yesterday with two games in the Northern Washington region and two games in Southern Oregon. Brackets don refrigerators, break rooms, brewery hallways and accounting
6-Pack of Things To Do April 7-9 2023 This weekend begins with National Beer Week and ends with Peeps and Cadbury Crème Eggs — the marshmallow chicken, and the chocolate, crème-filled egg. Never, since actual chickens and eggs were invented in the late 1970s, has a parent/offspring pairing tasted so delicious. Welcome to Peaks & Pints’ 6-Pack of Things To Do April 7-9 2023. TOURNAMENT OF BEER: It’s live! Peaks & Pints hosts our seventh Tournament of Beer kicking off today, National Beer Day, with 64 Northwest brewed pale ales battling for the championship game April 29. Patterned after the
It’s not a national holiday, at least not yet. But that doesn’t stop people from celebrating. National Beer Day is today. The day is historically relevant because it commemorates the date in 1933, when the Cullen-Harrison Act, signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt, went into effect. That allowed beer to once again be legally manufactured and sold in this country. The law allowed for the legal sale of low-alcohol beer in the United States, several months before Prohibition was completely repealed. Enough states then approved the 21st Amendment later that year to formally bring an end to Prohibition, which started
Peaks & Pints bartenders Phaedra Miller and Brandon Crespin call the opening round of the Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pale Ales. Peaks and Pints Tournament of Beer Northwest Pale Ales begins Peaks & Pints hosts our seventh Tournament of Beer kicking off Friday, April 7, 2023, National Beer Day, with 64 Northwest brewed pale ales battling for the championship game April 29. Patterned after the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, the Tournament of Beer features 64 pales brewed in Oregon and Washington, all seeded by public vote, and separated into four geographical regions: Northern Washington,
Today, April 6, is the day we all celebrate New Beers Eve. This is a real thing. New Beer’s Eve was the night before the first alcoholic beer became legally available after 13 years of Prohibition. From 1920 to 1933, no alcoholic beverages were legal in the United States. Franklin Delano Roosevelt had barely been president for a month when he and a new anti-prohibition majority in Congress known as “The Wets” brought back beer. The Cullen-Harrison Act increased allowable alcohol in beer from 0.5 percent to 3.2 percent. Prohibition would be completely reversed later that year with ratification of
Today is National Caramel Day! Let’s get to learning. … Americans began making sugary syrups in the 1600s, but the delicious chewy caramel we know and love today is a more recent innovation. Caramel candy emerged during the 18th century and quickly became one of the most popular sweets on the market. In fact, Milton Hershey’s first business was the Lancaster Caramel Company. Caramel is made with butter, brown and white sugar, milk or cream, and vanilla. It is usually enjoyed as an ice cream topping, a candy filling, or as a flavor in craft beer, at least according to Peaks
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 4.4.23 Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 4.4.23 features new beer from Holy Mountain, Steeplejack, Oakshire and others … Double Mountain Brewery & Cidery The Last Bastion: Big, slick, and spicy red tripel brewed for the Hood River, Oregon, brewery’s 16th Anniversary Party, 9.5% Heater Allen Brewing Pink Boots Pale Ale: Hopped with Yakima Chief Hops’ 6th annual Pink Boots hop blend, which is tropical and woody with hints of citrus, this Pink Boots pale is brewed with the Pink Boots Society, which was founded with the mission to inspire, encourage, and
Raised in Puyallup, Colin Lenfesty was a longtime homebrewer who worked his way into the Schooner EXACT Brewing team where he met sales guy Mike Murphy. In 2014, the two opened Holy Mountain Brewing in Seattle’s Interbay neighborhood. Their oak-influenced and mixed fermentation beers, as well as hop-forward ales and lagers, instantly gained crowds and awards. During the pandemic, Murphy left Holy Mountain and the industry leaving Lenfesty to forge ahead brewing more hop-forward beers than sours and saisons. Forklift failures, whiskey wrestling, fly fishing and the quickest and most delicious entry into craft beer fame — hear how Lenfesty
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 4.1.23 Here comes the rain! Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 4.1.23 has some delicious new arrivals to get through this wet weekend. Cheers! Bear Republic Brewing Hwy 1: Crisp, hoppy West Coast IPA bursting with Citra, Sultana, and Amarillo hops, 7.1% Belching Beaver Brewing Tropical Terps: Terps are aromatic molecules that enhance and complement the hop flavor and aromas in this new style IPA with a fruity and tropical flavor profile, 6.5% Delirium Black Barrel Aged: Delirium Nocturnum and Delirium Christmas blended and aged for 9 months in Oak Buffalo Trace
Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 3.25.23 Happy dreary Saturday, peeps! Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 3.25.23 has just the thing for your rainy day blues over here in Tacoma’s Proctor District. … Lucky Envelope Brewing Schwarzbier Black Pilsner: Simple yet complex dark larger that drinks like a crisp clean Pilsner with notes of smooth dark chocolate and balanced with a floral noble hop bitterness, 5% Lumberbeard Brewing Hops In Here: Easy drinking hazy IPA brewed with El Dorado, Bru-1 and Galaxy hops for notes of mango and kiwi, 6.4% Old Schoolhouse Brewery Blazing Barrels: Imperial stout
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 3.22.23 Happy Wednesday, peoples! Check out Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 3.22.23. Lots of goodies in this batch. … Breakside Brewery White: Modern witbier brewed with light touches of spices and a restrained-but-characterful yeast for subtle notes of coriander, subtle citrus from the use of bitter orange and sweet tangerine, subtle herbaceous hop notes, subtle wheatiness, and subtle notes of lemon, pear, and pepper from the yeast, 5.2% Double Mountain Brewery Sweet Jane: IPA with tropical fruit and pine notes, 7% Ex Novo Brewing Eliot IPA Brewers’ Edition 2023: Northwest-style IPA
Founded with a passion and respect for brewing in 1995, AleSmith Brewing continues to be recognized as one of the world’s foremost craft breweries on the strength of numerous awards garnered at prestigious local, national, and international competitions. Consistently ranked in the World’s Top Ten list on the consumer generated website www.ratebeer.com, AleSmith is currently ranked #9 out of 33,000+ breweries worldwide, thanks mostly to their imperial coffee stout, Speedway. For those unfamiliar with AleSmith’s original Speedway Stout, it is best characterized by dominant chocolate and roasted malts supported by notes of dark fruit, toffee, and caramel. A healthy dose
Double Mountain owner Matt Swihart enjoys his 16th Anniversary Party. Double Mountain 16th Anniversary Party recap Every St. Patrick’s Day weekend beer lovers from across the Pacific Northwest head to the windsurfing capital of the world for a celebration of epic proportions — Double Mountain Brewery & Cidery’s annual Anniversary Block Party. At least, until COVID showed up. After three long years, Double Mountain celebrated their 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th anniversary block party Saturday, March 18 at their founding brewery in Hood River, Oregon. Prior to the pandemic the Double Mountain anniversary was legendary, with
Gabe Fletcher, the head honcho at Anchorage Brewing, started his career at Midnight Sun, another Alaskan brewing company. After 13 years of helping cultivate an image of creating adventurous beers, Fletcher decided to part ways with Midnight Sun and strike out on his own. In 2011, Fletcher released his first Anchorage beer. Turns out Fletcher’s meticulous attention to detail and brewing expertise combined to make some amazing beer. The brewery took off, eventually moving to its own brick and mortar in 2014. Today, Peaks & Pints has received Anchorage’s A Deal with The Devil barleywine — one of the highest rated
