Every December — while the bartenders close down our Proctor District craft beer bar, bottle shop and restaurant for the night — Peaks & Pints co-owner Pappi Swarner grabs three holiday beers, heads upstairs to his office, cranks his computer speaks to an 11 and watches holiday Youtube videos. Obviously, he can’t perform his holiday tradition this year … at Peaks & Pints. No, his holiday happiness now takes place inside his home, much to the chagrin of his wife and daughter. In the spirit of giving, we offer you the chance to share his joy. Today, he pairs Brouwerij
Every December — while the bartenders close down our Proctor District craft beer bar, bottle shop and restaurant for the night — Peaks & Pints co-owner Pappi Swarner would grab three holiday beers, heads upstairs to his office, cranks his computer speaks to an 11 and watches holiday Youtube videos. Obviously, he can’t perform his holiday tradition this year … at Peaks & Pints. No, his holiday happiness now takes place inside his home, much to the chagrin of his wife and daughter. In the spirit of giving, we offer you the chance to share his joy. Today, he pairs
In December 2019, the Tacoma beer community helped donate 10,000 pounds of food to the Emergency Food Network. Tacoma beer community helps Hoppy Holiday Food Drive If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that community is an essential part of Pierce County. When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the region in March, community organizations stepped up to ensure that our region’s vulnerable residents, among them, people experiencing homelessness, those who lost their jobs and don’t qualify for traditional unemployment benefits, and people in need of food. Despite the pandemic changing nearly everything about our lives —
Peaks and Pints presents Adventwiches Beeralendar Day 9 Lemon Garlic Is Coming To Town paired with Hair of the Dog Brewing Doggie Claus 2020. Peaks & Pints presents Adventwiches Beeralendar Day 9: Lemon Garlic Is Coming To Town No matter where you live, some Christmastime traditions remain the same. Sure, you might have gone to the beach on the first weekend in December or substituted your Douglas fir with a sabal palmetto, but you have your holiday rituals. Peaks & Pints ritual is our Adventwiches Beeralendar — a daily advent calendar featuring a sandwich special and
6-Pack of Things To Do: Wednesday December 9 2020 6-Pack of Things To Do —The holiday gift that keeps on giving. Have a great day! MARKETPLACE: Shopping local for gifts this holiday season carries even more economic significance due to the past nine-plus months of pandemic setbacks disproportionately impacting small businesses. Among the many events to encourage shoppers to (safely) check loved ones off their holiday gift lists is the Mingle Jingle Marketplace at The Old Cannery in Sumner. The pop-up shop will offer a variety of gifts from businesses in Sumner and Puyallup. Order take out from Fat Zach’s
Every December — while the bartenders close down our Proctor District craft beer bar, bottle shop and restaurant for the night — Peaks & Pints co-owner Pappi Swarner grabs three holiday beers, heads upstairs to his office, cranks his computer speaks to an 11 and watches holiday Youtube videos. Obviously, he can’t perform his holiday tradition this year … at Peaks & Pints. No, his holiday happiness now takes place inside his home, much to the chagrin of his wife and daughter. In the spirit of giving, we offer you the chance to share his joy. Today, he pairs the
Peaks & Pints presents Adventwiches Beeralendar Day 8: Sandwich Baby paired with Reuben’s Brews’ Three Ryes Men barleywine. Peaks & Pints presents Adventwiches Beeralendar Day 8: Sandwich Baby “Santa cutie, there’s one thing I really do need — Peaks & Pints’ sandwich special and Reuben’s Brews’ Three Ryes Men barrel-aged barleywine, so hurry to the Proctor District today!” Peaks & Pints celebrates the season with our Adventwiches Beeralendar — a daily advent calendar featuring a sandwich special and a winter beer behind a festival door. Today we open the Day Eight window revealing Sandwich Baby and
6-Pack of Things To Do: Tuesday December 8 2020 While the holidays are not beginning to crowd the calendar, there still are plenty of other illuminating activities — both online and in person — to enlighten your days. Lighten your pantry by supporting the Emergency Food Networks at eight local breweries and cideries. Now on to a 6-Pack of Things To Do! MEET ME AT PROCTOR’S PEPPERMINT PLACE: If you moved to Tacoma within the past decade, you probably know Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium’s Zoolights as the city’s premier holiday hot spot, but you may be less aware of
Every holiday season — while the bartenders close down our Proctor District craft beer bar, bottle shop and restaurant for the night — Peaks & Pints co-owner Pappi Swarner grabs three holiday beers, heads upstairs to his office, cranks his computer speaks to an 11 and watches holiday Youtube videos. Obviously, he can’t perform his holiday tradition this year … at Peaks & Pints. No, his holiday happiness now takes place inside his home, much to the chagrin of his wife and daughter. In the spirit of giving, we offer you the chance to share his joy. Today, he pairs
Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 12.7.20 December is here, the Peaks & Pints 18-foot tree is lit, and we’re loading up our backpack with peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 12.7.20 for the week. What’s in your backpack? Aslan Gold Goose Canadian Lager is a clean, malty, good old days pale lager with just enough hops for balance, 5% Block 15 The DAB Lab, Juice Joint pairs dank and citrusy kettle additions with a tropical and herbal dry-hop for resin-dipped pineapple skunk and freshly squeezed twisted citrus, 7% Block 15 Falling Sunshine IPA offers luscious apricot and
Peaks & Pints presents Adventwiches Beeralendar Day 7: Over The Bacon And Through The Cheese paired with Silver City’s Old Scrooge English barleywine. Peaks & Pints presents Adventwiches Beeralendar Day 7: Over The Bacon And Through The Cheese After everything that 2020 has thrown at us, Peaks & Pints can’t be blamed for wanting something nice to look forward to each day. There’s an Advent calendar for just about everyone with lots of options that include sugary treats, toys, makeup, books, and even daily surprises for pets. Peaks & Pints’ Adventwiches Beeralendar is a daily advent
And so it was that Former Regular Mary Jane came down from atop the mountain and said unto us: “Verily, Peaks & Pints, I really haven’t the taste for beer anymore, so I’ll have an apple cider — make that a six-pack.” Or words to that effect. Former Regular Mary Jane has wrapped up a very nearly plague-free internship and returned to Tacoma for some holiday R&R (we later discovered she meant Roxbury Russet — her favorite cider apple). Judging by her Instagram feed, exactly how she stayed very nearly plague-free is God’s own private mystery, but here we are.
Peaks and Pints Tap List includes Ninkasi Sleigh’r winter ale. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Ninkasi Sleigh’r Peaks and Pints houses a mind-boggling array of suds: 800-plus bottled and canned in our cooler, with another 28 on tap for Campfire Crowler fills (until pints return). 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 and Pints. To follow our tap list live from your phone, click here for iPhone and here for Android.
Peaks & Pints presents Adventwiches Beeralendar Day 6: Do They Know It’s Field Roast? sandwich paired with this year’s Anchor holiday winter warmer. Peaks & Pints presents Adventwiches Beeralendar Day 6: Do They Know It’s Field Roast? Peaks & Pints celebrates the season with our Adventwiches Beeralendar — a daily advent calendar featuring a sandwich special and a winter beer behind a festival door. Today’s holiday sandwich is inspired by the British vegetarian supergroup Animal Aid who recorded “Do They Know It’s Field Roast?” several years after British supergroup Band Aid recorded a different version as
Instagram Outsider: WA Pint Day, Stoked Weirdos, Smokestack Time Machine From a Mari Kemper hug to stoked weirdos, from Washington Pint Day to a beer monolith, 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 A post shared by Kendall Jones, Beer ? Writer
Every December — while the bartenders close down our Proctor District craft beer bar, bottle shop and restaurant for the night — Peaks & Pints co-owner Pappi Swarner grabs three holiday beers, heads upstairs to his office, cranks his computer speaks to an 11 and watches holiday Youtube videos. Obviously, he can’t perform his holiday tradition this year … at Peaks & Pints. No, his holiday hell now takes place inside his home, much to the chagrin of his wife and daughter. In the spirit of giving, we offer you the chance to share his joy. Today, he pairs the
Peaks & Pints presents Adventwiches Beeralendar Day 5: Khristmas In Thailand paired with Double Mountain’s Fa La La La La La Winter Ale Peaks & Pints presents Adventwiches Beeralendar Day 5: Khristmas In Thailand Peaks & Pints celebrates the season with our Adventwiches Beeralendar — a daily advent calendar featuring a sandwich special and a winter beer behind a festival door. We could present a toasted American cheese sandwich paired with Michelob Ultra and still improve upon the stale chocolate that typically hides behind an advent calendar’s cardboard doors. But fortunately, we make delicious handmade sandwiches
Flash back to the Roaring Twenties, when America was in the midst of the Prohibition: Booze was banned, stealthy speakeasies adorned Tacoma, and the Paramount Theatre sat in Tacoma’s Proctor District, which in 2016 became Peaks & Pints bottle shop, taproom and eatery. Prohibition, the law that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol in the United States, was ratified as the 18th amendment on Jan. 16, 1919, and went into effect on Jan. 16, 1920. Dec. 5, 1933, passage of the 21st Amendment, brought an end to Prohibition. You might think there are already enough reasons to party
