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Instagram Outsider: Can Face Plant, Hellbent Band, Pride Beer

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Instagram Outsider: Can Face Plant, Hellbent Band, Pride Beer From the joy of new cans to brewhouse air guitars, from brewery anniversaries to Pride beer, 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 for your chance to be featured on Peaks and Pints Instagram Outsider. Until we meet back here again next week, enjoy Instagram Outsider: Can Face Plant, Hellbent Band, Pride Beer   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Triceratops Brewing Company (@triceratopsbrewing)   View this post on

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Washington Class of 2014 On the Fly

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Fifteen minutes of fame used to sound too short. But in 2014 — with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and a thousand other ways to get news instantly — fame was more fleeting than ever. One minute you’re watching the world take the Ice Bucket Challenge, and the next minute, it was all about a Mountie-inspired hat, a nipple debate, and a selfie — and a booty — that broke the Internet. The year also saw the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown, the death of Robin Williams, Ebola, the missing Malaysia Airlines flight, midterm elections, bad calls by the National Football

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Class of 2015 On The Fly

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Back to the Future Part II may have predicted tablets, flat screen televisions and video conferencing in 2015, but not even Doc Brown could have foreseen Jon Snow’s fate. In fact, the year 2015 hosted many unpredictable scenarios and return-to-forms, from Justin Bieber’s chart-topping comeback to Steve Harvey crowning the wrong Miss Universe. There were goodbyes (Jon Stewart, David Letterman, Mad Men) and hellos (Adele!, a baby panda named Bei Bei, wine ice cream). “Star Wars” reawakened, and Caitlyn Jenner emerged. There were only 3,464 craft breweries at the beginning 2015, which has more than doubled. Today, Peaks & Pints

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Friday June 11 2021

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Friday June 11 2021 You’re gonna “crush” it, you’re gonna pwn it, you’re gonna kill it and conquer it and lord over it like some sort of scowling fur-lined dragon-humping wizard from the Lost Kingdom of HR Puffinstuff Now Streaming on HBO. You’re going to rule Friday, and 6-Pack of Things To Do: Friday June 11 2021 has your back. Cheers! DADS: LeMay — America’s Car Museum hosts their ninth annual Hoods Up for Father’s Day through July 1. It’s hoods up at the car museum in Tacoma with more than 100 engines on display

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: German Chocolate On The Fly

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It’s chocolate and it’s cake. But German chocolate cake is a pure American creation — the Germans had nothing to do with it. The name comes from Baker’s German’s Sweet Chocolate, which is still around today. It was called “German’s” chocolate after Samuel German, who invented the sweetened chocolate while working for Baker’s Chocolate, which was then owned by General Foods and is now owned by Kraft. It’s a chocolate that includes sugar, which provides a shortcut for bakers. Anyway, it’s one of our favorite cakes with its chocolaty layers slathered in the coconut pecan frosting. As you might have guessed;

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Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock: 6.10.21

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Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock: 6.10.21 When the thirst takes hold of you, dive into Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock: 6.10.21. Cheers! Aslan Brewing Totality Pilsner: Hopped on Barbe Rouge, Centennial, and Huell Melon with Pilsner malt from Skagit Valley for soft floral, citrus, melon, and piney hop flavors, plus a subtle bitter finish, 4.5% Buoy Beer Stonefruit Brett Saison: Second batch of the Buoy Foeder series based on the spontaneity of the Brett yeasts strains with part of the batch infused with stone fruit, 7.1% E9 Brewing Puppies vs. Kittens: Double dry hopped IPA, brewed

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Happiness On The Fly

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Have you ever let go of your demand on the present moment? What might happen if you do? Have you ever tried it? What happens if you forgo your poisonous insistence that something, somewhere is always wrong, broken, and flawed? You might, just might, uncover a life of surreptitious, messy, imperfect bliss. The panic might subside. The veil might lift. You might just become, as they say, more fully awake to the moments of your life, free of bogus dissatisfaction telling you, every moment of every day, that something is always wrong. You might, just might, live much, much better. Can you

