Because today the sun makes one last, glorious stand — 72 degrees of golden reprieve before Tacoma tilts toward drizzle, wool, and darkness. What better toast to that final flare of warmth than the beers built for clarity and calm? After weeks of hop-drunk harvest chaos, Peaks & Pints hits reset with a five-pour ode to the world’s quiet backbone: the lager. Vienna, Märzen, pilsner, amber — clean malt architecture, crisp edges, soft light caught in glass. No fruit, no haze, no high-octane boast — just patience, geometry, and the low hum of perfection.
Call it Lager Day in October — one last sun-drenched salute before the gray sets in, a flight for those who know that subtlety can shimmer brighter than any hop storm.
Peaks & Pints Lager Day In October Flight
Douglas Lager
4.7% ABV | American Lager | Tacoma, WA
Douglas Lager is Tacoma’s resurrection song in glass form — a local beer reborn on the bones of the Northwest’s brewing past. Created by Chris Smith and John Marti (formerly of Lowercase Brewing), Douglas isn’t boutique nostalgia; it’s a regional revival, brewed inside 7 Seas’ cavernous Tacoma brewhouse — the same hall that once resurrected Heidelberg. Made entirely with LINC Malt barley and single-hopped with Lórien, it drinks like a cool mountain stream — lemon whisper, grain brightness, and just enough hop glow to make the pint sing. The bottles roll out on a vintage Fish Brewing line, once part of Olympia’s legacy, now clanking back to life like Tacoma’s brewing soul rediscovered. Douglas doesn’t just pour lager; it pours history, ambition, and the sound of old ghosts whirring happily back to work.
Stillwater Red Sauce Italian Pilsner
4.6% ABV | Italian-Style Pilsner | Grand Mound, WA
Stillwater Artisanal’s Red Sauce is what happens when a cult brewer stares too long at an Italian trattoria menu and decides to ferment swagger itself. Born in Grand Mound but fluent in Roman attitude, this Italian-style pilsner crackles with Hallertau Mittelfrüh and Blanc hops — zesty, herbal, a little bitter in that espresso-after-midnight way. Malt murmurs semolina and sunlight before the finish snaps dry, begging for red-checked tablecloths and late-night philosophy. At 4.6 percent, it’s light on paper but electric in spirit, a beer that feels like Fellini directing a Vespa chase — crisp, cinematic, and delightfully reckless.
E9 Brewing My Fishing Buddy
5.5% ABV | Dry-Hopped Lager | Tacoma, WA
You can almost see E9 Brewing’s Shane Johns knee-deep in river mist, line drifting through dawn, because My Fishing Buddy tastes like that moment made liquid. Built on German Pilsner and Vienna malts, then dry-hopped with Motueka, Wai-iti, and Wakatu, it hums with the quiet joy of patience rewarded. Lime zest flickers over hayfield softness, a flash of wildflower honey dissolves into clean minerality — the kind of balance you can’t rush. After six weeks of lagering, it surfaces gleaming, tranquil, perfectly caught. This isn’t a beer that shouts; it exhales — calm, confident, certain the next cast will land just right.
Ayinger Oktober Fest-Märzen
5.8% ABV | Märzen | Aying, Bavaria, Germany
From the pastoral heart of Bavaria, Ayinger Privatbrauerei brews as if time politely stopped to listen. Their Oktober Fest-Märzen is malt turned melody — toffee, toast, and noble hop restraint moving in waltz-time beneath a golden glow. It’s the taste of brass echoing under a tent at dusk, of barley fields catching the last light before harvest. At 5.8 percent, it’s sturdy but soft-spoken, a beer that doesn’t perform tradition — it embodies it. Every sip is proof that malt can still sing hymns, and Bavaria still knows the tune.
Matchless Fresh Bois
4.2% ABV | Fresh-Hopped Lager | Tumwater, WA
Matchless Brewing’s Fresh Bois is what happens when a Tumwater lager steals a tractor and joyrides through the hop fields. Their beloved Crisp Bois gets the harvest upgrade — Adeena hops setting the tone, then an avalanche of just-picked Citra cones hurled straight from Carpenter Ranch into the fermenter while still breathing field air. What comes out is sunshine liquefied: orange zest, lemongrass, and honeydew glow, hovering over a feather-light malt base. At 4.2 percent, it’s impossibly drinkable yet thrumming with life — proof that even the simplest lager can crackle with fresh chaos and still finish cool as stainless steel.
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