Another round of fresh hops plus some seasonals have arrive at the Peaks & Pints cooler. Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 9.14.24 We know we say it all the time, but seriously … look at all this amazing beer that just arrived at the Peaks & Pints giant cooler! CO-HOP FRESH HOP, Trap Door Brewing: Fresh hop West Coast IPA brewed with 750 pounds of fresh Strata hops from Coleman Agriculture and Indie Hops, plus more Strata and some Mosaic on the dry hop for oily fresh hops, pineapple, and citrus flavors, 6.5%,
The long-standing rivalry game between the University of Washington Huskies and Washington State University Cougars kicks off for the 116th time at 12:30 p.m. today, but this year’s Apple Cup is a bit different from past years. Both teams are 2-0 to start the year, but this is the first time in over six decades the teams will face off as non-conference opponents. WSU remains in the Pac-12, while the Huskies are now competing in the Big Ten Conference. WSU is coming off a massive victory against Texas Tech in Pullman, while the national championship runners-up Huskies are looking to
Peaks and Pints New Fresh Hop Beers in Stock 9.13.24 Another round of Peaks and Pints New Fresh Hop Beers in Stock in our giant cooler. Happy Friday! DISCO WEAPON, Lumberbeard Brewing: Fresh hop pale ale brewed with whole cone Centennial hops from Crosby Farms in Oregon, 5.2%, 16oz FRESHED COAST, Hetty Alice Beers: West Coast IPA brewed with fresh Strata hops for fruity notes leaning into candy with a hoppy finish, 6.8%, 16oz FRESH HOP DUNE, Great Notion Brewing: Fresh hop IPA dry hopped with Strata, Simcoe, Nectaron, and fresh danky Simcoe hop cones, 7.2, 16oz FRESH HOP LANDO
For the eighth consecutive September, Peaks & Pints is throwing a month-long autumn beer party marrying up two popular seasonal beers — fresh hops and Oktoberfest bier. Launched Sept. 1, Peaks & Pints taps fresh hop and Oktoberfest beers daily through Monday, Sept. 30. Enjoy bright, hop-hazy fresh-hop beers, just hours from field to kettle and mere days from the fermenter to your glass AND clean, hearty Oktoberfest-style lagers from Germany and nearby during our Fresh Hoptoberfest. Today, Peaks & Pints offers another Fresh Hoptoberfest flight — a flight we’re calling Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Fresh Hoptoberfest Friday. Peaks
Outer Range Brewing founders Lee and Emily Cleghorn opened the brewery in late December of 2016, but it wasn’t their first rodeo — the two met at a home brewing party in Colorado Springs where they were both serving in the Army; Lee was a 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) Detachment commander. Lee had spent his youth in the beer mecca of Brussels, where he developed a palate refined beyond his years. After moving to the US to attend college, he quickly learned he’d need to brew his own beer if he wanted to enjoy those styles again. Fast forward
What we eat and drink this time of year evokes memories more easily than what we consume in other seasons. This is the time of year we dust off crockpots and Dutch ovens for soups and stews, filled — at least right now — with the remaining harvests of our local farms. This is when we flock to orchards for fresh-picked apples, and when we scoop out globs of pumpkin seeds for roasting. We drop cinnamon sticks in hot cider, and warm up chocolate with piquant spices. We’re heartened that in these divided times, it seems like we can all
Forest Beutel has been a nationally touring musician since he was 18 years old in Providence, Rhode Island. He played the drums in punk bands on the East Coast in his teens and early 20s. Then, he was drawn to the Pacific Northwest. He tried jamming his drum kit into his tiny Toyota Camry, but it wouldn’t fit. He did find room for his grandfather’s banjo, which ended up being his musical outlet after he landed in Tacoma. When he’s not playing banjo is his bands Barleywine Revue and The Rusty Clevers, Beutel is on stage as a soulful one-man
