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Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: NFL Buffalo Wingwich

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Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: NFL Buffalo Wingwich SUNDAY JAN. 30 2022: In celebration of the NFL Championship Games today, the Peaks & Pints Kitchen whipped up an NFL Buffalo Wingwich, a take on buffalo wings with chicken, Buffalo aioli, blue cheese, red onion, and romaine on sourdough. PAIRING: Equilibrium Brewing Mass x Acceleration Buffalo Wingwich special has big, brash flavors that need a beer to tackle them. Equilibrium Brewing’s Mass x Acceleration double IPA brewed with Mosaic and Amarillo is a Force to be reckon with. This juicy elixir hits the nose with dank orange juice followed by

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: NFL Championships Beer On the Fly

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If today’s NFL conference championship games are anything like last weekend’s divisional rounds, then hold onto your craft beer tight because it could be another couple of thrillers. The Bengals travel to Arrowhead Stadium to take on the two-time defending AFC-champion Kansas City Chiefs, in what will be Cincinnati’s third-ever appearance in an AFC Championship Game. Cincinnati won both of its previous AFC Championship appearances — vs. San Diego in the 1981 season, and vs. Buffalo in the 1988 season. On the NFC side, the Los Angeles Rams host the San Francisco 49ers in a battle of NFC West rivals.

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Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Self-Righteous French Dip

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Peaks & Pints suggests pairing our fancy French Dip special with Stone Brewing Sublimely Self-Righteous Black IPA. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Self-Righteous French Dip SATURDAY, Jan. 29 2022: Sliced roast beef, rosemary mayo, Havarti, Beecher’s White Cheddar, red onion, soft, crusty French bread, and a dip of au jus, into which the cut surface of each half of the long-sliced loaf is briefly immersed. Peaks & Pints’ French dip special is ready to pair with a black IPA. PAIRING: Stone Brewing Sublimely Self-Righteous Black IPA This hop-heavy IPA is brewed with dark malt so

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Strange Brew On The Fly

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Originating in 2005 and held every year during January, Strange Brewfest Port Townsend is a showcase in deviance from any archetypical extreme beer festival. Where most thematic beer fests involve high alcohol and barrel-aged brews, Strange Brew delineates itself with a truly outré mélange of beers that simultaneously capture the imagination and leave you scratching your head — pho beer, old fashion beer, pickle beer, baked beans beer and on and on. Sadly, Strange Brewfest has been canceled for obvious reasons the last two years. Strange Brewfest #17, though, is on the books for Feb. 3-4, 2023. Today, Peaks &

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Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 1.28.22

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Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 1.28.22 You made it! It’s Friday! Time for a little reward … Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 1.28.22 Block 15 Brewing Love Potion #9: Concocted by gypsies and guaranteed to help you find love, Love Potion #9 is a romantic sweet stout brewed with a tantalizing blend of specialty dark malts and conditioned on chocolate and Willamette Valley-grown red and black raspberries, 6.3% Block 15 The DAB Lab – Citra: IPA brewed with Citra hops from BT Loftus Ranches for luscious, citrus hop character, paired with distinctive and intense tropical aromatics,

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Jan. 28-30 2022

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Jan. 28-30 2022 January is ending, and even though the omicron variant has caused cancellations and postponements of numerous events, there’s still plenty of fun to be had around Tacoma. Check out 6-Pack of Things To Do: Jan. 28-30 and enjoy your weekend. Cheers! MUSIC: The shelf life for punk bands isn’t a long one. See: Drug abuse. It seems like even the ones lucky enough to make it out of the 1970s have been dying off. Whether it’s because of overdoses (Dee Dee Ramone), cancer (Joey Ramone), heart attack (Joe Strummer) or general band

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Threshold Brewing On The Fly

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“The magnitude or intensity that must be exceeded for a certain reaction, phenomenon, result, or condition to occur or be manifested” is the definition of “threshold” in most dictionaries. Threshold is also the passion project for Portland, Oregon, couple Jarek and Sara Szymanski who opened Threshold Brewing & Blending the beer-centric neighborhood of Montavilla two years ago this month. “Our aim at Threshold is to continue what we’ve been doing since we first fell in love with brewing: share our craft with others, brew the beers we love, push boundaries and connect with our town and neighborhood. Threshold is about a

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Three Beer Minimum: Our Choice, Most Popular, Your Choice