6-Pack of Things To Do: Friday December 4 2020 It’s beginning to look a lot like 6-Pack of Things To Do. … HOPPY HOLIDAY FOOD DRIVE: Douville Home Group, in partnership with Peaks & Pints, has kicked of the annual Hoppy Holiday Food Drive, where local breweries come together to support Emergency Food Network. Through Jan. 8, please bring non-perishable food items and hygiene products to 7 Seas Brewing, E9 Brewing, Grit City Ciderworks, Narrows Brewing, Odd Otter Brewing, Sig Brewing, Wet Coast Brewing, Wingman Brewers, and Wet Coast Brewing, as well as Peaks & Pints, to be distributed to
Every December — while the bartenders close down our Proctor District craft beer bar, bottle shop and restaurant for the night — Peaks & Pints co-owner Pappi Swarner grabs three holiday beers, heads upstairs to his office, cranks his computer speaks to an 11 and watches holiday Youtube videos. Obviously, he can’t perform his holiday tradition this year … at Peaks & Pints. No, his holiday hell now takes place inside his home, much to the chagrin of his wife and daughter. In the spirit of giving, we offer you the chance to share his joy. Today, he pairs the
Peaks & Pints Campfire Crowler meets Fleet Feet holiday stocking-stuffers. Peaks and Pints Proctor Presents: Fleet Feet meets Campfire Crowler Proctor is a boutique Tacoma neighborhood centered around North 26th Street and Proctor Street. It’s a small district packed with locally-owned and operated niche stores in which every detail — every window display, bushel of fresh produce or interior cheer — is carefully curated for customers. This year, the Proctor Business District dons candy cane stripes and white lights for their monthlong “Meet Me At Proctor’s Peppermint Place” celebration. Peaks and Pints bottle shop, taproom and restaurant has called
Peaks & Pints Campfire Crowler meets Lapis holiday jewelry, gift items, paper goods, and home décor. Peaks and Pints Proctor Presents: Lapis meets Campfire Crowler Proctor is a boutique Tacoma neighborhood centered around North 26th Street and Proctor Street. It’s a small district packed with locally-owned and operated niche stores in which every detail — every window display, bushel of fresh produce or interior cheer — is carefully curated for customers. This year, the Proctor Business District dons candy cane stripes and white lights for their month-long “Meet Me At Proctor’s Peppermint Place” celebration. Peaks and
Peaks & Pints presents Adventwiches Beeralendar Day 3: Wonderful Sandwichtime For something a bit more playful, Peaks & Pints presents Adventwiches Beeralendar — a daily advent calendar featuring a sandwich special and a winter beer behind a festival door. We’re ho-ho-hoping you’re ready to eat and drink your way through December, or save all the beers for Christmas Day to make your in-laws that much more tolerable. Day Three features Wonderful Sandwichtime and Bad Santa. … Kylee’s Wonderful Sandwichtime is a Reuben variation with pastrami, spicy sauerkraut, Gouda, mayo, and arugula on rye bread. Pelican Brewing’s Cascadian Dark Ale is
6-Pack of Things To Do: Thursday December 3 2020 The holidays can be stressful. There’s the hunt to buy presents, the trials of wrapping those presents, full days cooking family feasts. After all of that, you need a break. That’s where Peaks & Pints 6-Pack of Things To Do comes in. Nothing says ’tis the season like a daily six-event advent calendar of local goodness to jolly up your December. Cheers! WASHINGTON PINT DAY: Today, and tomorrow, breweries across the state will celebrate Washington Pint Day. All you have to do is go drink beer and bring home a cool
Every December — while the bartenders close down our Proctor District craft beer bar, bottle shop and restaurant for the night — Peaks & Pints co-owner Pappi Swarner grabs three holiday beers, heads upstairs to his office, cranks his computer speaks to an 11 and watches holiday Youtube videos. Obviously, he can’t perform his holiday tradition this year … at Peaks & Pints. No, his holiday hell now takes place inside his home, much to the chagrin of his wife and daughter. In the spirit of giving, we offer you the chance to share his joy. Today, he pairs the
Peaks and Pints Adventwiches Beeralendar Day Day 2: A Christmas Chicken Story Sandwich paired with St. Bernardus Christmas Ale. Peaks and Pints Adventwiches Beeralendar Day Two: A Christmas Chicken Story Sandwich For generations we have seen, and partaken in, the tradition of counting down to Christmas by snacking on a sweet treat behind a set of 24 doors on an advent calendar. For something different, we offer the Peaks and Pints Adventwiches Beeralendar — a daily advent calendar with a sandwich special and a winter beer behind a door. We’re ho-ho-hoping you’re ready to eat and
