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Peaks and Pints Instagram Stalker: sand snowman, winterface and cats staring at Batman pints

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It’s beginning to look a lot like craft beer! But really, this week’s edition of Peaks and Pints Instagram Stalker is, once again, quite festive. Actually, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas with all the snow and snowman sand shots. Be sure to keep posting those photos of you balancing on kegs and be sure to tag @peaksandpints if you’d like a chance to be featured! Cheers! https://www.instagram.com/p/BNrkZSXDaMH/?taken-by=ninkasibrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BNqK1MyAgiH/?taken-by=filip.adam https://www.instagram.com/p/BNutbvbjwdC/?taken-by=flatstickpub https://www.instagram.com/p/BNvH3zdhXRt/?taken-by=nwcider https://www.instagram.com/p/BN0Krdih9BX/?taken-by=peaksandpints https://www.instagram.com/p/BNvCP4CAb3t/?taken-by=pfriembeer https://www.instagram.com/p/BNw_I1hhFJF/?taken-by=rogueales https://www.instagram.com/p/BNxJE1sBHbd/?taken-by=oddotterbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BNxdqytAQgB/?taken-by=hopworksbeer https://www.instagram.com/p/BNztHsbhMqa/?taken-by=twobeersbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BNzgjixjuwM/?taken-by=thebeeroness https://www.instagram.com/p/BNz3znnAD9K/?taken-by=cruciblebrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BN0Eia8AB6V/?taken-by=nolibrewhouse https://www.instagram.com/p/BNz3r3CDYtd/?taken-by=dicksbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BN26xBDhauN/?taken-by=harmonbrewingco https://www.instagram.com/p/BN3OnJ6gZHt/?taken-by=doylespub https://www.instagram.com/p/BN2R1zTBcGV/?taken-by=publiccoastbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BN3kl4dh4oQ/?taken-by=99bottlesbeer https://www.instagram.com/p/BN5bZ0QBPZl/?tagged=craftbeer https://www.instagram.com/p/BN5aDGlD-4m/?tagged=craftbeer https://www.instagram.com/p/BN5Y1uDgbm5/?tagged=craftbeer https://www.instagram.com/p/BN5YIpohmxW/?tagged=craftbeer  

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Peaks and Pints: A Barleywine Carol

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Expect Barleywine flights during A Barleywine Carol Thursday, Dec. 22 at Peaks and Pints in Tacoma. A mean-spirited, miserly old man named Shaw Moore sits in his fire-suppression business on a frigid Dec. 22 night. His clerk is bored to tears because Moore refuses to spend money on music. Moore’s nephew, Scruggs, pays his uncle a visit and invites him to A Barleywine Carol at Peaks and Pints in Tacoma. Two portly gentlemen also drop by and to offer Moore a 10 Squared Barleywine from Fish Brewing Company. Moore reacts to the holiday visitors with bitterness

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Silver City Brewery announces 2017 beers

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Team Silver City Brewery, from left, Scott Houmes, Kat Goodsell, Daniel Frantz, Jordan Marsh and Kurt Larsen drinking at Peaks and Pints in Tacoma. Photo credit: Pappi Swarner Bremerton’s oldest craft brewery turned 20 this past fall, with the energy of a human the same age. Peaks and Pints is still crunching the numbers but we swear Silver City Brewery released a new craft beer, or resurrected vintage throwback recipes, every three days since January 2016. Makes sense, the busy brewery added a 20th Anniversary series with its MacFarlane’s Scotch Ale hitting the taps Jan. 8,

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Northeast-style IPA invasion, 2017 craft beer releases and vegetables paired with beer

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Founders Brewing, which will hit the Washington state market in January, announced a new barrel-aged series for 2017. MORNING FOAM FOR SATURDAY, DEC. 20 2016: A seven-taster flight of craft beer news, from the fluffy head all the way to the bottom recipe. … The Motley Fool has a breakdown on how the stock market treated the big boys in the beer world in 2016. Craft Brew Alliance — owners of Redhook Ale, Widmer Brothers and Kona Brewing, among others — had a bullish year with stocks increasing 86%. Meanwhile, A-B InBev, despite the merger with

