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Campfire Crowler Proctor: Restaurant Rally and Founders KBS Espresso fills

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Good morning from the Proctor Business District in North Tacoma. Campfire Crowler Proctor: Restaurant Rally and Founders KBS Espresso fills GOOD MORNING QUIZ: WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 18 2020 Give yourself one point for each that applies: >>> You know it’s going to be cloudy with periods of rain with a high of 49 in the South Sound today. >>> You guessed the Peaks & Pints Campfire Crowler pictured above is full of Founders Brewing KBS Espresso Bourbon Barrel Stout. >>> You’re aware today is the second to the last day for the Pierce County Restaurant Rally, and

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Tuesday November 17 2020

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Tuesday November 17 2020 6-Pack of Things To Do. It’s how we make it through. OK, bourbon barrel-aged imperial stouts help too. So does Authur Shelby’s tender moments. And heart-meltingly stupendous West Wing reunions on HBO Max. Memes, Tik Tok, Seth Meyers, whatever makes you laugh and brings your heart and attention more into the bright, lucid current moment, as opposed spinning out into apocalyptic future scenarios, seem more beneficial and necessary than usual, even though they were pretty well beneficial and necessary before, don’t you think? FILM: Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians) returns to

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Icicle Brewing On the Fly

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Icicle Brewing Co. sits in the Bavarian theme park known as Leavenworth, Washington, which seems perhaps the most appropriate place for a brewery. Founded in 2010 by Pamela and Oliver Brulotte, Icicle continues to be a 100 percent family and employee-owned production brewery and brewpub. The brewery draws water from nearby Icicle Creek, a run-off from surrounded by numerous mountain ranges including the Stuart Range and Wenatchee Mountains. Owner Oliver Brulotte has deep family roots in Washington’s hop farming history. With a focus on sustainability and community, the brewery is a 1 percent for the Planet Member and is the

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Morning Foam: Forterra Carbon Capture and Argyle Pinot Noir pulls

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Good morning from Union Avenue and North 21st in Northend Tacoma. Morning Foam: Forterra Carbon Capture and Argyle Pinot Noir pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Tuesday November 17 2020 — Martin Scorsese turns 78 today! Windy with periods of rain, high 59 Peaks & Pints offers glass fills of Argyle Winery Pinot Noir on draft. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW Forterra’s Coffee & Conversation series the Evergreen Carbon Capture program and how businesses and individuals can calculate their carbon emissions, as well as how a local solution can address a global issue in the Forterra Zoom Room at

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Peaks and Pints Tap List: Monday November 16 2020

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Peaks and Pints Tap List Monday November 16 2020 includes Westmalle Trappist Dubbel. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Monday November 16 2020 Peaks and Pints houses a mind-boggling array of suds: some 800 or so bottled and canned in our cooler, with another 28 on tap, including nitro lines. 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

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Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: Grit City Ciderworks

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This past July, Husband-wife team Kelsey and David Horne opened Grit City Ciderworks in Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood. David — who grew up in Washington’s Apple Capital Wenatchee and homebrewed for a decade — wanted to make cider to balance the sweet cider market. After studying at Oregon State University’s renown fermentation program, along with his beer brewing knowledge, he found his preferred cider taste profile. Stop by today for Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: Grit City Ciderworks and take home local cider made with Eastern Washington apples and fresh fruit. Cheers! Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: Grit City

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Morning Foam: Creative Colloquay and Westmalle Dubbel pulls

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Good morning from the Rosewood Café in Tacoma’s Proctor Business District. Morning Foam: Creative Colloquay and Westmalle Dubbel pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Monday November 16 2020 — Lisa Bonet turns 53 today! Rain, nothing but rain, high 52 Peaks & Pints offers pints and Campfire Crowler fills of Westmalle Dubbel. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW Creative Colloquy lures writers out from the clicking of their keyboards to connect and conspire albiet via the Creative Colloquy Zoom Room. Beginning at 7 p.m., readers of poetry, essays, and short stories are Chiara Diane Montante, Jonah Barrett, Heather Ayres, and

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Fancy Pants Sunday: Omnipollo Decuple Dry Hopped Fatamorgana

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You fancy Omnipollo Decuple Dry Hopped Fantamorgana! Fancy Pants Sunday: Omnipollo Decuple Dry Hopped Fatamorgana 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 when they

