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A Barleywine Carol 2025
2025-12-24 11:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Peaks and Pints, 3816 N. 26th Street Tacoma, WA 98407 United States
“A Barleywine Carol” returns to Peaks & Pints on Christmas Eve as a daylight celebration of one of beer’s most patient, generous, and misunderstood styles. This special midday mini-festival leans into Fezziwig joy rather than midnight hauntings, offering a warm, communal send-off to the year before we close for the holiday.
From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., we’ll pour ten barleywines spanning English and American traditions, including a rare Fort George Etymology vertical featuring the 2023, 2024, and 2025 releases. Each year explores the evolving meaning of barleywine through extended barrel aging and layered blends, turning time itself into a drinkable conversation.
Throughout the afternoon, the Ghosts of Barleywine Past, Present, and Future quietly make their rounds, reminding us that the best barleywines are meant to be opened together, not saved indefinitely.
No cover. No speeches. Just thoughtful pours, shared tables, and a few unspoken revelations before the holiday begins.
A Barleywine Carol
Wednesday, Dec. 24 (Christmas Eve)11 a.m.–4 p.m.Peaks & Pints3816 N. 26th St., Basecamp Proctor, TacomaClosed afterward for Christmas Eve
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Firestone Walker Holiday Hang
2025-12-18 17:00 - 20:00
Firestone Walker Holiday Hang
Peaks & Pints welcomes California craft-beer standard-bearer Firestone Walker Brewing Company for a relaxed holiday hang built around exceptional beer and good conversation. Washington state representative Kent Wetzler will be in the house as we tap a deep, winter-ready lineup including Parabola, the 28th and 29th Anniversary Ales, a rare vintage keg, plus Pivo Pils, Mind Haze, Primal Elements, and more on draft. This isn’t a formal tasting or a ticketed affair — just a chance to slow the season down, gather in the Proctor District, and enjoy one of craft beer’s most influential breweries doing what it does best: pouring thoughtful, beautifully made beer meant to be shared.
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We’re pFrieming of a Craft Beer Christmas 2025
2025-12-11 17:00 - 20:00
Hood River’s mighty pFriem Family Brewers returns to Tacoma next Thursday for one of Peaks & Pints’ most beloved annual traditions — a holiday tap takeover so stacked, so shimmering with world-class beer, that our 20-foot tree feels almost underdressed.
This year’s lineup is a proper December feast:
• West Coast IPA — a fresh, snappy collab with Green Cheek
• Pilsner — pFriem perfection in its crispiest form
• La Mûre — blackberry elegance, electric and tart
• Stonefruit Cuvée — radiant, orchard-bright complexity
• Rye Lager — spicy, clean, absurdly drinkable
• Nelson Pale — a Sauvignon Blanc-kissed hop dream
• Passionfruit Hazy — tropical, soft, wildly aromatic
• CDA — a shadow-and-sunlight Cascadian masterpiece
• Belgian Christmas — holiday warmth in liquid form
• Cognac Strong Dark Ale — deep, brooding, beautifully refined
• Distiller Blender’s Reserve — rich, layered, contemplative
• Distiller Barrel Cuvée — a barrel-aged symphony for winter nights
And because a pFriem party isn’t a pFriem party without family, Farmer Matt (Matt Kotwasinski) will be in the house — spinning stories, talking grain and terroir, and generally radiating pFriem.
Expect a holidized Peaks hall, stellar gifts under the tree, great food, and a tap list designed to make your inner elf weep with joy. Dress festive. Bring friends. Come thirsty.
WE’RE PFRIEMING OF A CRAFT BEER CHRISTMAS
5–8 p.m. • Thursday, Dec. 11
Peaks & Pints, 3816 N. 26th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma
No cover — all cheer
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Jambic & Lazz with Kareem Kandi
2025-12-07 17:00 - 20:00
Sunday night at Peaks & Pints tips into the deliciously unusual as Jambic & Lazz returns — the monthly communion where lambic’s wild, tart sorcery meets Kareem Kandi’s molten jazz lines in a slow, ecstatic swirl. Lambic, born of open windows, wandering microbes, and ancient foeders, pours like time made drinkable, while Kareem — Tacoma’s smoothest sonic conjurer — bends swing, blues, and celestial mischief into solos that drift through the room like incense from another dimension. It’s less a concert than a gentle haunting, less a beer flight than a fermentation ritual where jazz and yeast seem to breathe together.
