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Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 10.8.20

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Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 10.8.20 The Peaks & Pints cooler is now open until 10 p.m. daily. Come grab the Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 10.8.20 goodies, including two new Stoup Brewing fresh hops and Structures new pale ale. Cheers! Abomination Brewing ELEVEN LIVES & STILL WANDERING: Collaboration with Fat Orange Cat Brew, this double IPA is brewed with Lotus, Cashmere, Citra, and Mosaic for a ton of citrus on the nose and tongue. 8.8% Decadent Ales STRAWBERRY ORANGE BANANA: Double IPA brewed with Strawberry, Orange, and Banana Puree ¸— just like your favorite juice.

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Thursday October 8 2020

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Thursday October 8 2020 6-Pack of Things To Do: Thursday October 8 2020 offers you an artist studio tour, a flight of Oreo-flavor beer, the chance to buy Tacoma Film Festival tickets, pears at the Broadway Farmers Market, American Electorate lecture, and a spot to hang with Tacoma Council Member Kristina Walker. Cheers! ARTIST STUDIO TOUR: The Washington State History Museum’s 2020 In The Spirit Contemporary Native Arts exhibition has made our 6-Pack of Things To Do several times during its run, which isn’t surprising since its outstanding every year, blending the traditional and the

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Oreo Imperials on The Fly

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Consider the Oreo. In the 100 years since its invention, Oreo has become the representative cookie of modern American culture. Everyone loves Oreos. (Quiet down, contrarians. We said everyone loves Oreos.) Oreos are mixed into Dairy Queen Blizzards. They’re used to make chocolate-y delicious pie crusts. Weird Al Yankovic wrote a song about Oreos called The White Stuff. And, they make delicious imperial porters and stouts. It’s not like you didn’t know there were porters and stouts made to emulate Oreos. It’s a pretty obvious and common adjunct flavor profile, chocolate and vanilla. Smoosh ‘em together, and that’s basically an

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Morning Foam: South Sound Surfrider and Postdoc Kilty pulls

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Good morning from Tacoma Public Library Wheelock Branch in the Proctor District of North Tacoma Morning Foam: South Sound Surfrider and Postdoc Kilty pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND!  Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020 — Chevy Chase turns 77 today! Overcast, high 63. Peaks & Pints offers Campfire Crowler fills of Postdoc Brewing Kilty MacSporran Scottish Ale. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW Join the South Sound Chapter of Surfrider Foundation for their October Chapter Meeting with guest speaker Tacoma Council Member Kristina Walker. Dan Friday (Lummi), one of the artists in their year’s Washington State History Museum In the Spirit

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Tropical IPAs On the Fly

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Polynesian culture washed onto America’s shores after World War II, when soldiers returned from the South Pacific armed with aloha shirts, Hawaiian music and a thirst for tropical beverages. We’re not sure who brewed the first tropical-inspired craft beer, but honing in on the tropics can be accomplished via a couple different techniques. First, many of the recently released hops have flavors and aromas ripped from a fruit bowl, including Citra (papaya, mango), Mosaic (berries), El Dorado (watermelon, pears), Galaxy (peach, melons), Hull Melon (honeydew) and Galaxy (pineapple). Dial up a recipe with these hops, used later in the brewing

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Morning Foam: Chocolate lecture and Stone Xocoveza pulls

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Good morning from Olympia Coffee Roasters in the Proctor District of North Tacoma Morning Foam: Chocolate lecture and Stone Xocoveza pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND!  Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020 — Yo-Yo Ma turns 65 today! Cloudy skies early, then partly cloudy this afternoon, high 67. Peaks & Pints offers Campfire Crowler fills of Stone Brewing Xocoveza Mocha Stout. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW Did you know that chocolate is actually fermented? That cocoa powder contains some of the same ingredients as nail polish remover? Join Erica Fickeisen, Lead Baker, and Dr. Justin Lytle, professor and chair of Chemistry

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Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 10.6.20

