Peaks and Pints Tap List Friday August 16 2019 includes Kulshan Brewing’s Oaxacan Sunrise Mexican Dark Coffee Lager. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Friday August 16 2019 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
Mixing caffeine and alcohol is nothing especially new. Beyond Irish coffee and Four Loko, brewers have been slowly working coffee into the DNA of craft beer, too. Java stouts and coffee porters are now as ubiquitous as American pale ales and imperial IPAs. Peaks and Pints will celebrate the unification of coffee and beer when we present Coffee Beer Chat at 6 p.m. tonight. Coffee beers will takeover our Western red cedar tap log, including the coffee beer collaboration between Tacoma’s Bluebeard Coffee Roasters and Bellingham’s Kulshan Brewing, Oaxacan Sunrise. In addition, we’ll host a coffee and beer lecture where
Tonight, Peaks and Pints hosts our annual Hopnificent 6 gathering — this year with more wristguards and bad comb-overs. That’s right, Dudes and Dudettes! After a spring sipping White Russians in their bathrobes, the Hopnificent 6 — Breakside Joe, Ecliptic Kyle, Fort George Hoyt, Pike Jon, Reuben’s Conrad, and Standard Ken — will burst out of their brewery vans with personalized balls and bags, ready to drink their easy-drinking craft beers, bowl a few frames at Chalet Bowl and then watch The Big Lebowski at Peaks and Pints — WITH YOU! Your Tacoma Beer Week night begins sipping lagers, wheat
For the past year, Peaks and Pints has hosted SudsPop nights pairing a brewer, an exclusive one-off beer brewed by the special guest brewer and a chosen artist or band in our East Wing events room. Since it’s Tacoma Beer Week, we altered this month’s SudsPop, which is tonight at 7 p.m., to include more Tacoma history. The Tacoma Beer Week Dune SudsPop will be the first time the host isn’t a brewer, although Pacific Brewing brewers will be in the house. Tacoma’s 11-acre Dune Peninsula, aptly named for the environmental-themed, sci-fi novel “Dune,” written by Tacoma native Frank Herbert,
For the past couple years, when a mention of Bellingham breweries awards comes up, there’s always a discussion that starts with “Kulshan, again?” —Tournament of Beer: Northwest Pilsners grand champion to name one — but even though the rest of Bellingham’s growing craft beer scene is pretty damn awesome, the stamp that Kulshan Brewing Co. has put on Bellingham can’t be denied. Forget about the beers — we all know there’s a loving spot in our hearts for Bastard Kat IPA, Kitten Mittens Winter Ale and Sunnyland IPA — but it’s the outdoor seating, dog hugging, collaborations, charitable contributions and
Peaks and Pints Tap List Monday August 12 2019 includes E9 Brewing’s Tacoma Beer Week Pale. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Monday August 12 2019 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
Monday Pear Flight and a Movie: Spider-Man Far From Home Spider-Man: Far From Home is the newest chapter for New York’s favorite webslinger, and it leaps into neighboring Blue Mouse Theatre tonight. Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever … as a teenager. Filled with an awkward, wide-eyed earnestness — and more self-doubt than the average real-world teen has zits — Peter Parker is easy to relate to for anyone who even vaguely remembers high school. How he balances fighting crime with the needs of
Peaks and Pints Tap List Sunday August 11 2019 includes Matchless Brewing’s City of Destiny IPA. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Sunday August 11 2019 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
7 Seas Brewing searched as deep as oceans dive. Peaks and Pints probed as high as mountains climb. The nautical-themed craft brewery and mountain-themed craft beer bar, respectively, found the answer in the middle: a collaboration hazy double IPA inspired by Tacoma-born author Frank Herbert’s “Dune” novel and recently opened Dune Peninsula along Tacoma’s waterfront. Join the two staffs as they toast Tacoma Beer Week’s launch with their delicious collaboration beer, Great Maker hazy double IPA at 5 p.m. today. In celebration, Peaks and Pints offers an all-day beer flight of 7 Seas craft beer that we call Craft Beer
Peaks and Pints Tap List Saturday August 10 2019 includes Evil Twin’s Bozo Beer imperial stout. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Saturday, August 10 2019 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
