Firestone Walker Holiday Hang at Peaks & Pints
Founded in 1996 along California’s Central Coast, Firestone Walker Brewing Company stands as one of the true lodestars of modern American craft beer — a brewery that helped redefine what balance, elegance, and technical precision could look like in a pint glass. Co-founded by brothers-in-law Adam Firestone and David Walker, Firestone Walker fused Old World sensibility with New World creativity from the start: Walker brought a British brewing lineage and devotion to classic styles, while Firestone supplied the California mindset of innovation, patience, and hospitality. Guiding it all for decades has been brewmaster Matt Brynildson, a quiet legend whose palate and restraint have influenced an entire generation of brewers, proving again and again that brilliance doesn’t have to shout. From their early use of open-top fermenters and oak influences to their meticulous barrel program and style-spanning portfolio, Firestone Walker has earned global respect not by chasing trends, but by mastering them, refining them, and often setting the standard — winning countless medals, shaping how American brewers approach barrel aging, and proving that consistency and soul can coexist at scale.
Which brings us, gently and joyfully, to Thursday, Dec. 18, when Peaks & Pints hosts a Firestone Walker holiday hang that’s less tasting seminar and more beautifully calibrated winter exhale. Washington state rep Kent Wetzler will be in the room, the taps will be doing their thing, and the beers will speak fluent holiday. Parabola pours like a slow-moving solstice planet — bourbon heat, dark chocolate, figgy gravity. The 28th and 29th Anniversary Ales unfurl years of barrel patience into celebratory, candle-glow complexity. A vintage keg cracks open a little time warp. And then, because balance matters, Pivo snaps clean and noble, Mind Haze hums with citrusy haze logic, Primal Elements bring the tart and bright, plus other draft options.
No speeches. No pretense. Just excellent beer, good people, and that rare seasonal moment when the calendar slows down long enough to actually taste what’s in the glass.
Firestone Walker Holiday Hang at Peaks & Pints
Thursday, Dec. 18, 5-8 p.m.
Peaks & Pints, Proctor District — Tacoma
Featuring Parabola, 28th & 29th Anniversary Ales, a vintage keg, Pivo Pils, Mind Haze, Primal Elements (sour/wild), and more on draft, with Washington state representative Kent Wetzler in the house for a relaxed, beer-forward holiday gathering.
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