Suggested lambic: Oude Geuze De Cam
Oude Geuze De Cam pours with a hiss and a halo — pale gold, alive with microfoam and the scent of time itself. The nose offers orchard apples, hayloft funk, oak tannins, maybe a touch of lemon peel dragged through wool. On the tongue? Tart citrus, cider tang, delicate oak, lambic earthiness, and a sparkle that lands somewhere between a bonfire smoke ring and a vintage Cremant.
This isn’t beer that asks if you like sour — it demands to know if you’re ready for transformation. It’s fermented memory. It’s complexity in cork and cage. And tonight, it has a soundtrack.
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Peaks & Pints Presents: Berry White Day 2025
2025-12-06 11:00 - 23:00
Once a year, Arizona’s world-renowned Superstition Meadery releases its coveted White Series — four dessert meads built from fruit, honey, white chocolate, and bourbon barrels that have become some of the most sought-after bottles in modern mead. It’s their Zwanze Day, their Black Tuesday, their cosmic solstice.
This year, Peaks & Pints is hosting an official Berry White Day celebration, and we’re pouring a full lineup of these legendary meads along with brand-new 2025 releases and rare bonus bottles.
Join us Saturday, December 6, as we transform our Proctor neighborhood beer hall into a mead lover’s destination for one decadent, delicious day.
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Peaks & Pints Dark Days of Thanksgiving 2025
2025-11-24 11:00 - 2025-11-28 23:00
Peaks & Pints Dark Days of Thanksgiving 2025
Darkness, that seductive seasonal creature, slinks back into Peaks & Pints the moment Thanksgiving week stirs awake — and this year it doesn’t come alone. Something strange happens when the sky leans into eclipse: a hush, a shimmer, a lingering cosmic pulse that ripples through Proctor like a whispered dare. As the sun slips behind its shadowy veil, our taps answer in kind, suddenly tilting toward the nocturnal, pouring nothing but obsidian swirls and midnight-thick enchantments, as if the universe itself reached down and adjusted the draft handles.
Beginning at 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 24, and lingering like a velvet bruise until 11 p.m. Friday, Nov. 28, the draft lines will hum with shadow: brooding pours from Alesong, E9, Gigantic, Great Divide, Fremont, Matchless, Prairie, Stoup, and other twilight conjurers who excel at turning malt into midnight.
Thanksgiving Day itself? Utterly, unapologetically dark — the doors closed, the lights off, the lodge catching its breath beneath whatever sliver of sun remains.
Every other day, expect an indulgent parade of nocturnal delights: dark drafts, daily dark flights, even a few rare creatures released from the cellar’s haunted hush. There’s no admission, no secret handshake, just each pour priced by glass or by 3-ounce temptations arranged into flights. Bottles are available to take home or to crack open on-site with a corkage fee, because every lodge needs a little ritual — especially under an eclipsed sky.
Peaks & Pints Dark Days of Thanksgiving 2025 runs 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., Monday, Nov. 24 through Friday, Nov. 28 (closed Thanksgiving), at 3816 N. 26th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma. No cover, just the warm glow of shared darkness aligned with the cosmos.
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Pray For Snow Party November 20 2025
2025-11-20 17:00 - 20:00
Pray For Snow Party November 20 2025
Winter is whispering possibilities, and we refuse to wait quietly. Join us at Peaks & Pints for our third annual Pray For Snow Party on November 20, 2025, a communal weather-summoning ritual fueled by winter beers, alpine optimism, and the exclusive return of Old Stove Brewing’s Warming Hut Winter IPA — crafted just for this event and tasting better than ever.
We’ll be pouring a taplist packed with winter warmers, seasonal stouts, and other cold-weather comforts. You’ll also have the chance to score swag from Smith, Oneball, Tilted Owl, plus Crystal Mountain lift tickets.
All proceeds benefit the Crystal Mountain Volunteer Ski Patrol, keeping mountainfolk safe when gravity gets brave.
Does praying for snow actually work?
Maybe. Possibly. We choose to believe.
