If you want to see pink elephants, go Belgian. Not only do pink elephants adorn the bottles and cans of Huyghe Brewery’s Delirium bottles and cans, but you’ll be seeing hypercolor pachyderms floating around your skull after a few sips. Huyghe was founded in 1906 by Leon Huyghe in city of Melle in East Flanders, not far from Ghent, the oldest, active brewery in that corner of Belgium. As with most continental breweries, Huyghe traces its original history way back, in this case to 1654 as it displays on its logo. In its modern incarnation Huyghe built its reputation on
6-Pack of Things To Do: Saturday November 21 2020 Oh good lord we forgot to add the Proctor Farmers Market to today’s 6-Pack of Things To Do. So, do that too! HOLIDAY LIGHTS: Established 26 years ago, Fantasy Lights is a highly celebrated drive-thru display of awe-inspiring light exhibits held annually during the holiday season at Spanaway Park. The jaw-dropping two-mile drive includes more than 300 animated displays and thousands of holiday lights that evoke a profound sense of wizardry and reverence for people of all ages. Open tonight through Jan. 3, Fantasy Lights has added additional safety measures to
A crossover between the beer and bartending worlds has started emerging in breweries: beers inspired by the flavor profiles and recipes of cocktails. When beer is your job, you don’t necessarily want to go home and drink more beer. So it’s no shocker that on his or her down time, brewers like a stiff cocktail — which has led to craft beers that taste like cocktails; what a vicious, delicious cycle this is. The base is beer (usually, but not always, a strong one), but then the brewer became a bartender, measuring in specific ingredients that seem like novelties until
Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 11.20.20 Peaks & Pints is open 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. with more than 800 craft beer and cider cans and bottles for to-go sales. To shop the cooler, please wear a mask and maintain six feet of distance — we are limiting shopping to 2 customers at a time. For a full list of bottles and cans in stock, click here. Looking for our latest new arrivals? Check out what’s new on our Beer Line Blog, updated at least twice a week. Now onto Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 11.20.20.
6-Pack of Things To Do: Friday November 20 2020 What a week! T.G.I. 6-Pack of Things To Do! CIDERVERSARY: Since 2015, the Zehner family has made delicious Incline Cider Company, when they weren’t backpacking up a mountainside. The hills have seen less Zehner action since they opened their Incline Cider House at the Brewery Blocks Tacoma a year ago. Wait! That means it’s their anniversary! Indeed, Incline celebrates with a to-go model today, offering the new Passion Guava and nine new limited releases — Arnold Palmer V2, Ginger, Peachpeño, Pineapple Cinnamon, Lemon Lavender, Cherry Pie, Thai Lemon, Rosemarion, and Dash
Even if you don’t fall for the “food” of the day holiday thing, you have to admit it’s hard to resist peanut butter fudge. Today is National Peanut Butter Fudge Day, a day we wholeheartedly support for obvious reasons: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. In 1917, Harry Burnett Reese worked on a dairy farm owned by the Hershey Company, which morphed into a job in the company’s candy factory. While some folks like to tinker with electronics in their basement, Reese hid beneath his main floor experimenting with different candy formula, with the intention of making extra money to care for his
Peaks and Pints Tap includes Fort George Crysknife hazy IPA Peaks and Pints Tap List: Fort George Crysknife IPA Peaks and Pints houses a mind-boggling array of suds: some 800 or so 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
6-Pack of Things To Do: Thursday November 19 2020 Today is the last day of the Pierce County Restaurant Rally promotion. Make a day of it. Hit the Tacoma Farmers Winter Market on Broadway, stop by Peaks & Pints for 30 percent off our take-out food, grab our framboise to-go flight or the beers and ciders of your choice, and kick back with 6-Pack of Things To Do recommended virtual fun. Cheers! WINTER MARKET: The end of the South Sound’s warmer months is brutal for any number of reasons. Just one of these involves bidding adieu to the sun on your
During the days when serfs clapped coconuts behind knights, Belgian lambics were the bomb, exposed to the barnyard bacteria and wild yeasts. Fermented by several yeasts and bacteria, aged for up to three years and often a blend of batches and years, this complex ale exhibits fruit flavor as well as tart, acidic, earthy and barnyard-like traits. In the case of fruit lambics, whole fruits are traditionally added after spontaneous fermentation has started. Once the fruit is added, the beer is subjected to additional maturation before bottling. Malt and hop characters are generally low to allow the fruit to consume
Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 11.18.20 Peaks & Pints is open 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. with more than 800 craft beer and cider cans and bottles for to-go sales. To shop the cooler, please wear a mask and maintain six feet of distance — we are limiting shopping to two customers at a time. For a full list of bottles and cans in stock, click here. Looking for our latest new arrivals? Check out what’s new on our Beer Line Blog, updated at least twice a week. Now onto Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 11.18.20.