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Song Beers On The Fly

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You know what would go great with your craft beer? Some music. Few things go together like drinking craft beer and listening to music. It’s a combination so universal, it’s no wonder why brewers like to have their beverages associated with their customers’ favorite bands and artists. Some have even brewed beers with the style and artistry of these musicians in mind. In fact, Felipe Reinoso Carvalho, Ph. D., a researcher in Brussels who found you can enhance the flavor perception of your favorite brew by listening to the right jams. You’re constantly surrounded by sensory stimuli, like sound, sensation, scent,

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Peaks and Pints Tap List: De Molen Mout and Mocca

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Peaks and Pints Tap List includes Brouwerij De Molen Mout and Mocca imperial stout. Peaks and Pints Tap List: De Molen Mout and Mocca 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 phone, click here

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Candy Beer On the Fly

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With sweets, decorations and costumes lining store shelves in preparation for Halloween, fall may seem to be candy season. It’s really June, though, that takes the candy-encrusted crown as National Candy Month, and Peaks & Pints is one option to celebrate. There’s something so sweet about sweet. The cavemen knew it; they were willing to risk limbs and whatever other body parts weren’t covered in hair in order to grab honey from beehives. Over many, many thousands of years, the preferred form of sweet evolved from honey to all kinds of confections, including craft beer. Today, Peaks & Pints presents

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Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: French Cider

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We received our second vaccination shot buzzed on French cider. We forgot our scheduled morning tasting with Joan Harkins, president and CEO of French Cider and Spirit. Despite the noon vaccination appointment, the French cider tasting happened anyway because, well, French cider. The morning sun lit the flutes of traditional and heritage Normandy ciders as Harkins poetically described each pour as if she were leaning against a barrel in Normandy. Yes, the alcohol remained below 5 percent per pour, but when in Domaine Dupont, as some say. Oh, the sweet, slightly carbonated taste of France. The chosen ciders arrived last

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Fancy Pants Sunday: Gulden Draak Calvados Barrel Aged

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You fancy Van Steenberge Gulden Draak Calvados Barrel Aged! Fancy Pants Sunday: Gulden Draak Calvados Barrel Aged Van Steenberge is a Belgian brewery in East Flemish Village of East Flanders, Belgium. The brewery started out in 1784 after it was founded by Jean Baptiste De Bruin. The brewery is considered to be a family brewery since its ownership and management has been passed on to several family generations after Jean Baptiste De Bruin’s death. Fancy Pants Sunday: Gulden Draak Calvados Barrel Aged is worthy of this weekly column. Many beer connoisseurs who claim to have cut

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Tacoma Breakfast Sandwich: Florentine

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Pair Peaks & Pints Florentine breakfast sandwich with Oakshire Brewing’s Overcast Espresso Stout. Tacoma Breakfast Sandwich: Florentine Just a reminder Peaks & Pints serves breakfast sandwiches until 2 p.m. daily. Our Florentine is spinach, egg, melted Havarti and rosemary aioli on a toasted baguette. We suggest pairing it with Oakshire Brewing’s Overcast Espresso Stout, well, because it’s an overcast breakfast kind of day. Oakshire Overcast Espresso Stout When Jeff and Chris Althouse founded Oakshire Brewing Co. in 2006 they were the only employees, brewing Original Amber on a four-barrel system under the moniker Willamette Brewery. In

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Instagram Outsider: Space Cowboy, Foggy Bottom Boys, Montucky Man

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Instagram Outsider: Space Cowboy, Foggy Bottom Boys, Montucky Man From Memorial Day messages to Pride messages, from the Space Cowboy to the Foggy Bottom Boys, 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 for your chance to be featured on Peaks and Pints Instagram Outsider. And, please, wash your damn hands; wear your damn mask. Until we meet back here again next week, enjoy Instagram Outsider: Space Cowboy, Foggy Bottom Boys, Montucky Man.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Ocean Fest On the Fly

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There might not be azure crests and tepid tides, no bathing beauties reclining on sparkling sand, no barefoot strolls through the moonlit surf. No, Tacoma’s Commencement Bay is a stern and hungry body of water, commanding respect and resolve as steely as its gray-green sheen … now with more Trashoctopuses. The Tacoma Ocean Fest kicked off Friday night with the first-ever Lantern Paddle for Species followed by yesterday’s Tacoma Shoreline Survey & Cleanup, an annual partnership between Tacoma Ocean Fest, The Ikkatsu Project and South Sound Surfrider picking up shoreline trash and tossing into giant metal sculptures that double as