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Peaks and Pints Tap List: Sunday November 15 2020

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Peaks and Pints Tap List Sunday November 15 2020 includes Top Rung Brewing’s Veteran’s Blend IPA. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Sunday November 15 2020 Peaks and Pints houses a mind-boggling array of suds: some 800 or so bottled and canned in our cooler, with another 28 on tap, including nitro lines. 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

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Instagram Outsider: Icicle Nights, Twisted Tents, Bob’s Brown Ale

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Instagram Outsider: Icicle Night, Twisted Tents, Bob’s Brown Ale From happy snow thoughts to COVID closures, from windstorms to delicious seasonal beers, 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, cheers to you!   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Icicle Brewing Company (@iciclebrewing)   View this post on

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Cream Ales On the Fly

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Peaks and Pints wants to cream the coronavirus. While we’re at it we want the Seahawks to cream the Rams today. And, we want all you to enjoy the cream ales we have in our little craft beer lodge in Tacoma’s Proctor District. Take them home and have one per Hawks quarter. Brewers often call cream ales a true American style because it emerged prior to Prohibition, as U.S. brewers looked for something to compete with the emerging popularity of the European-influenced lager brewing. They brewed as an ale though are sometimes finished with a lager yeast or lager beer

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Morning Foam: Tacoma Film Festival and Sig One Human Alcohol Beer pulls

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Good morning from the Rosewood Café in Tacoma’s Proctor Business District. Morning Foam: Tacoma Film Festival and Sig One Human Alcohol Beer pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Sunday November 15 2020 — Ed Asner turns 91 today! All the clouds with occasional rain showers, high 53 Peaks & Pints offers pints and Campfire Crowler fills of Sig Brewing One Human Alcohol Beer. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW Director Todd Chandler examines how institutions deal with the challenges of unthinkable systemic problems in the film Bulletproof screening at the Tacoma Film Festival today. Virtual tickets: goelevent.com/TFF/e/Bulletproof/ The Kareem Kandi

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Block 15 Bottles On the Fly

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Nick and Kristen Arzner love Europe — specifically Belgium and the country’s beers. They have traveled extensively through Belgium drinking the tastiest and most expertly brewed beers in the world — both as homebrewers and as owners of Block 15 Brewing in Corvallis. In addition to Sticky Hands and their popular IPAs, the Azners release seasonal Abbey ales and specialty beers — three of which Peaks & Pints highlights today in our to-go beer flight. Put down that can of Sticky Hands and grab Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Block 15 Bottles On The Fly. OK, take the Sticky Hands

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Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 11.13.20

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Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 11.13.20 It’s Friday the 13th. There’s no need to be a half-glass full kinda person when you can easily keep your beer glass full of these and many more new arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler. Stock up for the weekend, including Seahawks Sunday. Cheers! Aslan Hook’s Stash Pale celebrates the life of former Pro Patrol and Mt. Baker Legend, Randy Hook. Hook was 19 when he started working at the ski area and continued off and on until he passed away in January, 2017 at the age of 67. Aslan’s Hook’s

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Friday November 13 2020

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Friday November 13 2020 It’s time for another Friday the 13th. Things have quickly gotten weird, so if you’re looking to combat that strangeness with tranquility, welcome to 6-Pack of Things To Do. Cheers! FILM: The Grand Cinema is opening for in-house movies today! From the Pacific Northwest to the Amazon rainforest, to soul-searching in Vietnam and a truly DIY comedy, The Grand will screen nine Tacoma Film Festival flicks on their screens, although their Virtual Screening Room is still open for your tiny screens. Click here to read up on the films. The Grand

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Friday the 13th On the Fly

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It’s another Friday the 13th, and you need something perfectly thematic to do. But not unlucky, please, because there’s enough disappointment circling the country. A few other things you shouldn’t do: Don’t have sex in a remote cabin in the woods, don’t skinny dip by yourself after midnight, and don’t investigate strange noises. Do drink the dark, eerie, bad-in-a-good-way beers in Peaks & Pints to-go beer flight today. Human sacrifices, ruthless Tsars and vaquero banditos. Oh, my! Today’s beer flight promises round of devilish pomp, bourbon barrels and spicy fun. Grab these three bottles — the triple muse of power,

