Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 9.15.20 It’s Tuesday, which means a fresh batch of new beers for the Peaks & Pints cooler. Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 9.15.20 includes fresh hops and Ale Asylum in the house! 7 Seas Brewing YAKIMA VALLEY FRESH HOP IPA: Hopped with Centennial and Simcoe from Loza Farms, this fresh hop IPA hits the nose and tongue with fresh floral notes and hints of citrus fruits and pine, plus a long bitter finish. 6.2% Ale Asylum FVCK COVID PALE VERSION 2.0: Brewed with Idaho 7, Ekuanot, and Trident hops, this hazy
6-Pack of Things To Do: Tuesday September 15 2020 Rule number one is of course to buy the best mattress and absolute softest sheets you can reasonably afford. Rule number two is to inhabit that bed as deeply and passionately as possible. Rule number three is to read the Peaks & Pints 6-Pack of Things To Do every morning in said bed. Rule number four is to get out of bed because our To Do posts after 9 a.m. and you need a good breakfast before tackling these events. Have a great day! LECTURE: Tacoma is a city of tree
At age 19, Nancy and Steve “Bear” Bishop would go on dates to Canada. They fell in love with cider. After making cider as hobbyists for many years, in 2001 they took a trip to the cider making regions of Spain, France, and England to observe commercial operations. When they returned home, Steve and Nancy took a class at WSU from an English cider master, and ordered 900 French and English cider trees, which started their journey into commercial cider making and the founding of Alpenfire Cider (previously named Wildfire Cider). Located in Port Townsend, the Bishops, including their son
Good morning from wet Tacoma! Morning fog, then mostly cloudy this afternoon, high 79. Channel 253 produced What U Say podcast talks Pierce County Executive 2020 election race Peaks & Pints offers Campfire Crowler fills of Fort George Fresh IPA. Have a great day!
Pineapple Express! Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Pineapple Express MONDAY, SEPT. 14 2020: Sinking teeth into today’s Peaks & Pints sandwich special releases sweet sweet and spicy pineapple juices into the mouth, filling the flavor cracks between jalapeño heat and the fatty bacon. Fried onions and lettuce add a crunch. Chicken and provolone do their thing. PAIRING: Now, this wouldn’t be a proper Peaks & Pints special posting without a bit about beer! We’re thinking Wayfinder Beer’s Freiheit! festbier. Freiheit! Means “freedom” in German and is a reference to Münchner Freiheit, the area of Münich
Historians believe that the pineapple originated in Brazil. It was imported to Europe later. It is also believed that Christopher Columbus and his crewmembers were probably the first few people from the European continent to have tasted the fruit. Members of European royal families soon developed a liking for it. It gradually became available to the rich, the noble and the elite. Popular wherever it landed, the pineapple was regarded as an exotic delicacy, even becoming a symbol of hospitality, as only the most generous of hosts presented their guests with a pineapple. James Dole did a lot to popularize
Good morning from Top Pot Doughnuts on National Cream Filled Donut Day Cloudy, smoky day in Pierce County, high 74. Seattle Mariners play the Oakland Athletics today. Peaks & Pints offers Campfire Crowler fills of Elemental Hard Cider Pineapple. Have a great day!
You fancy Dansk Mjød and Schramm’s mead Fancy Pants Sunday: Mead Now more than ever people in Pierce County can drink like Gandalf. The world’s oldest alcoholic beverage is making a comeback in the South Sound Shire. Fancy Pants Sunday: Mead focuses on two brands of mead in the Peaks and Pints cooler: Dansk Mjød and Schramm’s Mead. Some call it honey wine, though the term is not endorsed by its makers. Mead is an alcoholic beverage made from honey, yeast, water, and often fruits, spices, and herbs. It ranges in alcoholic content but often settles
Peaks and Pints Instagram Outsider: St. Mari Girl, Sad Closures, RIP Aaron Grissom From Aaron Grissom’s shocking death to heart-wrenching Tacoma closures, from Frau Mari Kemper to wildfires, 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. (Over your mouth and nose. And stay away from people.) Until we meet back here again next week, cheers to you! View this post
Yesterday, we didn’t watch the Husky football. We didn’t watch Coug football either. The Pac-12 CEO Group voted unanimously to postpone all sport competitions through the end of the 2020 calendar year. We’re left with watching overrated SEC teams play each other. We don’t think so. Hopefully, the NFL will give us desperate college football fans the fix we need. Some teams will have empty stadiums while others have plans for socially distanced limited attendance, but the games will go on. The Seahawks kick off their season at Atlanta at 10 a.m. today. Since we’re crate deep in the 10th
Good morning from the Proctor Art Gallery! Cloudy, smoky day in Pierce County, high 71. Seahawks on the tube at 10 a.m. Peaks & Pints offers Campfire Crowler fills of Dru Bru Oktoberfest. Have a great day!