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Peaks & Pints bartender Matthew Usher recommends you enjoy Heathen Brewing’s Pele’s Potion Smoothie Sour. Three Beer Minimum: Our Choice, Most Popular, Your Choice Let this be your rallying cry. Let it be your new hot-button topic, a raw naked wildfire underground grassroots crusade, your juiciest of incentive programs, your inspired call to try new craft beer. It’s a new old column called Three Beer Minimum. It’s maximum fun. The rules are simple: You visit Peaks & Pints, drink the suggested Peaks bartender’s choice listed below (pictured above), next drink the crowd’s favorite beer purchased at

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Chocolate Cake Beer On the Fly

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You’ve done a great job of sticking to that New Year’s resolution. So, it’s time to reward yourself by celebrating National Chocolate Cake Day today, with a sip of rich cocoa goodness. That’s right! In the spirit of National Chocolate Cake Day — which has yet to be declared an official holiday — we’re playing to our craft beer. Luckily for us craft beer lovers, there are many delicious and unique chocolate beers being crafted by U.S. breweries — just in time for this national day. Chocolate adds complexity, well-roundedness, and smoothness to a beer’s flavor, whether its chocolate is added to

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.26.22

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.26.22 Mid-week Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.26.22 can drop! E9 Brewing French Lop: Dry hopped can conditioned saison with notes of grapefruit, lime, and tropical fruit, 5.7% Holy Mountain Brewing The Chariot – Seventh Anniversary: Double IPA made with a Pilsner, 2-row, malted spelt, Golden Naked Oats, mash hopped with whole leaf Mosaic, whirlpool hopped with Mosaic, Strata, Nelson, and Chinook Cryo, and dry hopped with an insane amount of the same combination, 8% Holy Mountain Seventh Anniversary Hoppy Pilsner: Brewed with Genie Pilsner malt, touch of malted oats, subtle

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Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Day of 1000 Münsters

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Peaks and Pints suggests pairing our fancy ham sandwich special with Pinkus Organic Münster Alt. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Day of 1000 Münsters WEDNESDAY, JAN. 26 2022: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen added housemade Thousand Island to ham, Havarti, Beecher’s White Cheddar, and onion on sourdough. PAIRING: Brauerei Pinkus Müller Organic Münster Alt Organic Münster Alt is made from Bioland malt, top-fermenting yeast, hops, and first-class brewing water according to the tried-and-tested brewing method, strictly in accordance with the German Purity Law. The herbaceous nose is complimented by notes of honey, buttered biscuit, toasted

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Jan. 26-27 2022

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Jan. 26-27 2022 Peaks & Pints’ 6-Pack of Things To Do is how we make it through. Well, that, and bourbon barrel-aged old ales. And music. And heart-meltingly stupendous sitcom reunions on HBO Max. And trying, valiantly, not to scream every few seconds. And so on. Shall we? TACOMA NIGHT MARKET: The aim is simple: Provide Tacoma with a monthly, well curated night-market destination with revolving vendors and offerings, where people can gather, have a drink, enjoy local food, bring their families, and support our local artists and crafters. This week, Tacoma Night Market isn’t

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Short Throw On the Fly

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Brandon Tolbert gained notoriety as head brewer at The Answer Brewpub. In fact, his Answer Brewpub nabbed the 2015 Best New Brewery in Virginia. Three years later, while he was scribbling plans for his own brewery, Tolbert honed his skills at Final Gravity Brewing and Ardent Craft Ales. In 2019, he launched Short Throw Brewing with the help of Twelve Percent Beer Project in North Haven Connecticut, North Haven. In January 2021, RateBeer named Short Throw eighth “Best New Brewery in the World,” the second “Best New Brewery in the United States,” and once again for Tolbert, the Best New Brewery in the

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.25.22

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.25.22 Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.25.22 is glorious!  Feast your eyes on these. …👀 Fremont Brewing Snowpack: Brewed to support SheJumps Scholarship Program, which generates opportunities for progression-based education, community-building, and leadership development through skiing and backcountry avalanche certifications, this revamped hazy pale ale hits the nose with citrus, stone fruit, pine, and cereal notes, followed by a sweet lingering taste with mango and pine, 5.5% Fort George Brewery Deviation Works: Collaboration with the Portland ski and snowboard manufacturer Deviation Works, this American light lager is brewed with flaked corn and

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Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Pastrami Pop Life