Welcome back to another edition of Craft Beer Crosscut. Peaks and Pints’ carefully calibrated algorithms constantly collect data to produce the best daily craft beer flights. Today, we don’t need no stickin’ algorithms. It’s National S’mores Day. Today’s beer flight writes itself, as they say. How much do you love the marshmallow, chocolate, graham combo? Bet if we throw in beer, it’ll make it more dear. Indeed, s’mores are a simple backyard pleasure so we’re pleased to have another excuse to get our marshmallow toast on today. Traditional s’mores with golden marshmallows over campfires are lovely. But to celebrate an
Peaks and Pints Tap List Thursday August 8 2019 includes Fort George Brewery’s Skies of Wonder IPA. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Thursday, August 8 2019 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,
Two years before Little Beast Brewing opened in Beaverton, Oregon, co-founder Charles Porter was brewing at Logsdon Farmhouse Ales in Hood River. The histories state such a fact, but Peaks and Pints meet Porter in April 2015 while on a tour with the Craft Brewers Conference held down the highway in Portland. Porter, along with Dave Logsdon, showed us the archaic but highly functional brewing systems Logsdon used to craft their famous wild ales. Porter left Logsdon and opened Little Beast Brewing with his business and life partner, Brenda Crow, a cheesemaker, in April 2017. Porter and crew craft wild,
Did you know that today, Aug. 7, is National Raspberries N’ Cream Day? Neither did we! Truth be told, this fact pisses us off. Here we are, getting ready to celebrate National Raspberry Tart Day Aug. 11, and raspberries and cream has to be like, “Oh! Look at me! I’m special! I’m a parfait! I deserve my own celebration a few days earlier to upstage all of you mere plebeian tarts.” Seriously: Screw off, raspberries and cream. Peaks and Pints will add craft beer to your dumb holiday. We’ll show you! We’ll shine the spotlight on raspberry and vanilla flavored
Peaks and Pints adds sandworms to Tacoma Beer Week 2019 Tacoma Beer Week begins Sunday, Aug. 11, kicking off an eight-day celebration of craft beer. While Tacomans and beer enthusiasts Zoe Brackney and Gini Sommer organize the countywide festival, most of the events associated with the sixth annual celebration are operated independently, produced by local bottle shops, bars, breweries and restaurants. These include special beer releases, educational events, mini festivals, tap takeovers, and wacky games. Peaks and Pints, the craft beer bar, bottle shop and restaurant that opened Nov. 1, 2016 in Tacoma’s Proctor District, celebrates its third “official” Tacoma
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
Monday Cider Flight and a Movie: Yesterday Apple Records is a record label founded by the Beatles in 1968 as a division of Apple Corps Ltd., which is ironic for this week’s Peaks and Pints’ Monday Cider Flight and a Movie. Our neighbor Blue Mouse Theatre screens Yesterday, the story of Jack Malik who is a real nowhere man, sitting in his nowhere land, which happens to be the seaside resort town of Clacton-on-Sea, England. Working as an underappreciated part-timer at a wholesale warehouse and struggling to write and perform music in his free time, Jack makes all his nowhere
In 2005, Joel VandenBrink found himself in a disagreement with a friend, so they headed to a local pub to talk it through. After the second pint disappeared, the two friends had an honest conversation. Before that second pint, VandenBrink was putting his engineering degree from Grand Valley State University to use at the Johnson Controls plant in Holland, when he wasn’t exploring the great outdoors. The outdoorsman eventually moved to the great Seattle outdoors, epic solo hikes and, eventually that second pint of beer. After a homebrew starter kit and an inspirational tour of New Belgium Brewing, VandenBrink founded
In 2018, Oregon’s breweries crafted 1,032,369 barrels of beer, which ranked ninth in the nation (A barrel is 248 pints.) Beer contributed $1.988 billion to the state’s economy and employs roughly 31,000 Oregonians directly and indirectly, from the guy who drives that beer truck all over Portland, to the woman working her family hop farm in the Willamette Valley, to the dude mushing thirsty peddlers around Bend on the Cycle Pub. Oregonians 21 and older consume 9.9 gallons of craft beer per year, which ranks seventh in the nation. There are 8.8 craft breweries per capita (100,000 21+ adults), which