The Feak hop barn in Roy, Washington, August 1937. Photo courtesy of Northwest Room at The Tacoma Public Library, Richards Studio D5210-18) Tacoma Beer Factoid: Pierce County Hops James E. & J.W. Feak owned a 41-acrea hop farm in Roy, Washington. The above photo shows man in suit and hat, sitting on a burlap sack, watching three workmen shovel dried hops into sacks and stack them at their hop barn in August of 1937. In 1938, the Feaks sued Pierce County for more than $30,000, claiming that the county’s improvements on Lacamas Creek caused the creek
New round of fresh hop beers for Tacoma. Peaks and Pints New Fresh Hops in Stock 9.7.24 Peaks & Pints received another round of fresh hops to our 850-plus cooler. … CHEAP ENTERTAINNMENT VOL. 2, Backwoods Brewing: Collab with Crux Fermentation Project, this light, crisp hopped lager is the first of Backwood’s fresh hop season offerings, 5%, 16oz FARM HARVEST, Matchless Brewing: Pale ale brewed with fresh Centennial hop cones from CLS Farms meet Yakima grown Centennial and Chinook hops and Fritz Ale malt for big green floral notes and lemon-lime, 5.8%, 16oz FRESH HOP ABOMINABLE,
While they have a similar structure and color, amber ales favor crystal malt with notes of caramel and balanced bitterness, where red ales favor caramel malt and are lighter and more bitter – making them often compared to IPAs. Our last Tournament of Beer competition, Tournament of Beer: Northwest Ambers, pitted Washington and Oregon brewed ambers against reds. For our Saturday beer flight, we’re offering a chance to taste the difference with two red ales on tap and three amber ales from the cooler. Stop by Peaks & Pints craft beer and cider bar, bottle shop and restaurant and enjoy
Founded in April 2015 by Jeff Zierdt and Matt Schiller, Lupulin Brewing Company opened in Big Lake, Minnesota, was the homebrewing duo’s dream, along with Jeff’s son, Aaron Zierdt, who became head brewer after an apprenticed at a brewery in Stockholm, Sweden. With the early success of the brewery, Lupulin hit their max production of 3,500 barrels per year on their 10-barrel system within the first 3 years. That brought about the need for expansion which they did in 2018 with the purchase of a 22,500 square foot warehouse adjacent to their taproom for a 30-barrel system, which brought their
New beer at Peaks & Pints in Tacoma Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 9.5.24 Peaks & Pints has the A/C blastin’ so grab a pint and shop our 850-plus cooler for these new arrivals. Cheers! DOUBLE STRAWBERRY CHEESECAKE, Great Notion Brewing: Sweet, creamy imperial fruited sour topped off with strawberry, milk sugar and vanilla, 8.5%, 16oz FREESTYLE BACKSIDE BONELESS, Vice Beer: Hazy IPA brewed with Rakau T-90, Rakau SubZero Hop Kief, Tiwala T-90, and Tiwala SubZero Hop Kief from Freestyle Hops in New Zealand for punchy dankness, 7.2%, 16oz FRESH HOP VAN BEER, Great
Nick Walsh began his beer career at night bartending in Tacoma, including Doyle’s Public House. Then, Nick spent time in the daylight selling beer for Alpha Distributing, Marine View Beverage, Columbia, and currently as owner of 44 Degrees Beverage Sales Solutions repping a dozen or so craft breweries and cideries with his team. Tonight, Nick returns to the dark hours — OK, maybe not completely dark due to daylight savings time — when he throws a Nick at Night party for his clients and friends at Peaks & Pints craft beer and cider bar, bottle shop and restaurant in Tacoma’s
As a Tacoma native, it humbles me so much to be represented in my home town,” said Daniel Cady, head brewer at TapRoom Beer in San Diego, when he learned Peaks & Pints carried his beer — thanks to Stoup Distro in Seattle. Cady — who spent time at El Cajon Brewing and Manzanita Brewing/Twisted Manzanita Ales before taking the head brewer role at Mikkeller, San Diego — stepped into the head brewer boots at TapRoom Beer in 2022 with years of experience brewing a wide range of styles as well as numerous awards under his barrel aging program. TapRoom
During a career in biomedical science and healthcare, Levi Danielson walked away to pursue cidermaking professionally in 2018. After a short stint working for cidermakers in Portland, Oregon, he moved to France for a season to work on an organic farm producing cider. Producing French cider and visiting some of the best cidermakers (and some winemakers) in the world has shaped his perspective and approach to cidermaking. He launched RAW Cider Company in McMinnville, Oregon, distributing large format 750ml bottles focused on cider and perry specific fruit, both family farmed and foraged in Oregon and Washington. Danielson practices traditional methods,
