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Craft Beer Crosscut 7.17.19: Flight by Merchant du Vin

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Peaks and Pints hosts a Belgian beer and artisan cheese pairing tonight. The Belgian beer and cheese pairing is part of our de Belgian Beerloo, a weeklong celebration of Belgian beer through Sunday, July 21, which is Belgian National Day. Merchant du Vin — the Seattle-based specialty beer importer representing Lindemans, Brasserie du Bocq, Westmalle Trappist and Trappistes Rochefort, to name a few — will provide the Belgian beers for Courtney C. Johnson — a cheesemonger and certified curd nerd living in the Seattle area — to pair with local artisanal cheese at 6 p.m. inside Peaks and Pints craft

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Craft Beer Crosscut 7.16.19: Flight of de Belgian Beerloo

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Belgians produce more than 1,100 varieties of beer, a few you can taste during Peaks and Pints’ annual de Belgian Beerloo week, which kicks off today and runs through Saturday, July 20. Belgian beer is known for having quite the alcohol content. It can be pricey, but has quite the bang for the buck compared to our domestics. Each brand has their own special glass designed to accentuate the best attributes of the many types of beer. Many of the beers formulations go back hundreds of years, perfected by the Trappist Monks. In Belgium, beer is so important to the

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Peaks and Pints de Belgian Beerloo: XXX

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Peaks and Pints de Belgian Beerloo: XXX Few brewing nations hold a special place in brewers’ and drinker’s hearts quite like Belgium. From sour Flemish ales to high-octane Trappist brews, Belgium has an ancient and varied brewing history. Every Mid-July, Peaks and Pints craft beer bar, bottle shop and restaurant brings Belgium to Tacoma’s Proctor District when we celebrate our version of Belgian Beer Week — Peaks and Pints de Belgian Beerloo — this year July 16-20. Tuesday, July 16, we kick off the celebration with Peaks and Pints de Belgian Beerloo: XXX, highlighting dubiously-named dubbel, tripel, and quadruple, with

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Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight 7.15.19: Quimper Peninsula

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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

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Craft Beer Crosscut 7.13.19: Flight of Decadent Ales

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In 2016, mad scientist brewer Paul Pignataro founded Decadent Ales, a nanobrewery located in Mamaroneck, New York, and is distributed by Twelve Percent Beer Project, the brewery arm of Twelve Percent Imports, as well as contract-brews at Thimble Island Brewing Co. and Dorchester Brewing Co. in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Before Pignataro could operate in Mamaroneck, officials had to amend the village’s zoning code to allow for beer production. It was a lengthy process, but a year and eight months later, Decadent Ales is serving pints of their velvety smooth dessert-inspired brews. Last December, Pignataro opened a Decadent Ales brewpub inside

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Craft Beer Crosscut 7.12.19: Flight by Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø

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Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø, the founder and man behind Evil Twin Brewing, was a physics and English teacher in his native Denmark before starting Copenhagen’s Ølbutikken, a highly regarded beer store. He’s also an evil twin himself. His brother, Mikkel Borg Bergsø, brews under the Mikkeller label. Jarnit-Bjergsø, however, has done his best to outshine the good twin. He founded Evil Twin in 2010 as a nomadic brewery. Like his brother Mikkel, Jarnit-Bjergsø would concocts a recipe for his beer and hand it to another brewery with some extra capacity. This contracted brewing partner brewed, bottled, priced and sold the beer, then

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Craft Beer Crosscut 7.11.19: Flight of Grains of Wrath

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The metal movement has an outsider ethos and no-holds-barred authenticity that appeals to many brewers, including Grains of Wrath Brewery co-owner and brewmaster Mike Hunsaker. The metal- and punk-loving 48-year-old cut his teeth as a homebrewer and by working for breweries in Chicago and Cleveland, before relocating to Portland in 2014 to become the head brewer at Fat Head’s Brewery, where he became known for original West Coast IPA recipes such as SemperFiPA, GABF gold medal-winning Blitzkrieg Bock and GABF bronze medalist Vienna Lager. Fat Head’s closed, which lead to Hunsaker opening his new punk and metal inspired brewery Grains

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Craft Beer Crosscut 7.10.19: Flight For Brew Five Three

