Swedes Karl Grandin and Henok Fentie are fancy. Their beer is fancy, thanks to homebrewer turn mad scientist Fentie. Their label art is fancy, thanks to visual artist Grandin. They don’t brew much in Sweden, but they travel to fancy lands to brew their creative brews, many times with collaborating breweries. Since they founded Omnipollo in 2011, they keep a constantly curious, razor-sharp and fancy approach to everything they do. Today, we look at what fancy brewers can do in our to-go beer flight, Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Omnipollo on the Fly. Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Omnipollo on
Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 1.7.21 Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 1.7.21 has a lot of fun stuff that you don’t wanna miss! E9 Brewing French Lop is a dry hopped, can-conditioned saison with notes of grapefruit, lime and tropical fruit, 5.7% E9 Purdie Shuffle is a Czech-style amber lager with rich malt flavors and notes of bready caramel, 5.5% Fat Orange Cat Walkabout Peach Mango sour with a huge peach nose and the namesake on the tongue, 6% Marlowe Artisanal The Way Things Were Vermont-inspired hazy pale ale brewed with Warrior, Columbus, Chinook, Centennial, and
Peaks and Pints New IPAs in Stock: 1.6.21 If you’re interested in drinking new IPAs that arrived to the Peaks & Pints cooler, then Peaks and Pints News IPAs in Stock: 1.6.21 has eight. … Abomination Brewing F*** 2020 is a slightly amped up version of the Connecticut brewery’s Fog hazy IPA series that is double dry hopped with Galaxy and Citra for dank and weedy flavors with a bitter finish, 9.1% American Solera DDH Terpy Citra hazy IPA, which gets its name from terpines — basically the essential oils found in hops — and Citra, the most citrusy aroma
Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Italian Barista WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6 2021: Today’s Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Italian Barista features salami, pepperoni, ham, creamy pesto, white balsamic glaze, mozzarella, onion, and spinach on French bread. PAIRING: In terms of beer pairing, there’s right no right or wrong with this one, but Peaks & Pints recommends Lowercase Brewing Latte Lager (4%) infused with oatmilk and cold-press coffee. These are two things that are already great and work perfectly together. THING TO DO: Call ahead at (253) 328-5621 or order online on our homepage. Cheers! BONUS: Peaks & Pints would
Let’s address the obvious: even though the brown ale is named for its color, things aren’t quite that simple. To begin with, the hues of this commonly misunderstood style can actually range anywhere from dark copper or amber to deep brown or sometimes ruby. The term itself was first coined by London brewers and referred to a whole family of classic British varieties, such as their mild ale in the early 18th century. There are really two types of brown ales nowadays — the more traditional British brown and its Americanized cousin. British browns can be dark, rich and nutty,
Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 1.5.21 It’s the fifth of January and here are five new beers to the Peaks & Pints cooler. Gotta be a good omen for the new year, right? We have some interesting beers in the Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 1.5.21 so let’s jump right into it! Breakside Brewery Sunset Pilsner is a collaboration with Figueroa Mountain Brewing Company from Buellton, California. “Kevin Ashford and his team at Fig Mountain make some of the best beer in all of California,” says Breakside Sunset Pilsner hype, “and we have long admired the
6-Pack of Things To Do: Tuesday January 5 2021 Resolve all you like. Lose 9 pounds, do more palates, get more sleep, don’t spit on the sidewalk, read 188 books in one year like honorary bartender Erika, buy a yak farm in Tasmania, be nicer to shrubbery. Absolutely. But, start slowly. Maybe do only one event in today’s 6-Pack of Things To Do and don’t spit on the sidewalk. Or, buy today’s beer flight and read a paragraph. Or, cheer a Tacoma Runner on as she or he runs by then read about yaks. Cheers! TACOMA LIGHT TRAIL: More than
Consider the Russian imperial stout. What makes it so imperial? Why has its legacy lasted so long, is so vital to the craft beer movement? Sure, it’s the son of porter, the king of beers in London during the 18th and 19th centuries. But, your father had nothing to do with your imperial ways. There are tales of Peter the Great, the Russian Tsar who traveled to England in 1689 and said to have fallen in love with strong British porter, which is weird since the style didn’t truly exist for another 30-plus years. Whatever. Peter the Great likely did
