In the rolling farmland of Chimacum Valley along a salmon stream just south of Port Townsend, the Finnriver Farm & Cidery orchards stretch across 80 acres using more than 20 different varieties of apple tree. Their mission is to reconnect people to the land that sustains us and to grow community. They seek to create deep-rooted and fruitful connections at their farm-based taproom and rural gathering space. Finnriver’s farm and orchard is Certified Organic and Salmon Safe, and the company is a Certified B Corporation, seeking to make business a force for good. Finnriver also makes exceptional cider, thanks to
Born in Massachusetts and raised in Connecticut, New Englander Steve Luke spent the summer of 2005 between his junior and senior year at Colby College in Maine sweeping floors and making boxes at Allagash Brewing Company. Upon graduating with a degree in sociology and economics, Luke accepted a job washing kegs at Captain Lawrence Brewing Company in the Hudson Valley. He then moved to Boston to work in the marketing department at Harpoon Brewery. After graduation, Luke returned to Allagash as a brewer, and later became head brewer of Cambridge House Brewpub in Connecticut, where he had freedom to play
The last of your family finally left your house. It was a lot over the holidays. You can put half your life’s savings into therapy —good therapy, effective therapy — and the first day of your holiday family reunion, you still become hopelessly enmeshed in the same old crazy dynamics. Your assertiveness training goes out the window the minute your sister begins her traditional temper tantrum. A mere sigh from your grandmother triggers an attack of codependency so severe you end up giving her your house. For many people, family get-togethers require strategies for staying out of such sticky situations.
January 2025 new arrivals to the Peaks & Pints Cooler. Peaks and Pints Cooler New Beer and Cider January 2025 Peaks & Pints Cooler houses more than 850-plus craft beer and cider cans and bottles, not counting all the bottles of wine on our shelves, including the new choice autumn 2024 arrivals listed below. Peaks & Pints strives to fulfill customer requests and supply our neighbors with the latest craft beer and cider. If you have questions regarding beer availability or special orders, please contact feedback@peakcandpints.com. Shop our cooler at 3826 N. 26th St. in Tacoma’s
Peaks and Pints New Beer Six Pack: 1.3.25 Peaks & Pints has fresh cans from some of your favorites to start your year off right! Our non-alcoholic shelves are stocked up for those of you participating in Dry January. We’re open until midnight every Friday. Cheers to the New Year, may it be full of lots of tasty beer — like this six pack of new arrivals. CLOUDBURST BREWING NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED: Hazy IPA brewed with Mandarina, Hallertau Blanc, Callista, and Huell Melon for notes of tangerine, white grape, and honeydew melon, 6.4%, 16oz CLOUDBURST SNOOZEFEST: Juicy, hoppy hazy IPA
When you think of adventures in California, Delahunt doesn’t come to mind. Delahunt doesn’t scream kayaking, hiking, climbing, surfing or flying. In 2020, when Todd Delahunt launched Delahunt Brewing Company with an unyielding focus on quality in two locations — San Clemente headquarters and later Dana Point — he was more concerned with building a brewery and surviving the COVID-19 than hiking the Coastal Trail or biking Orange County. Since purchasing Delahunt in August 2023, Head Brewer Chris Linn and his six ownership partners have gradually acclimated to their new venture while roaming Southern California, like they do. They renamed
Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 1.2.25 There are still bowl games and Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 1.2.25 to be had. Happy New Year! HET BOERENERF RIESLING: Blend of Riesling wine from a short maceration mixed with young and old lambic that has been macerated on Riesling skins, and then aged together for 6 months in oak barrels, 8.1%, 750ML MIKKELLER BAGHAVEN ROBUS OF ROSE VANILJE BLEND: Danish wild ale aged 24-36 months with fresh raspberries and vanilla beans, 6.5%, 750ml ROM BEER HILL TO HILL: Collaboration with Tarantula Hill Brewing, this crisp West Coast-style pilsner features Riwaka