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Morning Foam: The Grand Cinema re-opens and Skookum Shattered Dimension pulls

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Good morning from the Proctor Business District in North Tacoma. Morning Foam: The Grand Cinema re-opens and Skookum Shattered Dimension pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Friday November 13 2020 — Jimmy Kimmel turns 65 today! Showers with clearing in the afternoon due to gusty breezes, high 49 Peaks & Pints offers pints and Campfire Crowler fills of Skookum Brewery Shattered Dimension. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW The Grand Cinema is opening for in-house movies today! From the Pacific Northwest to the Amazon rainforest, to soul-searching in Vietnam and a truly DIY comedy, The Grand will screen nine Tacoma

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: November Hazies On Fly

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Let’s get right to the juicy stuff. Peaks & Pints is talking, of course, about New England-style, or hazy, India pale ales. They keep coming and coming with no sign of slowing down. It’s predominately what people as for when they approach our Western red cedar tap log, besides, “Do you have the chowder on today?” New England Style IPAs are brewed to be juicy and fruit forward, even when there’s no fruit in the brewing process. You’re getting the aroma and experience of different types of hops as well as the pure magic of brewing beer. The good news

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Morning Foam: Pretty Gritty Tacoma Sister Cities and F.O.B. Until Valhalla pulls

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Good morning from University of Puget Sound’s Peyton Field at Baker Stadium Morning Foam: Pretty Gritty Tacoma Sister Cities and F.O.B. Until Valhalla pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Thursday November 12 2020 — Neil Young turns 75 today! Cloudy skies with periods of rain this afternoon, high 50 Peaks & Pints offers pints and Campfire Crowler fills of Forward Operating Base Brewing Until Valhalla 2020 IPA. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW Pretty Gritty Tours will take you on a virtual tour of Tacoma’s Sister Cities at 8 p.m. Dine out at a participating Pierce County restaurants — including

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Wednesday November 11 2020

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Wednesday November 11 2020 6-Pack of Things To Do appreciates all the veterans and current troops serving in our military. Our freedoms, our heritage and the way of life we enjoy today are made possible because of you. As a thank you Peaks and Pints will offer $1 off all draft pours to veterans and active military today. Thank you for your service to our country. Cheers! VETERANS DAY: Hear the story of a brave African American in the Navy during WWII during a special virtual Veterans Day commemoration by the Washington State History Museum. Dr.

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Veteran Beer On the Fly

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The historical epoch of Armistice Day began with the Nov. 11, 1918, signing of a ceasefire between Germany and the Allied powers of World War I. President Woodrow Wilson initiated it. In the South Sound, we’re reminded of war’s impact more often than people in most other cities. But even so, it’s not often enough. Our freedoms, our heritage and the way of life we enjoy today are made possible because of our military veterans. Today’s 102nd anniversary of Veterans Day honors all of America’s veterans for their patriotism, service and sacrifice. And for their families, there is no better

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Morning Foam: Tacoma Arts Live Coen Camp and Matchless Joy pulls

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Good morning from North 26th in Tacoma’s Proctor District Morning Foam: Tacoma Arts Live Coen Camp and Matchless Joy pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Wednesday November 11 2020 — Demi Moore turns 58 today! Cloudy early with peeks of sunshine expected late, high 46 Peaks & Pints offers pints and Campfire Crowler fills of Matchless Brewing Matchless Joy Imperial Stout. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW Hear the story of a brave African American in the Navy during WWII during a special virtual Veterans Day commemoration by the Washington State History Museum at 1 p.m. Today kicks off Tacoma

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Tuesday November 10 2020

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Tuesday November 10 2020 There’s a vast amount of positive energy swirling about that’s been held back, and this energy has now found a conduit, a lightning rod — 6-Pack of Things To Do. Cheers! DEMO DAYS: Some might be familiar with that euphoric rush, the runner’s high. Chances are, though, you are far more aware of the crushing pain associated with ill-fitting shoes more commonly associated with greedy sales reps trying to cash in on a quick commission. See, whether you’re a serious sprinter or a Sunday-morning stroller, your kicks can help reduce the

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Vanilla Cupcake Day On the Fly