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Peaks and Pints suggests pairing our spicy pastrami sandwich special with Scuttlebutt’s Pop Life IPA. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Pastrami Pop Life TUESDAY, JAN. 25 2022: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen rides the spicy cherry pepper train again this time pairing them with pastrami, spicy mayo, onion, provolone, Havarti, and balsamic drizzle on French. PAIRING: Scuttlebutt Brewing Pop Life IPA Pop Life is a hazy IPA brewed with the YCH Cryo Pop Blend showcasing aromas and flavors of tropical and stone fruit. Are we actually pairing this IPA because the can color matches the

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: X Marks Trappist Tuesday

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The origins of Belgian styles are rooted in classic Parti-Gyle, which means running additional water through the mash to collect a second beer with the remaining sugar. This old technique was abandoned for the newer style in which brewers sparge, which means rinsing the sugar from the malt by spraying hot water over the top of the mash in the lauter tun, which is essentially a giant strainer. It was common for Belgian monks to use the same malt for three distinct mashes. They would mix the grist with water and make a first mash. This would then be drained

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Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Descent Into Deliciousness

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Peaks & Pints suggests you pair our Italian Grinder sandwich special with Skookum’s Descent Dark Lager. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Descent Into Deliciousness MONDAY, JAN. 24 2022: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen tweaked our flagship Italian Grinder offering pepperoni, salami, Dijonnaise, provolone, tomato, and arugula on sourdough from open to close today. PAIRING: Skookum Brewery Descent Dark Lager The slightly spicy notes of the meat pair well with a malty beer like Descent Dark Lager with its super malty roastiness, caramel sweetness, and faint hint of coffee. THING TO DO: Because of COVID, Peaks

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Jan. 24-25 2022

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Jan. 24-25 2022 From ooey-gooey cookies to classic PB&J, who doesn’t love a little peanut butter in their lives? It’s National Peanut Butter Day, which means Peaks & Pints offers a to-go flight of peanut butter beers today. Get the most out of everyone’s favorite nut spread and pair PB beers with the following local events. Cheers! PEANUT BUTTER: People are nuts for the stuff, and not just schoolchildren cash-strapped college kids. Peanut Butter is great for removing crayon off wallpaper. It won’t fade the color. If you’re headed to a 1950s style dance peanut

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Peanut Butter Beer On the Fly

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People are nuts for the stuff, and not just schoolchildren cash-strapped college kids. Peanut Butter is great for removing crayon off wallpaper. It won’t fade the color. If you’re headed to a 1950s style dance peanut butter is easier to remove from hair than Vaseline. Peanut butter works taking rings and age spots off wooden furniture. Peanut butter (creamy) is an excellent product for removing tar and pitch off cars, scratches out of Plexiglas, and pen marks off leather furniture. You can polish stainless steel with peanut butter. Eating peanut butter makes a great quick fix for the hiccups. Last,

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Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: Willamette Valley

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The Willamette Valley is the largest river valley in Oregon. Part of the Cascades geological province that extends from British Columbia to northern California, the valley is an elongated, relatively flat body of land extending approximately 150 miles from the Columbia River south to the Calapooya Divide. The valley’s elevation, approximately 10 feet above sea level where the Willamette River joins the Columbia, rises to about 450 feet south of Cottage Grove. The Willamette Valley’s agricultural underpinnings create a perfect opportunity for close relationships between cidermakers and apple orchardists where farm to table and drinking local are deeply held Oregonian

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Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Seeing Deli Reubens

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Peaks & Pints suggests you pair our Turkey Deli Reuben sandwich special with Structures Brewing’s Seeing Things Double IPA. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Seeing Deli Reubens DAY OF THE WEEK MONTH DATE 2022: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen tweaked our Peaks Reuben flagship sandwich substituting in turkey, mayostard sauce, red onion, and tomato with sauerkraut and rye bread.  PAIRING: Structures Brewing Seeing Things Double IPA It’s an outstanding sandwich on its own, but it gets even better when paired with a pungent IPA. The backend bitterness of this double IPA doesn’t get lost amongst

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Instagram Outsider: Beer Candles, Pulling Nails, 7 Holy Years

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Instagram Outsider: Beer Candles, Pulling Nails, 7 Holy Years From The Lost Abbey Church Candles to How Do You Dru Bru?, from Holy Mountain’s 7th Anniversary to all the bottle and can shots, Peaks and Pints Instagram Outsider returns today with a photo essay of Instagram posts from the past week. Be sure to keep tagging us @peaksandpints and @ciderofdestiny for your chance to be featured on Peaks and Pints Instagram Outsider. Until we meet back here again next week, enjoy Instagram Outsider: Beer Candles, Pulling Nails, 7 Holy Years.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared