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Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 10.6.20 Peaks & Pints brought in a ton of new beer today. We highlight a few in Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 10.6.20. … Breakside Brewery GIUSEPPE WARLOCK: West Coast double IPA collaboration with fellow Portland brewery Von Ebert Brewing with Mosaic, Nelson Sauvin, Waimea, and Comet hops for notes of petrol, cantaloupe, papaya, and white Bordeaux. 8% Diamond Knot Brewing INDUSTRIAL HO! HO!: A robust, hoppy winter warmer with a sweet, fruity nose balanced by residual sweetness. 8.5% E9 Brewing SPIKE’S HARVEST ALE: Brewed for longtime Engine House No. 9

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Tuesday October 6 2020

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Tuesday October 6 2020 Did you hear? It’s Tacoma Arts Month. Every year, since forever, Tacoma Arts Month has showcased the very best about our community. October is brimming with hundreds of arts and culture events, exhibits, and workshops for all ages. The Peaks & Pints 6-Pack of Things To Do will relay the events, such as the Salishan National Night Out-Of-The-Box event tonight. Cheers! ANIMAL SHOUT-OUTS: Remember when you called out your colleague for eating cake during your company’s Zoom lunch meeting? Point Defiance Park & Aquarium has a way to smooth over that

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: California Doubles On The Fly

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Today’s Peaks & Pints to-go beer flight originated out of California. It’s a flight of double IPAs brewed in California, because, well, California. The state could use a couple double IPAs after their wildfires — massive, drought-amplified, state-engulfing wildfires you breathed through your mask from Point Defiance Park last month. Since the beginning of the year, more than 8,200 California wildfires have scorched “well over 4 million acres” or 6,250 square miles, according to Cal Fire. And, that’s piled onto 835K COVID cases and 16,150 deaths. On a positive note, double IPAs were born in California. Vinnie Cilurzo — who

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Morning Foam: National Night Out and Fremont Cowiche Canyon pulls

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Good morning from the Puget Creek Natural Area in the Proctor District of North Tacoma. Morning Foam: National Night Out and Fremont Cowiche Canyon pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND!  Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020 — Elisabeth Shue turns 57 today! Partly cloudy skies, high near 70. Peaks & Pints offers Campfire Crowler fills of Fremont Brewing Cowiche Canyon Fresh Hop Ale. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW It’s National Night Out tonight, so step off your front porch and into the streets, in front of businesses and into parks to bond with your neighbors — wearing a mask, of course.

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Peak and Pints Pilot Program: International Cider On The Fly

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Apples were among some of the first crops grown in colonial America. Potted seedlings and bags of apple seeds were brought over on the Mayflower. The Bible-thumping Puritans were not teetotalers. Apple orchards in colonial America usually meant one thing: hard cider. Apples flourished in the fertile soil and friendly climate, and soon apples were a key part of most colonial farms and menus. A thirst for beer and the introduction of prohibition laws meant hard cider became an almost forgotten beverage, but it is currently undergoing a revival with small producers and large booze brands all getting in on

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Morning Foam: Netflix and Chill plus Dirty Couch pulls

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Good morning from Washington Elementary in the Proctor District of North Tacoma. Morning Foam: Netflix and Chill plus Dirty Couch pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND!  Monday, Oct. 5, 2020 — Neil deGrasse turns 62 today! Cloudy early, becoming mostly sunny this afternoon, high 66. Peaks & Pints offers growler fills of Dirty Couch Brewing Incandescence Sour Winter Warmer. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW Every Monday night, Tacoma Burger Company presents Netflix and Chill featuring two comedy specials on their projector at 6 and 8 p.m. CRAFT CHOICE CLICKABLES Great American Beer Festival 2020 will be a nationwide passport

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Instagram Outsider: Tiger Gourding, Whip Opening, Hop Harvest Finale