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FRIDAY PREFUNK: Craft beer before Baby Gramps, Hillstomp and Kris Kringle

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Baby Gramps will perform at The Valley tonight. FRIDAY, DEC. 9 2016: South Sound events + craft beer … The Valley + Peaks and Pints = Extra Special Rhythm & Rye + The Eastside Club Tavern = The Highest and Lowest Pair Tacoma Little Theatre + Rainier Growlers = Mother of Precociousness and All Storms SEATTLE LEGEND Baby Gramps is a complete enigma. Who is this man behind a wide brimmed hat and long gray beard? He looks just as comfortable busking next to the University of Washington in 1964 as he did performing on David

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THURSDAY PREFUNK: Craft beer and cider before Romeo and Juliet, nature film, comedy and Christmas market

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Andy Woodhull performs at the Tacoma Comedy Club tonight. THURSDAY, DEC. 8 2016: South Sound events + craft beer and cider … Pacific Lutheran University + Peaks and Pints = Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night Olympia Film Society + Fish Brewing Company = Old Woody then woodpecker Tacoma Comedy Club + Rainier Growlers = Wicked Weatherly Inn + Narrows Brewing = Santa WHERE ART THOU? Remember junior high? Wasn’t it fun? The misunderstandings, the awkwardness in love — sort of an introduction to the way you’d feel for the rest of your life, magnified

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The Hub in Puyallup, Teton Range IPA goes pro and 5,005 breweries in the US

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Portland’s Swift Cider is now in Washington state. MORNING FOAM FOR WEDNESDAY, DEC. 8, 2016: A seven-taster flight of craft beer and cider news, from the fluffy head all the way to the bottom freakout. … The opening of the 154-seat Hub at Puyallup was delayed a few months, but it is now expected to open in mid-to-late December, as long as the construction timeline proceeds as planned. The restaurant comes from the 20-year-old Harmon Brewing Co., which operates the Harmon Restaurant and Harmon Taproom in Tacoma and Hub restaurants in Tacoma and Gig Harbor. After

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WEDNESDAY PREFUNK: Craft beer before animals on ice, jazz and theater

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Tacoma Nature Center will be at Polar Plaza today. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 7 2016: South Sound events + craft beer … Polar Plaza + Peaks and Pints = animal planet Dillinger’s Cocktails & Kitchen + Northwest Beerwerks = Olympia night University of Puget Sound + Scotty’s Grub and Pub = theater and sweaters HOLIDAY CHEER How do you escape the pressures of the holidays, like, really quickly? Bundle up, drop your packages in the trunk, pinch your cheeks until they glow and strap on a pair of silver skates, Hans Brinker, for a glide across the frozen

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TUESDAY PREFUNK: Craft beer before Gimme Danger and Mozart

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TUESDAY, DEC. 6 2016: South Sound events + craft beer … The Grand Cinema + Peaks and Pints = 45% Boulevard’s Bourbon Barrel Quad, 35% Firestone Walker Stickee Monkee, 10% Boulevard Imperial Stout X – Tart Cherry (whiskey barrel-aged), 10% Firestone Walker Velvet Merkin and 100% punk rock Old Town chamber music series + 7 Seas Brewing = classical and chocolate PUNK DOCUMENTARY Never commercially successful — and a careening mess of dysfunction during their brief run — The Stooges, fronted by Iggy Pop, nonetheless made a serious dent in rock ’n’ roll. See for yourself in Jim Jarmusch’s new

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MONDAY PREFUNK: Craft beer and cider before Magnificent Seven and Big Band Christmas

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MONDAY, DEC. 5 2016: South Sound events + craft beer and cider … The Blue Mouse Theatre + Peaks and Pints = Double Mountain and Seven Magnificent cowboys Tacoma Musical Playhouse + Silver City Brewery = Taste of Christmas MAGNIFICENT SEVEN AGAIN The Blue Mouse Theatre screens Magnificent Seven at 7 p.m. starring Denzel Washington. There are plenty of people young and old who realize this is a remake of the original Magnificent Seven, which was in turn an adaptation of Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. The basic plot remains the same, with a desperate town turning to a septet of ne’er-do-wells

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Breakfast Milk Stout in bottles, San Diego Pale Ale .394 and hop shampoo