New craft beer in Tacoma Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock: 9.1.24 Stock up for the holiday weekend with this week’s new arrivals to the Peaks & Pints 850-plus cooler! 15TH ANNIVERSARY, Fremont Brewing: Blend of 18- and 30-month-old barrel-aged barleywine ales aged in Heaven Hill bourbon barrels for boozy prunes, caramel, toasted marshmallow, raisins, and mild sweetness, 15.4%, 22oz BEACH LLAMAS, Lumberbeard Brewing: Hazy IPA brewed with Galaxy, El Dorado, and Citra hops and full of flavors of pineapple, guava, and cantaloupe, 6.7%, 16oz DOT MATRIX, Vice Beer: Collaboration with Moksa Brewing, this crushable
For the eighth consecutive September, Peaks & Pints is throwing a month-long autumn beer party marrying up two popular seasonal beers — fresh hops and Oktoberfest bier. Launching Sunday, Sept. 1, Peaks & Pints will tap fresh hop and Oktoberfest beers daily through Monday, Sept. 30. Expect, at least, two bright, hop-hazy fresh-hop beers on tap AND two clean, hearty Oktoberfest-style lagers on tap. This year, we’re calling our annual celebration, “Peaks and Pints Dawn of Fresh Hoptoberfest”. We’re kicking off Fresh Hoptoberfest with an in-house flight of fresh hop and Oktoberfest beers — a flight we’re calling Peaks and
Dawn of Fresh Hoptoberfest If you haven’t been following Peaks & Pints’ Fresh Hoptoberfest timeline in September 2017 we released The Hunt For Fresh Hoptoberfest on the masses, a month-long autumn beer party marrying up two popular seasonal beers — fresh hops and Oktoberfest biers. Women dressed in lederhosen. Men got fresh … hop beers. Hop farmers and maltsters lived together — mass hysteria! This year, our eighth consecutive Fresh Hoptoberfest, which we’re weirdly calling “Dawn of Fresh Hoptoberfest”, continues our month-long autumn beer party marrying up the two popular seasonal beer styles. Launching Sunday, Sept. 1, Peaks & Pints
Collaborations between breweries aren’t exactly new, but their results have become a much more common sight in Peaks and Pints’ cooler lately. Collaborations can give brewers a chance to exchange ideas with others and mix their individual house styles. The best collaborations often result in something unique that neither brewery would normally make on its own. Typically, whoever owns the collaboration brewing system and sells the beer sets the rules. Also, when professional brewers collaborate with other professional brewers, the conversations lean toward technical details. When professional brewers collaborate with civilians, the brewing room chatter tends to be more about
Labor Day is a respectful way of thanking and serving tribute to a history of hard work and positive contribution toward a stronger, more prosperous nation. It’s also a day most people are just happy to be off work. With seasonal creep already bringing pumpkin beers to the shelves, Peaks & Pints aims today’s in-house beer flight toward five beers that would make ideal companions for the last days o’ sun. Our criteria? The beers come in cans (portable to beach, pool, barbecue, and paddling), they’re in the Peaks & Pints cooler, and they taste delicious. Head to our craft
“Cool kids” or the “popular kids” are usually very attractive, very stylish, up to the latest fashion, very confident, assertive and communicate easily with people. These traits make them easily noticed by their peers and people see them as the most attractive and cool. Before fresh hop beers begin to takeover taps, Peaks & Pints thought we highlight the “cool kid hops” that have entered the market in the last couple of years via today’s flight, Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Cool Kid Hops. A new hop crop brings focus to newly named hops hitting the marketplace as well as