Nothing makes Peaks & Pints feel cozier than the smell of pancakes in the morning or relaxing at home with the fluffiest slippers and a hot mug of coffee in hand. This satisfaction we experience during mornings is inextricably linked to food, specifically breakfast or everyone’s favorite … breakfast beer. Breweries countrywide have turned to the day’s first meal for inspiration, tossing oats, coffee, maple syrup, milk sugar, tea, and even cinnamon rolls into the brew kettle, devising brews fit for at the breakfast table. We’re not saying not saying you should replace your morning cup of joe with beer
In the world history of beer, pilsners are relatively recent. Thanks to the citizens of Pilsen, Bohemia (Bohemia became part of Czechoslovakia Oct. 28, 1918; Czechoslovakia peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia Jan. 1, 1993), who in 1838 dumped 36 barrels of beer in the main square in protest of poor quality of beer. The Burghers of Pilsen were a group of citizens in who established the Burghers’ Brewery in 1842 to produce a consistent quality beer. Burghers sent spies into Bavaria and then brought back their own Bavarian brewer Josef Groll. On Oct. 5 1842, eons before
Back in the day when a phone call cost 25 cents and we had to walk seven miles through the snow just to get a replacement ribbon for our typewriters — the new year meant heading to the office-supply store to buy a new planner for the upcoming months. These days, most people keep their calendars online so that their phones can automatically remind them of what’s going on that day. But no matter how you keep your schedule, map out your upcoming special events on your calendar while enjoying Peaks and Pints 2024 New Year’s Eve Beer Flight. What
Back in the day, George Washington’s troops received rations of it. John Adams reportedly drank a tankard of it for breakfast each morning. Cider apples and their fermented juice were prevalent on American homesteads. Then Americans departed farms for cities, German immigrants introduced beer culture and ultimately Prohibition took a collective axe to cider orchards across the country. 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 third highest number of craft breweries in the country. But when
Cold rain makes for fine opportunities to sip bold winter beers, bursting with spices, roasted malts and complex flavors. There’s a great scene in the 2007 documentary American Brew where late British author Michael Jackson (a.k.a. the Beer Hunter) describes a perfect scenario for sipping a dark ale. He’s in a pub, holding a full pint of heavy ale. “This would be even better on a cold night,” he says, “just as the rain is hammering against your window panes, and you’re in a nice, comfortable leather chair, and your wife’s gone to bed, and you’ve a got a bit
Grab this six-pack for New Year’s Day games. Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 12.28.24 Come unwind from the holiday madness with a pint or two and then shop our cooler for your New Year festivities, including the six-pack of new arrivals below. We’re open till midnight. Cheers! BOTTLE LOGIC BREWING FUNDAMENTAL OBSERVATION: Imperial stout blended with Madagascar vanilla beans and aged in bourbon barrels for waves of vanilla, chocolate, bourbon and charred notes, followed by vanilla, chocolate and bourbon on the tongue, 13%, 500ml BREAKSIDE BREWERY SOMEBODY NEW IN THE OLD WEST: Barrel-aged imperial rye
Pair our Saturday sandwich special with Here Today Brewery’s delicious table beer. Peaks and Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: Veggie Cluckwich Saturday, Dec. 28 2024: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen Kylee dressed up her Saturday chicken sandwich special with veggie cream cheese, cucumber, pickled onions and arugula on French bread. PAIRING: Here Today Brewery Dream Warp Table Beer Consider the table beer. To the ear, the qualifications are pretty straightforward. It has to be a beer. And you have to put it on a table. Table beer. Done. This is a great beer pairing. Glad everyone took