6-Pack of Things To Do: Saturday September 12 2020 It’s the end of the world as we know it, and the sky looks fine. Very eerie, and beautiful — in an Edgar Allan Poe kind of way — the smoke-clogged air hovering over the South Sound can make people more susceptible to respiratory infections. Therefore, today’s 6-Pack of Things To Do is all about spending most of your time indoors. Be safe! WHEELS & HEELS GALA: It’s not a big deal if your heels colors don’t match as tonight’s American’s Automotive Trust gala at LeMay – America’s Car Museum is
Northwest Cider Association’s 10th Annual Washington Cider Week continues at Peaks & Pints with day three of to-go Washington cider flights from our taps and cooler. Today, we feature Whitewood Cider Company from Olympia. In 2012, when Dave White met Heather Ringwood in the cider naming room the two business partners created Whitewood, the South Sound’s first cidery. White has family roots in the state’s apple capital, Wenatchee — his grandfather worked in the apple industry — so he doesn’t mess around much with other fruits. In fact, White became a founding member of the Northwest Cider Association. Drop by
Good morning from Pacific Northwest Shop in Tacoma’s Proctor District! Partly cloudy skies with widespread areas of smoke and haze, high 78. Proctor Farmers Market is open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Peaks & Pints offers Campfire Crowler fills of pFriem Family Brewers’ Oatmeal Cookie Ale. Have a great day!
Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 9.11.20 Here are a few new craft beer that landed this week in the Peaks & Pints cooler. Check out Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 9.11.20 and load up for tonight’s Seattle Mariners game against the Diamondbacks. Cheers! Belching Beaver Brewery DEFTONES WHITE PONY: Double dry hopped IPA honoring the 20th anniversary of the band’s iconic album, White Pony. Citrus hops team with other varieties to make this delicious and beautifully balanced IPA. 7% HIGH EXPECTATIONS: Brewed with Galaxy, Motueka, Amarillo, Idaho 7, and Citra hops, this hazy IPA is loaded
6-Pack of Things To Do: Friday September 11 2020 Sept. 11, 2001, a day of inconceivable tragedy, will always be a date seared into the memories of Americans. With the 19th anniversary of 9/11 terrorist attacks here, join us as we remember those who lost their lives and honor those who serve and protect us every day. Here is today’s 6-Pack of Things To Do. … MECK DADDY: As the ongoing absence of live concerts due to coronavirus plunges dedicated live music fans into spiraling boredom and insanity, a light has appeared within the tunnel: the increasing proliferation of porch
It’s day two of Peaks & Pints’ Washington Cider Week celebration in which we offer a to-go flight of Washington made cider. Today, we feature Tieton in the Yakima Valley. In 2008, Craig Campbell and his wife, Sharon, began experimenting with making cider from dessert apples grown in their 400-acre commercial fruit orchards. Today, they blend American heritage, English and French cider varietals with dessert apples to capture the best of what each variety brings to the bottle: sweetness, acidity, tannin and aroma. They call their cidery, Tieton Cider Works. We call today’s to-go cider flight, Peaks and Pints 2020
Good morning from Kulshan Brewing in Bellingham! Cloudy skies early, followed by partial clearing in Tacoma, high 80. Pierce College Science Dome will take you on a virtual tour of the night sky tonight. Peaks & Pints offers Campfire Crowler fills of Kulshan Brewing Tree-dimensional IPA. Have a great day!