Peaks & Pints Campfire Crowler meets Olympia Coffee Roasters holiday stocking-stuffer tables. Peaks and Pints Proctor Presents: Olympia Coffee meets Campfire Crowler Proctor is a boutique Tacoma neighborhood centered around North 26th Street and Proctor Street. It’s a small district packed with locally-owned and operated niche stores in which every detail — every window display, bushel of fresh produce or interior cheer — is carefully curated for customers. This year, the Proctor Business District dons candy cane stripes and white lights for their month-long “Meet Me At Proctor’s Peppermint Place” celebration. Peaks and Pints bottle shop,
6-Pack of Things To Do: Wednesday December 2 2020 If you love the holidays, this 6-Pack of Things To Do is gold, and if you hate the holidays, it might offer you a small way to find some joy this month. GROOVY GOATS HOLIDAY EDITION: Consider the goat. Not one of nature’s more photogenic creatures. Not one of nature’s more charming creatures. And yet it possesses a strange sort of beauty when flanked by 700,000 LED lights. Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium hosts an animal experience with goats during Zoolights. Meet their magnificent herd of goats up-close and personal in
Every December — while the bartenders close down our Proctor District craft beer bar, bottle shop and restaurant for the night — Peaks & Pints co-owner Pappi Swarner grabs three holiday beers, heads upstairs to his office, cranks his computer speaks to an 11 and watches holiday Youtube videos. Obviously, he can’t perform his holiday tradition this year … at Peaks & Pints. No, his holiday hell now takes place inside his home, much to the chagrin of his wife and daughter. In the spirit of giving, we offer you the chance to share his joy. Today, he pairs the
Peaks & Pints Campfire Crowler meets Compass Rose’s holiday stocking-stuffer table. Peaks and Pints Proctor Presents: Compass Rose meets Campfire Crowler Proctor is a boutique Tacoma neighborhood centered around North 26th Street and Proctor Street. It’s a small district packed with locally-owned and operated niche stores in which every detail — every window display, bushel of fresh produce or interior cheer — is carefully curated for customers. This year, the Proctor Business District dons candy cane stripes and white lights for their monthlong “Meet Me At Proctor’s Peppermint Place” celebration. Peaks and Pints bottle shop, taproom
Peaks and Pints Adventwiches Beeralendar Day One: Roast Beast paired with Port Brewing Santa’s Little Helper. Peaks and Pints Adventwiches Beeralendar: Roast Beast During the Christmases of our childhoods, Peaks & Pints always enjoyed advent calendars and the daily ritual of opening a little door to reveal a new surprise for each day of December until the 25th. Taking the advent calendar as inspiration, we present the Peaks and Pints Adventwiches Beeralendar — a monthlong pairing our daily sandwich special with a winter beer. In a sense, Peaks & Pints opens a door to a daily
6-Pack of Things To Do: Tuesday December 1 2020 Stop, take a deep breath, and put down the candy cane you’ve just sharpened into a vampire-slaying stake. You are not alone. There is help. There is 6-Pack of Things To Do. … PODCAST: If you have a hankering to support local independent media, please consider subscribing to Channel 253. Serving Tacoma and Pierce County, Channel 253 produces podcasts about our community, including Gimme the Mic — a podcast featuring different voices in the Tacoma community. Listen in as Diane Tilstra sits down Miriam Barnett, CEO of the YWCA Pierce County,
Every December — while the bartenders close down our Proctor District craft beer bar, bottle shop and restaurant for the night — Peaks & Pints co-owner Pappi Swarner grabs three holiday beers, heads upstairs to his office, cranks his computer speaks to an 11 and watches holiday Youtube videos. Obviously, he can’t perform his holiday tradition this year … at Peaks & Pints. No, this holiday hell now takes place inside his home, much to the chagrin of his wife and daughter. In the spirit of giving, we offer you the chance to share his joy. Today, he pairs the
On the northeast corner of the Olympic Peninsula is an extension of land called the Quimper Peninsula, named after Manuel Quimper, a Spanish Peruvian explorer, cartographer, naval officer, and colonial official. In 1790, Quimper and seven Spanish naval officers were dispatched to the Pacific Northwest to help Spanish commander Esteban José Martinez secure British explorer John Meares’ Princesa Real vessel and his fur trading post on Nootka Sound. Quimper was the mapmaker of the fleet, made the first chart of, what is now, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and in the exercise named a peninsula after himself. The narrow
Peaks and Pints Tap List includes Bale Breaker Brewing’s Clarity Rarity No. 3. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Bale Breaker Clarity Rarity #3 Peaks and Pints houses a mind-boggling array of suds: 800-plus bottled and canned in our cooler, with another 28 on tap for Campfire Crowler fills (until pints return). 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 and Pints. To follow our tap list live from your phone, click here