6-Pack of Things To Do: Wednesday November 18 2020 Not-so-unexpected news first: Peaks & Pints, unfortunately, once again, is under state requirement to pause our dine-in service. Starting today we won’t be taking reservations for restaurant dine-in until further notice. The positive flip-side to this whiplash is we still have all our delicious sandwiches, salads, beer, cider, and wine to go with a large load Campfire Crowlers ready for draft pours and more than 800-plus bottles and cans in the cooler. Thanks to everyone for sticking with us through these unpredictable times, your support means the world. Now onto a
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. The popularity of cider in America grew as the nation’s territory expanded. Then, the Temperance movement and popularity of German lager squashed the hard apple cider movement … until 2013. Zealous connoisseurs grow dissatisfied with the
Good morning from the Proctor Business District in North Tacoma. Campfire Crowler Proctor: Restaurant Rally and Founders KBS Espresso fills GOOD MORNING QUIZ: WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 18 2020 Give yourself one point for each that applies: >>> You know it’s going to be cloudy with periods of rain with a high of 49 in the South Sound today. >>> You guessed the Peaks & Pints Campfire Crowler pictured above is full of Founders Brewing KBS Espresso Bourbon Barrel Stout. >>> You’re aware today is the second to the last day for the Pierce County Restaurant Rally, and
6-Pack of Things To Do: Tuesday November 17 2020 6-Pack of Things To Do. It’s how we make it through. OK, bourbon barrel-aged imperial stouts help too. So does Authur Shelby’s tender moments. And heart-meltingly stupendous West Wing reunions on HBO Max. Memes, Tik Tok, Seth Meyers, whatever makes you laugh and brings your heart and attention more into the bright, lucid current moment, as opposed spinning out into apocalyptic future scenarios, seem more beneficial and necessary than usual, even though they were pretty well beneficial and necessary before, don’t you think? FILM: Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians) returns to
Icicle Brewing Co. sits in the Bavarian theme park known as Leavenworth, Washington, which seems perhaps the most appropriate place for a brewery. Founded in 2010 by Pamela and Oliver Brulotte, Icicle continues to be a 100 percent family and employee-owned production brewery and brewpub. The brewery draws water from nearby Icicle Creek, a run-off from surrounded by numerous mountain ranges including the Stuart Range and Wenatchee Mountains. Owner Oliver Brulotte has deep family roots in Washington’s hop farming history. With a focus on sustainability and community, the brewery is a 1 percent for the Planet Member and is the
Good morning from Union Avenue and North 21st in Northend Tacoma. Morning Foam: Forterra Carbon Capture and Argyle Pinot Noir pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Tuesday November 17 2020 — Martin Scorsese turns 78 today! Windy with periods of rain, high 59 Peaks & Pints offers glass fills of Argyle Winery Pinot Noir on draft. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW Forterra’s Coffee & Conversation series the Evergreen Carbon Capture program and how businesses and individuals can calculate their carbon emissions, as well as how a local solution can address a global issue in the Forterra Zoom Room at
Peaks and Pints Tap List Monday November 16 2020 includes Westmalle Trappist Dubbel. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Monday November 16 2020 Peaks and Pints houses a mind-boggling array of suds: some 800 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 for iPhone
This past July, Husband-wife team Kelsey and David Horne opened Grit City Ciderworks in Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood. David — who grew up in Washington’s Apple Capital Wenatchee and homebrewed for a decade — wanted to make cider to balance the sweet cider market. After studying at Oregon State University’s renown fermentation program, along with his beer brewing knowledge, he found his preferred cider taste profile. Stop by today for Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: Grit City Ciderworks and take home local cider made with Eastern Washington apples and fresh fruit. Cheers! Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: Grit City
Good morning from the Rosewood Café in Tacoma’s Proctor Business District. Morning Foam: Creative Colloquay and Westmalle Dubbel pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Monday November 16 2020 — Lisa Bonet turns 53 today! Rain, nothing but rain, high 52 Peaks & Pints offers pints and Campfire Crowler fills of Westmalle Dubbel. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW Creative Colloquy lures writers out from the clicking of their keyboards to connect and conspire albiet via the Creative Colloquy Zoom Room. Beginning at 7 p.m., readers of poetry, essays, and short stories are Chiara Diane Montante, Jonah Barrett, Heather Ayres, and