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Instagram Outsider: Tiger Gourding, Whip Opening, Hop Harvest Finale From tigers feasting on pumpkins to skeleton beers, from opening bottles with whips to the hop fields mic dropping, 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. And, please, wash your damn hands; wear your damn mask. Until we meet back here again next week, cheers to you!   View this post on Instagram   BEER ME @oldrowofficial (via @winrichadam) A post

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Fresh Citra on the Fly

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Hop Breeding Company of Yakima, Washington released Citra in 2007. It wasn’t until Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. dry-hopped its Torpedo IPA two years later that the hop turned heads. Citra Brand HBC 394, as its officially known, is comprised of Hallertau Mittelfrüh, US Tettnang, Brewer’s Gold and East Kent Golding with a fairly high alpha acid and total oil contents, plus a low percentage of co-humulone for bittering. Bittering is cool and all, but Citra’s organoleptic profile and chemical composition lend themselves overwhelmingly to aromatic and flavor additions of citrus and tropical fruits. Fresh Citra hops impart delicate flavors of

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Morning Foam: Salmon Homecoming and Fort George Fresh Fields pulls

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Good morning from foggy Mason Middle School in the Proctor District of North Tacoma. Morning Foam: Salmon Homecoming and Fort George Fresh Fields pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND!  Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020 — Liev Schreiber turns 53 today! Cloudy skies, high 63. Peaks & Pints offers Campfire Crowler fills of Fort George Brewery’s Fields of Green Wet Hop. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW The public is invited to join the Puyallup Watershed Salmon Homecoming Celebration, a month long salute of the return of salmon to spawn in the Puyallup watershed, a migration that has been taking place for

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Saturday October 3 2020

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Saturday October 3 2020 Let’s drink a vertical of barnyard funk and enjoy 6-Pack of Things To Do: Saturday October 3 2020! ORVAL DAY: Peaks & Pints joins the top beer bars from across the globe in celebrating Orval Day 2020 today. One of the most important beers to ever come out of Belgium, Orval Trappist Ale is an amber-hued Belgian pale ale that is dry-hopped, then finished with Brettanomyces. Intensely aromatic and dry, this one-of-a-kind beer is as complex as it is unique. One of only 12 officially recognized Trappist breweries across the world;

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Orval Day On the Fly

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Peaks and Pints joins the top beer bars from across the globe in celebrating Orval Day 2020 today. One of the most important beers to ever come out of Belgium, Brasserie d’Orval’s Orval Trappist Ale is an amber-hued Belgian pale ale that is dry-hopped, then finished with Brettanomyces. Intensely aromatic and dry, this one-of-a-kind beer is as complex as it is unique. One of only 12 officially recognized Trappist breweries across the world; all Orval beer is brewed within the walls of Notre Dame d’Orval Monastery. The alluring complexity of this iconoclastic beer has made it a world classic, one

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Morning Foam: Orval Day and Double Mountain Killer Red pulls

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Good morning from foggy Puget Park in the Proctor District of North Tacoma. Morning Foam: Orval Day and Double Mountain Killer Red pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND!  Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020 — Gwen Stefani turns 51 today! Foggy this morning, then partly cloudy this afternoon, high 69. Peaks & Pints offers Campfire Crowler fills of Double Mountain Brewery Fresh Hop Killer Red. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW Peaks & Pints joins the top beer bars from across the globe in celebrating Orval Day 2020 today. We’re offering Orval 2018 and 2019 bottles to-go. Stop by the Proctor Farmers

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Friday October 2 2020

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Friday October 2 2020 Hello! We’re back! Peaks & Pints apologizes for the sudden disappearance of 6-Pack of Things To Do. We brewed our new house beer, Pop-Up Park IPA, at Everybody’s Brewing in White Salmon over the past few days, which means we couldn’t see straight to write this treasure. Join us at our 4th Anniversary Party Nov. 1 when we tap the new beer. Now, on to 6-Pack of Things To Do: Friday October 2 2020. Cheers! FESTIVAL: Presented by the Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation, the Tacoma Moon Festival is an annual outdoor