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Like most beer festivals, Brew Five Three: Tacoma’s Beer & Music Festival will begin with a branded taster glass, thirsty drinkers sporting pretzel necklaces and the faint whiff of sunscreen in the air. But once the organizer Tacoma Arts Live hands the guests the day’s tap list, the mood will shift. Some will grab for golf pencils and started crossing off old familiars while others start circling the can’t-misses from the 40 beer and cider booths. Many will grab an imperial stout and sip it while watching the Washington Scottish Pipe Band, Mirrorgloss, and other bands. Tonight, Peaks and Pints

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Craft Beer Crosscut 7.9.19: Flight of Belgian-Style Tripel

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Though strong Belgian pale ales have existed for centuries, the “tripel” name wasn’t used until the Trappists monks at Westmalle Abbey changed the name of what they’d call “superbier,” their heaviest pale ale, in 1956. The Flemish Dutch word for triple, tripel suggests three times malt and strength. Much of tripel’s mystique comes from the innocent deep golden color, soft maltiness and customary, intriguing yeast stamp. That is followed by a sucker punch in the range of 8 to 9.5 percent ABV, a combination that offers culinary-quality complexity rivaling any darker brew. The burnished golden color, sometimes glinting of orange,

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Ecliptic Brewing 5 Beers For 5 Years: Breakside Brewery

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Ecliptic Brewing 5 Beers For 5 Years: Breakside Brewery Your parents’ anniversary got NOTHIN’ on Ecliptic Brewing Co.’s fifth anniversary. You could celebrate with the ‘rents with a nice meal and a card, OR you could celebrate five years of space balls-out craft beer with the Portland brewery and their neighbors, Breakside Brewery, Thursday, July 18, at Peaks and Pints craft beer bar, bottle shop and restaurant in Tacoma’s Proctor District. Ecliptic Brewing picked Peaks and Pints to showcase their newest Cosmic Collaboration series, “5 Beers for 5 Years,” in which the Portland brewery collaborates with five other esteemed breweries

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Peak and Pints Monday Cider Flight 7.8.19: European

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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. A thirst for beer and the introduction of prohibition laws meant hard cider became an almost forgotten beverage, but it is currently undergoing a revival with small producers and large booze brands all getting in on

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Fancy Pants Sunday: Deschutes Black Butte XXXI

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You fancy, Deschutes Black Butte XXXI Fancy Pants Sunday: Deschutes Black Butte XXXI This summer marks 31 years since Californian Gary Fish set up Deschutes Brewery in downtown Bend on Bond Street, back when Bond Street was a much emptier place. Deschutes has since grown to become one of the United States’ representative craft breweries, distributing from coast to coast and making Bend synonymous with beer in the minds of many. Since their 20th anniversary in 2008, Deschutes has released an imperial barrel-aged double version of the brewery’s flagship, Black Butte Porter, which changes every year.

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Craft Beer Crosscut 7.7.19: Flight of Fruit Cup

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Normally condemned to rot in a mediocre ceramic bowl, the fruit cup has finally been given the respectable and stylish home it deserves — Peaks and Pints’ craft beer flight. That’s right, this is not your mama’s fruit cup. It’s more like a fruit cup on … hops. Once considered a maligned novelty, fruit is now one of the arenas where brewers experiment most, uh, fruitfully. According to archeologists, the Mesopotamians were brewing with fruit thousands of years ago. In 1999, Fruitheads became a type a drinker after they gobbled up gallons of Dogfish Heads’ Aprihop, a fruit beer made

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Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock July 6 2019

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Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock July 6 2019 Soccer fans, this one’s for you. The FIFA Women’s World Cup finale airs at 8 a.m. tomorrow, and the U.S. team will be playing the Netherlands. In addition, the U.S. Men’s National Team will also be playing at 6 p.m. Sunday against Mexico for the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the men’s title of North and Central America and the Caribbean. If you’re looking to tune into both games, as well as find some camaraderie in the community, stop by Peaks and Pints and pair soccer with the craft beer below, as well as

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Craft Crosscut 7.6.19: Flight of Strawberry Sundae

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Tomorrow is National Strawberry Sundae Day — a day Americans combine vanilla or strawberry ice cream, strawberry sauce, fresh strawberries, and whipped cream. Peaks and Pints isn’t sure who invented strawberry sundaes or National Strawberry Sundae Day, but history claims, in 1881, 18-year-old George Hallauer ordered an ice cream soda, on a Sunday, in Two River Wisconsin, and had the nerve to ask for it to be topped with chocolate syrup. “I call it a Sundae, yo,” Hallauer probably didn’t exactly say. In 1892, Reverend John M. Scott took the “sundae” a bit further when he ordered a bowl of

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Craft Beer Crosscut 7.5.19: Flight of Cherry