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Pairing Gingerbread On The Fly

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You might have eaten your gingerbread house months ago, but if you have any gingerbread cookies left in your freezer, today’s the day to thaw. Happy National Gingerbread Day! While that may sound strange, on June 5 each year, gingerbread lovers across the country celebrate by sampling their favorite recipes and gingerbread treats. Whether in the form of bread, cakes, bars, biscuits, or cookies, let’s face it — they’re delicious any time of year. In regard to pairing beer with gingerbread, American-style barleywines, English milds, English IPAs, and even Russian imperial stouts will bring out the molasses and brown sugar

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Friday June 4 2021

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Friday June 4 2021 Go outside. OK, ready? Inhale. Deeply. Now try sucking in. Now snort. Gasp. Pant. Huff. Wheeze. Hell, even try a chortle. Next, make your way to 6-Pack of Things To Do: Friday June 4 2021. Cheers! LANTERN PADDLES: Let there be light! The Tacoma Ocean Fest’s first-ever Lantern Paddle will light up the Thea Foss Waterway tonight. The night kicks off at 7 p.m. with the Pacific Lutheran University Steel Pan Ensemble and aerialist Deanna Riley at the Foss Waterway Seaport on Dock Street. At 9 p.m., Ocean Fest encourages paddlers

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Tournament of Beer Winners On the Fly

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For the last five years Peaks & Pints has hosted the Tournament of Beer bracketed beer competition pitting 64 themed beers against one another in frothy head-to-head matchups voted online by craft beer enthusiasts. Every February, Peaks and Pints asks our patrons and the public to seed the tournament — meaning we poll people for their favorite beer under a certain theme, and thus determining seedings and matchups in the knockout bracket. The top 64 vote getters — the cream of the hops — compete at tournamentofbeer.com (forwards to peaksandpints.com) in April. Through online voting, craft beer drinkers pick daily

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Equilibrium Brewery 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 Pilot Program: Trappist Ale Virtual Tour

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On your marks. Get set. Drink beer. At 5 p.m. tonight, June 2, beer drinkers around the South Sound (and perhaps a few from around the rest of the world) will unite for the first-ever Peaks and Pints Trappist Ale Virtual Tour. We’ve teamed up with Aaron, PNW Import Beer manager for Merchant du Vin, who will show you how to taste Trappist ales like a pro from the comfort of your sofa, as he guides you through tasting five Trappist beers, helping to discover nuances of flavor and aromas, teaching a little history of Trappist breweries and the Cistercian

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Tuesday June 1 2021

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Tuesday June 1 2021 Count backward from 100 and when you hit your age, start spanking yourself silly with the sad truth that there will never be enough hours in the day to bemoan the lack of hours in the day with which, had you the hours in the day, you would take that herb class and strip/stain that old dresser or really start working on those abs. In the meantime, here are six things to do in Tacoma today. Cheers! MARKET DAY: Former Matchless Brewing head brewer and farmer Pat Jansen has teamed up

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Morning Foam: Hazelnut Beer Flight, The Beer Hour, Coolship at Smith Rock

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Morning Foam: Hazelnut Beer Flight, The Beer Hour, Coolship at Smith Rock Tuesday, June 1, 2021 – Good Morning Foam: Hazelnut Beer Flight, The Beer Hour, Coolship at Smith Rock! BTW, Morgan Freeman turns 84. THE TACOMA FACTOID On July 23, 1900, an automobile traveled the streets of Tacoma for the first time on its way to Seattle. Ralph S. Hopkins (ca. 1871-1923), “a capitalist,” was the owner of the three-horsepower Woods Electric auto. THE DAILY WORD echinate (ek’-e-nat) adjective Bearing or covered with spines or bristles; prickly Usage example: “The spikelets are arranged in groups of two, facing each

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Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: Liberty Ciderworks

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In 2013, Rick Hastings and Austin Dickey opened the first cidery in downtown Spokane, Liberty Ciderworks. From renovated downtown warehouse on Washington Street near the railroad tracks, they had a simple mission: To use apples from local farms and fields to create unique, wonderful ciders, and to share their ciders with friends and neighbors across the great Pacific Northwest. Peaks & Pints is proud to be a part of that mission, as our weekly Monday to-go cider flight depicts: Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: Liberty Ciderworks. Hastings and Dickey made cider in their garages for years before going pro

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Instagram Outsider: Party Train, Justin of El Dorado, Sexism

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Instagram Outsider: Party Train, Justin of El Dorado, Sexism From mountain top tropics to the Matchless and Brothers Cascadia Party Train, from slicing El Dorado hops with a sword to sexism in craft beer, 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 for your chance to be featured on Peaks and Pints Instagram Outsider. And, please, wash your damn hands; wear your damn mask. Until we meet back here again next week, enjoy Instagram Outsider: Party Train, Justin of El Dorado, Sexism.  