Peaks and Pints Tap List Thursday August 1 2019 includes 17 IPAs on tap for National IPA Day. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Thursday August 1 2019 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
Hundred plus years ago, old ales, also known as stock ales, were usually mixed with younger, sweeter ales in the pubs of London and other British cities. Because ales required aging, breweries often transferred the beer from fermentation tanks to oak barrels to mature, hence the name. Generally, old ales are low attenuated beers with high levels of dextrins, creating a full malt body with plenty of character ¸— balanced hops bitterness and exhibit caramel and dark fruit flavors. Although bittering levels can greatly vary, expect common fruity, vinous, intense malts and sharp alcohol characteristics. The often racy but mellow
Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 7.30.19 There’s the dusty, trigger-happy Wild West cowboy with the Colt 45 half-cocked in his holster. There’s the ’80s nerd with his pocket protector full of felt-tips, ballpoint at the ready. And now, like some absurd combination of the two, there’s the would-be VIP with his cell phone hooked to his belt. In what life-or-death matters is he dealing that the few seconds required to retrieve the device from his pocket prove too precious to waste? We’re betting none. What’s next, a beer can belt? Well, if it’s already here then load it
Block 15 Brewing sits heart of downtown Corvallis, only a few blocks from Oregon State University. The brewery’s name hails from Corvallis’ previous incarnation as Marysville and the old plat map location from the old town. Originally built in 1926 for the Gazette-Times newspaper, the original Block 15 building is blocks from both Oregon State University’s campus and Corvallis’ riverfront park. In early 2008, homebrewers Nick and Kristen Arzner opened the brewery and restaurant serving beers true-to-style with ingredients imported from different parts of the world, along with all the Willamette Valley produced grains, hops, fruits, herbs and yeast. The
Frank Herbert’s “Dune” inspires Tacoma Beer Week IIPA: Peaks and Pints joined 7 Seas Brewing to collaborate on the Great Maker hazy double IPA, a tribute to Tacoma’s Dune Peninsula, which will be released during Tacoma Beer Week Aug. 11. Frank Herbert’s “Dune” inspires Tacoma Beer Week IIPA “I think we can all agree that the best “Dune” adaptation is the one that becomes a beer,” said Peaks and Pints co-owner Robby Peterson to a 7 Seas brewhouse full of laughter. It has sold millions of copies, is perhaps the greatest novel in the science-fiction canon
Peaks and Pints Tap List Saturday July 27 2019 includes Aldersbacher Kloster Weisse Dunkel on tap no. 14. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Saturday, July 27 2019 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
Peaks and Pints Tap List July 26 2019 includes Skookum Triple Berry Clouds. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Friday, July 26 2019 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 for iPhone
Peaks and Pints Tap List July 25 2019 includes Wandering Hop Brewery’s Not of The World hazy IPA. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Thursday, July 25 2019 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
Dexter, Michigan’s Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales is the first brewery in the U.S. to oak barrel-age 100 percent of its beers. Ron Jeffries — AKA Brewmaster Spooky, AKA Captain Ron — founded the Jolly Pumpkin with his wife, Laurie, in 2004, and their beers have since gained international recognition and received multiple gold medals at the Great American Beer Festival. Jolly Pumpkin takes great care in maturing their beers. Each brew is fermented in open-air tanks and aged in oak casks. The beers are then further matured in the bottle with the addition of more yeast, also known as bottle
Peaks and Pints Cooler Bagger 7.23.19 If you stay overnight in one of Mount Rainier’s campgrounds, you won’t need a permit, but if you want to camp anywhere else, you will. You can get those permits from any ranger station, as well as at the Longmire Wilderness Information Center, the Jackson Visitor Center at Paradise, the Ohanapecosh Visitor Center, the White River Wilderness Information Center near the White River entrance or at the Sunrise Visitor Center. This also applies if you plan to hike or camp along the Wonderland Trail. On the way to the permit office, stop by Peaks