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Like oil and water, Elizabeth Taylor and marriage, and Iggy Pop and body fat, some things just don’t mix. You can add drinking and playing sports on the Fourth of July to that list. Whether it was kickball, softball or trying to land a football on a camping chair, ragtag “sportspeople” reclaiming their gym-class glory yesterday are feeling it today. You’ll see them hobbling around with a “pulled” hamstring or maybe an arm in a sling from a separated shoulder — whatever the injury there’s a hangover accompany it. Time to drink cherries. No, seriously. Aside from being associated with

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Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 7.3.19

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Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 7.3.19 The Fourth of July is a time for hanging out in the backyard, going to the beach and enjoying a craft beer or six while celebrating the independence of America. Drop by Peaks and Pints and load up for the holiday. … Baerlic Brewing FUZZ BOX HAZY IPA: Baerlic Brewing’s rotating Hazy IPA series Fuzz Box is back at Peaks and Pints with its overpowered haze of pineapple, mango, stone fruit, watermelon, candy, juicy fruit, sticky pine, resinous pitch, and earthy black tea. 6.7% LOUDER EVEN MORE PUNK ROCK DOUBLE HAZY IPA:

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Craft Beer Crosscut 7.3.19: Flight of Double Mountain

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Founded on St. Patrick’s Day 2007, Double Mountain Brewery has a clear mission: “Make great beer for craft beer fans.” Ever since then owner Matt Swihart (when not playing banjo in the GreenNeck Daredevils band) has worked hard to meet this mission, focusing on uncompromising beer quality, with ingredients such as 2-row pilsner malts from British Columbia, Belgian yeast strains, fruit from Hood River orchards and Northwest hops. Famed for both their hoppy and sour fruit beers such as IRA, Vaporizer and Devil’s Kriek as well as their brewpub in downtown Hood River’s awesome pizza, family friendly atmosphere and live

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Craft Beer Crosscut 7.2.19: Flight of Ale Apothecary

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Founder Paul Arney and his team are focused on one thing at the The Ale Apothecary — making truly unique beers, using strictly Oregon ingredients — including local barley, wheat, hops, barrels, and even the wild yeast drifting around the high desert air — aged in oak, waiting patiently for the right moment to express themselves. Ex-Deschutes brewer Arney doesn’t make much beer — just 300 barrels per year, all packaged in wine-sized bottles at wine-sized prices. All his beers are bottle conditioned, allowing for natural carbonation and more complex flavors that are unlocked after further aging, and as a

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Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight 7.1.19

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Good Day South Sound! TV says you got those high class blues. Seems the caravan to Aruba is not the road that you would choose. LET’S DRINK SOME CIDER! It’s Monday, which means Peaks and Pints offers a flight of five hard ciders. Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight 7.1.19 includes two new ciders: Winsome Passion Mango and Tieton The Dry Side Blues Infuses. Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight 7.1.19 Independent Lavender Perry 5.5% ABV Montana State University friends Micah Roberson, Michael Partheymuller and Kramer Christensen opened Independent Cider in the upper Wenatchee Valley near Leavenworth and Cashmere. They

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Craft Beer Crosscut 6.30.19: Flight For Proctor Criterium

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The Tour de France is one of the coolest things on two legs operating two wheels, but it’s such a commitment of time, effort and frequent flyer miles to check it out. Then they ride by and it’s over. Fortunately, there are other options in bike racing — whether you’re a participant or a spectator — a bit closer to home. Formerly known as Tacoma Twilight Criterium, the Proctor Station Criterium consumes four blocks in Tacoma’s Proctor District today. Starting and finishing in front of Peaks and Pints, cyclists race down North 26th Street, turn right onto North Madison, race

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Craft Beer Crosscut 6.29.19: Flight of Almond

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Happy National Almond Buttercrunch Day! The crunchy candy, sometimes called just buttercrunch but other times referred to as almond buttercrunch, or here in Tacoma: Almond Roca. In 1914, Harry Brown and J.C. Haley started a candy company in the City of Destiny. Brown & Haley’s taffy chews and butterscotch balls became popular with soldiers stationed at Camp Lewis. After this country’s entry into the Great War in 1917, the population at Camp Lewis grew larger.  Not surprisingly, the increasing demand for the new company’s sweets kept pace. After the WWI, Camp Lewis’ population shrunk. In 1923, the two confectioners’ efforts

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Cooler Bagger: Ape Cave vs Block 15

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Cooler Bagger: Ape Cave vs Block 15 Looking for something to do this weekend? Descend into the lower section of Ape Cave, a 2.5-mile cool (literally, it averages a temperature of 42 degrees year round) lava tube near Cougar, in Cowlitz County. Afterward, camp at nearby Beaver Bay Campground and tell Ape Cave stories while drinking Block 15 Brewing canned craft beer. The reputed home of Bigfoot, the Ape Cave was discovered in the mid-20th century by a local logger. The name is actually an homage to the Boy Scout group who helped map the site — the Mount St.