6-Pack of Things To Do: Thursday September 10 2020 This is a place of 10,000 epiphanies. Countless transformations. Laughter and tears and awakenings of every flavor you can name, and most you really can’t, because 6-Pack of Things To Do. … WASHINGTON CIDER WEEK: The Northwest Cider Association’s 10th annual Washington Cider Week, an 11-day craft cider celebration, kicks off today. The 2020 version has a much smaller list of events, but they’re all awesome, including, if we must say, Peaks & Pints Washington Cider Week to-go cider flights. Like our Washington Cider Week socials last year, we will keep
The Northwest Cider Association’s 10th annual Washington Cider Week, an 11-day craft cider celebration, kicks off today. The 2020 version has a much smaller list of events, but they’re all awesome, including, if we must say, Peaks & Pints Washington Cider Week to-go cider flights. Like our Washington Cider Week socials last year, we will keep it apple based for the entire 11-day run, Sept. 10-20, kicking it all off with a to-go flight of Finnriver Farm & Cidery. In addition to growing a certified-organic heirloom-variety orchard on their historic 50-acre farm, Finnriver co-owners Keith and Crystie Kisler, co-owner Eric
Good morning from Cushman Substation! Sunny, with areas of smoke and haze today, high near 91. Washington Cider Week kicks off with a Finnriver cider flight at Peaks and Pints. Peaks & Pints offers Campfire Crowler fills of Matchless Brewing CSA Farm Harvest fresh hop pale. Have a great day!
6-Pack of Things To Do: Wednesday September 9 2020 Oh man you are so very ready we mean don’t you just feel it? That racing pulsing tickling need to bust open and break your own mold and mold your own break and say what you mean and mean what you say and do it all with the Peaks & Pints 6-Pack of Things To Do because after all what the hell else is there? SOCCER: Tacoma Defiance continues its road stint on Wednesday evening with a match at Portland Timbers 2 at Providence Park in Portland’s Goose Hollow neighborhood. Both
Learn it. Know it. Live it. (See, kids, that line is from the 1982 film classic Fast Times at Ridgemont High, a coming-of-age tale about … high school. We’re not being graded on today’s Peaks & Pints to-go beer flight.) Tacoma School District turns on the computers today. Typically, back-to-school is a glorious time of new beginnings and excitement, seeing friends again, wearing your week’s worth of new clothing and getting to learn a whole year of new stuff. Obviously, it’s different this year. It’s going to be awful. For everyone. Drinking delicious craft beer won’t solve scheduling issues, added
This week’s Tree-dimensional Tacoma tree is the redbud tree at the Adriana Hess Wetland Park in University Place. Photo credit: Kate Swarner Tree-dimensional Tacoma: Redbud “With their heart-shaped leaves and round spreading crown, redbuds are darlings among the small trees,” says Sarah Low, executive director of the Tacoma Tree Foundation. “we have quite a few in Tacoma — many of which seem to be cultivated varieties like those with purple foliage or weeping branches. Recently, I went for a walk at Adriana Hess Wetland Park in University Place and right next to the parking lot is
Good morning from Cheney Stadium 9.9.20 Sunny, with areas of smoke and haze today, high near 90. Tacoma Defiance are in Portland tonight. Peaks & Pints offers Campfire Crowler fills of Breakside Brewery’s Fresh Guy IPA brewed with fresh Strata hops. Have a great day!
The Mediterranean! Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: The Mediterranean TUESDAY, SEPT. 8 2020: Today’s Peaks & Pints sandwich special places salami, pepperoni, ham, Beecher’s Handmade Cheddar, yellow mustard, mayo, onion, and tomato between two rye slices. PAIRING: The Italian meats have a kick, and alongside 7 Seas Brewing’s Black IPA’s spicy hops and bitter roast, the peppery flavor gets sharper and more defined. The beer’s hop and malt bitterness (the hallmark of this beer style) scrub away grease and prep the palate for another big bite. THING TO DO: Call ahead at (253) 328-5621. Saluti!