In 1982, Pommeau went legit. Up to that point, the beverage, officially classified as a mistelle, was a well-guarded secret among French farmers who produced it and wasn’t legally available to the public market. The farmers would use a system called mutage, a process in alcohol production that slows fermentation, on their fruitiest and tastiest apple juice. Apple brandy, known as Calvados in the Normandy region, was added to the juice to prevent it from losing its flavor. It’s then aged for a minimum of 18 months before being bottled as a Pommeau. The ratio is approximately two-parts of juice
You fancy Mac & Jack’s Stand Still Imperial Stout! Fancy Pants Sunday: Mac & Jack’s Stand Still In 1991, Mac Rankin started homebrewing and fell in love with the process. Two years later, he approached Jack Schropp with the possibility about starting a microbrewery in Washington state. Over the next nine months the first batches of the African Amber and Pale Ale were rolled out. After much success with the Amber and the Pale Ale, Mac & Jack’s Brewing Company finalized their African Amber, Blackcat Porter and Serengeti Wheat (their hefeweizen beer). These signature beers were
Instagram Outsider: Fruitcake Toss Day, Illuminated Salmon, Club Nut From flying fruitcakes to illuminated salmon, from Nothing Bad About Wednesday to New Year’s well wishes, 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: Fruitcake Toss Day, Illuminated Salmon, Club Nut. View this post on Instagram A post shared
If variety is the spice of life, then today’s Peaks & Pints to-go beer flight isn’t going to be very spicy. It IS damn tasty, though. Chris Baum, John Cope, Chad Roberts, David Paulson, and Karl Vanevenhoven opened Varietal Beer Co. in April 2018 in the Port of Sunnyside between Yakima and the Tri-Cities in Eastern Washington. The ownership all had a variety of dreams and life goals, but their Venn diagram centered on owning a brewery in the Yakima Valley. After earning the Enterprise Challenge held annually by the Yakima County Development Association and the Kittitas County Chamber of
Consider the vanilla bean. The Aztecs did. In addition to inventing long words ending in “atl” and awesome mythology, they had the patience to figure out how to cultivate vanilla — a particularly difficult flavor to come by. The pods are the fruit of an orchid plant (Vanilla planifolia), and they have to be cured and fermented over the course of about six months. If that weren’t involved enough, the high-maintenance orchid itself has to be pollinated by hand. Mexico continues to be a major producer, but bourbon vanilla pods from Madagascar are considered to be the Chanel No. 5
Ah, the sweet artificiality of the New Year — the reassurance of a clean calendar, of resolutions for self-improvement. And then you pick up the newspaper, and that pure artifice of the change of year, that vagarious demarcation of another arbitrary moment, is rendered meaningless by the inexorably continuing chains of events that know no boundaries defined by pages in a calendar. It’s no wonder revelers seem to work so hard trying to have a good time as the countdowns begin. Just like Larry Hagman of Dallas, the Dudley Moore of Arthur and Ray Miland of The Lost Weekend, most
Peaks and Pints Tap List includes Block 15 Brewing’s Joy Pale Ale. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Block 15 Joy Pale Peaks and Pints houses a mind-boggling array of suds: 800-plus bottled and canned in our cooler, with another 28 on tap for Campfire Crowler fills (until pints return). 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 iPhone
6-Pack of Things To Do: Wednesday December 30 2020 As the year winds down you can either jump on YouTube and track down all the old broadcasts of New Year’s Eve Rock n’ Roll Ball that MTV put together in the ’80s — back when they gave a damn about music and hardcore partying — or partake in 6-Pack of Things To Do. You do you. Cheers! TACOMA LIGHT TRAIL: “This is such a dark time of the year, and it’s even darker with all the sorrow of the Covid-19 pandemic,” said Rosemary Ponnekanti, director of Tacoma Ocean Fest, who
It is true that this New Year’s Eve will look different than most, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to keep us from partying like a typical Tacoma rage machine. But, you want to celebrate a little at home. But, you don’t want champagne, especially the cheap stuff that is going to give you one mean hangover, and chances are it could start before the night is through. You’re looking for something different this year. Peaks & Pints suggests you toast 2021 with two classic European alternatives to champagne. The “Champagne of Belgium,” otherwise known as lambic, is tangy and dry
