The personal note. The intimate and thoughtful touch. Therein the magic. The real holiday juice. A handwritten card to your family and friends thanking them for thinking of you this holiday season.

No matter how fast, easy, sophisticated or stylish all those apps, online photo templates and sharing sites become, nothing will ever match the true personal touch, the hand-written note, the obvious time and energy it takes to create it all, from your family to theirs.

Peaks and Pints invites you to a holiday thank you card session, fueled by Lagunitas Brewing Company’s craft beer. Peaks and Pints will provide the cards and pens; Lagunitas will provide the NightTime Black IPA, a dark and deep ditty and may take you to unexpected places with your writing. Peaks and Pints will offer holiday thank you example messages; Lagunitas will offer Aunt Sally, a unique, dry-hopped, sweet, tart, sour mash ale for inspiration as you thank your sweet, tart and sour Aunt Sally. Peaks and Pints will offer napkins to prevent morsels of our delicious sandwiches, salads and appetizers from smearing on your cards; Lagunitas will offer Brown Shugga, a 9.99% Strong Ale loaded with caramel and toasty malt flavors followed by a citrusy bitterness that will, no doubt, smear your writing. Expect other Lagunitas delights, including the Marin County, California brewery’s well-rounded, highly drinkable IPA.

Behold! We have hereby invented a new and strangely wonderful holiday happening, a happy collision of prose and craft beer that should leave everyone smiling.

PEAKS AND PINTS WITH LOVE FROM LAGUNITAS, 6 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 29, Peaks and Pints, 3816 N. 26^th, Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma, no cover