Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 4.11.20 Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 4.11.20 has new craft beers to-go in our cooler for you to hide night around the house or yard tonight. Alesong Brewing & Blending RHINO SUIT IMPERIAL MILK STOUT: A blend of the first two batches of beer brewed at Alesong, this imperial milk stout is matured in bourbon barrels to add velvety layers of vanilla, coconut, and bourbon to the sweet and chocolaty malt flavors of the base stout. 12.2% Allegory Brewing GALACTIC GHOST: Hazy IPA loaded with Australian Galaxy hops and Oregon-grown Comet
Today is the traditional birthday of Gambrinus, sometimes called King Gambrinus, considered to be a patron saint of beer, brewing and/or Belgian beer. Not an “official” saint, at least not in the Catholic Church, but a legendary figure. Around the year 1100, the brewers of Brussels deliberated which strong and courageous man should be their leader. They organized a contest, at which a large beer barrel was placed on the ground. The one who could carry it to a spot two stone’s throws away would become their head brewer. Among many who registered for the contest was a Duke from
Tournament of Beer: West Coast Flagships First Round April 11 Over a three-week period, Peaks and Pints pits 64 of the West Coast’s best in a malt-to-malt battle of flagship beers. This is a tournament, folks, not a playoff. Each match is do or die — one misstep and you’re out of the dance. Sluggish yeast due to cold water, krausen is forced into the airlock, and you can pack your brewers paddle and go home. Sure, there are plenty of new brewers wearing “Frankie Says Extract” T-shirts who can still brew a mighty fine batch of their brewery’s flagship.
Tacoma Strong: Friday, April 10 2020 2 Beers, 5 Love Locals, and 3 Things To Do Peaks and Pints is open from 11 a.m., to 8 p.m. today for to-go sales from our 13-door craft cooler, growler fills and take-out food. In addition, we’d like to give a few more shout-outs to awesome people offering help and relief during the self-quarantining and sheltering in place. Be well everyone! 2 TO-GO BEERS 7 Seas Brewing Gig Harbor is open 2-6 p.m. today for drive-thru only. View this post on Instagram A post shared by 7 Seas Brewing (@7seasbrewing) on
Galaxy hops are known among IPA lovers for their overflowing citrus, peach and passion fruit flavors. Tropical island aromas dominate the nose, lifting you away to a far off destination of flavor, like the coast of Australia, where these hops are grown since the mid-1990s, but released commercially in 2009. This Aussie-native hops hail from a lineage of male European cultivars — particularly Perle —bred with local Australian high alpha varieties. Galaxy hops are versatile; they can accent and compliment, or take center stage as the primary flavor. Their high alpha acid content make them especially suited to aroma hopping
Tournament of Beer: West Coast Flagships First Round April 10 Spoiler alert: Yesterday, Maritime Pacific Flagship Red lost their Tournament of Beer: West Coast Flagships game to another longtime Washington state stalwart craft brewery, Mac & Jack’s Brewing and their flagship, African Amber Ale. It wasn’t a shocker as Mac & Jack’s African Amber Ale could run for governor of this state, and win. No, we announce the game’s result early because, as mentioned previously, this tournament has summoned our wonder years of craft beer, and Maritime Pacific was one of our hangouts in the early 1990s. One of our
Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 4.9.20 Flowers bloom, jackets get placed in storage and new beer makes its way onto the Peaks & Pints’ shelves. If today’s recent weather is any indication, spring is officially here. And while Peaks and Pints doesn’t want to jinx it, we’d be lying if we told you we weren’t already daydreaming of returning seasonals that pair well with warmer temps and added sunshine, and maybe a couple of the stout below, haha. Enjoy Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 4.9.20. American Solera Brewing POWER TIPA: Based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, American Solera
You can’t explain triple IPAs to your grandparents and you can’t explain it to the religiously terrified and you can’t describe it to those who, no matter what you say, refuse to see such a beer style as anything other than some sort of freaky-deaky boozy Sam Calagione-worshipping Pliny-romp thing. Peaks and Pints has brought in a few new triple IPAs for some reason. Maybe it’s the self-quarantine? Maybe we were drinking a triple IPA when we submitted the orders. Whatever the reason, we have the following triple IPAs in the cooler for you to enjoy at home. We’re calling
