Peaks and Pints Tartuary

There was a time when you didn’t think you wanted, or needed beer with tasting notes such as “barnyard” and “horse blanket.” That was before you received your shirt, membership card and named engraved on the Beer Club plaques for drinking 50 beers in 90 days at Engine House No. 9 in Tacoma. You drank the lagers, IPAs, porters and stouts in the breeze, ignoring the giant bottles of award-winning E9 brewery and Belgian sours until day 88. You then polished off 12 or so sours in two days grabbing a spot in Tacoma beer history, or least a sweet spot in the historic firehouse-turned-craft-beer-bar.

Yes, you worked through a stomach thing for a few days, but you were intrigued. Just as your perception of bitter hops grew from mild disgust to full-blown obsession, developing a taste for the tartness of lambics, funkness of Flemish reds and sourness of wild ales took you some time. But as you continued to search for new frontiers, sour beer provides a world of untapped potential.

Today, after learning Peaks and Pints will tap a plethora of sour beers on the last day of January, you’re actually stoked. Peaks and Pints will coax you to skip the last day of Dryuary with Tartuary, a full day of 12 or so tart and tangy, wilder ales that make the geeks go gaga.

Peaks and Pints readies for February by pouring the wild west of the beer world. Cheers!

PEAKS AND PINTS TARTUARY, 11 a.m.to 11 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, Peaks and Pints, 3816 N. 26^th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma, no cover