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Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Britpop Beer Cheese

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Peaks & Pints suggests pairing our spicy pastrami sandwich special with Double Mountain’s Sally Can Wait Export Dark Lager and accompanying Spotify playlist. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Britpop Beer Cheese SATURDAY, JAN. 22 2022: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen grabbed a pile of pastrami and added beer cheese, a pepper mix, including spicy cherry peppers, plus Havarti and red onion on sourdough for our Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Britpop Beer Cheese. PAIRING: Double Mountain Brewery Sally Can Wait Dark Export Lager The Peaks Kitchen couldn’t wait to create a sandwich special around

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Old Schoolhouse Beer On The Fly

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Casey and Laura Ruud purchased the floundering Winthrop brewery in 2008, changed the name to Old Schoolhouse Brewery, cleaned it up, and quickly turned it into an award-winning gem of a brewpub. Life happens, and the Ruud’s sold the brewery to three gentlemen who grew up in New Hampshire together, brothers Nathan and Jacob Young and Troy Anderson. Jacob and Nathan knew restaurants and bars inside and out. Troy coached high school track with Jacob and worked at Microsoft with Nathan. All three enjoy the outdoors, which is almost mandatory since the riverside brewery and gastropub is in Winthrop, which

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.21.22

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.21.22 What are you drinking this weekend? Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.21.22 offers many a treasure. Cheers! Belching Beaver Brewery Sling Yer Hook: Nine Year Anniversary barrel-aged imperial stout with a pinch of salt to balance the roasted coffee notes and chocolate-like malt character, 11% Belching Beaver SD Besties: Brewed with Coronado Brewing, this Neapolitan imperial milk stout has notes of strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla, 8.5% Crux Fermentation Project Noisy Boy: West Coast IPA with notes of citrus, pine, and even candy notes thanks to the orchestrated efforts of Mosaic,

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Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Olive Amusement

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Peaks & Pints suggests pairing our turkey pesto tapenade special with the Block 15 and de Garde Amusement saison. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Olive Amusement FRIDAY, JAN. 21 2022: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen created a Friday sandwich special of turkey, pesto, olive tapenade, red onion, goat cheese, bacon, and balsamic glaze on sourdough. PAIRING: Block 15 Brewing 2021 AmusemenT This saison is blended with nearly 2-year-old spontaneously fermented and oak aged wild ale from de Garde Brewing, producing a balanced and characterful blend with funky lemon notes that will cut nicely through the

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Jan. 21-23 2022

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Jan. 21-23 2022 This weekend brings famed Pink Martini back to Tacoma, plus Neo vs. The Blue Mouse, masks, RVs bigger than your home, masks, punk rock, Hendrix loving Hansen, masks and more. Cheers! MUSIC: Pianist Thomas Lauderdale and his legendary Portland-based jazz and classical pop ensemble will perform at the Pantages Theater Sunday night. Pink Martini’s blend of American swing, Latin rhythms and chamber arrangements, along with vocals in five languages, give the group’s largely original material mass appeal. Lauderdale of Portland, Oregon, founded the “little orchestra” Pink Martini in 1994. It has gone

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Ravenna Brewing On the Fly

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Former London-bound information-security architect Tommy Ortega, his wife, Elise Ransom Oretga, and several Ransom family members — including Tommy Ransom who was the real estate agent who found the Seattle neighborhood Ravenna location for the brewery — opened Ravenna Brewing on April 15, 2016 across from Ravenna Park. Ortega and Elise originally planned to call the brewery Ol Faithful Brewing after the couple’s name for their home — a Craftsman in Fremont built in 1907. Tommy Ransom eventually became head brewer for many years, just recently turning over the head brewer job to Audra Johansen, the University of Washington master’s

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Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Deep Cheesy Ham

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Peaks & Pints suggests you pair our fancy ham sandwich with Skookum’s Deep Cooler old ale. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Deep Cheesy Ham THURSDA, JAN. 20 2022: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Deep Cheesy Ham is a cheesy ham with Beecher’s Aged White Cheddar and Havarti smothering ham, red onion, tomato, and arugula on sourdough. PAIRING: Skookum Brewery Deep Cooler Old Ale Skookum added cherry wood smoke malt then aged in their old ale in whiskey barrels for 10 months for deep notes and aromas of dark fruit,