Tournament of Beer: West Coast Flagships First Round April 9 There are certain nights in your life that are ruled by forces beyond your control — magic, romance, destiny. Nights where love catches you by surprise. And things are never quite the same again. We were lucky enough to have one of those nights and the memory returns every time we hear, “Pyramid Pale Ale.” One of the major international events of 1985 occurred at Mount Rainier National Park with a six-pack of said beer. It was of course the recent arrival of Gette, the Swedish exchange student who stayed
Tacoma Strong: Wednesday, April 8 2020 2 Beers, 5 Love Locals, and 3 Things To Do Peaks and Pints is open from 11 a.m., to 8 p.m. today for to-go sales from our 13-door craft cooler, growler fills and take-out food. In addition, Tacoma Strong: Wednesday, April 8 2020 offers a few shout-outs to awesome people offering help and relief during the self-quarantining and sheltering in place. Be well everyone! 2 TO-GO BEERS Narrows Brewing now has online ordering for beer delivery. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Narrows Brewing Company (@narrowsbrewing) on Apr 6,
Tournament of Beer: West Coast Flagships First Round April 8 Now that they’re ubiquitous, it’s hard to remember there was once a time where double IPAs, bourbon barrel-aged stouts, and extremely flavorful beers simply didn’t exist. A time where some brewery helmed by some man or woman had to innovate and actually create these things, and thus change the entire industry forevermore. That time, for us, was the 1980s in Seattle when we caught New Wave bands at the Eagle Auditorium in Seattle, punk rocks bands at Gorilla Gardens in the International District, and drank all the Redhook ESB. Good
Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 4.7.20 Thank you to everyone for your continued support during this time. Your support along with your words of encouragement and gratitude keep us going. New and restock beers hit our cooler today. Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 4.7.20 feature a few. … Bitburger Brewery TRIPLE HOP’D LAGER: Following up on first collaboration beer “Oktoberfest” in fall 2019, Sierra Nevada Brewing traveled to Bitburger Brewery in Bitburg, Germany, to brew this lager brewed with a combination of American hops — Cascade, Centennial, and Chinook — paired together with Siegelhopfen, Bitburger’s proprietary
This week’s Tree-dimensional Tacoma tree is the weeping willow on North 49th near Winnifred Street in Ruston. Photo credit: Kate Swarner Tree-dimensional Tacoma: Weeping Willow “Some trees have a way of inspiring the imagination and the weeping willow on North 49th near Winnifred Street in Ruston is definitely one of those trees,” says Sarah Low, executive director of the Tacoma Tree Foundation. “The tree stands out from a distance because its canopy has been lovingly allowed to spread out a bit. When the wind blows the golden weeping branches sway to create an inviting space below
Tournament of Beer: West Coast Flagships First Round April 7 In all the years we spent growing up in our parents’ house, we don’t think we ever heard them use the word “bouquet.” “Bathroom,” “stinks,” and “indigestion” — these words we heard a lot. In the late 1980s, we hung out with a lovely, fun Australian couple — he was a professor of anesthesiology; she a free spirit. They adored decadent wine, mostly red wines of California, with amazing bouquets. They trained our palettes. We gained an appreciation for bigger, bolder Californian wines, which translated into a desire for bigger,
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. Enough states then approved the 21st Amendment later that year to formally bring an end to Prohibition, which started in 1919. So, while National Beer Day isn’t a national holiday, it doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate. Peaks and Pints
Tacoma Strong: Monday April 6 2020 2 Beers, 5 Love Locals, and 3 Things To Do It’s Monday, which means Peaks and Pints is closed for today only for rest and family time. We’ll reopen tomorrow, Tuesday, April 7, 11 a.m., to 8 p.m. for to-go sales from our 13-door craft cooler, growler fills and take-out food. Also, eight more beers battle today in the Tournament of Beer: West Coast Flagships. Vote at tournamentofbeer.com or peaksandpints.com. In addition, we’d like to give a few more shout-outs to awesome people offering help and relief during the self-quarantining and sheltering in place.