6-Pack of Things To Do: Tuesday September 8 2020 Just when you thought your respiratory system had enough threats a wildfire smoke wind storm shows up. Therefore, Peaks & Pints’ 6-Pack of Things To Do today features events held mostly indoors. Be safe! CONCERT IN THE PARK: Classical Tuesdays’ annual Concert in the Park will be performed outdoors – but virtually today. The Classical Tuesdays season opens with a performance by Steel Pan, an ensemble representing the music of Trinidad led by Miho Takekawa, a member of the Pacific Lutheran University music faculty. It’s pre-recorded a few days in advance,
When we asked Peaks & Pints Nerd Alert Director Mitchell Lovett to pick a to-go beer flight of video game beers he sprinted to the cooler and started typing the beer names into his Pokédex. The arcades we knew were overrun with burnouts, jeans tucked into their high-tops. Back then; we’d seek out the cigarette-charred console of Elevator Action. Nothing flashy — you played an agent whose goal was to weave through a building grabbing secrets from behind red doors. You dodged, shot or kicked spies and rode the elevator to your getaway car in the basement. The colors were
Sunny skies, maybe some wind (you think), high 79 Tacoma Public Library’s Digital Media Lab hosts a Zoom lecture on how to start your own record label tonight. Peaks & Pints offers Campfire Crowler fills of Block 15 Brewing’s Step Outsilde Pale Ale. Have a great day!
Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 9.7.20 This Labor Day, relax with alcohol. Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 9.7.20 offers a few of the many craft beers that arrived to our craft beer bar, bottle shop and restaurant this past week. Cheers! Abomination Brewing WANDERING INTO THE FOG (CITRA): This juicy DIPA was brewed with golden promise, a heavy wheat and oat malt bill, then hopped and double dry hopped aggressively with 7-plus pounds per barrel of Mosaic, Pacific Jade, Summit and an irresponsible amount of Citra! Golden, silky and hazy, tasting notes of tropical citrus fruits
Summertime calls for berry picking season. But if you want to get out of the sweltering heat, you can drop those fruit baskets and head to Peaks and Pints cider cooler to enjoy all the delicious, dark and tart berry ciders. That’s right, friends. It’s Monday, which means Peaks and Pints offers a flight of ciders and, as you can guess from the smart introduction, we’re offering a flight of berry cider today. There are many cideries brewing tart and balanced berry varieties using fruits to cut the traditionally cloying apple flavor. Peaks and Pints offers five delicious berry ciders
Good Morning from Teaching Toys! Mostly sunny, becoming windy this afternoon, high 84 Downtown: On The Go hosts Walk Tacoma: Puyallup Tribe Walk in Downtown Tacoma at 10 a.m. Peaks & Pints offers Campfire Crowler fills of High Water Brewing’s Campfire Stout. Have a great day!
Pluto Pastrami! Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Pluto Pastrami SUNDAY, SEPT. 6 2020: Today’s Peaks & Pints sandwich special features pastrami, Havarti, Dijonnaise, onion, and pickle on French bread. It’s out of this world delicious! PAIRING: As you know, Peaks & Pints thinks IPAs orbit pastrami the best. The bitterness of an IPA won’t get lost among the liberally seasoned pastrami, which is why we’re pairing today’s special with Ninkasi Brewing’s new Steady Orbit Grounded IPA. It’s a Jupiter-sized IPA with 4.5-percent Pluto stats. Lots of hop character and a slight bitter finish, plus tropical
Peaks and Pints Instagram Outsider: Pinner Pain, Manway Door Selfies, The Nitro Abides From a Steady Orbit to Pinnerheads’ pain, Slay All Day Then IPA winner to the Super Secret Beer Club, Peaks and Pints Instagram Outsider returns today with a photo essay of our favorite 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. (Over your mouth and nose. And stay away from people.) Until we meet back here again next week, cheers
You’ve heard of gose. It’s German, a sour beer. Pronounced “go-zuh,” like the thing that wrecked New York in Ghostbusters. Reported to be between 200 and 1,000 years old, it’s sour and salty, a low-ABV session beer, which means it won’t get you sauced. The gose style is a wheat beer that balances a sour twang from lactic acid-producing bacteria, a distinct salinity and a subtle floral spice from added coriander. It’s made with a souring process using a natural bacteria like what you’d find in yogurt. This provides a natural acidity; a really nice tartness that helps balance. It has a
Good morning from Chirp & Co in Tacoma’s Proctor District! Abundant sunshine, high 79. The Kareem Kandi World Orchestra live streams at 6 p.m. Peaks & Pints offers Campfire Crowler fills of Bluebeard Coffee Roasters Cold Brew. Have a great day!
