Peaks and Pints Pacific Northwest Cider Invitational

Pacific Northwest cider drinkers are spoiled. Our region is home to some of the best cideries in the world. Peaks and Pints feels it’s time to celebrate of the bounty of trees, bushes and vines from the Pacific Northwest. The bottle shop, taproom restaurant in Tacoma’s Proctor District will host the Peaks and Pints Pacific Northwest Cider Invitational at 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 10 during the Tacoma Beer Week 2018. Peaks and Pints hopes this event will put the region’s enviable cider culture in conversation for one glorious night.

With close to 20 cideries hand-picked by Peaks and Pints to share space on our Western red cedar tap log, the Peaks and Pints Pacific Northwest Cider Invitational is one of the few opportunities to taste the region’s best cider in the same bottle shop lodge. Expect to drink delicious cider from 2 Towns Ciderhouse, Baird & Dewar Farmhouse Cider, Cider Riot!, Cockrell Hard Cider, d’s Wicked Cider, Fierce County Cider, Finnriver Farm & Cidery, One Tree Hard Cider, Ole Swede Cider, Portland Cider Company, Reverend Nat’s Hard Cider, Schilling Hard Cider, Seattle Cider, Snowdrift Cider Co., Swift Cider, Tieton Cider Works and Whitewood Cider Co., just to name a few.

Yes, the Peaks and Pints Pacific Northwest Cider Invitational is a time to geek out on cider, but its aftermath will have you going home with a better appreciation of your own region’s cider culture and a better understanding of how, at least in the Pacific Northwest, how (happily) spoiled we really are.

PEAKS AND PINTS PACIFIC NORTHWEST CIDER INVITATIONAL, 5 p.m., Friday, Aug. 10, Peaks and Pints, 3816 N. 26^th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma, no cover