In the realm of desserts, pie is about as humble as it gets. There are no towers made of pie, like bakers craft out of macarons, none of those shocking flavor combinations — wasabi, curry — that come scooped on a cone. Peaks & Pints has coconut cream pie on the brain. It’s filled with down-home goodness with a hand-crimped crust and a thick layer of custard amped up with shredded coconut for a more intense flavor. Peaks and Pints doesn’t serve pie, but we do serve many coconut-flavored craft beers. We gathered a few for today’s to-go beer flight,
Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Italian Lumberjack paired with Double Mountain Brewery’s Westerly Pilsner. Tacoma Sandwich Special of the Day: Italian Lumberjack MONDAY, DECEMBER 28 2020: Today’s Peaks & Pints sandwich special is the Italian Lumberjack featuring salami, pepperoni, ham, creamy pesto, provolone, onion, tomato, and spinach on sourdough. PAIRING: Double Mountain Westlerly, a Northwest inspired, crisp and dry Czech pilsner with a hint of spice from the addition of rye, and just bitter enough to remind you that you’re not in Bohemia anymore. THING TO DO: Call ahead at (253) 328-5621 or order online
Passionfruit is known as lilikoi in Hawaii. This tart yet sweet fruit is nearly round, approximately 1.5- to 3-inches wide, with a tough outer skin. When ripe, the skin is colored yellow or purple, depending on the variety. Inside, the fruit is filled with juicy pulp and as many as 250 edible seeds. Passionfruit grows on a vine and is at its peak for harvest from June through January. It’s ready to eat when it is plump, has a slight give, and is fully colored. In its yellow form, the color is deeply golden and the purple fruits will be
You fancy Trois Dames Vieille Saison! Fancy Pants Sunday: Trois Dames Vieille Saison What do Tina Turner, fondue and Honey Ryder all have in common? If you were to say, “The weirdest sex dream we ever had,” then we would suggest at least two weeks of intensive therapy. Of course, for the rest of you who don’t fantasize about Zurich resident Tina Turner and Ursula Andress, the answer is most likely Switzerland. Over the years, Switzerland has been stereotyped by yodeling, the Alpenhorn, fondue, Heidi, the watch, and bank accounts. Although, if you were to list
Peaks and Pints Tap List includes Bale Breaker Brewing’s Homegrown Release No. 5 West Coast IPA. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Bale Breaker Homegrown 5 IPA Peaks and Pints houses a mind-boggling array of suds: 800-plus bottled and canned in our cooler, with another 28 on tap for Campfire Crowler fills (until pints return). 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
Instagram Outsider: Fresh Hop Christmas, Festivus Pole, So Many Santas From a vacuum sealed Elf on the Shelf to the Festivus Pole, from Fresh Hop Crew to all the Santas, 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: Fresh Hop Christmas, Festivus Pole, So Many Santas. View this post
Despite its name, the barleywine is indeed a beer but at wine strength — ranging as low as 7-percent alcohol by volume in British versions and upward of 15 percent in American interpretations. Despite its name, barleywines aren’t made with tons of specialty grains, as one might assume. Historically, barleywines are brewed with pale malt, the same malts used for pale ales. Brewers achieve that rich caramel flavor that’s expected in barleywines by extending the length of the boil, which caramelizes the flavors and imparts that deep color. Yeast and hops vary between English-style and American-style barleywines, but either way,
Peaks and Pints New Beers in Stock 12.26.20 In the event you didn’t get enough craft beer on Christmas Day, you’ll want to get in on Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 12.26.20. … 54-40 Shark Destroyer Murky IPA is an abnormal haze-like beer with recognizable citrus-forward aroma and juice thanks to Calypso and Citra hops, 6.8% Everybody’s Foggy Goggles Hazy IPA is brewed with rolled oats, wheat, lactose, Galaxy, Simcoe, Azacca, and Ella for flavors of honeydew, orange sherbet, and peaches, 6.9% Fortside Nerd Immunity is a collaboration ESB with Beer Nerds that starts off with herbal Lewis
6-Pack of Things To Do: Saturday December 26 2020 Happy holiday 6-Pack of Things To Do of your choice, or all or none of them — just please stay safe, friends. THEATER: The holidays are intended to incite love, merriment and cheer. But with celebrations of Baby Jesus’ birth beginning months in advance, Tacoma Little Theatre understands that the season’s overextension can instead provoke something else entirely. That must be why the company has left its Christmas Eve production of Spacies available to view. The last episode of the year, the space-themed series follows Commander Rash Blasterbelt and Ensign Jock
Today is Dec. 26 — what Brits call Boxing Day. Sure, after Christmas you might want to strap on gloves and settle those unresolved familial scores, but Boxing Day isn’t about pugilism. And it has nothing to do with boxing up decorations or gifts you wish you didn’t get. Instead, the national holiday harks back to a bygone era like powdered wigs and pagers. Back in the days of the Empire, British citizens were split into hierarchies divided by arbitrary lines such as accent and lineage. Think Downton Abbey, in which the bottom floor of a huge house split two