Happy National Chocolates Candy Day! Yes, it’s a thing. From conversations with friends, family, and customers around the Peaks & Pints cooler, it seems like giving your significant other a box of chocolates on Valentine’s Day has become horribly tacky and passé. What about today? Does a non-Valentine’s Day box of chocolates represent custom, convention and, therefore, cliché? Will you be accused of not putting any thought into the matter? Peaks & Pints wishes buying someone a box of chocolates didn’t automatically peg you as an uncreative loser with no taste. The chocolate in some of those boxes ain’t half
Here’s a six-pack of new arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler. Cheers! Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 12.27.24 The Peaks & Pints fridges have been restocked with more fresh beer in time for the weekend. We are here until midnight for you to check out the new beer, including this six-pack ditty we suggest. Cheers! DE RANKE XX BITTER: Belgian blond, bitter ale brewed with pale pilsner malt and loads of Brewers Gold and Hallertau whole hop flowers, 6%, 330ml E9 BREWING BLUEBERRY LOVE: Formerly known as “Amour Aux Myrtilles” Farmhouse Ale, Blueberry Love
Today, Peaks & Pints centers on strong ales for our daily beer flight — including Belgian and American strong ales — in a flight we’re calling Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Strong Ales. Belgian strong ales malty character can be rich and sweet, with complexity in flavors that include roastedness and mild hoppy bitterness. They are commonly brewed with candi sugar, which can add to the style’s alcoholic strength, which ranges from 7 percent to 11 percent ABV. We also include several American strong ales in today’s flight, which are sometimes referred to as old ales, stock ales or winter
In 2016, three neighbors opened Great Notion Brewing in Northeast Portland and opened the city’s eyes. Businessman Paul Reiter convinced his homebrewing neighbors James Dugan and Andy Miller to take their skills pro and basically freaked out the city known as Beervana with their New England-style IPAs and boundary-pushing culinary-style beers. The awards followed: World Beer Cup, GABF, Best of Craft Beer Awards, and Oregon Beer Awards, as well as the 2018 #1 IPA in America from Paste Magazine, Ripe IPA. Great Notion was the first Portland brewery to become known for hazies, and the controversial style, and traditionalists hated
Gig Harbor Fire/Medic One and Olympic Mountain Rescue leader Alison Monda penned the number one release on Amazon, Fearless: Hilarious and Horrible Stories From an Absurd Life Spent in the Woods. Monda doesn’t just talk about pushing limits, she lives it. She discusses and signs Fearless from 5-8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 23 at Peaks & Pints in Tacoma’s Proctor District. Since Monda wrote some of the book from her bar stool at Peaks & Pints, we present an all-day flight in her honor, Peaks and Pints Monday Adventure Flight: Alison Monda. Her captivating memoir takes readers on an exhilarating journey,
Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack 12.22.24 Sundays are for new beer six-packs! Come hangout with us for a pint or two and do some cooler shopping while you’re here! We still have new T-shirts, and ceramic camping mugs, and plenty of gift cards and other last-minute gifts! Open till 11pm! Cheers! BALE BREAKER BREWING TRACTOR BEAM: Hazy IPA brewed with Mosaic, Galaxy, Krush, HBC 1019, and Citra for juicy grapefruit and pine notes, 6.5%, 16oz BLOCK 15 BREWING FRESH POW: Amplified for the winter season, this hazy IPA is brewed with New Zealand hops for a resinous, citrusy, and
Christmas is everyone’s favorite holiday, but true beer fans know that the most wonderful time of the year is made even more wonderful with a pint in your hand. Winter warmers and other dark, comforting brews take over around the holidays to help carolers and Christmas tree shoppers thaw out after a chilly night. These beers dance on the tongue, fill the belly and warm the soul. Many of the traditional winter warmers are malty, high-strength ales with a sweet and/or roasty character. Old ales, strong ales and barleywines fit right in. Some new holiday beers boast Christmas-inspired herbs, fruits