Instagram Outsider: Over Zoolights, Turkey Beer, Small Business From Thanksgiving wishes to turkey beer, from Chuckanut pet-pics to berry gratitude, 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 A post shared by BrewDad ? (@thebrewdad) View this post on Instagram A
College friends Adam Charnack and Chris Frosaker were working in other industries and home brewing on the side when they decided to take the leap at open circus-themed Hi-Wire Brewing in Ashville, North Carolina. As simple as clowns in a car, they duo decided to brew approachable lagers and ales that are easy to drink. They quickly became a center ring attraction. They grew 135 percent in their first year. They quadrupled production within four years. Hi-Wire has been awarded by some of the industry’s premiere beer competitions, receiving two gold medals at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver,
6-pack of Things To Do: Saturday November 28 2020 Never has Small Business Saturday been as crucial as it is now, so shop where it will make a difference — at artisan markets, favorite local shops, and museums and galleries. Some are going virtual, while others will be open for business with secure social-distancing protocols. Either way, you should be able to get all your shopping done with ease and a full heart. Let’s keep our small businesses open and thriving. Now on to a 6-pack of Things To Do. Cheers! KRAMPUS: Krampus, the goat-demon of Central European folklore, traditionally
Today is Small Business Saturday, a holiday that encourages Americans to patron Main Street enterprises. While small businesses have been the backbone of the U.S. economy for decades, it’s more important to support them now than ever before. The coronavirus has pistol whipped small businesses, many on life support. Peaks and Pints craft beer bar, bottle shop and restaurant is a small business owned by three lifelong Tacomans. Today, our small business celebrates other local small business by offering a flight of Tacoma craft beer, which we call Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Small Business Beer On the Fly. For
6-Pack of Things To Do: Friday November 27 2020 Hope everyone had an enjoyable Thanksgiving. If you’re done buying discount TVs before 6 a.m. then you might have time for a 6-Pack of Things To Do. Cheers! ZOOLIGHTS: From watching Elf to eating Aunt Bethany’s cookies to spraying fake snow on the windows, we all have our seasonal rituals. And it’s impossible to live here and get in the spirit without a spin through ZooLights. Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium’s 700,000 light display depicts everything from Santa’s reindeer to walruses and the 23-foot Mount Rainier. There is an infusion of
While some folks are be fighting car and foot traffic on this Black Friday, others are engaging in a different sort of darkness. Today marks the last night of Peaks & Pints’ Dark Side of Thanksgiving — a week-long celebration of dark, mostly imperial brews. Today will no doubt be the best day as we can officially release Goose Island Beer Company’s Bourbon County Stout 2020 and its variants. This year’s original BCBS — we call it the Basic Black at Peaks — is, like most of the entire Bourbon County 2020 lineup, ringing in at just over 14 percent
Peaks and Pints Day Before Thanksgiving Beer Parade! Join us for the Tacoma Proctor District tradition as Peaks & Pints is alive with two spectators who happen to be shopping at the cooler and craft beer cheer is in the air. Get ready for a celebration filled with Peaks & Pints bartenders, world famous dark beers, incredible music, phenomenal waving and two people clapping their asses off. Welcome to Peaks and Pints Day Before Thanksgiving Beer Parade! You are hovering around eye level inside Peaks and Pints at North 26th and Proctor Street in North Tacoma, Washington, for the
6-Pack of Things To Do: Wednesday November 25 2020 Feed your mind and soul before you finish plans for Thanksgiving dinner and the shop-local weekend that follows. We offer a 6-Pack of Things To Do today. Be safe! GROWLER (AND CROWLER) THANKSGIVING: It’s back — now with more spins! Peaks & Pints’ annual Growler Thanksgiving where we offer 20 percent off growler fills from open to close the day before Thanksgiving just became more interesting with the addition of 32-ounce crowler fills. Yes, you can grab discounted crowler fills of Modern Times Monsters’ Park Aged In Bourbon Barrel: Espresso Macaroon
The nights are long. And cold. Wet. Since Peaks & Pints is in the midst of our annual Dark Side of Thanksgiving salute to dark beers we decided to offer four beers as dark as the 5 p.m. sky for today’s to-go flight, Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: New Stouts On The Fly. The original “stout porters” of 18th century London were brewed for their heartiness in the face of harsh storage conditions; with any luck these four new stouts will keep you just as well-preserved through the night. Cheers! Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: New Stouts On The Fly