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Today has been designated Vanilla Cupcake Day by someone. Nobody knows exactly who, and who cares? The real question is why it’s not a national holiday. According to NationalDayCalendar.com, cupcakes can be traced back to 1796, when there was a recipe for “a cake to be baked in small cups” in American Cookery by Amelia, Simmons, a great woman. They were originally baked in heavy pottery cups — sounds like a messy cleanup. The paper cups are less fussy. Vanilla beans, like coffee and chocolate, only proliferate naturally in tropical latitudes, and, like wine grapes, the various strains reflect the qualities of

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Morning Foam: Fleet Feet Raffle and Paulaner Weissbier pulls

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Good morning from North 24th in Tacoma’s Proctor District Morning Foam: Fleet Feet Raffle and Paulaner Weissbier pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Tuesday November 10 2020 — Tracy Morgan turns 52 today! The rain is coming, high 47 Peaks & Pints offers pints and Campfire Crowler fills of Paulaner Weissbier. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW Through November 14, Fleet Feet shines a spotlight on Altra running shoes — specifically Altra Torin 4.5 Plush shoe. Everyone who visits Fleet Feet and takes these shoes out and around the block will receive a sweet buff and be put into their

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Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: Eastern Washington

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It’s not surprising that craft cider has taken root in Washington state — a region of wine and craft beer enthusiasts. Washington is the second largest wine producer and has the second highest number of craft breweries in the country. But when it comes to cider, Washington is fourth in the nation. In 2008, there were maybe four cideries in Washington state; now about 66 dot the state from San Juan Island to Pullman, and even wineries are getting in on the action. Meet seven Eastern Washington state ciders in what we call Peaks and Pints Monday Cider Flight: Eastern

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Morning Foam: Tacoma Film Festival and Boulevard Crust Fall pulls

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Good morning from frosty Proctor District in Tacoma Morning Foam: Tacoma Film Festival and Boulevard Crust Fall pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Monday November 9 2020 — Lou Ferrigno turns 69 today! Cloudy with occasional rain during the afternoon, high 44 Peaks & Pints offers pints and Campfire Crowler fills of Boulevard Brewing Crust Fall Imperial Berliner Weisse TODAY’S LOCAL STEW The Tacoma Film Festival continues virtually at tacomafilmfestival.com. Filmmakers of In A Silent Way — including director Collin Levin, producer Nicholas Tuttle, and DP Dylan Dugas — join TFF for a live conversation led by

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Fancy Pants Sunday 3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze Cuvee Armand & Gaston

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You fancy 3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze Cuvee Armand & Gaston! Fancy Pants Sunday 3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze Cuvee Armand & Gaston Bone dry, pre-dessert deliciousness — welcome to Fancy Pants Sunday 3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze Cuvee Armand & Gaston (season 17/18) Blend No. 80. Pronounced “goo-zah,” gueuze is not really a style, per se, but rather a combination of versions of another style, lambic. Lambics are sour, funk beers fermented with wild yeast and bacteria — those that live and breed naturally in the wilderness. Young lambics are fairly sweet and inoffensive. Aged lambics will slap

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Instagram Outsider: Bad Santa, Clever Beer Gardens, RIP Alex Trebek

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Instagram Outsider: Bad Santa, Clever Beer Gardens, RIP Alex Trebek From innovative outdoor beer gardens to basketball challenges, from head brewer marriages to an Alex Tribek tribute, 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, cheers to you!   View this post on Instagram   Nobody can ever replace Alex Trebek. GOAT. #RIP

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Schwarzbier On The Fly

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There are those who shy away from the right side of Peaks & Pints. And, by right side, we mean the right side of our Western red cedar tap log — home of the dark beers. Peaks & Pints isn’t sure how it happened, but somewhere along the line casual beer drinkers got the wrong idea about dark beer. They’re not all heavy or boozy. Take, for instance, the schwarzbier. Schwarzbier is one of the oldest known European beer styles, with origins in Kulmbach, Germany, circa 800 BC. Pronounced sh-vahts bee-uh, this lager style is named after its appearance, similar

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Morning Foam: Restaurant Rally and Everybody’s Pop-Up Park pulls