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Barrel Aged On The Fly

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Craft beer is best fresh. If you drink a fresh hop IPA the day it is bottled or canned, it will be at its peak. Never again will it taste so good. Day by day, by degrees, its lushness will fade. Beer, unlike vinegar and Pop Tarts, is not a fixed food product. So why then do brewers barrel-age beer? Because it’s porous, wood allows for very slow oxidation, which can make darker, malty beers more complex. Wood can also host microflora, bacteria that add the sourness to wild ales and lambics. The barrel’s former resident — the wine or

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Morning Foam: Tacoma Moon Festival and Wayfinder Stairs and Flowers pulls

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Good morning from foggy Proctor District in North Tacoma. Morning Foam: Tacoma Moon Festival and Wayfinder Stairs and Flowers pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND!  Friday, Oct. 2, 2020 — Sting turns 69 today! Foggy early, becoming sunny this afternoon, high 73. Peaks & Pints offers Campfire Crowler fills of Wayfinder Beer Stairs & Flowers Fresh Hop. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW Due to the pandemic, the 8th Tacoma Moon Festival will not be a live, in-person event. Instead, the Moon Festival will be held virtually with dance and musical video performances, online Asian Teahouse, mooncake recipe, and more

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Morning Foam: Fresh Hoptoberfest and Reuben’s Festbier pulls

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Good morning from deep into the woods of Underwood, Washington. Morning Foam: Fresh Hoptoberfest and Reuben’s Festbier pulls GOOD MORNING, PROCTOR DISTRICT!  Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020 — Greg Brady turns 66 today! Plenty of sunshine, high 79. Peaks & Pints offers Campfire Crowler fills of Reuben’s Brews Festbier. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW Today marks the official last day of Peaks & Pints’ 2020 Fresh Hoptoberfest — a month-long celebration of fresh hops and Oktoberfest beers featuring two draft styles of each on top. That said, Peaks & Pints will continue to have at least two fresh hop

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Pumpkin Cider On the Fly

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Pumpkins belong to the family of Cucurbitaceae. They are classified to Cucurbita pepo, Cucurbita moschata, Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita mixta, according to the texture and shape of their stems. Pumpkin is poor in taste and carbohydrates but high in vitamins, especially, provitamin A, antioxidants and minerals, and it is mixed with nutmeg, cinnamon and allspice to improve of its sensory properties. Pumpkin is a vegetable, which is healthy and functional, being rich in phenolic compounds, flavonoids and vitamins, and has a low energy. That’s all fine and dandy, but today is Monday, which means we offer a to-go cider flight.

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Morning Foam: Eileen Fisher Trunk Show and Hair of the Dog Skagit Fred pulls

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Good morning from Proctor District! We’re going to miss you Jasminka! Morning Foam: Eileen Fisher Trunk Show and Hair of the Dog Skagit Fred pulls GOOD MORNING, PROCTOR DISTRICT!  Monday, Sept. 28, 2020 — Naomi Watts turns 52 today! Sunny skies with a high of 72. Peaks & Pints offers Campfire Crowler fills of Hair of the Dog Skagit Fred. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW The Eileen Fisher Trunk Show is at the Walla Walla Clothing Co. in the Proctor District from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. CRAFT CHOICE CLICKABLES New Belgium asking beer fans to #VoteVoodoo by

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Instagram Outsider: Firefighting Beer, Northwest Fresh, Easy Big Fella

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Instagram Outsider: Firefighting Beer, Northwest Fresh, Easy Big Fella From wild fires to returning to the pub, from pumpkin beer to chilling outside, 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. And, please, wash your damn hands; wear your damn mask. Until we meet back here again next week, cheers to you!   View this post on Instagram   Today I slept in, put away four months of laundry, wore real

