Tacoma Beer Week Basecamp: Disney & Dunkels
Tacoma Beer Week unfolds across the city like a living map — tap takeovers here, late-night beer conversations there, a dozen good reasons to step out the door and see where the evening leads. Peaks & Pints’ Tacoma Beer Week “Basecamp” exists for the moment before all that motion begins: a daily gathering that is both an event in itself and a place to meet, settle in, experience something meaningful, and then decide how the rest of the night unfolds.
Monday, March 2, leans fully into the heart of what Basecamp is meant to be — community showing up for community. Tacoma Beer Week Basecamp: Disney & Dunkels doubles as a fundraiser for the Hunt Middle School Musical Theater Program, with Peaks & Pints donating proceeds from all draft sales from 5 to 8 p.m. to help support student performances and keep live theater thriving for the next generation of Tacoma storytellers.
If you’ve spent any time around middle school theater, you know the stakes are both enormous and wonderfully earnest. Sets built from imagination and borrowed lumber. Costumes stitched with hope. Kids discovering, sometimes for the first time, that their voice carries farther than they thought. During Tacoma Beer Week 2022, Peaks & Pints hosted a similar night to help the Hunt program secure performance rights for Beauty and the Beast — proof that a neighborhood beer bar can occasionally moonlight as a fairy godparent.
This year’s fundraiser keeps that spirit alive with a local singer-songwriter lineup that reads like a small love letter to Tacoma’s creative community. Erina McLaren, Rafe Wadleigh, and Christy Taylor — music instructors at Hunt Middle School — share the stage alongside Hunt teacher Krissy Dustan, trading songs throughout the evening. It’s not just a lineup; it’s a full-circle moment, with the very people guiding students behind the scenes stepping into the spotlight to help fund the program’s future. Expect nods to musical theater, Disney favorites, and the kind of stripped-down performances that feel less like a concert and more like a shared living-room singalong.
And because Peaks & Pints can never resist a good thematic pairing, the taps will lean toward dunkels — both American and German interpretations of the style. Dark without being heavy, malty without being brooding, dunkels feel right at home alongside songs about transformation, bravery, and improbable happy endings. Think toasted bread crust, soft cocoa edges, a hint of caramel warmth — beers that invite conversation rather than silence.
That’s the quiet brilliance of this Tacoma Beer Week hang. It’s not a loud spectacle or a race to the next stop. It’s a moment to sit down, listen closely, support young performers, and remember that Tacoma Beer Week isn’t just about what’s in the glass — it’s about who benefits when the community gathers around it.
Drink a dunkel. Hear a song. Help a stage light turn on somewhere down the street.
Tacoma Beer Week Basecamp March 2: Disney & Dunkels
Monday, March 2, 2026
Peaks & Pints
Basecamp + Songs + Lagers: 5–8 p.m.
Music begins at 6 p.m.
LINK: Peaks & Pints beer and cider cooler inventory