You fancy Omnipollo Decuple Dry Hopped Fantamorgana! Fancy Pants Sunday: Omnipollo Decuple Dry Hopped Fatamorgana Swedes Karl Grandin and Henok Fentie are fancy. Their beer is fancy, thanks to homebrewer turn mad scientist Fentie. Their label art is fancy, thanks to visual artist Grandin. They don’t brew much in Sweden, but they travel to fancy lands to brew their creative brews, many times with collaborating breweries. Since they founded Omnipollo in 2011, they keep a constantly curious, razor-sharp and fancy approach to everything they do. Today, we look at what fancy brewers can do when they
Peaks and Pints Tap List Sunday November 15 2020 includes Top Rung Brewing’s Veteran’s Blend IPA. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Sunday November 15 2020 Peaks and Pints houses a mind-boggling array of suds: some 800 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
Instagram Outsider: Icicle Night, Twisted Tents, Bob’s Brown Ale From happy snow thoughts to COVID closures, from windstorms to delicious seasonal beers, 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 Icicle Brewing Company (@iciclebrewing) View this post on
Let it be known: Peaks & Pints would very much like to cream the coronavirus into submission, into whimpering irrelevance, into the same dark void where lost socks, VHS rewinder machines, and Jared Goff’s playoff hopes now reside. While we’re at it, yes, we’d love the Seahawks to cream the Rams with similar aplomb. But most of all, we want you to cream your palate—politely, joyfully, repeatedly—with one of the most unassuming, underestimated, and gloriously American beer styles ever to quietly conquer a backyard BBQ: the cream ale. Born pre-Prohibition as a flannel-shirted answer to Euro lagers, cream ales straddle
Good morning from the Rosewood Café in Tacoma’s Proctor Business District. Morning Foam: Tacoma Film Festival and Sig One Human Alcohol Beer pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Sunday November 15 2020 — Ed Asner turns 91 today! All the clouds with occasional rain showers, high 53 Peaks & Pints offers pints and Campfire Crowler fills of Sig Brewing One Human Alcohol Beer. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW Director Todd Chandler examines how institutions deal with the challenges of unthinkable systemic problems in the film Bulletproof screening at the Tacoma Film Festival today. Virtual tickets: goelevent.com/TFF/e/Bulletproof/ The Kareem Kandi
Nick and Kristen Arzner love Europe — specifically Belgium and the country’s beers. They have traveled extensively through Belgium drinking the tastiest and most expertly brewed beers in the world — both as homebrewers and as owners of Block 15 Brewing in Corvallis. In addition to Sticky Hands and their popular IPAs, the Azners release seasonal Abbey ales and specialty beers — three of which Peaks & Pints highlights today in our to-go beer flight. Put down that can of Sticky Hands and grab Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Block 15 Bottles On The Fly. OK, take the Sticky Hands
Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 11.13.20 It’s Friday the 13th. There’s no need to be a half-glass full kinda person when you can easily keep your beer glass full of these and many more new arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler. Stock up for the weekend, including Seahawks Sunday. Cheers! Aslan Hook’s Stash Pale celebrates the life of former Pro Patrol and Mt. Baker Legend, Randy Hook. Hook was 19 when he started working at the ski area and continued off and on until he passed away in January, 2017 at the age of 67. Aslan’s Hook’s
6-Pack of Things To Do: Friday November 13 2020 It’s time for another Friday the 13th. Things have quickly gotten weird, so if you’re looking to combat that strangeness with tranquility, welcome to 6-Pack of Things To Do. Cheers! FILM: The Grand Cinema is opening for in-house movies today! From the Pacific Northwest to the Amazon rainforest, to soul-searching in Vietnam and a truly DIY comedy, The Grand will screen nine Tacoma Film Festival flicks on their screens, although their Virtual Screening Room is still open for your tiny screens. Click here to read up on the films. The Grand
It’s another Friday the 13th, and you need something perfectly thematic to do. But not unlucky, please, because there’s enough disappointment circling the country. A few other things you shouldn’t do: Don’t have sex in a remote cabin in the woods, don’t skinny dip by yourself after midnight, and don’t investigate strange noises. Do drink the dark, eerie, bad-in-a-good-way beers in Peaks & Pints to-go beer flight today. Human sacrifices, ruthless Tsars and vaquero banditos. Oh, my! Today’s beer flight promises round of devilish pomp, bourbon barrels and spicy fun. Grab these three bottles — the triple muse of power,