Peaks and Pints Tap List: Tuesday, July 23 2019 includes Fort George Fields of Green IPA (Lucy). Peaks and Pints Tap List: Tuesday, July 23 2019 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,
The first India pale ales originated in Great Britain as a modestly hopped pale ale, with just a little bit more hops flavor than other beer. Then American brewers started using newfangled hops such as Cascade, which Anchor’s Liberty Ale and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale use to great effect, giving the beer big citrus aromas and flavor. Then Lagunitas Brewing founder Tony Magee brewed his Lagunitas IPA in the mid-1990s, invented the West Coast IPA, which is all about the hops. Next came Vinnie Cilurzo — who went on to co-found Russian River Brewing — who brewed the first double
Peaks and Pints Tap List: Monday, July 22 2019 includes Modern Times Green Futures IPA on tap at Peaks and Pints today. Photo courtesy of Modern Times Peaks and Pints Tap List: Monday, July 22 2019 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
Monday Cider Flight and a movie: Echo in the Canyon The Grand Cinema screens Echo in the Canyon, the film about the 1960s Laurel Canyon music scene that pays tribute to the Byrds, The Beach Boys and every other act that jangled its way into young America’s heart. First-time director Andrew Slater and musician Jakob Dylan (son of Bob and executive producer), reach out to a number of these folk-rock legends, including Michelle Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas and Stephen Stills of Buffalo Springfield, to talk about why a place like Hollywood Hills was such an enriching environment
You fancy Boon 2014 Geuze Mariage Parfait Fancy Pants Sunday: Boon 2014 Geuze Mariage Parfait At dawn on July 17, 1831, King Leopold I arrived at the Belgian coast and first set foot in his new kingdom. Four days later he swore his oath of office on the steps of the church of Saint-Jacques-sur-Coudenberg to become the first King of the Belgians. Eleven months earlier on August 25th 1830 the Belgian Revolution had started when the performance of an opera at the Monnaie was the spark that set off the tinderbox that was the political situation
Peaks and Pints Tap List: Sunday, July 21 2019 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 for iPhone and here for Android.
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1ProletariatMalbecUSAWalla Walla, WA14%Just Tapped
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2ProletariatSangioveseUSAWalla Walla, WA14%Just Tapped
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3ProletariatPinot GrisUSAWalla Walla, WA13.8%Just Tapped
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419 AcresBrazilian LimeadeKey Lime, Condensed Milk CiderSherwood, OR5%Just Tapped
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5Vahalla Coffee RoastersViking Nitro Cold BrewNitro Cold BrewJust Tapped
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6Old StoveItalian PilsnerPilsnerSeattle, WA4.9%25 IBUJust Tapped
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72 TownsRiverBreakerHouse CiderCorvallis, OR6.9%Just Tapped
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8InclineMarionberryHard Cider w/ marionberryAuburn, WA6.5%Just Tapped
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9GreenwoodRed FleshRosé Hard CiderSeattle, Wash7.8%Just Tapped
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10pFriemDruif RougeFrench Oak-Aged Lambic Inspired Ale w/ Pinot Noir grapesHood River, OR7.3%IBUJust Tapped
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11pFriemSuper SaisonImperial SaisonHood River, OR9.5%38 IBUJust Tapped
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12RainierMountain Fresh BeerLagerSeattle, WA4.6%IBUJust Tapped
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13Victor 23CoconspiratorDoppelbockVancouver, WA%IBUJust Tapped
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14AyingerBrauweisseHefeweizenAying, Germany5.2%12 IBUJust Tapped
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15Cellarmaker/There Does Not ExistSlo GloHazy Pale AleSan Francisco, CA5.7%IBUJust Tapped