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Good morning from Envy in Tacoma’s Proctor District Morning Foam: Restaurant Rally and Everybody’s Pop-Up Park pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Sunday November 8 2020 — Bonnie Raitt turns 71 today! Lots of sunshine, high 46 Peaks & Pints offers pints and Campfire Crowler fills of Everybody’s Brewing Pop-Up Park IPA TODAY’S LOCAL STEW The Pierce County Restaurant Rally promotion begins today and runs Sunday through Thursday for the next two weeks. Those who dine at, or order a takeout meal, from the 230-plus restaurant participating in the program will receive automatically receive 30 percent off

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Saturday November 7 2020

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Saturday November 7 2020 NBC, ABC, AP, NYT, 6-Pack of Things To Do have called it. Let’s shake it off and get back to living our lives – with a mask on, of course. Cheers! RESTAURANT RALLY: The COVID-19 pandemic has been an exercise in throwing ideas against the walls of empty dining rooms and seeing what sticks. Restaurant owners morphed into makeshift grocers when supermarket shelves were sparsely stocked, figured out how to deliver margaritas by the quart, and, like Peaks & Pints, instigated a reservation system via Open Table app. To borrow a

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Pray For Snow On The Fly

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As in many things, our dear state is divided on the subject of snow sports. Those who don’t ski or board resent those who do for getting excited about the cold and showing up for work after a “sick day” with goggle tan lines. Those who do ski or board look down upon the nons for their constant complaining about the ridiculous cost of winter sports, the damn cold, the stupid snow and driving conditions. This gap must be bridged. Let’s all think about snow sports while drinking our to-go flight today, Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Pray For Snow

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Morning Foam: Proctor Farmers Market and Reuben’s Reuben Claus pulls

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Good morning from North 27th Street in Tacoma’s Proctor District Morning Foam: Proctor Farmers Market and Reuben’s Reuben Claus pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Saturday November 7 2020 — Peter Brady turns 63 today! Cloudy skies early, followed by partial clearing, high 46 Peaks & Pints offers pints and Campfire Crowler fills of Reuben’s Brews Reuben Claus Porter TODAY’S LOCAL STEW The Proctor Farmers Market is full-on in fall harvest mode. Hazelnuts, brussels sprouts, cranberries, and winter squash joins the dried lavender, mushrooms, cut flowers, baked goods, pickled vegetables, fresh made salsa, hummus, organic tomato chutney,

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Dogfish Head On the Fly

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Peaks & Pints has Delaware on the brain. Sam Calagione started making beer in 1995 when he opened Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats in the beach community of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. It was the smallest commercial brewery in America at that time. Within a few successful years, the company activated a major expansion, switching from making very small, homebrew-style batches to industrial-sized sessions in a sizeable brew house. Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales expanded and moved to a 100,000 square foot facility in nearby Milton, Delaware in 2002. They’re one of the largest craft brewers in America but yet there

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Morning Foam: Liberation Arts Exhibit and Stoup Whatcha Doin’? pulls

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Good morning from Union Avenue in Tacoma Morning Foam: Liberation Arts Exhibit and Stoup Whatcha Doin’? pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Friday November 6 2020 — Emma Stone turns 32 today! Light rain early, decreasing clouds with sunny skies by afternoon, high 51 Peaks & Pints offers pints and Campfire Crowler fills of Stoup Brewing Whatcha Doin’? TODAY’S LOCAL STEW University of Puget Sound School of Music presents the Jacobsen Series faculty recitals broadcast of pianist Dr. Tanya Stambuk via Schneebeck LIVE at 7:30 p.m. Alma Mater presents a multimedia exhibit including portraits of icons, anime,

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6-Pack of Things to Do: Thursday November 5 2020

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6-Pack of Things to Do: Thursday November 5 2020 In the face of constant malaise, we can’t simply resign ourselves to being gloomy sourpusses. This is the South Sound. We need to use perpetual optimism to wrest proactive relief from the jaws of utter dismay. In other words: 6-Pack of Things To Do. … MUSIC: Forest Beutel and Kevin Shintaku have been entertaining the South Sound, frankly the whole world, since the pandemic hit. The longtime bandmates — Beutel plays banjo and harmonica in The Barleywine Revue and The Rusty Cleavers and Shintaku adds mandolin and guitar in both bands