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Fancy Saisons On The Fly

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Consider the saison. History did. During the 19th century, Belgian farmers brewed saisons, or “farmhouse ales,” using the leftover grains from the fall harvest. In fact, not only did farmers decrease leftover grains (and keep busy during the non-growing months) but also livestock ate the spent grain feed, and seasonal workers drank during the hot summer months to stay hydrated. That’s what you call a win-win. And back then, saisons only clocked in at about 3.5 percent ABV, making it a sessionable, hydrating beer during warm weather. The reason for so much of the funky yeast commonly found in saisons?

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Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 5.29.21

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Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 5.29.21 You’re less than halfway through the Memorial Day weekend. Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 5.29.21 will help you get through the rest of the holiday. Cheers! Dwinell Country Ales Plain Sight: A mixed-culture golden farmhouse ale aged for more than a year in Grenache barrels and refermented over freshly picked Robata apricots for aromatic, estate-grown malt and a sun-kissed, stone-fruity zing are supported by a quenching acidity, 6.2% Dwinell Summer Blush: A rustic pale ale fermented in the barrel with a blend of Norwegian farmhouse yeasts, aged in oak for

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Barbecue Beer On The Fly

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When it comes to Memorial Day you probably want to tackle everything grilled, charring each ingredient you use for maximum smoky flavor after a spring season of eating barely-cooked fresh young green things. Barbecue is, after all, the only truly American culinary technique. No foppish French sautés for you. You’re a red-blooded American and you like your meat smoked, cooked long and slow until it’s tender enough to be cut with a sharp glance. Barbecue is serious stuff. The pit. The fuel. The right cut of meat for ribs. The flavorings. Today, Peaks and Pints offers a to-go flight specifically

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Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 5.28.21

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Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 5.28.21 Stock up for your Memorial Day weekend with Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 5.28.21. E9 Brewing Love Vibes: Tacoma’s first craft brewery teamed up with Gigantic Brewing to brew this single hop Italian pilsner with Experimental Hopsteiner X13459 hop, 5.2%. Fair Isle Brewing Ami Jean: Saison with apricots, peaches and pluots, 7.1% Fair Isle Gemma: Saison infused with rose hips and dried elderflowers foraged from the Cascades by their buddy Alex, 6.3% Future Primitive Brewing EDM Cowboy: West Coast IPA brewed with El Dorado, Galaxy, Idaho 7, and Strata hops,

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Local Beer Memorial Day Weekend

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The unofficial start of summer is officially here. As the amuse bouche of the summer season, Memorial Day weekend brings with it all the sweet signs of the warm weather to come in the greater Tacoma area. From barbecues and baseball games to road trips and chill nights around a campfire, there are so many excuses to celebrate over the (much needed) long weekend. While you relax over the next few days, make sure to include a few local sips as well. With vaccination rates up across the South Puget Sound, many family members and friends will reunite for the

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Thursday, May 27 2021

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Thursday, May 27 2021 From live music to your own beer tasting comparison, from the Broadway Farmers’ Market to the final Tacoma Noir episode, 6-Pack of Things To Do: Thursday, May 27 2021 has something for everyone today. Cheers! MUSIC: Every great song has a great loop, and what is a “loop” if not a fancy name for a circle? And when three fantastic singer/songwriters appear at various vertexes of the Spanish Ballroom at what’s being called “Walker Sherman’s Last Thursdays Songwriters in the Round,” they form a triangle of talent. James Coates, Walker Sherman

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Intent versus Purpose On The Fly