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Equilibrium Beer On The Fly

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In 2016, MIT graduates and friends Peter Oates and Ricardo Petroni opened Equilibrium Brewery in Middletown, New York. The two professional scientists became obsessed with New England hazy IPAs burning a path to Hill Farmstead Brewery and The Alchemist. Finally purchasing a homebrewing kit, Oats and Petroni strived to create scientifically balanced beer, which they did before brewing their first double IPA, named EQM, in 2015. It didn’t hurt they were trained in water chemistry. Four years later, lines 300 deep stood before their door waiting for their latest release. Since then, they opened a second site in Middletown to

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.19.22

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.19.22 Peaks & Pints is stoked to have more fun beer from Claim 52 Brewing, as well as all these delicious Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.19.22. Cheers! Claim 52 Brewing Alive In Tucson: Westcoast IPA brewed with 2-row barley, Crystal 15, and dextrose, plus hopped with Cryo Cascade and Cryo Mosaic, 6.3%. Claim 52 Stuffed Raspberry Gingerbread Cheesecake: Dessert sour brewed with milk sugar, then conditioned on raspberry puree, gingerbread cookie crumbs, and cheesecake, 6.5% Claim 52 Stuffed Baked Alaska: Dessert Sour conditioned on raspberry puree, marshmallow, yellow cake, and

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Revision On the Fly

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Jeremy Warren is widely admired for his mastery of hops, especially with his signature beer style, India pale ale. In 2012, Knee Deep Brewing Co. left Warren’s garage in Sparks, Nevada, and exploded onto the scene when the brewery’s Hoptologist won the prestigious Bistro Double IPA competition in Hayward, California, besting the legendary Pliny the Elder, among others. In 2015, Warren left everyone knee deep in tears when he departed the brewery. In March 2017, he and his head brewer, Jeb Taylor, opened Revision Brewing Company back in Sparks, Nevada. The brewery took a gold medal win for Revision IPA

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.18.22

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.18.22 Coming in today for a pint and to stock your beer fridge for the week? You know Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.18.22 has got you! Let’s run ’em down. … Fremont Brewing Coffee Cinnamon B-Bomb: Aged in 8- to 12-year-old American oak bourbon barrels and blended with 9-, 12-, and 24-month-old barrel-aged Winter Ales, this special edition adds cold brew coffee and cinnamon bark to complement the bourbon, oak, cacao, leather, toffee, and dark coffee notes, 13.5% Oskar Blues Brewery Double Dale’s: This year marks the 20th anniversary of

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Peaks and Pints joins Trappist Tuesday

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Peaks and Pints celebrates Merchant du Vin’s Trappist Tuesday campaign by offering a flight of Trappist beers every Tuesday. Peaks and Pints joins Trappist Tuesday If all this isn’t a hotly vivid, hallucinatory fever dream, and COVID continues to rage, and Peaks & Pints is compelled by the holy spirit to give up our craft beer lodge, our homes, our cars, and our cushy free beer samples gig for a life on religious contemplation, we will choose the Trappist life. Also known as the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, Trappists are Roman Catholics who

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Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Hamzola

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Peaks & Pints suggests pairing our Hamzola sandwich special with Level Beer’s Dunkels and Dragons. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Hamzola MONDAY, JAN. 17 2022: Peaks & Pints Chef Boyaarondee discovered Robby Peterson’s D&D notebook and deciphered the Dungeon Master Peterson’s favorite sandwich for the 1990s — “Hamzola.” Boyaarondee embarked on a sandwich journey that led to ham, gorgonzola, Havarti, bacon, “mayosturd,” onion, and tomato on rye. Many Slaads and Bulettes knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Hamzola during those days, we can tell you! PAIRING: Level Beer Dunkels

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Jan. 17-18 2022

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Jan. 17-18 2022 We are all unique individuals and together, we comprise a community. Our willingness to shine our brightest contributes to the world. When we are fulfilling our destinies, working toward our own greatest good, it lifts the vibration globally. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Dream” will be a focus today and tomorrow in Tacoma. Not all of us are crusaders like Dr. King, but we all have dreams. What’s yours? DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY: Celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with the Washington State History Museum with an all-day virtual program.