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AleSmith Pale Ale .394 pays tribute to the city that Tony Gwynn loved and the career high batting average that he achieved in ’94. MORNING FOAM FOR MONDAY, DEC. 5 2016: A seven-taster flight of craft beer news, from the fluffy head all the way to the bottom of your roots. … Reuben’s Brews has released their classic Breakfast Stout and Bourbon Barrel Breakfast Stout in 22-oz bottles for the first time. The classic Breakfast Stout is a imperial milk stout with oats and Kuma Coffee. The bourbon barrel version has added notes of raisins, plums,

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Peaks and Pints Instagram Stalker: holiday craft beer parties, frisky elves and Coffee Cinnamon B-Bomb

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There has been lots of news to comb through this week. holiday beer parties were thrown, beers were released, and elves made out with bottles. You’ll find all that (plus other announcements and silliness) right here in this weeks’ edition of Peaks and Pints Instagram Stalker. Be sure to keep posting those craft beer nestled against cactus photos and be sure to tag @peaksandpints if you’d like a chance to be featured! Cheers! https://www.instagram.com/p/BNcQzVPl5fR/?taken-by=holidayalefest https://www.instagram.com/p/BNanrICAFUA/?taken-by=allagashbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BNc7dwCA9Mt/?taken-by=filip.adam https://www.instagram.com/p/BNfbBkAgUWE/?taken-by=matchlessbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BNfJ5q9Brrj/?taken-by=7seasbrew https://www.instagram.com/p/BNfHWs0jKPq/?taken-by=columbiadist_pugetsound https://www.instagram.com/p/BNdCqcVDeJJ/?taken-by=twobeersbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BNinft4g4ht/?taken-by=powerhousebrewery https://www.instagram.com/p/BNiS8_nDSPf/?taken-by=cloudburstbrew https://www.instagram.com/p/BNfyWZkA_Ed/?taken-by=foundersbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BNkpd-MDFWO/?taken-by=beerbitchaz https://www.instagram.com/p/BNkqSh6gw_9/?taken-by=tikicommando https://www.instagram.com/p/BNkPh9gD9Af/?taken-by=caity_rock https://www.instagram.com/p/BNkdV4PA1Na/?taken-by=fremontbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BNkUdl3B6JM/?taken-by=burwoodbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BNk2Lo3A4_h/?taken-by=washingtonbeer https://www.instagram.com/p/BNhorr9AA4r/?taken-by=draftmag  

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Snoqualmie Falls Brewing Avalanche flows into Peaks and Pints

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Peaks and Pints can feel it in the air—winter is here. And as the temperatures plummet and the days grow shorter, it’s scientifically proven that the body goes into “cold weather” mode. Much like the mighty grizzly bear stocking up for the long winter months, we are drawn to comfort foods like hearty sandwiches, heart sandwiches and hearty sandwiches to stave off starvation, especially after a long day of slaying the slopes. But what about quenching a mighty thirst? After a day on the snow, you need something tasty on the way home. Sure, you could head straight home and

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SATURDAY PREFUNK: Craft beer and cider before Hey Marseilles and Beautiful Angle

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SATURDAY, DEC. 3 2016: South Sound events + craft beer … Broadway Center + Peaks and Pints = good-natured Beautiful Angle + Cockrell Hard Ciders = annual celebrations CHAMBER POP A youthful earnestness, a genuine passion for song, shines through every second of Seattle band Hey Marseilles’ music. Singer Matt Bishop, guitarist Nick Ward, keyboardist Philip Kobernik, cellist Sam Anderson, and violist Jacob Anderson make some of the most good-natured chamber-pop music around. That said, their new tracks find the band moving away from the middle ground indie/chamber pop realm of their first two albums and toward slickly produced territory.