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16Bale BreakerTrailBreaker IPAHouse IPAYakima, WA6.8%IBUJust Tapped
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17Russian RiverRnD IPA #40Hazy IPASanta Rosa, CA6.5%IBUJust Tapped
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18No BoatJandy RohnsonDouble IPA HazySnoqualmie, WA8.4%35 IBUJust Tapped
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19Fast FashionBus DriverHazy IPASeattle, WA6.5%IBUJust Tapped
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20Block 15The IncredibleTriple IPACorvallis, OR10.6%IBUJust Tapped
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21Boundary BayIrish RedIrish Red AleBellingham, WA5%23 IBUJust Tapped
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22Boneyard/Three FloydsArmored FistNitro Imperial Cascadian Dark AleBend, OR9%65 IBUJust Tapped
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23Everybody'sHoeDown BrownBrown AleWhite Salmon, WA5.2%40 IBUJust Tapped
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24ChimayGrand RéserveBelgian Dark Strong AleChimay, Belgium9%IBUJust Tapped
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25Future PrimitiveFiveBarleywineWhite Center, WA11.8%IBUJust Tapped
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26WayfinderGravity DropBaltic PorterPortland, OR9.2%IBUJust Tapped
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27BombasticShiverImperial Coffee Stout w/Thomas Hammer CoffeeHayden ID10.5%47 IBUJust Tapped
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28Fort GeorgeMatryoshka Vanilla 2024Russian Imperial Stout - Barrel Aged (Westland Whiskey)Astoria, OR14%IBUJust Tapped
Today isn’t just Sunday; it’s Belgian National Day — a celebration that dates back 188 years, to July 21 1831, and the happy moment when Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg swore allegiance to the Belgian constitution, and became the first king of a newly forged European country. In Belgium, the anniversary will be marked with wild scenes and general merriment — or, at least, a few beers and maybe a walk in the park — from Antwerp to Zaventem. At Peaks and Pints, the anniversary will be marked by a Belgian beer tap takeover. In conjunction with the Belgian draft beer, we
Yes, food holidays are more often than not ridiculous, but not many can argue with National Ice Cream Sundae Day. If you’re one of those folks who cannot remember what you did this time last year on the holiday, you probably had a really good National Ice Cream Sundae Day last year. That’s the point. Plus, it’s Saturday — plenty of time to splurge on sugar before you “start your diet” on Monday. Soda fountain owner, Ed Berners of Two Rivers, Wisconsin is reputed to have invented the first ice cream sundae in 1881. Berners’s customer George Hallauer requested that
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, like apricot, it’s usually in an effort to soften and/or complement the sour and tart character. It’s not flawed beer, unintentionally infected with Lactobacillus. Brewers add the bacteria strain as well as Pediococcus for the mouth-puckering flavors, a traditional method developed by the Belgians hundreds of
In celebration of their fifth year traveling round the sun, Ecliptic Brewing created the Cosmic Collaboration series, “5 Beers for 5 Years,” in which the Portland, Oregon brewery brews celestial concoctions with five other esteemed breweries. Peaks and Pints hosted the first two collaborations — Brooklyn Brewery in April and Firestone Walker in May. We’re opening the pod bay door again for Ecliptic’s third Cosmic Collaborator, Breakside Brewery, tonight at 6 p.m. Ecliptic Brewing owner and brewmaster, John Harris, worked with Breakside’s brewmaster, Ben Edmunds, to create the Nectarine Sour Ale (8.2%) brewed with pale and Munich malts, wheat and
Metro Park Board Commissioner Erik Hanberg, center, will discuss the history of Tacoma’s Dune Peninsula while Tacoma musician Doug Mackey, right, performs and a sandworm, left, drinks Pacific Brewing & Malting craft beer. Original photo by Jason Ganwich/Weekly Volcano Peaks and Pints Tacoma Beer Week Dune Night Hey Tacoma GeekMoms and GeekDads! There is plenty of summer vacation season left on the calendar, and boredom may already be settling in around your house. So what are some fun, geeky places to take your geeklets? Dune Peninsula should top your list. The 11-acre park, aptly named for