Christmas should be about togetherness and sharing time with your loved ones, unless the Die Hard isn’t a Christmas movie debate arises. If you’re feeling up for some chaos, then by all means! Carry away. Either way, Eurotrash Hans Gruber is coming for you at 10 p.m. The Grand Cinema screens Die Hard, the prototype for just about every contemporary action movie, though its craft has never been repeated, nor has anyone imitated anything other than its high-concept premise. That said, try your best to ignore (or maybe forgive) the dire one-liners of Clarence Gilyard Jr. and the fact that
Tacoma Arts Live knows there are plenty of holiday plays to attend this season — which is why it’s offering something different. At the Tacoma Armory tonight, it’s not just a wonderful life, it’s a wonderful … dance. The Holiday Dance Party offers holiday music by Rhythm & Verse, a group of local musicians playing a highly engaging mix of danceable pop, rock, and funk covers with a modern take on classic Christmas tunes. Dance your holiday stress away and connect with friends. Wine, beer, cider, a special holiday cocktail, and seasonal treats will be available at the bar. All
We created a six-pack from the new beer that arrived in our cooler today. Come in for a pint of Firestone Walker on tap for tonight’s event and then leave with this sweet sixer. Cheers! Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 12.19.24 We created a six-pack from the new beer that arrived in our cooler today. Come in for a pint of Firestone Walker on tap and then leave with this sweet sixer. Cheers! HERE TODAY BREWERY HOLD THE PHONE: Collaboration with Formula Brewing, this 2024 Sip Magazine Best of the NW Platinum Medalist best bitter
Growing up surrounded by vineyards and winemakers, Adam Firestone (of Firestone Vineyard) always had an interest in combining the family business with beer making. He found the perfect business partner in his brother-in-law David Walker and the two founded Firestone Walker Brewing Company in 1996. In addition to winning gobs of medals for individual brews, these obnoxiously talented brewers from Paso Robles California, often take home the major hardware at competitions like the Great American Beer Festival and World Beer Cup — titles such as “Brewery of the Year” or “Brewer of the Year.” Peaks & Pints would be hard-pressed
Don’t let these dark days get you down, Eliza. Hop in the Puget Sound Revels time machine, journey back to the days of colorful folk stories, beautiful harmonies, lively dances, resplendent costumes, and intriguing traditions in this year’s “Midwinter Revels”. We’re talking singing, dancing, storytelling, beauty, mystery, and hilarity inside the Rialto Theater. This year, the Revels are travelling back in time to 19th century New York City. Seneca Village was a charming rural community founded by African Americans in 1825, and thrived for 30 years before the Parks Commission came in with plans for Central Park. Stage Director Michelle
Today’s six pack of new beer from the Peaks & Pints cooler. Peaks and Pints New Beer Six Pack: 12.17.24 Warm up inside with Peaks and Pints New Beer Six Pack: 12.17.24 BREAKSIDE BREWERY WHITE TEA LAGER: First brewed in 2019 and medaled at the Oregon Beer Awards and North American Beer Awards, this rice lager combines an herbaceous and tea-like hop character with a pronounced fruitiness from white tea flowers, 5.1%, 16oz E9 BREWING BOURBON BARREL-AGED SEKIU: English-style barleywine aged in Woodford Reserve, Basil Hayden and Willet barrels for notes of toffee, caramel, and dark
December 2024 new craft beer arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler. Peaks and Pints Cooler New Beer and Cider December 2024 Peaks and Pints Cooler houses more than 850-plus craft beer and cider cans and bottles, not counting all the bottles of wine on our shelves, including the new choice autumn 2024 arrivals listed below. Peaks & Pints strives to fulfill customer requests and supply our neighbors with the latest craft beer and cider. If you have questions regarding beer availability or special orders, please contact feedback@peakcandpints.com. Shop our cooler at 3826 N. 26th St.