But even if it doesn’t — the beer absolutely will.
Details
📅 Thursday, Nov. 20
⏰ 5-8 p.m.
📍 Peaks & Pints, Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma
💰 Free to attend
Bring your winter sportswear. Bring your hope. Bring your unhinged dedication to powder days.
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Peaks & Pints Sunday Jambic & Lazz Nov. 2
2025-11-02 17:00 - 20:00
Peaks & Pints Sunday Jambic & Lazz Nov. 2
Peaks & Pints wants you to have a musty, horse-blanketed, spontaneously fermented good time this Sunday night — and who are you to say no to wild yeast and saxophone ecstasy? Yes, we’re pairing jazz with lambics again, because life is short and needs more tang. It’s Jambic & Lazz, our monthly communion of Belgian beer funk and Kareem Kandi’s molten jazz trio, swirling together in our Events Room like microbes in a French oak barrel — 5 to 8 p.m., every first Sunday, forever if we’re lucky.
This is not just beer. This is terroir turned scripture. This is the Senne River Valley preaching through airborne bacteria, barrel staves, and those blessed, tart little Schaerbeek cherries. Lambic isn’t a style; it’s a sacred accident, a wild ferment miracle only possible in a postage-stamp of Pajottenland near Brussels, protected like a relic and guarded like bourbon or Champagne. Each bottle is a living, evolving, deeply personal argument with nature — and nature, in this case, brought funk and fruit and hayloft seduction.
Sunday’s sermon: De Cam Oude Gueuze, the patient elder of Gooik — a three-year blend that smells like the soul of a barn that learned jazz: lemon peel and green apple over oak and dust, horse-blanket funk playing rhythm under a tart, sparkling brass section of Brettanomyces. It’s time in a bottle, uncorked with reverence.
Then there’s Kareem. The coolest cat in Tacoma, a saxophonist whose tone could caramelize steel. He’s got chops, he’s got grace, he’s got the ghost of Dexter Gordon perched on his shoulder whispering “just one more chorus.” His trio doesn’t play songs so much as conduct séances with the jazz gods, conjuring riffs that twist around your lambic like a Miles Davis solo in a dusty cellar bar at the end of the world.
Come sip the weird. Come taste time. Come listen. Come ferment.
JAMBIC & LAZZ with Kareem Kandi Jazz Trio & lambics — 5-8 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 2Peaks & Pints, 3816 N. 26th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma — no cover
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Peaks & Pints Ninth Anniversary Party Nov. 1
2025-11-01 18:00 - 22:00
Peaks & Pints Ninth Anniversary Party Nov. 1
Join Peaks & Pints on Saturday, Nov. 1, as we fling open the lodge doors and raise a raucous toast to nine deliriously delicious years of beer, cider, and community — the stuff that keeps Tacoma weird, wonderful, and properly hydrated. We’ll debut two new liquid spirit animals: Finnriver Farm & Cidery’s Buckthorn Cider, named after Mount Buckhorn, which lies between Tacoma and Chimacum and is potentially visible from both Peaks & Pints and Finnriver, repsectively, bridging the space between us and connecting us; and Lumberbeard Brewing’s Cut-Off Flannel IPA, our sleeveless, pine-and-citrus ode to dorky Pappi Swarner’s daily uniform and lifelong devotion to lupulin glory. craft cider
The party ignites at 6 p.m. with live music from our honorary house band, The Barleywine Revue, because no Peaks anniversary is complete without a little bluegrass thunder and bar-top harmony. Lumberbeard and Finnriver will pour extra magic from their own taps, the firelight will hum against the cedar walls, and the night will smell faintly of hops, apples, and celebration. There’s no cover charge, no secret handshake — just bring your thirst, your flannel (sleeves optional), and come get fermentally fabulous with us.
PEAKS & PINTS NINTH ANNIVERSARY PARTY, 6 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 1, Peaks & Pints, 3816 N. 26th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma, no cover
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pFriem Georgetown Tao Collab Party at Peaks
2025-10-23 17:00 - 18:30
pFriem Georgetown Tao Collab Party at Peaks
Every once in a while, the beer gods drop a riddle instead of a recipe. This one comes wrapped in Cascade mist and stainless-steel meditation: The Tao of Josh and The Tao of Manny, two West Coast IPAs born from the same ingredients, same blueprint, and utterly different souls.