Good morning from the Proctor Business District in North Tacoma. Morning Foam: The Grand Cinema re-opens and Skookum Shattered Dimension pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Friday November 13 2020 — Jimmy Kimmel turns 65 today! Showers with clearing in the afternoon due to gusty breezes, high 49 Peaks & Pints offers pints and Campfire Crowler fills of Skookum Brewery Shattered Dimension. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW The Grand Cinema is opening for in-house movies today! From the Pacific Northwest to the Amazon rainforest, to soul-searching in Vietnam and a truly DIY comedy, The Grand will screen nine Tacoma
Let’s not mince mangoes: the haze craze is not a phase—it’s a lifestyle, a foggy gospel, a citrus-drenched fever dream that shows no signs of clearing. At Peaks & Pints, we’ve seen the worshippers gather, eyes wide, palates primed, murmuring sacred phrases like “Citra bomb” and “oat cream mouthfeel,” before whispering the truly divine: “Is the chowder on?” These aren’t your dad’s IPAs, bitter as regret and twice as punishing. No, these are juicy conjurings, brewed not with fruit but with the sheer audacity of hops and fermentation alchemy. And lo, more drinkers have come to the altar because of
Good morning from University of Puget Sound’s Peyton Field at Baker Stadium Morning Foam: Pretty Gritty Tacoma Sister Cities and F.O.B. Until Valhalla pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Thursday November 12 2020 — Neil Young turns 75 today! Cloudy skies with periods of rain this afternoon, high 50 Peaks & Pints offers pints and Campfire Crowler fills of Forward Operating Base Brewing Until Valhalla 2020 IPA. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW Pretty Gritty Tours will take you on a virtual tour of Tacoma’s Sister Cities at 8 p.m. Dine out at a participating Pierce County restaurants — including
6-Pack of Things To Do: Wednesday November 11 2020 6-Pack of Things To Do appreciates all the veterans and current troops serving in our military. Our freedoms, our heritage and the way of life we enjoy today are made possible because of you. As a thank you Peaks and Pints will offer $1 off all draft pours to veterans and active military today. Thank you for your service to our country. Cheers! VETERANS DAY: Hear the story of a brave African American in the Navy during WWII during a special virtual Veterans Day commemoration by the Washington State History Museum. Dr.
It began, as most seismic shifts in human history do, with a pen stroke and a ragged breath—Nov. 11, 1918, the moment the guns fell silent and the epoch of Armistice Day was born, President Woodrow Wilson whispering hope into the wreckage of World War I. One hundred and two years later, in a place like Tacoma—where the military’s heartbeat echoes more palpably than in most American cities—we still forget, too often, the cost beneath our comforts. Today, we remember. Today, we bow our heads, raise our glasses, and acknowledge with full-throated gratitude that every sip of this life, every
Good morning from North 26th in Tacoma’s Proctor District Morning Foam: Tacoma Arts Live Coen Camp and Matchless Joy pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Wednesday November 11 2020 — Demi Moore turns 58 today! Cloudy early with peeks of sunshine expected late, high 46 Peaks & Pints offers pints and Campfire Crowler fills of Matchless Brewing Matchless Joy Imperial Stout. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW Hear the story of a brave African American in the Navy during WWII during a special virtual Veterans Day commemoration by the Washington State History Museum at 1 p.m. Today kicks off Tacoma
6-Pack of Things To Do: Tuesday November 10 2020 There’s a vast amount of positive energy swirling about that’s been held back, and this energy has now found a conduit, a lightning rod — 6-Pack of Things To Do. Cheers! DEMO DAYS: Some might be familiar with that euphoric rush, the runner’s high. Chances are, though, you are far more aware of the crushing pain associated with ill-fitting shoes more commonly associated with greedy sales reps trying to cash in on a quick commission. See, whether you’re a serious sprinter or a Sunday-morning stroller, your kicks can help reduce the
Today has been designated Vanilla Cupcake Day by someone. Nobody knows exactly who, and who cares? The real question is why it’s not a national holiday. According to NationalDayCalendar.com, cupcakes can be traced back to 1796, when there was a recipe for “a cake to be baked in small cups” in American Cookery by Amelia, Simmons, a great woman. They were originally baked in heavy pottery cups — sounds like a messy cleanup. The paper cups are less fussy. Vanilla beans, like coffee and chocolate, only proliferate naturally in tropical latitudes, and, like wine grapes, the various strains reflect the qualities of