Tournament of Beer: West Coast Flagships First Round April 6 Once upon a time, a boy’s popularity was based on his dodgeball abilities, Frisbee tricks, and how much of the alphabet he could squeeze off with one burp. For the same boy to acquire a comparable level of popularity in college, 1983, he needed beer. The ceremony rarely strayed from tradition. Fully unprepared for a certain someone to be surrounded by three giggling friends, boy proceeded to drink the new Redhook’s Blackhook Porter. He continued to drink until the gaggle dispersed or his stomach exploded — whichever came first. Girl,
Tacoma Strong: Sunday April 5 2020 2 Beers, 5 Love Locals, and 3 Things To Do Peaks and Pints is open from 11 a.m., to 8 p.m. today for to-go sales from our 13-door craft cooler, growler fills and take-out food. In addition, we’d like to give a few more shout-outs to awesome people offering help and relief during the self-quarantining and sheltering in place. Be well everyone! 2 TO-GO BEERS Narrows Brewing opens at 2 p.m. today for cans and growlers sales for a couple of hours. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Narrows
It’s 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 was 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 Beers In Stock 4.4.20 Hope everyone is hanging in there amidst this global pandemic — we really are in this together. The Peaks & Pints crew has amazing knowledge of craft beer can help you find the perfect beer. Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 4.4.20 includes new beers such as Cascade’s Barrel Aged Gose Roselle and Crux’s Battlestar IPA, and some returning favorites in Bale Breaker’s Hop Country and Heater Allen’s Lenzbock. Be well! Abita Brewing STRAWBERRY LAGER: The only beer brewed with Louisiana strawberries, Abita Brewing’s Strawberry Lager is brewed with Pilsner and
Most Sundays, Peaks and Pints posts our Fancy Pants Sunday column where we highlight complex, pricey, well fancy, craft beer. You’re probably thinking to yourselves, “Does the world really need Peaks and Pints’ Fancy Pants Sunday?” Our research tells us that the average American consumer loves — nay, yearns — for the next level in fancy craft beer. And here is the thing: When you’re out there on the porch, alone, watching the dog run around the yard, eating your bread and basil and feeling the effects of that snifter full of fancy craft beers, it does not matter how
Tacoma Strong: Saturday April 4 2020 2 Beers, 5 Love Locals, and 3 Things To Do Peaks and Pints is open from 11 a.m., to 8 p.m. today for to-go sales from our 13-door craft cooler, growler fills and take-out food. In addition, we’d like to give a few shout-outs to awesome people offering help and relief during the self-quarantining and sheltering in place. Be well everyone! 2 TO-GO BEERS Washington Beer Blog lists local and state breweries that offer beer delivery services. Tacoma Brewing continues its curbside service 3-6 p.m. Friday and Saturday. View this post on Instagram
Tournament of Beer: West Coast Flagship First Round April 4 It’s 1983, our college brains were controlled by subliminal suggestions on bikini beer posters. “Miller Time” tried to override the basic biological and social forces of sex hormones and newfound independence. But, no college experience was more horrifying than the moment when we were forced to drink Miller Lite. It was so, so bad. We almost don’t even want to talk about it, because it brings up such horrifying memories. We still have nightmares about those early 1980s days. The beer literally tasted like metal coins. Ugh, “Tastes Great vs.
We are thinking about you. How are you doing? Miss the road? Peaks & Pints imagines that during this time of extraordinary disruption and anxiety there’s the temptation to drown in fatalism, to shake your head and sigh and just throw in the karmic towel. Realize that this IS the perfect moment to change the energy of the world, to step right up and crank your personal volume; right when it all seems dark and bitter. Maybe, if we strive to transform our collective isolation into an opportunity for communal solitude, we might discover that it is, as it has
Tournament of Beer: West Coast Flagships 1982, we were 19 years old. A lot happened that year. Aspartame’s claim to fame, Diet Coke, was introduced, Michael Jackson Thrilled us, and we graduated Lakes High School and entered the University of Washington. We donned a pledge pin and dove into chemistry. A Californian fraternity brother handed us a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale bottle that year. One of the nation’s first hop-forward yet consistent and shelf-stable beers, the Chico brewery released the Cascade hopped Pale a year prior to us sipping it our frat house’s sleeping porch. That flagship beer launched our
Peaks and Pints Tap List Thursday April 2 2020 includes Tacoma Brewing’s Broken Window IPA. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Thursday April 2 2020 Peaks and Pints houses a mind-boggling array of suds: some 650 or so bottled and canned in our cooler, with another 28 on tap, including nitro lines. 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
