Monday, July 14th, 2025

Peaks & Pints Monday Cider Flight: Fruit Row

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Before the condos and breweries, before the concrete silenced the cobblestones, Tacoma’s Fruit & Produce Row thrummed with the sweet industry of the orchard. In the early 1900s, the stretch along Dock Street and Pacific Avenue was a pulpy artery of commerce, where crates of apples, pears, and cherries arrived by train, were packed in sawdust and railcars, and departed by ship to the hungry West Coast. Stamped with names like Wenatchee, Yakima, and Hood River, the fruit flowed through Tacoma like lifeblood—sticky, fragrant, and vital. On Monday, July 14, Peaks & Pints raises a cider-stained toast to this legacy with a fruit-forward cider flight that honors the tart, sweet, and fermented ghosts of Fruit Row—orchard to ocean, one pour at a time. Welcome to Peaks & Pints Monday Cider Flight: Produce Row.

Peaks & Pints Monday Cider Flight: Fruit Row

Incline Tangerine

6.9% ABV

Oh, sweet Incline Cider Tangerine, you effervescent thrill-seeker, you sly summer flirt—your zest bursts in like sunshine-charged pixie dust, coating the edges of your tongue before you even see it coming. This is citrus purity with peaceful mid-ride fizz, a citrus bomb that dances across the palate like flip-flops on cobblestone Dock Street. It’s not shy—it’s a “hello, high five” moment in a glass, lighting up a Monday with orchard sunshine and the faint whisper of warehouse breeze. A perfect bridge between Fruit Row’s sticky-fruit legacy and the now, if ever a flavor could do the old Tacoma hustle justice, it’s you.

Yonder Coulee

6.9% ABV

Oh, Coulee, you scandalous little sunbeam—half cider, half Oaxacan daydream, all tropical mischief wrapped in a shimmering apple exhale. Yonder Cider didn’t just make a drink; they summoned a pineapple-lime breeze through the orchards, kissed it with coconut, whispered cardamom secrets, and let it loose to dance barefoot across Dock Street. You can almost hear the mezcal ghost humming somewhere beneath the surface—dry, smoky, not quite there, but thoroughly felt. Yonder Cider Coulee doesn’t nod politely to Tacoma’s Fruit Row—it cannonballs straight into the memory of its spice crates and citrus crates, humming with citrus pulp and freight-car heat.

Yonder Hot Yonder Summer

6.9% ABV

Oh, she’s a flirt, this one. Hot Yonder Summer arrives like a stolen kiss behind a farmstand—peach-slicked, lemon-bright, and mint-laced with the kind of mischief that can only be born under a July sun. Yonder Cider didn’t just craft a cider; they uncorked a poolside daydream, once whispered as “Hot Chuck Summer” and now scaled up to a full-blown citrus séance. It zips like a mojito on roller skates, pirouettes across your palate with orchard heat and herbal cool, and disappears far too quickly—just like the fleeting days of Produce Row’s stone fruit hustle and Dock Street’s sticky-fingered glory—a toast to the peach bins, the dockhands, and every sunburned sip of summer.

Seattle Cider Guava Citrus

8.4% ABV

There are ciders that whisper, and then there’s Seattle Cider Guava Citrus—a full-volume, tropi-electric sermon in a can. This ABV fruit-fueled flareup doesn’t just flirt with your palate—it commandeers it with a guava-lime-passionfruit handshake and a sly green apple wink. It tastes like what would happen if a tiki drink got lost in the Columbia Valley, hitched a ride on a citrus truck bound for Dock Street, and decided to stay forever. Bold, effervescent, and just sweet enough to break a few rules, it’s the kind of cider that could’ve soaked into the boards of Fruit Row while dockhands peeled oranges and dreamed of islands.

Avid Black Dragon Imperial Cider

8.5% ABV

If a fruit stand crashed headlong into a comet made of dragon fruit and blackberry stardust, you’d wake up with Avid Black Dragon Imperial on your lips and your inhibitions politely excused. This is no gentle orchard whisper—it’s a full-bodied, 8.5% ABV incantation of raspberry tartness, blackberry thrum, and dragon fruit weirdness wrapped in the armor of dry Pacific Northwest apples. It doesn’t sip—it prowls. It doesn’t refresh—it ignites. A cider that dares you to remember the days when Tacoma’s Fruit Row oozed with crate-bursting abundance and railcar heat, and the only dragons were on shipping labels bound for the coast.

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