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Chocolate Milk On The Fly

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It’s National Chocolate Milk Day! Oh, what a day! What a day! What a day! Chocolate milk, you see, is the way chocolate should be cosumed. Dark (or real) chocolate is disgusting and bitter and gross on the tongue. It is also pretentious and stupid. People who enjoy high-percentage cocoas are the most annoying people you will ever have the displeasure of meeting. They flock to dark chocolate the same way they do to bacon, pirates, and condescending prattle about how vegetables should always be crisp and barely cooked. The only cure for dark chocolate is, you guessed it, delicious

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Morning Foam: Point Ruston Market and Georgetown Fresh Hop Johnny Utah pulls

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Good morning from the Fernseed in the Proctor District! Morning Foam: Point Ruston Market and Georgetown Fresh Hop Johnny Utah pulls GOOD MORNING, PIERCE COUNTY!  Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020 — Gwyneth Paltrow turns 48 today! Cloudy early, becoming mostly sunny this afternoon, high 67. Peaks & Pints offers Campfire Crowler fills of Georgetown Brewing Fresh Hop Johnny Utah. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW Today marks the last day of the Tacoma Farmers Market Point Ruston, which runs 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Seattle Seahawks host the Dallas Cowboys at 1:25. CRAFT CHOICE CLICKABLES New School Beer reports

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Saturday September 26 2020

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Saturday September 26 2020 Welcome to the Saturday version of 6-Pack of Things To Do! Today, the annual Cider Swig goes home, last call for blueberries in Proctor, Fort from Home goes blacksmithing and more. … CIDER SWIG: Today is National Public Lands Day, which means it’s also time for Cider Swig. The annual outdoor cider festival held at Sehmel Homestead Park in Gig Harbor opens its gate every year on Public Lands Day as proceeds always benefit environmental education and conservation, including this year’s beneficiary Lu Winsor Environmental grants program. That’s all fine and

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Fresh Simcoe On the Fly

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In 2000, Yakima Chief Ranches brought Simcoe into the world as a proprietary hop varietal with strong bitter and aromatic qualities. Although not used much as a bittering hop, many craft brewers favor Simcoe for its unique aroma profile composed of piney, woody, and grapefruit citrus notes mixed with slightly dank and spicy notes of onion and garlic. When fresh Simcoe hops are introduced, the tropical fruit, citrus, and pine pop even more. Let’s get to poppin’. Today’s Peaks & Pints to-go beer flight features beer brewed with fresh Simcoe. It’s a delicious flight we call Peaks and Pints Pilot

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Morning Foam: Cider Swig-ing at home and Wayfinder Sun Titan pulls

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Good morning from the Mason Avenue asphalt trail in the Proctor District! Morning Foam: Cider Swig-ing at home and Wayfinder Sun Titan pulls GOOD MORNING, PIERCE COUNTY! Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020 — Olivia Newton-John turns 72 today! Cloudy this morning with showers during the afternoon, high 62F Peaks & Pints offers Campfire Crowler fills of Wayfinder Beer’s Sun Titan Pale. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW This year’s Cider Swig isn’t in Gig Harbor, but rather at your home with “festival to-go” tasting kits available at LeMay America’s Car Museum. Proctor Farmers Market opens with autumn at 9 a.m.

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Friday September 25 2020

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Friday September 25 2020 6-Pack of Things To Do coming to you from the Peaks & Pints craft beer bar, bottle shop and restaurant in Tacoma’s Proctor District. Make a Day of the Dead altar, hang out at the Museum of Glass, stream comedy — happy Friday! REOPENING: The Museum of Glass reopens today. Exhibitions on view include Richard Marquis: Keepers, Transparency: An LGBTQ+ Glass Art Exhibition, and Alchemy 5: Transformation in Contemporary Enamels. Masks are required and MOG will be asking all guests to maintain physical distancing protocols while enjoying the Hot Shop, galleries,

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Fresh Double Mountain On The Fly