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Intent versus Purpose On The Fly Do you like West Coast IPAs better than hazy IPAs? Thanks to Chainline Brewing in Kirkland, Washington, your answer can now be more definitive. Our to-go beer flight today — Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Intent and Purpose On The Fly — compares Chainline’s Intent West Coast IPA with their Purpose Hazy IPA. Both IPAs have the same hop bill but are brewed different. 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

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Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 5.26.21

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Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 5.26.21 Who needs beer? Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 5.26.21 has your back! American Solera DIPA Terpy Enigma: Crushable double IPA brewed with Enigma hops for dank and herbaceous notes, plus low bitterness, 8% Aslan Brewing Disco Lemonade: Berliner weisse with the tartness adding hints of lemon backed by a generous amount of wheat for a body similar to lemonade, 4.5% Evil Twin Brewing Blue Raspberry: Hazy sour IPA with bitter hop and raspberry nose, followed by a bitter start with a sweet blue raspberry slushy finish, 6% Ex Novo Brewing

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Morning Foam: Blueberry Beer Flight, Frosted Flakes IPA canned, Three Points Berry Smoothie

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Morning Foam: Blueberry Beer Flight, Frosted Flakes IPA canned, Three Points Berry Smoothie Wednesday, May 26 2021 – Good Morning Foam: Blueberry Beer Flight, Frosted Flakes IPA canned, Three Points Berry Smoothie! BTW, Lenny Kravitz turns 57. THE TACOMA FACTOID Tacoma was founded in 1872 by teetotaler and former general Morton Matthew McCarver who dreamed of railroads. McCarver gave the city its first name — Commencement City. In 1872, Tacoma consisted of a lumber mill, two stores, a saloon, a hotel, a jail, a blacksmith, and approximately 100 citizens. THE DAILY WORD snollygoster \’sna-le-‘gas-ter\ noun [probably alter. of snallygaster, a

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Peaks and Pints Tap List: Firestone Walker Tequila Barrel Sunrise

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Peaks and Pints Tap List includes Firestone Walker’s Tequila Barrel Sunrise blonde barleywine. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Firestone Walker Tequila Barrel Sunrise 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 and Pints. To follow our tap list live from your phone, click here for

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Tuesday May 25 2021

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Tuesday May 25 2021 Don’t wait until Memorial Day weekend to start enjoying everything Tacoma has to offer. BEER TASTING: Peaks & Pints is excited to present our first virtual beer tasting in collaboration: A Trappist beer tour with Aaron Cohn, Washington sales director for Merchant du Vin at 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 2, 2021. Learn how to taste Trappist ales like a pro from the comfort of your sofa, as Cohn guides us through tasting five Trappist beers, helping us to discover nuances of flavor and aromas, teaching us the history of Trappist breweries

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Morning Foam: Blonde Beer Flight, Double Mountain Splendor, Bale Breaker VIP Tour  

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Morning Foam: Blonde Beer Flight, Double Mountain Splendor, Bale Breaker VIP Tour Tuesday, May 25 2021 – Good Morning Foam: Blonde Beer Flight, Double Mountain Splendor, Bale Breaker VIP Tour! BTW, Mike Myers turns 58. THE TACOMA FACTOID In the late 1920s, hundreds rabbits, guinea pigs, mice, and rats were held captive on the roof of Tacoma’s Washington building maintained by a Tacoma biological laboratory for research work in the unending war on disease. THE DAILY WORD fantod \’fan-tad\ noun [perh. alter. of E dial. fantique, fanteeg] (1839) 1) A state of irritability and tension; fidgets 2) An emotional outburst:

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Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: Strawberries

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Nearly everyone loves to eat a good strawberry. When strawberries are in season, there is almost nothing as satisfying as walking out into the garden and harvesting a colander full of these sweet, fragrant and beautiful fruits. But, damn you strawberries! You’re only fresh during June and July in Washington state. Then, they become ticking time bombs. Within a day you have withered; in three days you are moldy. Still, your flavor lives on from the freezer, or in hard cider. The fresh taste of strawberries, soft and deep red, backed by mouth-watering sweetness and previous alcohol. Today, Peaks and

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Instagram Outsider: Love and Thunder, New Boot Goofin, Rollin with the Gnomie