The son of a baker, Paul Hollywood originally trained as a sculptor before his father persuaded him to join the family business. Paul went onto become head baker at some of the most exclusive hotels, including Cliveden, The Chester Grosvenor and The Dorchester, gaining a reputation as an innovator and one of the country’s finest artisan bakers. Since 2010, the English celebrity chef is widely known as a judge on The Great British Bake Off where passionate amateur baking fans compete to be crowned the UK’s Best Amateur Baker. One of Paul’s favorite bake during the holidays is Christmas pudding, which
Founded in August 2020 by CEO Caitlin Braam and crafted by Head Cidermaker Monique Tribble, Yonder Cider makes savory, subtly sweet and high ABV ciders in Wenatchee with a taproom in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, which is shared with Bale Breaker Brewing from the Yakima Valley. Crafted using a blend of bittersweet cider apples and juicy dessert apples, Yonder ciders are hardly simple, and never straightforward, but you can always count on them being interesting. In August 2024, Yonder opened Yonder East, a new taproom in Eastern Washington near its production facility in Wenatchee. Stop by Peaks & Pints for an
It wouldn’t be December without a “Peanuts” special or a gift-wrapped tin of cashews in a Christmas stocking. The holiday season is when nut lovers come out of their shells. Sorry about that. But seriously. ’Tis the season for “chestnuts roasting on an open fire,” even though most people have never actually seen such a thing. Then, there are nutcrackers. Tacoma City Ballet’s The Nutcracker is a glorious production filled with spectacular dancing, live orchestral music, grand scenery, and lavish costumes. Held at the Pantages Theater, Tacoma City Ballet’s historical recreation of The Nutcracker, which premiered in St. Petersburg, Russia
Another new beer six-pack for your weekend. Cheers! Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 12.14.24 If you need an escape from the wind and cold, we’re here for you! Come hangout for a pint or two and check out the fridges, there are plenty of freshies to stock up for the rest of your weekend, including this six-pack of new arrivals. We’re open till midnight. Cheers! BAERLIC BREWING JIM PARKER’S HOLIDAY ALE: Jim Parker, who was a friendly, bearded fixture of Oregon’s craft beer scene and creator of the ubiquitous bar snack the totcho, passed a
No matter what name you know him by — Sinterklaas, Santa Claus, Kris Kringle, St. Nick, or Tim Allen — it’s no secret that Santa is better at “adulting” than the lot of us. How else would you explain his insane productivity (cheap elf labor?), varied interests, and ability to be in multiple places at the same time (quantum physics)? Anyway, he’s made a list, checked it twice, and regardless of whether you’ve been naughty or nice, he is going to show up at LeMay — America’s Car Museum today and tomorrow. It’s called responsibility — and it’s the true
Rainier — A Beer Odyssey is an independent feature documentary on the iconic, groundbreaking Rainier Beer TV commercials that ran from 1974 to 1987. Produced by Peaks & Pints co-owners Robby and Justin Peterson, and directed by Isaac Olsen, the trio studied more than 100 hours of ads and outtakes to share the story about the small, ragtag boutique ad agency Heckler Bowker in Seattle that reinvigorates a beloved beer brand by embracing its local identity, and in turn, changes beer advertising, and advertising as we know it, forever. Rainier — A Beer Odyssey screens today at 11:30 a.m., 2:15,
Fremont Brewing’s 2024 B-Bomb and other new arrivals to our cooler make up the Thursday six-pack suggestion. Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 12.12.24 You snagged a foot-tall tree in a bag that, for just $17.99, comes with lights and ornaments, but not a six-pack of beer. Just so happens Peaks & Pints has another round of new beer to our cooler, including this suggested six-pack. Cheers! BLOCK 15 BREWING HOP PEN PALS: Collaboration with Behemoth Brewing, this lighter-bodied New Zealand IPA bursts with peeled pineapple and mandarin oranges from Southern Hemisphere hops, 6.7%, 16oz OUTER
Peaks and Pints has been making lists — and checking them twice — and at the top of every list is pFriem Family Brewers. Tonight, the Hood River, Oregon, brewery will be at Peaks & Pints for a lodge meeting we’ve titled, “We’re pFrieming of a Craft Beer Christmas.” At 5 p.m., coveted pFriem craft beers such as Belgian Christmas Ale, Bourbon Barrel-Aged Barleywine, Bourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout, and Winter Ale will be on tap. Be sure to “holidaze” your outfit tonight as Peaks & Pints will be decked out for the holidays, with pFriem gifts o’plenty under the tree.