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FRIDAY PREFUNK: Craft beer before modern music and backyard folk

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The Gems perform at The Valley tonight. Photo courtesy of Facebook FRIDAY, DEC. 2 2016: South Sound events + craft beer … The Valley + Peaks and Pints = the story of two drummers, two keyboardists and two beers The Swiss + Pint Defiance = Rabbits and Dragons UNIQUE SONIC EXPERIENCE Mixing rock with an electronica bump gives Seattle band Gems a human edge rarely found in modern music. According to pre-show hype, “Two drummers, Adrian Van Batenburg and Jacob Evans, provide the foundation of syncopated interweaving rhythms, while two keyboardists, Gary Palmer and Dan Rapport,

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THURSDAY PREFUNK: Craft beer before Zoolights and GrooveSession

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Billed as the region’s biggest walk-through light show, ZooLights includes animated light sculptures, live entertainment, snacks, animal encounters, and the Paul Titus Carousel. THURSDAY, DEC. 1 2016: South Sound events paired with craft beer and cider … Zoolights + Peaks and Pints = Christmas pFriems The Swiss Restaurant & Pub + The Copper Door = funky flare ZOOLIGHTS From watching Elf to eating Aunt Bethany’s cookies to spraying fake snow on the windows, we all have our seasonal rituals. And it’s impossible to live here and get in the spirit without a spin through ZooLights. Point

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Coco Jones in cans, Cascade Brewing anniversary and Craft Brewers Conference

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MORNING FOAM FOR THURSDAY, DEC. 1 2016: A seven-taster flight of craft beer news, from the fluffy head all the way to the bottom holiday movie. … Brand new six-pack 12-ounce cans of Black Raven Brewing’s Coco Jones Coconut Porter hits the shelves Dec 2. This beer has a storied history at Black Raven. It was first brewed back in 2009 as a variant of the Redmond, Washington brewery’s Tamerlane Brown Porter, infused with toasted coconut. When customers went cuckoo for Coco, Black Raven decided to enter it in the World Beer Cup where it won a gold medal (category:

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Fox Island Brewing CenColSim IPA release party

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Drink Jim Dignam’s Fox Island Brewing CenColSim IPA while grilling him about his brewing techniques Saturday afternoon at peaks and Pints. Photo credit: Pappi Swarner Here’s what we know about Jim Dignam: He opened Fox Island Brewing in his Fox Island garage in 2015, brewing on a 3-barrel system; He grows his own hops on his property; His wife’s favorite beer is his Belgian Wit; You can always find his beers on tap at Fox Island’s favorite and only craft beer taproom, Zog’s; He enjoys a good conversation; He just brewed a CenColSim IPA; He enjoys

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WEDNESDAY PREFUNK: Craft beer before Eva Green and Fantasy Lights

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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30: South Sound events + craft beer … The Blue Mouse Theatre + Peaks and Pints = DANG! Fantasy Lights + Rainier Growlers = Pike and penguins EVA GREEN! Peaks and Pints fell in love with Eva Green in Bertolucci’s The Dreamers. She was also terrific in Casino Royale. Then came Penny Dreadful, and it was like, holy barleywine! The ability to convey pages of characterization with just a look! Case in point: She hardly has any dialogue in the trailer to Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, and yet we’re almost certain we understand 75 percent of

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TUESDAY PREFUNK: Craft beer before dodgeball on ice and Equal Means Equal

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Corporations battle it out at downtown Tacoma’s Polar Plaza tonight. TUESDAY, NOV. 29 2016: South Sound events paired with craft beer … Polar Plaza + Peaks and Pints = Snipers and sours The Grand Cinema + The Copper Door = wee heavy DODGEBALL ON ICE Feeling a little post-work aggression? Need to work out some of that latent hostility toward your corporate competition? Then head to downtown Tacoma’s outdoor ice skating rink, Polar Plaza. Wha? That’s right, dodgeball on ice. There’s nothing like hearing the thwap of a red rubber ball on human flesh or an

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Washington Winter Beer Fest, South Africa Luponic Distortion IPA and Belgian Beer Book

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Beer drinkers dress for the occasion at the annual Washington Brewers Guild-produced Winter Beer Fest in Seattle. Photo credit Pappi Swarner MORNING FOAM FOR TUESDAY, NOV. 29 2016: A seven-taster flight of craft beer news, from the fluffy head all the way to the bottom giblets. … Somewhere between a joke and a necessity lives the holiday sweater. They can certainly be ugly — and something you’ll bump into repeatedly this weekend at the Washington Brewers Guild-produced 2016 Winter Beer Fest in Hangar 30 at Seattle’s Magnuson Park. Now, if being in a hangar full of