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Instagram Outsider: Love and Thunder, New Boot Goofin, Rollin with the Gnomie From new taproom rules to new beer releases, from New Boot Goofin to rollin’ with the Gnomie, 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 for your chance to be featured on Peaks and Pints Instagram Outsider. And, please, wash your damn hands; wear your damn mask. Until we meet back here again next week, enjoy Instagram Outsider: Love and Thunder, New Boot Goofin, Rollin with the Gnomie.   View this

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Barrel Sours On The Fly

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Fermentation, at its most basic, is the process by which yeast eat sugars found in wort and convert them into alcohol. There are two major places where fermentation can occur during the brewing process: in stainless steel tanks (the most common) or in wood vessels such as barrels, foeders or puncheons. Beer aged in barrels will absorb some of the various chemical compounds present in the wood, such as lactones (floral aromas and flavors), phenolic aldehydes (vanilla), and the simple sugars (caramel). When the beer is first in the barrel, it will begin to absorb very strong caramel and vanilla flavors,

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Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 5.22.21

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Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 5.22.21 Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 5.22.21 has some crazy delicious offerings! Abomination Brewing Harvester: Fruited sour brewed with mangosteen, dragonfruit, and peach, 7.1% Icicle Brewing Peak Seeker – Outer Space: Unfiltered West Coast IPA brewed with Citra, Mosaic, and Simcoe for notes and aromas of intense citrus, grapefruit, and pine, 6.9% Evil Twin Brewing What Our Age Lacks Is Not Reflection, But IPA: Hazy double IPA with brewed with Citra, Idaho 7, and Simcoe for a juicy, citrus, 8% Firestone Walker Brewing Mezca-Limon: Echoing the traditional Mezcalita recipe, this specialty

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Triple IPAs On The Fly

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The triple IPA is a palate-smashing beast of an ale designed for those times when a hazy IPA simply won’t cut it. Yet, the style still isn’t recognized — and debate rages among the pimpliest of beer nerds over whether it’s a style at all. Peaks & Pints believes the triple IPA is a massively hoppy beer of 10 percent ABV and greater with outrageous amounts of dry hops, hop flavor, malt flavor, alcohol and bitterness. The triple IPA may be similar to a double IPA in hop character, but is differentiated from the style by a thick, syrupy body

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Morning Foam: Icicle Beer Flight, Camp Colvos By The Slice, Lisa Morrison Hall of Fame

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Morning Foam: Icicle Beer Flight, Camp Colvos By The Slice, Lisa Morrison Hall of Fame Wednesday, May 19 2021 – Good Morning Foam: Icicle Beer Flight, Camp Colvos By The Slice,  Lisa Morrison Hall of Fame! BTW, Mr. T turns 69. THE TACOMA FACTOID In November 1918, voters created the Port of Tacoma, which began improving waterways and facilities. THE DAILY WORD meed noun [ME, fr. OE med; akin to OHG miata reward, Gk misthos] (bef. 12c) 1) an earned reward or wage 2) a fitting return or recompense Usage example: Even though there were six beers in the carton,

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Morning Foam: Double Mountain and E9 release parties and flight

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Morning Foam: Double Mountain and E9 release parties and flight Wednesday, May 19 2021 – Good Morning Foam: Double Mountain and E9 release parties and flight! BTW, Cher turns 75. THE TACOMA FACTOID Tacoma is the second-largest city in the Puget Sound area and the third largest in the state. Tacoma also serves as the center of business activity for the South Sound region, which has a population of around 1 million people. Tacoma adopted its name after the nearby Mount Rainier, originally called Takhoma or Tahoma. THE DAILY WORD beshrew (bi-‘shroo) verb transitive – beshrewed, beshrewing, beshrews. Archaic. [Middle

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Morning Foam: Motueka Beer Flight, Gigantic Hugs, Multiplayer Guild Collab IPA

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Morning Foam: Motueka Beer Flight, Gigantic Hugs, Multiplayer Guild Collab IPA Wednesday, May 19 2021 – Good Morning Foam: Motueka Beer Flight, Gigantic Hugs, Multiplayer Guild Collab IPA! BTW, Pete Townshend turns 76. THE TACOMA FACTOID Originally intended as a hotel, construction on the French chateau-style building halted abruptly during the Panic of 1893. Five years later, it was gutted by a fire. Then, in 1904, the Tacoma School District bought the building and began turning it into a high school. In 1906, Tacoma High School, as Stadium was then called, opened its doors to 878 students and 38 teachers.

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