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On sprawling farms clustered around Yakima and Willamette valleys, thousands of green Humulus lupulus vines snake vigorously skyward. A relative of marijuana, these hop plants produce resiny, cone-shaped flowers prized for their use as a bittering agent in beer. September is the traditional time for end-of-the-season harvesting and hops are no exception. That’s good news for beer lovers, as many breweries take advantage of the numerous Pacific Northwest hop farms, creating beers flavored by hops sourced 3-5 hours from the kettle boil. These beers typically have an aroma akin to that of a freshly-mowed lawn and the resinous and deep

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Morning Foam: Museum of Glass reopens and Moonraker Day Dripper pulls

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Good morning from Peaks & Pints in Tacoma’s Proctor District! GOOD MORNING, PIERCE COUNTY! Friday, Sept. 25, 2020 — Michael Douglas turns 76 today! Rain early then remaining cloudy with showers in the afternoon, High 63. Peaks & Pints offers Campfire Crowler fills of Moonraker Brewing Day Dripper Wet Hop IPA. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW Museum of Glass in downtown Tacoma reopens today. Masks are required and MOG will be asking all guests to maintain physical distancing protocols while enjoying the Hot Shop, galleries, and while shopping in the Museum Store. The Lakewood Farmers Market opens at

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Tree-dimensional Tacoma: Cascara Farewell

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Peaks and Pints collaborated with Kulshan Brewing on our third anniversary beer, Tree-dimensional IPA, and with Tacoma Tree Foundation Executive Director Sarah Low on a weekly Tacoma tree column. Tree-dimensional Tacoma: Cascara Farewell The falling leaves are changing color. The trees are becoming bare. And, frankly, Peaks & Pints is melancholy. This time of year marks the end of our yearlong house beer. Like past years, we’ve had a blast with Kulshan Brewing and our Tree-dimensional IPA. This year, though, we must also say goodbye to Tacoma Tree Foundation Executive Director Sarah Low’s weekly tree column.

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Thursday September 24 2020

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Thursday September 24 2020 Yesterday, when Peaks & Pints wasn’t waxing fresh hops, we stared out of our giant, retractable windows at the rain pitter-pattering on the Proctor sidewalks while Jimmy Page brought out an introspective, melancholy mood from the glowing box next to our cooler. Robert Plant dripped with emotion, “Upon us all a little rain must fall”. The county is clean and re-freshed. 6-Pack of Things To Do awaits. GRAND OPENING: John and Tolena Thorburn adore craft beer. For 15 years they traveled the world drinking it. But, an oversaturated market led them

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Fresh Strata On The Fly

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Yesterday Peaks & Pints highlighted one of the most popular fresh hops of the season: Sabro. Today, we examine what seems to be the second most popular hop to be rushed from Yakima hops farms to boiling kettles: Strata. In a nutshell, Strata (formerly known as X-331) is an open pollinated German born Perle hop that Oregon State University’s hop-breeding program tweaked with Indie Hops. Strata expresses many of the oils associated with mango, oranges, and other fruits and herbs. Today, Peaks and Pints suggests taking home beers brewed with fresh Strata hops. We’re calling the to-go flight, Peaks and

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Morning Foam: Fierce County Taproom opens and Old Crow flows

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Good morning from Chirp & Co. in Tacoma’s Proctor District! GOOD MORNING, PIERCE COUNTY! Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020 — Lou Dobbs turns 75 today! Showers and scattered thunderstorms, high 63. Peaks & Pints offers Campfire Crowler fills of Deep Draft Brewing Old Crow Oktoberfest. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW Fierce County Cider opens their first taproom in South Hill Puyallup today. Broadway Farmers Market opens at 10 a.m. CRAFT CHOICE CLICKABLES Back in May, Craft Beer & Brewing polled readers via email to get a sense of how their beer buying and drinking was changing amid the pandemic.