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Q&A with Double Mountain brewer Matt Coughlin

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Double Mountain Brewery brewer Matt Coughlin puts muscle into his brews. Photo courtesy of Double Mountain Brewery & Taproom I’m not sure how it got past me. I’ve hung out at Double Mountain Brewery & Taproom in at least a dozen times over the past three years. I’ve sat before the Hood River, Oregon, brewery’s founder and head brewer Matt Swihart in his extremely efficient brewhouse. I’ve driven there just to have their pizza (and beer). But, while finalizing details on the Double Mountain’s Dry Cider South Sound debut party Monday, Dec. 5 at Peaks and

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MONDAY PREFUNK: Craft beer before Vince Brown and big band jazz

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The Olympia Jazz Senators will perform at Rhythm & Rye tonight. MONDAY, NOV. 28 2016: South Sound events + craft beer … G. Donnalson’s + Peaks and Pints = Not a secret Rhythm & Rye + Three Magnets Brewing Co. = brand new WHAT CAN BROWN DO FOR YOU? Vince Brown is no stranger to string swing fans in the Northwest. He plays western swing style take-off guitar with Red Brown & the Tune Stranglers; strums guitar and tenor banjo with the gypsy swing band Hot Club Sandwich; he’s half of Red and Ruby — a

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Peaks and Pints Instagram Stalker: Oregon Civil War, Hot Scotchies and new beer releases

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There have been lots of posted photos to comb through this week. Oregon’s Civil War college football game went down, Hot Scotchies were consumed and beers were released. You’ll find all that (plus silliness) right here in this weeks’ edition of Peaks and Pints Instagram Stalker. Be sure to keep posting those holiday craft beer photos and be sure to tag @peaksandpints if you’d like a chance to be featured! Cheers! https://www.instagram.com/p/BNFcOIYhYxa/?taken-by=peaksandpints https://www.instagram.com/p/BNIXwuIgCKD/?taken-by=powerhousebrewery https://www.instagram.com/p/BNJAg7chpW1/?taken-by=wetcoastbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BNIWYD5g09C/?taken-by=tacomabeer https://www.instagram.com/p/BNKsWZOgHg-/?taken-by=triceratopsbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BNKzIJlBX0E/?taken-by=7seasbrew https://www.instagram.com/p/BNITviagdED/?taken-by=hopworksbeer https://www.instagram.com/p/BM7De0RhAYh/?taken-by=hopvalleybrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BNH5p6IBEq_/?taken-by=baerlicjim https://www.instagram.com/p/BNKCHEWAmI7/?taken-by=filip.adam https://www.instagram.com/p/BNHyOKMhZFC/?taken-by=breaksidebrews https://www.instagram.com/p/BNM3nQRAvti/?taken-by=10barrelbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BNMjr_dhW6c/?taken-by=trnql https://www.instagram.com/p/BNLfNrohb_u/?taken-by=propolisbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BNPg5r7AWGV/?taken-by=brouwerscafe https://www.instagram.com/p/BNPxW2BgSo6/?taken-by=northtacoma https://www.instagram.com/p/BNPlEgvjBwM/?taken-by=pikebrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BNKbBKEBTrx/?taken-by=twobeersbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BNSQqZyAHGT/?taken-by=shortsbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BNSdYTgg9lK/?taken-by=grixsenbrew https://www.instagram.com/p/BNQpi1lBiwD/?taken-by=oddotterbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BNSpQQ_AuGd/?taken-by=10barrelbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BNTPGeygCmx/?taken-by=toprungbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BNSklk-jrzC/?taken-by=3magbrewing  

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pFriem Cognac Barrel Aged Belgian Dark coming to Tacoma

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In the craft beer scene, anything barrel-aged is going gangbusters these days. Wood slowly imbues liquids with all manner of nuance and complexity, so it’s easy to understand why it would appeal to the high-minded connoisseur. But even for the casual drinker, the chill of late autumn signals a sensible time to explore these elegant expressions. The types of beer that stand up to months of rest in the barrel tend to be fuller in body, lengthier in flavor — the type of grog that warms your bones, and soothes your soul. For a prime example of barrel-aged goodness, drop

