Tacoma Beer Week Basecamp: Jazz Sunday with Kareem Kandi & Cantillon Lambic
Tacoma Beer Week 2026 doesn’t ask you to choose one thing and commit. It asks you to show up curious. Over 10 days, February 27 through March 8, events ripple across the city — overlapping, intersecting, tempting. Peaks & Pints embraces that beautiful mess by hosting “Tacoma Beer Week Basecamp,” a daily gathering that is both destination and departure point, where the day’s featured experience unfolds before the night fans outward.
Sunday, March 1, brings one of those quietly perfect alignments. Tacoma Beer Week Basecamp lands on Peaks & Pints’ monthly Sunday jazz night with Kareem Kandi, paired with two deeply rare lambic drafts from Brouwerij Cantillon: Magic Lambic and Fou’ Foune. Jazz from 5 to 8 p.m., lambic flowing carefully, conversation stretching its legs.
Kandi’s presence at Peaks & Pints is part of a longer rhythm. He plays the first Sunday of every month from 5 to 8 p.m., a standing appointment sponsored in part by Tacoma Creates that has quietly become one of the most reliable ways to end a weekend in Tacoma. A saxophonist, composer, arranger, and educator, Kareem Kandi is joined by bassist Greg Feingold and drummer Jacques Willis, forming a tight, intuitive trio that listens as deeply as it plays. The result is jazz that feels conversational rather than performative — music that settles the room, sharpens attention, and rewards staying awhile.
As an educator and longtime artist-in-residence at Tacoma School of the Arts, Kandi has spent decades teaching improvisation — not just how to play notes, but how to listen, respond, and trust the moment. That sensibility carries straight into his performances. The room settles. The music breathes. People lean in without quite realizing they’ve done it.
Which makes the pairing with lambic feel inevitable.
Cantillon Magic Lambic is a beer that announces itself softly, then lingers. A blend built on raspberry and blueberry lambic with a touch of vanilla, it’s bright and vinous, layered and gently uncanny — fruit, acidity, and wild fermentation moving together like an improvised line that somehow lands exactly where it should. Seeing it on draft is rare enough to prompt texts, calendar reshuffles, and a sudden willingness to linger longer than planned.
Cantillon Fou’ Foune, meanwhile, is one of the brewery’s most coveted expressions — apricot lambic built with an almost absurd amount of fruit. It doesn’t taste flavored; it tastes alive. Perfumed, sun-warmed apricot meets lambic’s earthy, softly oxidative spine, plush and sharp at once, the kind of beer that asks you to slow down whether you intended to or not.
That’s the point of this Basecamp.
Sunday’s Basecamp isn’t about racing off immediately or stacking stops like trophies. It’s about arriving, letting the room set the tempo, hearing jazz curl through the air while spontaneous fermentation does its patient work in your glass. From there, you can head out into the rest of Tacoma Beer Week Sunday — or you can stay put and let the night finish its sentence.
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