Peaks & Pints leaned to ski during our years at Hudtloff Jr. High in the 1970s. The Clover Park School District arranged the buses to Crystal Mountain, which we boarded in the wee hours with our sack lunches and donning fitted jackets, tighter pants, and lots of color — all made from that reliable nylon. We strapped tree trunk-like skis to our feet, doggedly steering them like great monoliths across entire mountain. Back then, we had to ski uphill, both ways, in the snow. And we were grateful. It was the time of our lives. And we want to pass
New beer six-pack for Tuesday, Dec. 10. Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 12.10.24 Tuesday is a wonderful New Brews Day! Here’s a suggested six-pack from the new arrivals to our 850-plus cooler. Cheers! BELCHING BEAVER BREWING VIVA LA BEAVER: Multiple award-winning milk stout loaded with notes of creamy peanut butter, cinnamon, and coffee, 7.5%, 16oz E9 BREWING EVERY 2 WEEKS: Collaboration with Bethany Carlsen and Greer Hubbard of The Funk Busters draft system experts and line cleaners, this West Coast IPA is brewed with Pacific Sunrise and Citra hops for soft citrus and tropical fruit
Peaks & Pints Chef Mike Parker’s Tuesday Chicken Salad Bahn Mi Special pairs well with Saison Dupont. Peaks and Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: Chicken Salad Bahn Mi Tuesday, Dec. 10 2024: Peaks & Pints Chef Mike Parker grabbed our Tuesday Sandwich Special offering a Chicken Salad Bahn Mi with Chicken Salad, Spicy Mayo, Ginger Hoison, Cucumber, jalapeño, Pickled Carrot, and Diakon Radish Cilantro on a Baguette. Brasserie Dupont Saison Dupont with its zesty hop and citrus attack pairs perfectly. Soup: Chickpea & Lentil PAIRING: Brasserie Dupont Saison Dupont A banh mi’s refreshing, vibrant flavors need a
Apparently, today is National Lager Day. Let’s celebrate National Lager Day. Why the hell not. Of course, if you’re old enough, you remember when everyday was National Lager Day in the U.S. Because that was the only choice you had. Times have changed. Ales are everywhere. The difference between ales and lagers? In a nutshell, an ale is brewed with top-fermenting yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and lager with bottom-fermenting yeast (Saccharomyces uvarum). Ales tend to be darker, have a cloudier appearance, higher alcohol content and a stronger, fruitier, more robust flavor with stronger bitter tones from the hops due to the higher
National Brownie Day is absolutely a thing, and we’re not talking about the Scottish goblins who clean your house in exchange for honey and gruel. Yes, it’s another day to indulge in chocolate, this time instead of warm, square, baked things; we’re drinking them. We live to serve. Although the origin of brownies is not known, some theories suggest they were created after a chef made a mistake. The chef accidentally added chocolate to a cake mix, thus creating brownies. The first officially documented brownies were made in Chicago for a ladies’ fair luncheon in the late 1800s. The event
Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack for Saturday, Dec. 7 2024. Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 12.7.24 Stop by Peaks & Pints on your way home from shopping and grab a new beer six-pack hostess gift for the party tonight. Cheers! BLACK RAVEN BREWING GRANDFATHER RAVEN: Robust Russian imperial stout with rich dark caramel notes, unsweetened chocolate, and hints of coffee aromas and flavors, 9.5%, 16oz EX NOVO BREWING NEVERMORE: This year’s Nevermore barleywine was aged in a mixture of Willet Rye, Elijah Craig bourbon barrels and Pinot Noir barrels, and then fermented with house
The Peaks & Pints fajita-like Saturday Sandwich Special pairs well with Cloudburst’s Baltic porter. Peaks and Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: The Beefy Shroomer Saturday, Dec. 7 2024: Peaks & Pints Kitchen Kylee brought back Cremini Mushrooms for her Saturday Sandwich Special that includes Roast Beef, Spicy Mayo, Provolone, Bell Peppers, and Onions on French —flavors found in fajitas. PAIRING: Cloudburst Brewing Vampire Empire Cloudburst describes their beers the best: “Ok, fine. We know Baltic Porters peaked in like the 19th Century…back when vampires ruled the world. And thus, Vampire Empire was born. FUN FACT: Did you
Tacoma Arts Live, with help from the City of Tacoma’s Arts and Cultural Vitality Division, will host more than 100 local artists of all different mediums and disciplines under the historic roof of Tacoma’s Armory from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. This special event celebrates Tacoma’s rich artistic community while supporting our local economy. Peaks & Pints offers a flight of holiday beers to enjoy after Arts At The Armory — a flight we’re calling Peaks and Pints 2024 Christmas Beer Flight Dec. 7: Arts At The Armory. Peaks and Pints 2024 Christmas Beer Flight Dec. 7: Arts At The Armory