Tacoma Strong: Thursday April 2 2020 2 Beers, 5 Love Locals, and 3 Things To Do Peaks and Pints is open from 11 a.m., to 8 p.m. today for to-go sales from our 13-door craft cooler, growler fills and take-out food. In addition, we’d like to give a few shout-outs to awesome people offering help and relief during the self-quarantining and sheltering in place. Be well everyone! 2 TO-GO BEERS 7 Seas Brewing offers growlers fills and 20 percent off mixed cases today from 2-6 p.m. View this post on Instagram A post shared by 7 Seas Brewing
Consider the lowly peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Rich, salty peanuts complemented by sugary-sweet fruit — it’s the first introduction most of us have to the culinary wizardry that is an inspired sweet and savory pairing. Way more than the sum of its parts, each side intensifying the other. Today is National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day. You can spend the day slathering the duo between white bread — or go for something a bit more quirky. Peanut butter and jelly has grown out of its childhood classic iteration into some “adult” drinks at Peaks & Pints craft beer bar,
This week’s Tree-dimensional Tacoma tree is the Yoshino cherry trees on N Court near Baltimore Street in Ruston. Photo credit: Kate Swarner Tree-dimensional Tacoma: Yoshino Cherry Tree “Some days are easier than others, but if you happen upon a Japanese flowering cherry, it always promises to lift your spirits, especially this time of year when they are in full bloom,” says Sarah Low, executive director at the Tacoma Tree Foundation. “There are some great examples throughout the city, but I was particularly taken aback by a pair of Yoshino cherries on N Court near Baltimore Street
Sours have become popular in recent years, with profiles that feature sour, acidic and tart flavors. Sometimes when wild yeasts are used, these beers take on an earthy mustiness referred to as funk. They are a broad category of beers that cover a range of styles, colors and strengths. When a brewer adds fruit it’s usually in an effort to soften and/or complement the sour and tart character. Today, Peaks and Pints offers a to-go flight of five bottled or canned fruited sours that we Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Fruited Sours On The Fly. Peaks and Pints Pilot
Tacoma Strong: Wednesday April 1 2020 2 Beers, 5 Love Locals, and 3 Things To Do Here is Tacoma Strong: Wednesday April 1 2020 with a few shout-outs to those offering help and relief during the self-quarantining and sheltering in place. Be well everyone! 2 TO-GO BEERS Sig Brewing offers curbside growler fills outside their brewing under construction at 2534 Tacoma Ave. S. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sig Brewing Company (@sigbrewing) on Mar 31, 2020 at 1:51pm PDT Peaks and Pints offers growler fills of Silver City Fat Woody Oak-Aged Scotch Ale.
Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 3.31.20 Chances for deliciousness coming home? 100 percent when you grab these new arrivals to the Peaks and Pints cooler. Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 3.31.20 also includes many restocks not listed. Be well! Block 15 Brewing STICKY HANDS: The imperial IPA was canned Monday, March 30 for incredible pine and sticky resin! 8.1% SUPER NEBULA: An imperial variation of Block 15’s classic oat stout Nebula, matured in bourbon barrels and conditioned with fresh roasted cocoa nibs. 11% Midnight Sun Brewing BERSERKER IMPERIAL STOUT: It hits the tongue with deep coffee,
Tacoma Strong: Tuesday March 31 2020 2 Beers, 5 Love Locals, and 3 Things To Do Yesterday, during our rest day, we gave a few shout-outs to those offering help and relief during the self-quarantining and sheltering in place. Peaks & Pints is going to keep the love local alive as this community continues to show why we’re the smallest big city in the state. Be well everyone! 2 TO-GO BEERS Rainier Growlers will host its weekly Bingo And Brews in the cloud tonight. The South Hill craft beer bar will stream their bingo in a Zoom conference room style
The Hawaiian Islands are known for several beverages: Kona coffee, Mai Tais, Blue Hawaiians, and pineapple juice come instantly to mind, but the Aloha State also produces delicious craft beer two blocks from the ocean in Kihei, Maui. What began in 2005 as a tiny local brewpub has grown into Maui Brewing’s multi-million dollar facility that serves its craft beer well beyond the Hawaiian Islands. Now, visitors can expect brewery tours, a tasting room, a full-service restaurant and bar, a retail nook, an outdoor patio with barbecue service and the four beers on Peaks & Pints’ to-go flight today, Peaks
Tacoma Strong: Monday, March 30 2020 2 Beers, 5 Love Locals, and 3 Things To Do Peaks & Pints is closed today for much needed rest and improvements. In addition to erecting our Tournament of Beer: West Coast Flagships giant bracket above our cooler (online voting begins this Friday), we thought we’d give a few shout-outs to those in need and those offering relief due to the self-quarantining and sheltering in place, Tacoma Strong: Monday, March 30 2020. Be well! 2 TO-GO BEERS >>>Wingman Brewers will deliver beer from 2-6 p.m. in Tacoma, as well as offer curbside pick up