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SATURDAY PREFUNK: Classic films paired with craft beer

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SATURDAY, NOV. 26 2016: South Sound events + craft beer … Broadway Center + Peaks and Pints = The hills are alive with the smell of coffee and cocoa Olympia Film Society + Three Magnets Brewing Co. = funk CALLING ALL NUNS! Many critics trashed Robert Wise’s 1965 screen version of The Sound of Music, but the musical’s emotional openness and unguarded optimism honestly express the worldview of songwriters Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. In the words of theater historian Ethan Mordden, their last collaboration is a “youthful piece written by the elderly, because it is entirely about freedom, which

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BLACK FRIDAY PREFUNK: Craft beer before George Bailey, Ed Taylor and Kim Archer

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Kim Archer provides the soundtrack for Odd Otter Brewing Co.’s second anniversary party tonight. BLACK FRIDAY, NOV. 25 2016: South Sound events + craft beer … Lakewood Playhouse + Peaks and Pints = a Wonderful day and night G. Donnalson’s + Odd Otter Brewing Co. = good for the Soul OK, IT’S WONDERFUL Lakewood Playhouse is getting all nostalgic on us with a touching version of a holiday classic. It’s a Wonderful Life follows George Bailey, the Everyman from the small town of Bedford Falls, whose dreams of escape and adventure have been quashed by family

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Double Mountain Dry Cider release, Bourbon County Stout history and Fish Brewing dinner

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Peaks and Pints will host the South Sound release party for Double Mountain brewery’s Dry Cider Monday, Dec. 5. MORNING FOAM FOR FRIDAY, NOV. 25: A seven-taster flight of craft beer and cider news, from the fluffy head all the way to the bottom exploding cans. … Double Mountain Brewery has long toyed with releasing their own hard cider, occasionally featuring housemade cider on at the taproom made from owner Matt Swihart’s own apples. The Oregon Hood River Gorge-based brewery finally releases its own Dry Cider (6.7% ABV) blending freshly harvested heirloom apples from Double Mountain

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Peaks and Pints has your Thanksgiving craft beers

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For many, Thanksgiving is the greatest of holidays. What’s better than a day devoted to eating and drinking with family and friends? For Peaks and Pints, nothing. When considering what to drink on Thanksgiving, realize that this day is an epic journey, with many twists and turns. No one single beer will get you through this event, so plan accordingly. Stop by Peaks and Pints today and load up our six-pack holders or fill a growler or two for tomorrow’s big day. Have a couple pints while you shop but remember: it’s an unofficial holiday, with old friends coming back

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Peaks and Pints’ Thanksgiving Prefunk and Black Friday

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With all sorts of relatives and homeys from back in the day returning to T-town for the holiday, Thanksgiving eve is one of the best nights for hittin’ your favorite pub for brew or two. May we suggest dropping by Peaks and Pints? We’re hosting Thanksgiving Prefunk and Black Friday get-togethers. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23 Join us Wednesday, Nov. 23 when we tap Thanksgiving — Epic Imperial Pumpkin Porter, Backwoods Pecan Pie, Pyramid Bourbon Barrel-Aged Snow Cap, d’s Wicked Cider Cranny Granny and many others. We appreciate your business, well wishes and hugs during our first three weeks of business. As

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TUESDAY PREFUNK: Craft beer before quilt festival and documentaryish drama Tower

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TUESDAY, NOV. 22 2016: South Sound events + craft beer … Washington State Fairgrounds + Peaks and Pints = Carina will be there The Grand Cinema + Narrows Brewing = Animation and Amarillo A VIEW TO A QUILT Tuesday, Tuesday. Can’t trust that day. Don’t do anything too active. You’ll just injure yourself. As in most things, passive is the way to go. Enter Northwest Quilt, Craft & Sewing Festival opening its doors at 10 a.m. at Washington State Fairgrounds. Far more interesting than you would ever think with a wide variety of supplies, notions, patterns and techniques in the

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Craft beer Thanksgiving, Deschutes prefection and hemp beer