Peaks and Pints presents Adventwiches Beeralendar Day 24: Jingle Bear paired with Artivem Western Blue Bird Mead. Peaks and Pints presents Adventwiches Beeralendar Day 24: Jingle Bear This Chrismahanukwanzakah, give a treat to your taste buds and liver. Choose the drink of Olympians! Gods, that is. Santa opened the Day 24 Peaks and Pints Adventwiches Beeralendar candy cane striped door to reveal the Jingle Bear sandwich special paired with Artivem Western Blue Bird Mead. Western Blue Bird mead is blueberry pie in a bottle. This smooth, balanced mead is made with organic Marmeleiro Blossom honey then
Every December — while the bartenders close down our Proctor District craft beer bar, bottle shop and restaurant for the night — Peaks & Pints co-owner Pappi Swarner grabs three holiday beers, heads upstairs to his office, cranks his computer speaks to an 11 and watches holiday Youtube videos. Obviously, he can’t perform his holiday tradition this year … at Peaks & Pints. No, his holiday glee now takes place inside his home, much to the chagrin of his wife and daughter. In the spirit of giving, we offer you the chance to share his joy. Today, he pairs the
Peaks and Pints presents Adventwiches Beeralendar Day 23: Christmas in Genoa paired with Rainy Daze’s Frosty Chairlift. Peaks and Pints presents Adventwiches Beeralendar Day 23: Christmas in Genoa Holiday traditions bind family and friends within 6 feet in times of celebration, bringing to all of us muffled laughter, joy, and reminders of what is truly important in our lives: pesto. Peaks and Pints Adventwiches Beeralendar — a daily holiday sandwich special and a winter beer behind a candy cane striped door. Today, bartender Bethany opens the Day 23 door to reveal Christmas in Genoa sandwich special
6-Pack of Things To Do: Wednesday December 23 2020 This year has been a wild ride for Peaks & Pints. We couldn’t have made it without you! We love and appreciate our Peaks & Pints Pals. Thank you for your support! Here is a 6-Pack of Things To Do today. Cheers! MUSIC: So much has been said about the classic Tacoma punk band Girl Trouble that very little more needs to be said. For anyone not in the know, this is the most badass band still working in Tacoma. After their years of fighting against the pay-to-play scams, a pandemic
Every December — while the bartenders close down our Proctor District craft beer bar, bottle shop and restaurant for the night — Peaks & Pints co-owner Pappi Swarner grabs three holiday beers, heads upstairs to his office, cranks his computer speaks to an 11 and watches holiday Youtube videos. Obviously, he can’t perform his holiday tradition this year … at Peaks & Pints. No, his holiday glee now takes place inside his home, much to the chagrin of his wife and daughter. In the spirit of giving, we offer you the chance to share his joy. Today, he pairs the
Peaks and Pints presents Adventwiches Beeralendar Day 22: Deck The Ham sandwich special paired with Backwoods King Size Candy Stout. Peaks and Pints presents Adventwiches Beeralendar Day 22: Deck The Ham No matter what kind of advent calendar you grew up with, we’re guessing that the Peaks & Pints version has a bit more bacon. Peaks and Pints Adventwiches Beeralendar — a daily holiday sandwich special and a winter beer behind a candy cane striped door. Today, bartender Sarah Jane opens the Day 22 door to reveal Deck The Ham sandwich special paired with Backwoods King
Every December — while the bartenders close down our Proctor District craft beer bar, bottle shop and restaurant for the night — Peaks & Pints co-owner Pappi Swarner grabs three holiday beers, heads upstairs to his office, cranks his computer speaks to an 11 and watches holiday Youtube videos. Obviously, he can’t perform his holiday tradition this year … at Peaks & Pints. No, his holiday glee now takes place inside his home, much to the chagrin of his wife and daughter. In the spirit of giving, we offer you the chance to share his joy. Today, he pairs the
Peaks and Pints Tap List includes Kulshan Brewing’s Kitten Mittens Winter Warmer. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Kulshan Kitten Mittens Peaks and Pints houses a mind-boggling array of suds: 800-plus bottled and canned in our cooler, with another 28 on tap for Campfire Crowler fills (until pints return). 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 iPhone and