Most people’s first step to a crisis, before washing their hands hands, is to raid the local grocery stores for perishable staples such as milk, bread, and toilet paper. Not Sean Jackson. The Parkway Tavern beer curator also went straight to breweries’ cellars. He filled every inch of his Tacoma beer bar with his favorite staple, barleywine, preparing for his annual John O’Gara Barley Wine Fest, culminating with the notorious Barley Wine Brunch. Unfortunately, as if the virus decimating your 401k and threatening your upcoming cruise wasn’t bad enough, now it’s coming for your beer. The Parkway Tavern has, obviously,
Peaks and Pints Beer Parade – Home Ale-lone 3.29.20 Hello everyone! Welcome to Peaks and Pints Beer Parade – Home Ale-lone 3.29.20. Since public gatherings have been banned we have taken this week’s bartenders’ picks to our homes, and without a grand marshal. Knock! Knock! Looks like Phaedra is working out with Anderson Valley’s Tropical Hazy Sour with guava and passionfruit. Remember to bend at the knees Phaedra! Knock! Knock! Howdy Joe! Looks like he is rockin’ Hall & Oates’ “Voices” 8-track and the Fort George and Grains of Wrath collaboration West Coast IPA, Fanzine. You make our dreams
It’s National Black Forest Cake Day! The English name of this is famous cake is Black Forest Cake or Black Forest Gateau. In Germany, it is called “Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte,” that literally translates to “Black Forest cherry-torte.” The cake has many layers of chocolate sponge cake, whipped cream and cherries. It is decorated with additional whipped cream, cherries and chocolate shavings. It is truly not a black forest cake unless the layers have been added with “kirschwasser,” which a clear spirit made with sour cherries. Many people think it is named after the Black Forest. However, it is really named after
Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock: 3.27.20 It’s Friday, which means Peaks & Pints brought in some new items and restocks to pair with your weekend household projects. Enjoy Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock: 3.27.20! Chuckanut Brewery KOLSCH: Kölsch is a top-fermented ale, a throwback to the days before lagers took over the Germanic world. Chuckanut’s version maintains a bitterness that is quite restrained, although the palate is light-bodied and bone-dry, with a soft malt flavor in the center giving way to a drying, slightly acidic finish. 4.5% Everybody’s Brewing VELVET TIGER DOUBLE IPA: With a hop
Colleen and Chad Kuehl wandered into each other at the University of Iowa many years ago, then wandered around the world. Then engineer Chad wondered about craft beer, eventually attending the American Brewer’s Guild in 2011 before working at Hilliard’s Beer in Seattle. They wondered what would happen if they started Wander Brewing in Bellingham. Peaks & Pints wanders how will ever top our Wander Brewing to-go beer flight, which we call Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Wander On the Fly. This beer flight of bottles and cans includes the first two sour beers fermented in Wander’s coolship, the first
Peaks & Pints carries cans of Stoup Brewing’s Mosaic Pale, Citra IPA, Left Turn IPA, and their West Coast IPA collaboration with Cloudburst and Standard, I Thought We Were Friends. Stoup Brewing cans in Tacoma Stoup Brewing describes themselves as “committed traditionalists,” brewing well-structured, traditional beers that blow kegs in a matter of hours. These scientists (no, really!), create craft beers that change flavors from start to finish. Today, they started to sell canned beer. And, they’re not even close to finishing the canning process. That’s right, Stoupers! The Seattle brewery now has cans, four of
According to the Beer Judge Certification Program, the Dark British Beer category “contains average to strong, bitter to sweet, modern British and Irish stouts that originated in England even if some are now more widely associated with Ireland. For our to-go beer flight today we offer four Dark British Beer styles — Sweet Stout, Oatmeal Stout, Tropical Stout and Foreign Extra Stout — in a flight we call Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Dark British Beer On The Fly, although we offer the American version of each style. These stouts pair well with apple crumble, banana dishes, chocolate desserts, crème
Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock: 3.25.20 Take a new beer home today or go back to an old fave. Nightmare’s Lingchi and Gunga Rao sours are back in, as is Hoof Hearted’s $60 Nachos Imperial IPA. Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock: 3.25.20 also sees the return of Evil Twin’s Even More Coco Jesus and Offshoot’s Relax It’s Just A Hazy IPA, plus Sumerian’s Holy Water IPA in 19.2-ounce cans. Anderson Valley Brewing BOURBON BARREL-AGED SALTED CARAMEL PORTER: Now in cans, this slightly sweet porter is brewed with select additions of crystal malts and sea salt to
Peaks and Pints Tap List Wednesday March 25 2020 includes Kulshan Brewing’s Shucks On The Beach Helles Bock. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Wednesday March 25 2020 Peaks and Pints houses a mind-boggling array of suds: some 650 or so bottled and canned in our cooler, with another 28 on tap, including nitro lines. 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