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Deschutes Brewery and Hair of the Dog Brewing Company bring you another artistic collage of cask-aging alchemy. MORNING FOAM FOR TUESDAY, NOV. 22 2016: A seven-taster flight of craft beer news, from the fluffy head all the way to the bottom ass. … Looking for a holiday feasts that is more about clinking bottles than cleaning dishes? Here’s a completely beer-infused menu that’s easy enough for even new-to-the-game home cooks. Kendall Jones of the Washington Beer Blog probably dropped his Pike XXXXX Stout when he read the Seattle Times article on what beers to pair with

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MONDAY PREFUNK: Craft beer before stories and blues

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Creative Colloquy will hold court at B Sharp Coffee House at 7 p.m. MONDAY, NOV. 21 2016: South Sound events + craft beer B Sharp Coffee House + Peaks and Pints = packing a punch G. Donnalson’s + Zog’s = badder than old King Kong SPOKEN WORD Creative Colloquy invites lovers of the literary and admirers of the craft of storytelling to gather at B Sharp Coffee House at 7 p.m. for another night of creative writing performances and open mic. Featured Readers include Sam Snoek-Brown, Dianne Bunnell, Kristine M. Smith and others. If you wield

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Peaks and Pints Instagram Stalker: holiday sweaters, beer balls and bridesmaids

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Turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, and green bean casserole are great and all (Psych! Green bean casserole is nasty!), but let’s be honest: if you’re going to make it through a night of loud-mouthed relatives, football upsets, and Grandma’s “special” holiday dish, you’re gonna need craft beer. Take a look at the pretty beer photos from this week’s Instragram Stalker to perhaps give you inspiration on what to get for your table! This week, holiday sweaters, beer balls, bridesmaids and more. Be sure to keep posting those craft beer nestled against cactus photos and be sure to tag @peaksandpints if you’d

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SATURDAY PREFUNK: Craft beer before jazz, blues, comedy and metal in Tacoma

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Kareem Kandi Band performs at Doyle’s Public House tonight. SATURDAY, NOV. 19 2016: South Sound events + craft beer … G. Donnalson’s + Peaks and Pints = Proctor pairing Doyle’s Public House + Tacoma Brewing Co. = St. Helens Avenue pairing Wingman Brewers + Narrows Brewing Co. = Friendsgiving B Sharp Coffee House + Gig Harbor Brewing Co. = Big Gig The Valley + Rainier Growlers = sleaze and sour RED & RUBY Some people can sing, but can’t entertain. Some people can entertain, but can’t sing. Lavon Hardison excels at both. The Olympia-based vocalist possesses

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FRIDAY PREFUNK: Craft beer before Chucky, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble and Ethan Tucker

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FRIDAY, NOV. 18 2016: South Sound events + craft beer … Blue Mouse Theatre + Peaks and Pints = XX marks the spot Broadway Center + Edison City Alehouse = ensembles Pints Barn + The Eastside Club Tavern = right amount of malt sweetness CHUCKY IN PROCTOR In the world of horror movies, a filmmaker is lucky to have even one hit that transcends any kind of critical or financial success to become a genre classic. Writer-director Tom Holland had several, including Fright Night and Child’s Play, the later screening at 10 p.m. in the Blue Mouse Theatre as part

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Peaks and Pints in the news, Beer Church IPA and Firestone Walker contest

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MORNING FOAM FOR FRIDAY, NOV. 18 2016: A seven-taster flight of craft beer news, from the fluffy head all the way to the bottom reindeer … In October, the area’s first Greek distillery opened in a business park in Lakewood. This month, Dystopian State opened in one of Tacoma’s funky old buildings in the St. Helens neighborhood. And there’s one more to add to your list: Peaks and Pints. The taproom is an ode to South Sound and Northwest craft beer built into an old theater in the Proctor neighborhood. News Tribune food and drink journalist Sue Kidd reports says

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We’re pFrieming of a Craft Christmas

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When Matt Kotwasinski, right, isn’t arm-wrestling Mike Bosold of Click Wholesale Distributing, he’s spreading the good word on pFriem Family Brewers’ Flanders Blonde. Photo credit Pappi Swarner Sour beers are entering the craft beer mainstream, appealing to enthusiasts who are on the lookout for anything complex, wild, funky and distinctive. “There is a lot more interest in sours,” says Matt Kotwasinski, who carries the title of “Farmer” at pFriem Family Brewers but has his hands in many aspects at the Hood River, Oregon, brewery. “[Sours] aren’t overtaking IPAs and hoppy beers, but drinkers look for them.”