Good morning from North 24th in Tacoma’s Proctor District Morning Foam: Fleet Feet Raffle and Paulaner Weissbier pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Tuesday November 10 2020 — Tracy Morgan turns 52 today! The rain is coming, high 47 Peaks & Pints offers pints and Campfire Crowler fills of Paulaner Weissbier. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW Through November 14, Fleet Feet shines a spotlight on Altra running shoes — specifically Altra Torin 4.5 Plush shoe. Everyone who visits Fleet Feet and takes these shoes out and around the block will receive a sweet buff and be put into their
It’s not surprising that craft cider has taken root in Washington state — a region of wine and craft beer enthusiasts. Washington is the second largest wine producer and has the second highest number of craft breweries in the country. But when it comes to cider, Washington is fourth in the nation. In 2008, there were maybe four cideries in Washington state; now about 66 dot the state from San Juan Island to Pullman, and even wineries are getting in on the action. Meet seven Eastern Washington state ciders in what we call Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: Eastern
Good morning from frosty Proctor District in Tacoma Morning Foam: Tacoma Film Festival and Boulevard Crust Fall pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Monday November 9 2020 — Lou Ferrigno turns 69 today! Cloudy with occasional rain during the afternoon, high 44 Peaks & Pints offers pints and Campfire Crowler fills of Boulevard Brewing Crust Fall Imperial Berliner Weisse TODAY’S LOCAL STEW The Tacoma Film Festival continues virtually at tacomafilmfestival.com. Filmmakers of In A Silent Way — including director Collin Levin, producer Nicholas Tuttle, and DP Dylan Dugas — join TFF for a live conversation led by
You fancy 3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze Cuvee Armand & Gaston! Fancy Pants Sunday 3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze Cuvee Armand & Gaston Bone dry, pre-dessert deliciousness — welcome to Fancy Pants Sunday 3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze Cuvee Armand & Gaston (season 17/18) Blend No. 80. Pronounced “goo-zah,” gueuze is not really a style, per se, but rather a combination of versions of another style, lambic. Lambics are sour, funk beers fermented with wild yeast and bacteria — those that live and breed naturally in the wilderness. Young lambics are fairly sweet and inoffensive. Aged lambics will slap
Instagram Outsider: Bad Santa, Clever Beer Gardens, RIP Alex Trebek From innovative outdoor beer gardens to basketball challenges, from head brewer marriages to an Alex Tribek tribute, 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 Nobody can ever replace Alex Trebek. GOAT. #RIP
There are those who shy away from the right side of Peaks & Pints. And, by right side, we mean the right side of our Western red cedar tap log — home of the dark beers. Peaks & Pints isn’t sure how it happened, but somewhere along the line casual beer drinkers got the wrong idea about dark beer. They’re not all heavy or boozy. Take, for instance, the schwarzbier. Schwarzbier is one of the oldest known European beer styles, with origins in Kulmbach, Germany, circa 800 BC. Pronounced sh-vahts bee-uh, this lager style is named after its appearance, similar
Good morning from Envy in Tacoma’s Proctor District Morning Foam: Restaurant Rally and Everybody’s Pop-Up Park pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Sunday November 8 2020 — Bonnie Raitt turns 71 today! Lots of sunshine, high 46 Peaks & Pints offers pints and Campfire Crowler fills of Everybody’s Brewing Pop-Up Park IPA TODAY’S LOCAL STEW The Pierce County Restaurant Rally promotion begins today and runs Sunday through Thursday for the next two weeks. Those who dine at, or order a takeout meal, from the 230-plus restaurant participating in the program will receive automatically receive 30 percent off
6-Pack of Things To Do: Saturday November 7 2020 NBC, ABC, AP, NYT, 6-Pack of Things To Do have called it. Let’s shake it off and get back to living our lives – with a mask on, of course. Cheers! RESTAURANT RALLY: The COVID-19 pandemic has been an exercise in throwing ideas against the walls of empty dining rooms and seeing what sticks. Restaurant owners morphed into makeshift grocers when supermarket shelves were sparsely stocked, figured out how to deliver margaritas by the quart, and, like Peaks & Pints, instigated a reservation system via Open Table app. To borrow a