Peaks and Pints presents Adventwiches Beeralendar Day 21: Joy to The Barbecue paired with Narrows’ Griswold Hazy IPA. Peaks and Pints presents Adventwiches Beeralendar Day 21: Joy to The Barbecue When you were a kid, were you able to ever make it through an advent calendar just one day at a time, or did you have tendencies to work ahead a bit? Don’t feel bad if you did. It was just your ambitious overachiever qualities rising up. Good news, advent calendars aren’t just for kids anymore. There are few new options out there, including Peaks and
As you set your sights and stomach on your Christmas Eve and Christmas Day feast; consider cranberries. No doubt you’re thinking roast beef or roast ham, mashed taters, glazed carrots, stuffing, pigs in a blanket, parsnips, Brussels sprouts, and Yorkshire pudding for supper, but don’t forget the most important condiment: cranberry hard cider. You should have saw that coming. After all, it’s Monday, which means Peaks & Pints suggests a cider flight to-go. Cider has roots in the holidays after all — going back to the Middle Ages, people would go wassailing to orchards in the English countryside, chanting recitations
Sunday Night Sippers Whether you’re celebrating the Hawks win or shopping success, unwind tonight with these Sunday Night Sippers. 3 Fonteinen Hommage is an unfiltered and unpasteurized whole sour cherry and raspberry lambic blended with more lambic to obtain a minimum intensity of 35 percent fruit, 5.5% 3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze is a blend of 1-, 2-, and 3-year-old lambic unfiltered and unpasteurized, then aged in the bottle for at least 6 months for its famous champagne-like spritziness, 6% 3 Fonteinen Zenne y Frontera (Batch 5) is 21 Oloroso and 7 PX barrel blend aged with young lambic on them
Peaks and Pints presents Adventwiches Beeralendar Day 20: Jalapeño Bell Rock paired with Spoetzl Brewery’s Shiner Holiday Cheer. Peaks and Pints presents Adventwiches Beeralendar Day 20: Jalapeño Bell Rock While referees are pulling flags during today’s Seahawks game, Peaks and Pints is pulling advent calendar doors, specifically the Day 19 door on our Adventwiches Beeralendar — a daily holiday sandwich special and a winter beer behind a candy cane striped door. Bartender Mitchell opened the door to discover the Jalapeño Bell Rock sandwich special paired with Shiner Holiday Cheer. Kitchen Kylee’s Jalapeño Bell Rock jingles with
Instagram Outsider: Snow Beers, Chainsaw Ornaments, Iron Horse Pub Stud From snow beers to holiday wishes, from Iron Horse Brewery Pub closing to Yippie-KI-PA Pappi, 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: Snow Beers, Chainsaw Ornaments, Iron Horse Pub Stud. View this post on Instagram A post
Peaks and Pints Campfire Crowler Christmas: Fruitcake! What better way to get into the Christmas spirit than by getting Christmas spirits into you? And by spirits we mean holiday draft beer. Beginning today through 4 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 24, Peaks & Pints has dedicated a third of our Western red cedar tap log to holiday beers for you to take home in our 32-ounce Campfire Crowlers. Today, we suggest you take home a Campfire Crowler full of Brouwerij St. Bernardus Christmas Ale, then watch the B-52s’ Fred Schneider sing about the beer’s ingredients https://youtu.be/r-wQNwgyEuM Leave it to the B-52s’ Fred
Peaks and Pints presents Adventwiches Beeralendar Day 19: Christmas Auld Lang Salmon paired with Baerlic’s Kippie-kI-PA. Peaks and Pints presents Adventwiches Beeralendar Day 19: Christmas Auld Lang Salmon The year once started in March. Four thousand years ago, Mesopotamians celebrated the beginning of the year at the spring equinox, approximately March 21 by our calendar. The 12-month calendar dates back to about 700 BCE when the second king of Rome, Numa Pontilius, added the months of January and February. The Peaks & Pints Adventwiches Beeralendar began Dec. 1, 2020, offering a daily holiday sandwich special and
6-Pack of Things To Do: Saturday December 19 2020 Feeling disenchanted this holiday season? Well, there’s a holiday for that. A Festivus for the Rest of Us, created by Seinfeld character Frank Costanza who thought the holidays became to be too much: too much buying, too much stress, too much glitz. Costanza’s Festivus holiday included a Festivus pole, feats of strength and the ritual airing of grievances. What other holidays take place during this time of year? 6-Pack of Things To Do knows. … LIGHTED BOATUS: Wake up a 10 a.m. Watch A Christmas Cruise with Vivica A. Fox three
Every December — while the bartenders close down our Proctor District craft beer bar, bottle shop and restaurant for the night — Peaks & Pints co-owner Pappi Swarner grabs three holiday beers, heads upstairs to his office, cranks his computer speaks to an 11 and watches holiday Youtube videos. Obviously, he can’t perform his holiday tradition this year … at Peaks & Pints. No, his holiday glee now takes place inside his home, much to the chagrin of his wife and daughter. In the spirit of giving, we offer you the chance to share his joy. Today, he pairs the