Coffee: Is there anything it can’t do? From fueling all-nighters to banishing hangovers, or simply making mornings more bearable, this magical brewed elixir can even improve beers as you’ll discover at Peaks & Pints Hop Roast Coffee Beer Fest with Campfire Coffee Co. as part of our Tacoma Beer Week 2024 events. A “ten of us” 2023 honoree and Grammy-nominated rapper, Quincy Henry, and his business partner and wife, Whitni, own Campfire Coffee — a wood-fired coffee roaster and shop in Tacoma. Combining their love for great coffee with their passion for camping, the Henrys were inspired to roast coffee
Pretty Gritty Tours founder and Foster’s Creative “ten of us” 2023 honoree Chris Staudinger takes walkers on a historic tour of Tacoma’s beloved Proctor District as part of Peaks & Pints Tacoma Beer Week 2024 celebration today. After a couple pints of Narrows Brewing beer, around 6 p.m., Staudinger will take folks on a historical tour of the Proctor District, which is named after Ontario-born architect John G. Proctor who designed many local historical treasures, including the Pierce County Courthouse (1892), the Nelson Bennet Mansion (1889) and the Wheeler Building (1889). Staudinger will discuss architect Proctor, the 100-year-old oak tree
Initially, Kris Hay launched the Tacoma Aroma Flavor and Instagram as companions for her upcoming Tacoma food and beverage pairing cookbook, Tacoma Aroma. An expert in local cuisine with daily discoveries posting on her @tacoma.aroma.flavor Instagram, her experiences writing, editing, organizing complex projects, and promoting community-based resources secured her a spot on the Foster’s Creative “ten of us” 2023 roster. The regional Grit & Grain beer podcast will host Hay and her basket full of Tacoma icon foods — Frisko Freeze, Johnson Candy, Pao’s Donuts, Northwest Lumpia, Zaya Café, and Tortas Locas — for a food and local beer pairing
Yakima-based Single Hill Brewing has opened a new location in Seattle, taking over the space formerly occupied by Outpouring Bottle Shop. Located on the west side of the Ballard neighborhood, the Single Hill Commons is the second location for Single Hill owners Ty Paxton and Zach Turner who launched Single Hill in an old JC Penney Tire Center in downtown Yakima in August 2016. The two first met at a cider pressing party that a mutual friend was hosting in 2013. Three years later, over pints at Bale Breaking Brewing, the two hatch the idea for a community-based brewery in
Tacoma will be saturated with verse during Tacoma Beer Week 2024 thanks to Jackie Casella’s Creative Colloquy. She’ll gather brilliant South Sound writers to tell short stories, prose, or poetry, and then the floor will open for listeners to do the same — all while enjoying cocktail-themed beers and ciders at Peaks & Pints tonight. 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
In 2015, Doctor of Physical Therapy Sean Buchan, microbiologist Chris Washenberger and financier Dan McGuire — all homebrewers — opened Cerebral Brewing in Denver’s Congress Park neighborhood along the city’s famed Colfax Avenue. The three met at Washenberger’s Denver homebrew club where the idea “to combine scientific methodology with an artistic viewpoint to create extremely drinkable beers spanning a broad spectrum of styles” became a reality. With their scientific background, Buchan and Washenberger want to make quality one of their hallmarks — and idea that carries through in their name. From its hop-bombs to its luscious stouts and sophisticated saisons,
Peaks & Pints kicks off Tacoma Beer Week 2024 with Foster’s Creative “the ten” tonight. This year, Foster’s Creative is evolving their “ten of us” 2023 project into what is simply called, “the ten”. Carrying with it the spirit of the original “ten of us” 2023 community project is a multi-media, people-gathering, wave-making project featuring people, places, and happenings in the 253. Peaks & Pints kicks off their Tacoma Beer Week festivities with the filming of “The Ten 2024 Toast”. Enjoy the latest, local beer and cider while you check out “the ten”, chat with “the ten” team, and grab
6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma: August 8-14 2024 If you want to avoid craft beer, you’re out of luck in Tacoma. It’s everywhere, thanks to Tacoma Beer Week 2024 launching Friday. The Peaks & Pints 6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma: August 8-14 2024 includes several TBW events happening at Peaks & Pints. THURSDAY, AUG. 8 — BREWERY POP-UP LUNCH: Thanks to XBP Limited Liquids distributor in Tacoma, Our Mutual Friend Brewing co-owners and brewers Brandon Proff and Jan Chodkowski will be touring Western Washington today, including an 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. lunch stop at Peaks
