There are beer parties, and then there is the Hoppy Holiday Food Drive Wrap-Up & Awards Night — the one evening each year when every brewery and cidery in Pierce County shows up like a bustling, benevolent village, arms full, taps ready, hearts wide open. No competition, no hierarchy, no “best of” beyond the generosity that fills the Emergency Food Network’s shelves. Just one enormous, gloriously diverse beer garden under the Peaks & Pints roof, humming with goodwill, winter light, and the soft clatter of pints lifted for a cause.
And because every brewery and cidery brought something to pour — and because we love them all equally, loudly, and without reservation — tonight’s flight is entirely in your hands. Instead of a pre-built flight crosscut, you choose the five tastes that speak to you: the cozy winter warmers, the electric IPAs, the ciders dressed in spice and orchard glow, the dark things, the bright things, the things that remind you why this region brews with such soul.
Think of it as the “Holiday Buffet of Beverages” — a taplist overflowing with small-batch care, local pride, and the kind of camaraderie that makes this drive possible every year. Pick your path. Mix styles. Follow whimsy. Build a theme. Or just chase joy one glass at a time.
Every pour tonight supports the Emergency Food Network. Every pint moves the needle. Every brewery and cidery contributed.
So the flight is yours to assemble — and the gratitude belongs to all of them.
Peaks & Pints 2025 Hoppy Holiday Flight
7 Seas 2024 Barrel-Aged Barleywine
11% ABV | Barleywine | Tacoma, WA
What unfurls here is winter’s slowest, richest exhale — caramel stretched to a deep amber glow, toasted fig humming underneath, and a warm oak hush that drifts in like a seasoned storyteller settling by the fire.
Camp Colvos Dunkel
5.2% ABV | Dunkel | Vashon Island, WA
A wash of toasted bread warmth, cocoa-kissed dusk, and soft nutty glow moves through this dunkel like a winter evening that decides to wrap you in its coat and walk you gently home.
Cockrell Cider Cranberry
6.5% ABV | Cranberry Cider | Puyallup, WA
A bright, ruby-tart spark snaps to life here, cranberry’s electric tang dancing through apple’s winter hush like a berry-charged lantern swinging joyfully down a frosty orchard path.
E9 Brewing Sad Wings
6.1% ABV | West Coast IPA | Tacoma, WA
Pine snap, citrus rind, and a dusk-bright bitterness lift off together, gliding through the palate like some hop-feathered omen determined to turn winter’s gray into a sharper, greener, beautifully defiant light.
Evergreen State Storm Watcher
8.5% ABV | Stout | Tacoma, WA
A deep, roasty surge of malt, smoke-kissed warmth, and storm-dark richness rolls across the palate like an Ocean Shores squall gathering its full, thunderous breath before breaking beautifully over the coast.
Fierce County Ginger Cranberry
6.9% ABV | Spiced Cranberry Cider | Puyallup, WA
Cranberry’s bright snap collides joyfully with ginger’s warm spark, sending a tart, spicy shimmer across the palate like holiday lights crackling to life on the coldest night of the year.
Incline Cider Blackberry
6.5% ABV | Blackberry Cider | Tacoma, WA
A deep berry hush swirls through bright apple lift, blooming into a velvety purple shimmer that glides across the palate like winter twilight deciding to sweeten the night instead of darken it.
Narrows Easterly IPA
6.6% ABV | New England IPA | Tacoma, WA
A soft, hazy swell of pineapple, berry glow, and plush tropical mist drifts through each sip, moving with the easy, luminous warmth of a winter sunbeam that somehow forgot it’s December.
North 47 Comrade Yusopov Russian Imperial Stout
10% ABV | Russian Imperial Stout | Northeast Tacoma, WA
A dark, velvet swell of chocolate, charred malt, and shadowy fruit unfurls with operatic intensity, marching across the palate like a midnight emissary carrying secret winter orders sealed in smoke and heat.
Odd Otter Look at This Ottergraf
7.4% ABV | Belgian Dubbel with Apple | Tacoma, WA
A swirl of warm apple, soft cinnamon, and malted pie-crust richness drifts through the glass like a nostalgic winter spell, the kind that winks, laughs, and hands you a slice of holiday memory before you even take a sip.
Sig Brewing Even Flow Pale Ale
5.6% ABV | Pale Ale | Tacoma, WA
Fuzzy fruit, passionfruit lift, and soft citrus glide over a pale, gently glowing body, the whole sip humming with hints of pineapple, cream, and vanilla like a winter daydream that forgot to turn hazy and chose radiance instead.
Wet Coast Holiday Jeer!
7.5% ABV | Spiced Winter Ale | Gig Harbor, WA
A merry surge of caramel warmth, festive spice, and citrus-kissed glow kicks through the palate like a mischievous caroler who shows up uninvited, sings too loudly, and somehow makes the whole night better.
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