One flows from the immaculate temple of pFriem Family Brewers, where Josh Pfriem coaxes perfection from malt and mineral, turning water into something close to prayer. The other bursts from Georgetown Brewing’s happy hive, where Manny Chao’s grin could carbonate a keg and where “drinkability” is both gospel and punchline. Together they brewed enlightenment by way of lupulin, then set their twin creations loose upon the world — to teach, to tingle, to test our palates for bias and balance.
This Thursday, October 23, from 5 to 7 p.m., the journey pauses in Tacoma. Peaks & Pints becomes the dojo of duality — a place to taste the yin and the yang of the same recipe, the micro-differences that make craft beer feel like philosophy in liquid form.
Are you a Josh or a Manny? A crisp-cut stoic or a smooth-talking hop mystic? Do you chase clarity or vibe? Either way, enlightenment pours at Peaks & Pints, where both Taos will meet on tap, side by side, glowing like twin suns in a West Coast sky.
THE TAO OF JOSH & THE TAO OF MANNY WEST COAST IPAS RELEASE PARTY, 5-7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 23, Peaks & Pints, 3816 N. 26th St., Basecamp proctor, Tacoma, no cover
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Podcast + Fresh Hop Party: Vice Beer at Peaks & Pints
2025-10-01 17:30 - 20:00
Podcast + Fresh Hop Party: Vice Beer at Peaks & Pints
On Wednesday, Oct. 1, the Grit & Grain Podcast microphones light up for a special session with Vice Beer — the Vancouver crew that brews with equal parts nostalgia and hop-charged bravado. From their ’80s-and-’90s-soaked brand aesthetic to their precision lagers and resin-slinging IPAs, Vice has quickly become one of the Pacific Northwest’s most talked-about young breweries. The Grit & Grain crew sits down with co-owner Michael Perozzo to unpack their story, their recent brewhouse expansion, and why fresh hop season is their favorite form of chaos.
But the conversation is only the warm-up. Once the podcast wraps, Peaks & Pints throws open the taps for a Vice Beer Fresh Hop Takeover. Five fresh, gleaming kegs will pour side by side. Expect the full range of their 2025 harvest: herbal-floral European grace colliding with Yakima citrus-pine electricity.
Bring your friends, bring your thirst, and come taste the season still green on the bine. The mics go live at 4:30 p.m. in the Peaks & Pints Event Room; the takeover begins immediately after. Whether you’re here for the insider brewhouse stories, the shimmering lager finesse, or simply to drink the freshest hop-drenched beer in Tacoma, this is your midweek pilgrimage. Vice is rolling north, and Peaks is ready.
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Fresh Hoptoberfest: The Ninth Pour
2025-09-30 11:00 - 23:00, 2025-09-29 11:00 - 23:00, 2025-09-28 11:00 - 23:00, 2025-09-27 11:00 - 23:00, 2025-09-26 11:00 - 23:00, 2025-09-25 11:00 - 23:00, 2025-09-24 11:00 - 23:00, 2025-09-23 11:00 - 23:00 and 11 more dates
Fresh Hoptoberfest: The Ninth Pour
Once again the saga pours forth. For the ninth glorious year, Peaks & Pints crashes Yakima’s sticky green harvest straight into Bavaria’s malty wedding feast and calls it Fresh Hoptoberfest: The Ninth Pour.
All September long we’ll keep the taps locked in perfect autumn equinox: two fresh hop beers buzzing with resinous electricity and two Oktoberfest lagers humming caramel hymnals to fall, every single day.
This is not pumpkin-spice cameo season. This is Tacoma’s full-tilt beer ritual — thirty days of lupulin lust and malt memory, steins colliding, pretzels breaking, polka echoing in the background.
Drink the fleeting. Toast the ancient. Revel in the Ninth Pour before it disappears for another year.
Das ist frisch!
🍺 Fresh Hoptoberfest: The Ninth Pour 🍺📅 Sept. 1–30, 2025 | 11 a.m.–11 p.m. daily📍 Peaks & Pints, 3816 N. 26th St., Tacoma | Basecamp Proctor🎟️ No cover
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