Thanks to XBP Limited Liquids distributor in Tacoma, Our Mutual Friend Brewing co-owners and brewers Brandon Proff and Jan Chodkowski will be touring Western Washington today, including an 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. lunch stop at Peaks & Pints in Tacoma’s Proctor District. During this year’s Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colorado, Peaks & Pints visited Our Mutual Friend Brewing, or OMF, in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood on Larimer Street. Founded in 2012, which makes it one of the oldest breweries in River North Art District, or RiNo, and while our first impression of the taproom was a carefully
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 must 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 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 flavored craft beer — with
Silver City Brewery Sales Executive Sean Larson will pour his two new core beers at Tacoma Arts Live’s Brew Five Three Beer & Music Festival Saturday, Aug. 10 at Chambers Creek Regional Park. Brew Five Three Questions with Sean Larson of Silver City Brewery Sean Larson, sales executive with Silver City Brewery in Bremerton, will pour his beer at Tacoma Arts Live’s annual Brew Five Three Beer & Music Festival at Chambers Creek Regional Park in University Place Saturday, Aug. 10, during Tacoma Beer Week 2024. Larson and his fellow Silver City sales executive Scott David
India Pale Ales emerged in the 1700s when British brewers found a market for hoppy beers in India and territories of the British Empire. The American spin on IPAs began to capture widespread appeal in the U.S. by the late 1990s. Those early versions in the craft beer movement often focused on sharp citrus and pine flavors. They were intentionally unbalanced and sometimes unabashedly bitter. More recent trends favor hops with a range of fruity, tropical and juicy flavors resembling orange, tangerine, lemon, grape, strawberry and mango. Many IPAs taste like fruit juice or milkshakes. Today, Peaks & Pints presents
One of beer’s most remarkable aspects is its versatility. On top of the fundamental ingredients of water, grain, yeast, and hops, a brewer can add almost any extra ingredients (unless you’re in Germany, where there are literal brewing laws about what you can put into beer). Ingredients found in beer today include chocolate, coffee, nuts, waffles, cookies, spices, cocoa, marshmallows, breakfast cereal, toffee, and the focus of today’s Peaks & Pints to-go beer flight — fruit. When brewers add whole fruit, fresh-picked, never frozen, from a nearby farm or orchard to their sours, it’s magic. Yeast and souring bacteria live
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 8.2.24 Peaks & Pints has plenty of tasty libations on draft to enjoy while shopping for these new arrivals to our 850-plus cooler. BROKEN SKULL, El Segundo Brewing: Collaboration with Stone Cold Steve Austin, this West Coast IPA is brewed with Citra, Cascade, and Chinook hops that punches the nose with piney citrus hops then body slams the crisp citrus hops with hint of tropical fruit before a light, juicy, bitter walk-off, 6.7%, 16oz CHIPS AND DIP, Tox Brewing: Collaboration with Little House Brewing, this fruited sour is brewed with tortilla chips, mango,
Perennial Artisan Ales had been a long time coming for brewmaster Phil Wymore, who hailed from Weston, a town northwest of Kansas City. Though he was new to St. Louis, Wymore wasn’t a stranger to beer. He planted his roots working as an assistant for the now closed Grindstone Brewery in Columbia. After graduating from Mizzou, he moved north to Chicago to work for Goose Island, studied brewing at the Siebel Institute and later brewed for Windy City craft brewery Half Acre Beer Co. With all those years of experience under his belt, he began developing his own vision —