Chicken Refresher! Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Chicken Refresher SATURDAY, SEPT. 5 2020: Chicken, cucumber, rosemary aioli, goat cheese, onion, provolone, arugula, French bread — delicious food items and collectively today’s Peaks & Pints sandwich special. PAIRING: Stillwater Artisanal’s saison Extra Dry Chu-Hi with Red Grapefruit pairs nicely. THING TO DO: Call ahead at (253) 328-5621. Cheers! LINK: Peaks & Pints full menu
6-Pack of Things To Do: Saturday September 5 2020 All you have to do is grab one of those little tchotchke squeeze-toys things in each hand and begin working the wrist muscles like there’s no tomorrow and regulate the breath slow and steady and keep the gaze firm all in preparation for the coming time when you will be called upon to slap yourself out of your inner conundrums and shake yourself from your general malaise and heed thee to Peaks & Pints 6-Pack of Things To Do. NORTHWEST TREK: The wildlife park is open daily, but you’re the tram
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 today’s Peaks and Pints to-beer flight, Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Tilquin On The Fly. Tilquin purchases worts from Boon, Lindemans, Cantillon and Girardin, then
Good Morning Proctor Farmers Market! Morning clouds will give way to afternoon sunshine, high 76. Proctor Farmers Market runs 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Peaks & Pints offers Campfire Crowler fills of Crux Fermentation Project’s Pert Near Fresh Hop IPA. Have a great day!
6-Pack of Things To Do: Friday September 4 2020 It’s a win-win for everyone on this holiday weekend because the variety continues to grow. Check out Peaks & Pints’ 6-Pack of Things To Do, and have some fun. DRIVE-IN: The Peace Bus TV Show will park for a free drive-in showing tonight at Tacoma’s Central Co-Op. Through music and zaniness, Tacoman Kwabi Amoah-Forson and friends educate children on the subjects of homelessness, poverty, incarceration, hunger, racism and how they can help with the environment. You can expect on the big screen Sesame Street-like puppets and characters and their 1988 powder-blue
We’ve told the Stoup story a thousand times, but it bears repeating. Scientist Brad Benson and foodie Lara Zahaba opened Stoup Brewing in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood in 2013. Washington state’s first female Cicerone, Robyn Schumacher, became Stoup’s third partner, assisting Benson in the brewing room. Benson graduated from Gonzaga University with a B.S. in Chemistry and has been crafting beer for more than 25 years. In the summer of 2017, the brewery opened “Upstairs at Stoup,” which was an 800-square-foot expansion of the 3,000-square-foot taproom and brewery to include event space upstairs. The space holds up to 40 people seated
6-Pack of Things To Do: Thursday September 3 2020 We don’t blame you, really. We wouldn’t want to wear the same dirty left sock every soccer game we played or have to carry around a pocket Buddha just to rub its belly every time we felt we needed a little extra good fortune either. It’s OK, don’t panic. You can get your luck right here. 6-Pack of Things To Do has lots of good luck. Print it out and carry it around with you today. Finding your lucky four-leaf clover on St. Patrick’s Day is still months away. 6-Pack of
Damn, it’s going to get steamy out there today. When it’s this hot, Peaks & Pints only has two solutions … Unfortunately, the Proctor Business District prefers us to wear clothing, so number one is out. Number two: drink IPAs with papaya notes until it cools off. If you taste a papaya straight from its thick green-yellow-orange skin, you’ll find a taste that is somewhere between vomit and a rotten cantaloupe. And those slimy looking black seeds that dot the hollow interior taste of potent mustard seed and gassy fermented cabbage. But, papaya in beer is quite lovely. We suggest