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Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: Bend Oregon

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Named for a sharp hook in the Deschutes River in Central Oregon’s high desert, Bend wasn’t on everyone’s radar; decades ago, it was a bump on the state highway between golf resorts Black Butte Ranch and Sunriver. Lumber ruled the roost until the two large timber mills closed in 1994. Now what? Boom! Bend underwent a housing boom — and an image boom — in the mid ’90s. Suddenly mountain biking wasn’t just for teenage boys, kayaks outnumbered suits and ties, and microbrews poured in Mount Bachelor’s ski lodges; Bend became a paradise for outdoor adventures and outdoor beer and

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Peaks and Pints Tap List: Holy Mountain Drinking The Cup of Judgment

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Peaks and Pints has tapped Holy Mountain Brewing’s Drinking The Cup of Judgment hoppy pilsner. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Holy Mountain Drinking The Cup of Judgment Peaks and Pints houses a mind-boggling array of suds: 850-plus bottled and canned in our cooler, with another 28 on tap for pint and Campfire Crowler fills. While craft beer remains our foundation, you don’t have to be embarrassed for ordering artisan craft cider, wine, cold brewed coffee and kombucha as those delights are on tap too at Peaks & Pints. To follow our tap list live from your

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Instagram Outsider: Stivo, Hop Tricks, Snowshoe Beer

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Instagram Outsider: Stivo, Hop Tricks, Snowshoe Beer From snowshoe beer to Hop Tricks, from taproom closures to how to make condensation, Peaks and Pints Instagram Outsider returns today with a photo essay of Instagram posts from the past week. Be sure to keep tagging us @peaksandpints and @ciderofdestiny for your chance to be featured on Peaks and Pints Instagram Outsider. Until we meet back here again next week, enjoy Instagram Outsider: Stivo, Hop Tricks, Snowshoe Beer.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Incline Cider House Tacoma (@inclineciderhouse)   View this post on Instagram   A

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Browns On The Fly

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According to The Oxford Companion to Beer, “the term ‘brown ale’ can easily be confusing, or at least not much more useful than the term “red wine.’” That confusion, however, is part of its allure, as the style leaves brewers plenty of room for interpretation. The brown ale has origins in 17th century England, where it was a name given to a dark-colored, mild ale. The American Brown is a style that home brewers have helped define over the past 30 years. The contemporary American Brown is flavorful, balanced, and medium bodied, with more overall character than its early English

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Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Chicken Pow!

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Peaks & Pints suggests pairing our spicy pulled chicken special with Block 15’s Fresh POW! IPA. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Chicken Pow! SATURDAY, JAN. 15 2022: The Peaks & Pints Kitchen invented our sandwich special while watching the SUPR Personal Training fitness class inside Peaks this morning. SUPR owner Daryl Marie went for the burn inspiring pulled chicken, Frank’s Hot Sauce, mayo, Havarti, red onion, and pickles on sourdough. PAIRING: Block 15 Brewing Fresh POW! The wintry IPA features a soft malt base beneath an avalanche of resinous, citrusy, and tropical hop varietals, which

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Pilsners On The Fly

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In the world history of beer, pilsners are relatively recent. Around 1840, eons before marketers invented “drinkability,” Czech brewers in Bohemia created pilsner, a light beer that didn’t taste like bath water. 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

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.14.22

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Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.14.22 Cozy up to Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.14.22. Take these bottles and cans to meet your house plants and creatures at home.🪴 Pop one of these open before enjoying one of the events in our 6-Pack of Things To Do this weekend, and thank you so much for supporting our small business! Block 15 Brewing The DAB Lab, Juice Joint: Dank and citrusy kettle additions are paired with a tropical and herbal dry-hop — a heady IPA combination that’s packed with resin- dipped pineapple skunk and freshly squeezed twisted

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Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Robby Pastrami

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Robby Pastrami whipped up an obvious sandwich special for National Pastrami Day. Pair it with Structures’ Who Goes There (Batch #2). Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Robby Pastrami FRIDAY, JAN. 14 2022: Peaks & Pints Kitchen Director Robby Peterson is known as “Robby Pastrami” by his kitchen colleagues. Pastrami is his life. Robby invented Peaks’ flagship sandwich Pesto Pastrami, and numerous pastrami specials at Peaks. Today, Robby dons a particular pastrami smile as it’s National Pastrami Day. He’s whipped up a pastrami special that keeps all the focus on his favorite meat: pastrami, Havarti, mustard,

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