E9 Brewing Brewmaster Shane Johns will pour their Tacoma Beer Week Harpua Stout collaboration with Emma Hibbs of the Browns Point Homebrew Club at Tacoma Arts Live’s Brew Five Three Beer & Music Fest Saturday, Aug. 10 at Chambers Creek Regional Park. Brew Five Three Questions with Shane Johns of E9 Brewing Shane Johns, the brewmaster at E9 Brewing Co. who went from a chef to making world-class mixed culture beers in Tacoma’s Historic Brewery District, will pour his beer at Tacoma Arts Live’s annual Brew Five Three Beer & Music Festival at Chambers Creek Regional
There is something you should know about beer: There is a holiday for virtually everything about beer that is celebrated somewhere, somehow, including today’s IPA Day, which gives glory to hops, bittering units, and IPAs. Founded in 2011 on the first Thursday in August, IPA Day is a global celebration of craft beer. It is a universal movement that was created to unite the voices of craft beer enthusiasts, bloggers, and brewers worldwide. IPA Day was originally developed as a social media-based holiday, but has since expanded into a worldwide party, boasting hundreds of IPA-themed events, celebrations and Peaks &
We received a bunch of Fort George Brewery ales; let’s pour another in-house flight from the Astoria, Oregon, brewery. Founded by brewers Jack Harris and Chris Nemlowill, the two combined their brewing expertise from previous Oregon coast gigs at Bill’s Tavern and Astoria Brewing Company to open Fort George Brewery in March 2007. Harris and Nemlowill drove their first 8.5-barrel brewhouse — nicknamed “Sweet Virginia” —from the East Coast and through a tornado to open a small pub in the Fort George Building on Duane Street in Astoria. In 2009, they bought almost the entire city block, including the Lovell
Narrows Brewing Parker Rush will be pouring their new guava cider at Brew Five Three Beer & Music Festival Saturday, Aug. 10, at Chambers Creek Regional Park. Brew Five Three Questions with Parker Rush of Narrows Brewing Parker Rush, co-owner of Narrows Brewing in Tacoma, will walk down the street and pour his beer at Tacoma Arts Live’s annual Brew Five Three Beer & Music Festival at Chambers Creek Regional Park in University Place Saturday, Aug. 10, during Tacoma Beer Week 2024. Parker and his brew crew Zach and AJ will join 30 or so regional
New beer arrivals to the Peaks & Pints 850-plus cooler Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 7.27.24 Peaks & Pints is open until midnight for all your weekend drinking needs. Come try these new arrivals to our 850-plus cooler. Cheers! ALTERNATE DIMENSIONS: WATERMELON MINT, Black Raven Brewing: Part Jolly Rancher, part Warhead, this sweet and tart watermelon mint sour takes you into … the Alternate Dimension, 6%, 16oz FORT BOISE 3.0, Fort George Brewery: Hazy IPA collaboration with the Boise Co-Op, made from Idaho-sourced ingredients such as Apollo, Crosby Columbus, YCH Mosaic, Idaho 7, Waimea,
In the world history of beer, pilsners are relatively recent. Around 1842, eons before marketers invented “drinkability,” Czech brewers in Bohemia created pilsner, a light beer that didn’t taste like spongewater. The primary source of the innovation was the use of bottom-fermenting yeasts, which yielded a livelier, more consistent beer than the traditional top-fermented brews. Today, the best pilsners are still found in continental Europe, partly because of demand and partly because it’s home to the style’s signature Saaz hop, Pilsen’s soft water and crackery, paler malt. German and Bavarian styles tend to emphasize bitterness and spicy hop flavor. But
A brewer with an international reputation, Gabe Fletcher, the head honcho at Anchorage Brewing, started his career at Midnight Sun, another Alaskan brewing company. After 13 years of helping cultivate an image of creating adventurous beers, Fletcher decided to part ways with Midnight Sun and strike out on his own. In 2011, Fletcher released his first Anchorage beer. Turns out Fletcher’s meticulous attention to detail and brewing expertise combined to make some amazing beer — from fresh-brewed hazy IPAs to mixed culture fermented fruit beers to barrel-aged stouts and barleywines. The brewery took off, eventually moving to its own brick and