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Stout Day On the Fly

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The nights are longer. And colder. Peaks & Pints will serve five beers as dark as the 5 p.m. sky for today’s to-go beer flight as it’s International Stout Day. The original “stout porters” of 18th century London were brewed for their heartiness in the face of harsh storage conditions. That’s right; stouts didn’t start as a style; it started as an adjective. Had you walked into a pub around 1750, you likely would have called for a stout porter. Then in the early 1800s, the Irish brewery Guinness brought the alcohol content down to just over 4 ABV, and

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Morning Foam: TLT Spacies and Sierra Nevada Wild Little Thing pulls

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Good morning from an early Christmas in Tacoma’s Proctor District Morning Foam: TLT Spacies and Sierra Nevada Wild Little Thing pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Thursday November 5 2020 — Art Garfunkel turns 79 today! Periods of rain, high 56 Peaks & Pints offers pints and Campfire Crowler fills of Sierra Nevada Brewing Wild Little Thing sour. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW Forest Beutel and Kevin Shintaku have been entertaining the South Sound, frankly the whole world, since the pandemic hit. The longtime bandmates — Beutel plays banjo and harmonica in The Barleywine Revue and The Rusty Clevers

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Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 11.4.20

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Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 11.4.20 Need a beer today? Peaks and Pints New Beers In Stock 11.4.20 can help. … 3 Fonteinen Brouwerij Oude Geuze Cuvee Armand & Gaston is a blend of 1-, 2-, and 3-year-old traditional lambics, all brewed at 3 Fonteinen. Spontaneous fermentation, patient maturation in oak barrels, and continued evolution in the bottle result in a distinctively complex beer, 5.5% Brouwerij De Molen Hel & Verdoemenis Scotch Whiskey BA – Brett is a Russian imperial stout aged for 6 months on a smokey scotch whisky barrel, last month being infused with a Brettanomyces

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Wednesday November 4 2020

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6-Pack of Things To Do: Wednesday November 4 2020 Don’t freak out. Don’t stop breathing. Don’t let the itchy demons of potential doomsday scenarios short circuit your wary soul. Peaks & Pints is almost 91 percent certain we’ll make it through today. Or maybe we won’t! But we will. Probably … thanks to 6-Pack of Things To Do. KNAPP’S: Knapp’s Restaurant re-opened. Peaks & Pints wouldn’t know because Knapp’s closes the bar at 7 p.m., not 2 a.m. an hour after we’d roll in. Still, this is great news. This anchor of Tacoma’s Proctor District was darker than normal for

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Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Guinness Variants On The Fly

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Arthur Guinness actually began by brewing ales and porters. It wasn’t until 1819, with the introduction of Daniel Wheeler’s black “patent” malt, that stouts began to be brewed. The words “dry” or “Irish” are often tacked on to “stout” in order to differentiate it from English and American sweet or milk stouts, which usually contain oatmeal or lactose. Yes, the Guinness brewery in Park Royal, London closed in 2005. The production of all Guinness sold in the UK and Ireland was moved to St. James’ Gate Brewery, Dublin. Two years ago, Guinness opened a new brewery in Maryland, the Open

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Morning Foam: Votes For Women and Holy Mountain Autumnal Rustic pulls

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Good morning from the Proctor Post Office Morning Foam: Votes For Women and Holy Mountain Autumnal Rustic pulls GOOD MORNING, SOUTH SOUND! Wednesday November 4 2020 — Matthew McConaughey turns 51 today! Cloudy early, then off and on rain showers for the afternoon, high 64 Peaks & Pints offers pints and Campfire Crowler fills of Holy Mountain Autumnal Rustic saison. TODAY’S LOCAL STEW Knapp’s Restaurant re-opened. Peaks & Pints wouldn’t know because Knapp’s closes the bar at 7 p.m., not 2 a.m. an hour after we’d roll in. Still, this is great news. This anchor of

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Peaks and Pints New Beer In Stock 11.3.20

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Peaks and Pints New Beer In Stock 11.3.20 Are you spending tonight under a pile of warm, cozy blankets, TV on mute, one eye occasionally peeking out at the brutal world? Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 11.3.20 offers a few new arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler that can act as warm blankets for your mouth. Cheers! Airways Rochelle Rochelle: The Beer, a homage to Sienfeld brewed with Narrows Brewing and Beer Junction — dedicated to Beer Junction founder Morgan Herzog who passed — is a hazy IPA brewed with Citra and Strata, 7% Everybody’s Uncle Stepdad

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