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Peaks and Pints hosts Double Mountain Timbeer!

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Peaks and Pints hosts Double Mountain Timbeer! A collaboration born of mutual admiration between Double Mountain Brewery and Timber! Outdoor Music Festival, the Hood River, Oregon brewery brewed Timbeer!, an “All Day Pale” for the Carnation, Washington music festival July 11-13. Peaks and Pints will host a Timber! prefunk with Double Mountain Brewery pouring Timbeer! from our Western red cedar tap log and loading the jukebox with the scheduled performers’ music. Peaks and Pints hosts Double Mountain Timbeer! release party at 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 3. Back for its seventh year, Timber! offers a full weekend of crowd-friendly folk, rock,

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Craft Beer Crosscut 6.23.19: Flight of Chimay

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Chimay is brewed in Belgium by Cistercian Trappist monks who apparently have a direct line to God when it comes to the more ethereal matters of the brewers’ art. This champagne of beers goes down smooth, follows its creamy head with a silky mouth-feel and fruity aroma, and packs a serious wallop. The Trappist monks are cloistered away in Scourmont Abbey in Belgium (where they also make tasty Chimay cheese) with the operation’s profits paying for the monks’ pious lifestyle and charitable efforts. Having been around since 1862, Chimay’s a relatively new entry in the world of godly beverages with

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Craft Beer Crosscut 6.22.19: Flight of Summer 2019 IPAs

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It’s summertime! With this sun-dappled season sending spring showers skulking off into the upper reaches of the stratosphere, Peaks and Pints sees more folks into pilsners, craft lagers, radlers and low-calorie options. And, almost every style under the sun is being infused with exotic flavorings such as lingonberry saisons and Italian plum goses. Phooey! Breweries are still cranking out beautiful India Pale Ales at record levels. Remember this is America, and in America, everyday is IPA day, from Brut to Brett, clear to cloudy, fruit-forward to double-dry-hopped. Therefore, Peaks and Pints presents a flight of new IPAs that we call

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Craft Beer Crosscut 6.21.19: Tacoma Tastes

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It would be hard to determine what Tacoma tastes like. For starters, where would one sample the soil most indicative of the City of Destiny? Commerce Street? Or would the most-telling turf be found at higher elevations like Hilltop? And what would that flavor be like? You can be sure the topsoil would smack of scandal — but it would probably also taste a bit like Heidelberg. Deeper down, there would be traces of Puyallup Tribe intermingled with a Swedish loggers, Civil War veterans and a salty prospector tang. Then there’d be all that fossilized dinosaur crap to contend. When

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Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock June 20 2019

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Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock June 20 2019 Hello Peaks and Pints Pals! Be on the lookout for these new bottles and cans in our cooler. Cheers! Firestone Walker Brewing NAPA PARABOLA: Firestone Walker aged Russian imperial stout in French oak barrels from a prestigious Napa winery. Which one? No clue, so all we can do is speculate, but we do know that the barrels once held cabernet sauvignon, cabernet franc and merlot grapes. The result is an imperial stout with very different flavors: cedar, clove, mocha, ripe berries and dried chile peppers. And 2019 vintage dated bottles

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Craft Beer Crosscut 6.20.19: Flight of Fort George

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In 2006, Chris Nemlowill and Jack Harris flew to Virginia Beach, Virginia to salvage an 8.5-barrel Saaz brewing system and drive it across the country to install it in their soon-to-open Fort George Brewery in Astoria, Oregon. While traveling with the equipment strapped to a flat bed, they met up with a tornado that nearly spread the brewery across a Nebraska cornfield. Fort George has brewed 3-Way IPA since 2013, featuring two different craft brewery collaborators every year — this year Cloudburst and Ruse Brewing. Tonight, Peaks and Pints hosts the South Sound release party for 3-Way with the beer

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Craft Beer Crosscut 6.19.19: Hop For Teacher

