Sunday, July 6th, 2025

Peaks & Pints Jambic & Lazz: Crooked Stave Funk It Up

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Kareem Kandi Jazz Trio performs live in the Peaks & Pints Events Room at 5 p.m. Sunday, July 6.

Peaks & Pints Jambic & Lazz: Crooked Stave Funk It Up

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, it’s the first Sunday of the month, which means Jambic & Lazz, our monthly communion of lambic beer funk and Kareem Kandi’s molten jazz trio, swirling together in our Events Room like microbes in a French oak foeder—5 to 8 p.m., every first Sunday, forever if we’re lucky.

Lambic isn’t a style; it’s a sacred accident, a miracle of wild fermentation only possible in a postage stamp of Pajottenland near Brussels, protected like a sacred relic and legally guarded like bourbon or Champagne. Gueuze, kriek, faro—these beers don’t follow trends. They outlast them.

And this Sunday, our funk of choice is a rebellious riff from across the Atlantic: Crooked Stave’s Funk It Up, a traditional lambic-style ale brewed in Denver using spontaneous fermentation, aged in oak, and layered with wild, winking chaos. It pours like a sunbeam refracted through barnwood and stone fruit, with aromas of underripe peach, lemon zest, hayloft must, and something that might just be memory itself. Tartness swirls with farmhouse grit, a firm oak spine holds the madness in place, and Brettanomyces takes center stage—crooning, unpredictable, unafraid. It’s not here to comfort you. It’s here to wake you up.

And 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 twine around your lambic like a Miles Davis solo in a dusty cellar bar at the end of the world.

So come sip the weird. Come taste time. Come listen. Come ferment.

JAMBIC & LAZZ with Kareem Kandi + Crooked Stave Funk It Up
Sunday, July 6 | 5-8 p.m. | No cover | Peaks & Pints, Basecamp Proctor

LINK: Peaks & Pints beer and cider cooler inventory

LINK: Fancy Pants Sunday – Crooked Stave Funk It Up