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Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 9.23.20

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Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 9.23.20 Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 9.23.20 includes a new load from Moonraker Brewing in California and the first cans released from Sig Brewing in Tacoma, as well as a killer fresh hop from Single Hill Brewing, new hazy IPA from Gigantic Brewing, and two new IPAs from Modern Times. Gigantic Brewing RAINBOW SUPREME: Hazy IPA brewed with Citra, Southern Passion, and African Queen hops for a rainbow of juicy and tropically hop flavors. 7.5% Modern Times ELARA: This hazy IPA is stuffed with heaps of Mosaic and Amarillo hops for

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Wednesday September 23 2020

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Wednesday September 23 2020 Any husband who subscribes his wife to 6-Pack of Things To Do without telling her is the kind of guy who’ll slip 16-ounces of barleywine into your lunch box as a nice little workday surprise. Our kinda guy. TRUE CRIME IN TACOMA: Many Tacoma residents never leave their beloved neighborhood — even after they’re dead. You can learn about, and possibly meet, these victims on Pretty Gritty Tours’ Tacoma True Crime. The Tacoma tour company will lead you through the historic city streets, stopping at various sites to dish the dirt

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Fresh Sabro On the Fly

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Sabro hops are known among IPA lovers for their fruity citrus character with strong notes of pineapple and tangerine. They may also impart subtle background hints of coconut, stone fruits, grassy mint and woody cedar. Sabro Brand HBC 438 is a relatively new release from the Hop Breeding Company, a joint venture between Yakima Chief Ranches LLC and John I. Haas Inc. Sabro’s pedigree is the result of a unique cross-pollination of a female Neomexicanus hop. With a robust brewing performance, Sabro proves to be a strongly expressive hop that translates its flavor incredibly well into beer — especially if

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Morning Foam: Pierce County Council Debate and Nut Brown pulls

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Good morning from Playback Sports in Tacoma’s Proctor District! GOOD MORNING, PIERCE COUNTY! Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020 — Bruce Springsteen turns 71 today! Cloudy with periods of rain, high 66. Peaks & Pints offers Campfire Crowler fills of AleSmith Brewing Nut Brown Ale. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW City Club of Tacoma hosts their second candidates forum featuring the Pierce County Council races for Councils #2, 4, and 6 online at 6 p.m. Pretty Gritty Tours hosts Tacoma True Crime at 8 p.m. CRAFT CHOICE CLICKABLES Beyond social media or beer-rating apps, the beer technological has replaced the

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Tuesday September 22 2020

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Tuesday September 22 2020 The point of a healthy lifestyle is not to live longer. It is to live better, right now, in the moment, to breathe deeper and dream more lucidly and step lighter and try to participate, just a little, while we’re here, via Peaks & Pints 6-Pack of Things To Do. Enjoy your day! THE ARTS: Kabby Mitchell III founded the Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center several month before the famed dancer died of coronary artery disease. The first black company member of the Pacific Northwest Ballet opened TUPAC so our

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Autumn On the Fly

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Today marks the first day of autumn, therefore Peaks & Pints sat with a dozen eggs to, once and for all, confirm or dispel the nagging question of whether or not eggs will stand unaided on the autumnal equinox. What we had was scrambled eggs for breakfast. What is guaranteed is that fall is upon us. The leaves are falling. You have sleeves on. It’s time to make it official: Peaks & Pints presents a to-go flight of fall beers. So let’s ignore that it’s 69 degrees outside and enjoy Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Autumn On the Fly. Peaks

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Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020: Head Stash Fresh Hop IPA

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Good morning from the Proctor District in North Tacoma! GOOD MORNING, PIERCE COUNTY! Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020 — Joan Jett turns 62 today! Mostly cloudy skies, high around 70. Peaks & Pints offers Campfire Crowler fills of Wet Coast Brewing Soppin’ Wet Sabro Fresh Hop Pale. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW Tacoma Art Museum screens Tacoma Urban Performing Arts Center’s Harriet: The Black Swan In The Year of COVID-19 outside on their façade tonight. The Museum of Glass launches their annual fundraiser Red Hot Gala 2020 online. CRAFT CHOICE CLICKABLES Everybody’s Brewing has released their Head Stash Fresh

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