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THURSDAY PREFUNK: Craft beer before Sign Book and Spirits Auction, adult coloring and punk rock

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THURSDAY, NOV. 17 2016: South Sound events + craft beer … King’s Books + Peaks and Pints = collaborations Northern Pacific Coffee Co. + Silver City Brewery = joy to the world The Valley + Odd Otter Brewing Co. = playful animals SIGNED BOOK AND WINE AUCTION Books, beer, and politics. It’s not the sexiest of three-ways, but it’s exciting all the same — at least in the humble opinion of Peaks and Pints. At 7 p.m., Pierce County Prosecutor and popular Northwest writer Mark Lindquist will sponsor and host his 8th annual Signed Book and Spirits Auction rally and

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WEDNESDAY PREFUNK: Craft beer before singer-songwriters and Zimbabwe tunes

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Stephanie Anne Johnson is part of the Songwriters in the Round at B Sharp Coffee House tonight. WEDNESDAY NOV. 16 2016: South Sound events + craft beer … Pacific Brewing & Malting Co. + Peaks and Pints = Kristen Marlo and Kristal Dunkel Weizen B Sharp Coffee House + The Red Hot = Wild University of Puget Sound + Pint Defiance = dynamic duo SINGING BEERTENDER Singer/songwriter Kristen Marlo began singing before she could talk, and hasn’t stopped since. She is a classically trained vocalist and self-taught guitarist, but also an accomplished composer and lyricist and

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Festival of the Dark Arts, Shortest Day CDA and Founders Brewing headed to Washington state

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Saturday Feb. 18, 2017, all areas of the Fort George Brewery block will be overflowing with dark art, darker entertainment, and the darkest selection of craft beer ever assembled. MORNING FOAM FOR WEDNESDAY, NOV. 16 2016: A seven-taster flight of craft beer news, from the fluffy head all the way to the bottom scariness. … Jack Harris co-founded Fort George Brewery in 2007. He began his brewing career at McMenamins Cornelius Pass Roadhouse in 1990, and it was there in Hillsboro that he organized his first Stout Month, which featured four varieties. When he brought the

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TUESDAY PREFUNK: Craft beer before book chat and Amy Adam vs aliens

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Arrival may offer a few too many metaphors to keep some viewers engaged. But it’s guaranteed to stick in your mind a fair amount longer than, say, Men in Black 3. TUESDAY, NOV. 15 2016: South Sound events + craft beer … Wheelock Library  + Peaks and Pints = Proctor The Grand Cinema + Pacific Brewing & malting Co. = sci-fi BOOK CHAT Who is Bob Stevenson? Is he Archie B. Billingsly, suffering from dissociative identity disorder and subject to brilliant flights of fancy and bizarre, violent fits? Or is he the reincarnation of Robert Louis

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MONDAY PREFUNK: Carr, Clayton and two brewers named Harris

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Tacoma history front and center at the University of Puget Sound tonight. MONDAY, NOV. 14 2016: South Sound events + craft beer … Wheelock Student Center + Peaks and Pints = H.C and J.H. King’s Books + Local Boys Tap Room = small towns represent CARR TALK Job Carr is credited as the first permanent residence of a settler in what is now Tacoma. He arrived on Christmas Day 1864, cut out a paper snowflake, put cookies in front of the fireplace then filed a land claim for 168 acres in what is now part of

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Seattle Cider Company medals, Winter Beer Festival and Fa La La La La Winter Ale

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Seattle Cider Company medaled at the 2016 Festival of Barrel Aged Beer in Chicago. MORNING FOAM FOR MONDAY, NOV. 14 2016: A seven-taster flight of craft beer news, from the fluffy head all the way to the bottom zeptoseconds. … The world’s largest barrel-aged beer competition, held at the Festival of Barrel Aged Beer (FoBAB) in Chicago, is in the history books. The FoBAB 2016 awards have been announced. The winners include Seattle Cider Company, which took second and third place for its Red Wine Barrel Aged Berry and Wild Fermented Heirloom, respectively. The ever-popular Winter

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