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When you hear Alice Cooper’s perennial anthem “School’s Out” drowning out the tires’ squeal you might think the burnt-rubber exclamation mark of high school angst was a result of just enduring nine months of torturous classwork and a summer of freedom glee. But wait! Is the song blasting from a Honda Odyssey minivan? Indeed. Teachers have the same angst and glee. In fact, many can claim they felt the unbridled joy, sarcasm and jaded optimism — particularly the lyric “School’s out forever” — back in 1979 when they first heard the song on their last day of school. Let’s be

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Craft Beer Crosscut 6.18.19: Flight of Midnight Sun

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The midnight sun is a natural phenomenon that occurs during summer in places south of the Antarctic Circle and north of the Arctic Circle. The earth is rotating at a tilted axis relative to the sun, and during the summer months the North Pole is angled toward our star. That’s why, for several weeks, the sun never sets above the Arctic Circle. Midnight Sun Brewing began commercially producing ales and lagers for folks close to the Arctic Circle in 1995. Midnight Sun is Alaskan proud. Everything from their beer names to the beer labels portrays the pride they have in

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Craft Beer Crosscut 6.16.19: Thank You Dad Flight

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Ah, Father’s Day, when all patriarchs become Clark Griswold on vacation and all filial conversations become sentimental diatribes: “Enjoy this, kids. Someday when you have families of your own, you’ll wish you had several hours together in the back of a cop car like this, just to sit and talk.” One of the best presents a father can get is peace and quite so he can watch the Mariners/Athletics game with his favorite beer, which can be purchased at Peaks and Pints today. We crafted a craft beer flight for dear ol’ dad — at least satisfying five different kinds

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Craft Beer Crosscut 6.15.19: Flight of Matchless Brewing

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After finishing his West Olympia postal route for the day, botanist Patrick Jansen grabbed his homebrew for a weekend at the Helsing Junction Sleepover, a rad summer K Records music festival at Helsing Junction Farm in Rochester. Darby’s Café owners Nate and Sara Reilly danced with Jansen’s homebrews in their hands. Yes, their joy had roots in the music, but their beer foam-covered smiles announced they found their dream brewery head brewer. Jansen became the founding head brewer for the Reilly’s Three Magnets Brewing Co., a downtown Olympia brewery that gobbled up awards. But, the daily hustle and bustle of

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Craft Beer Crosscut 6.14.19: Flight For Summer Con

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Summer Con team assemble! You and your friends are stoked to attend the Washington State Summer Con at the Washington State Fairgrounds this weekend. This catch-all geek festival will combine new and vintage toys, comic books, video games, movies, celebrities, and “anything pop culture” under one roof. But, you and your friends need a plan of attack. You’ve called a special planning meeting at Peaks and Pints today. Attending will be you, a Celtic folk singer; Farmer Ted, a swordsman from Fife; Charles De Mar, a swordsman from Ruston; Craig Schwartz, a puppeteer from Yelm; Walter (Gib) Gibson, a role

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Fort George 3-Way vs. The Rusty Cleavers

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Fort George 3-Way vs. The Rusty Cleavers While summer days are great for lounging, it’s the hot summer nights that will truly make memories. And nothing heats things up faster than a Fort George Brewery’s 3-Way release party. Peaks and Pints has been selected to host the Astoria brewery’s annual IPA collaboration release party for the South Sound Thursday, June 20. How do we present such a coveted IPA to the region? Gotta have more washboard. Tacoma’s punkgrass band The Rusty Cleavers will rattle the 3-Way pints and cans live during the release party at Peaks and Pints. Fort George

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Craft Beer Crosscut 6.13.19: Flight of All Day Breakfast

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We know what some of you are thinking. Beer for breakfast? Who does that? But the true advocate of craft beer knows there is nothing quite like waking up, making scrambled eggs and bacon and cracking open 22 ounces of your favorite brew. In an effort to repeat the magic of the day’s first meal, some genius breweries have injected quintessential breakfast flavors into their beers. Who are we to judge? After all, our “breakfast” beers sit comfortably next to eggs and orange juice in our cooler. In that context, the beer seemed right at home. Enjoy our Craft Beer

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Craft Beer Crosscut 6.12.19: Flight For Mythic Valley

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Tommy Gunn and Tony Aman formed Mythic Valley in 2015. Hailing from Salt Lake City, the duo set out to combine the earnest intimacy of folk with the grit of indie music. Their sound is eclectic, yet warm and personal, echoing the timeless storytelling of Americana, with a modern twist. Inspired by contemporary artists as diverse as The Shins, My Morning Jacket, or Fleet Foxes. The band blends in lush melodies with introspective lyrics and beautiful soundscapes, which you can hear at Peaks and Pints tonight at 8 p.m. Peaks and Pints peeked at Mythic Valley’s tour and crafted a

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Craft Beer Crosscut 6.11.19: Flight of Skookum Oak

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Skookum Brewery’s story could not be more emblematic of Washington’s craft beer explosion. The Arlington brewery started as a homebrew operation in a 1918 dairy bar repurposed to be a home, grew gradually, won medals and now brews in a giant building, using locally-sourced ingredients, churning out what seems like three different IPAs a week, and is the darling (with a bold growl) of most serious craft beer drinkers. It was 2007 when Ron and Jackie Walcher opened the brewery down a dirt road near Arlington. Today, Skookum head brewer Hollis Wood and his small team churn out “big bold

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Craft Beer Crosscut 6.10.19: Flight of Rosé

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Pink alcohol has long had a bad rap. From cosmos to white zin to Lancers and Mateus, a glass of pink often points to a drinker with little taste, class or sanity. Or all three. Anyway, let’s talk rosé. The Greeks and the Romans made rosé. Monks made rosé. Rosé has the added benefit of coming in a shade that has become known as “millennial pink.” The blush-tone burst onto the scene sometime in the last three years and has been prominent in clothing, housewares and food ever since. It is a trendy, aesthetically pleasing tone that is associated with

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Craft Beer Crosscut 6.8.19: Flight of Pride

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Fifty years ago this summer, New York City bar patrons of many genders, sexualities, and racial identities trapped a group of police officers inside the Stonewall Inn after they shut down the bar in yet another routine raid. Riots continued the following two nights as the LGBTQ community spread word that something unique was happening in Greenwich Village. Every June, Pride month, we celebrate their uprising with Pride parades that have come to resemble corporate advertisements rather than riots. It’s the time when lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, queer and questioning folk celebrate their heritage, continue and intensify their ongoing struggle

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Craft Beer Crosscut 6.7.19: Flight of Deschutes Beer

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Californian Gary Fish established his brewpub concept, Deschutes Public House, in downtown Bend in 1988. Named after the Deschutes Rover, Deschutes was Central Oregon’s first brewery. Fish hired John Harris (founder of Ecliptic Brewing Co.) from McMenamins. Legislation and a growing provincialism for locally crafted beers soon turned the microbrewer of Mirror Pond Pale Ale and Black Butte Porter in obscure Bend, Oregon into a macro success, as the state’s largest brewer by barrel count. Still family and employee owned, the brewery is known for brewing a diverse line-up of award winning beers including the popular Fresh Squeezed IPA, Black

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Craft Beer Crosscut 6.6.19: Flight of Climb For A Cause

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In July 2019, Two Beers Brewing and Seattle Cider Co. are sending eight of their staff to Mount Rainier’s summit in order to raise money for Washington’s National Park Fund, or WNPF, the official philanthropic partner of Mount Rainier, North Cascades and Olympic National Parks. The funds raised by WNPF help fund 50-75 projects annually in these parks, which the staffs at Two Beers and Seattle Cider visit, climb and bike monthly, if not weekly. Peaks and Pints will host a fundraiser for that WNPF Climb For A Cause team at 6 p.m. tonight. In addition to games, raffle prizes,

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Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock June 5 2019

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Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock June 5 2019 Exhausted, you just want to hunker down and quit trying all the damn workshops and clinics and healing centers and therapies and just shut up and watch South Park and feel the Mystery swirl and just get calm let the following liquids inside Peaks and Pints’ cooler flow into your being like the cool rays of the morning sun. Welcome to Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock June 5 2019. … Block 15 Brewing THE AUDACITY OF OPACITY: Block 15’s clear IPA has returned, with the same bright pineapple,

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Craft Cider Crosscut 6.5.19: Flight of Tieton

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In 2008, Craig Campbell and his wife, Sharon, began experimenting with making cider from dessert apples grown in their 400-acre commercial fruit orchards in Yakima, Washington. Despite naysayers who warned that cider apples required a maritime climate, Craig also planted a two-acre test orchard with 25 varieties of cider apples. Today, their two-acre experiment expanded into Cider View, a 30-acre “high-density” cider orchard. In their commercial cidery, Tieton Cider Works, they blend American heritage, English and French cider varietals with dessert apples to capture the best of what each variety brings to the bottle: sweetness, acidity, tannin and aroma. Tonight,

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