6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma: August 8-14 2024
If you want to avoid craft beer, you’re out of luck in Tacoma. It’s everywhere, thanks to Tacoma Beer Week 2024 launching Friday. The Peaks & Pints 6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma: August 8-14 2024 includes several TBW events happening at Peaks & Pints.
THURSDAY, AUG. 8 — BREWERY POP-UP LUNCH: Thanks to XBP Limited Liquids distributor in Tacoma, Our Mutual Friend Brewing co-owners and brewers Brandon Proff and Jan Chodkowski will be touring Western Washington today, including an 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. lunch stop at Peaks & Pints in Tacoma’s Proctor District. During this year’s Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colorado, Peaks & Pints visited Our Mutual Friend Brewing, or OMF, in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood on Larimer Street. Founded in 2012, which makes it one of the oldest breweries in River North Art District, or RiNo, and while our first impression of the taproom was a carefully curated combination of hipster cool, industrial chic, and your British uncle’s library and faux nonchalance, it would be a mistake to call OMF just another neo-beatnik hangout. The award-winning outfit — numerous GABF medals, including a gold medal for Saison Trystero and silver medal for Biere Ovale in 2022, and a 2018 gold medal for Saison Trystero at World Beer Cup — roasts its own malt, making its grain-to-glass philosophy unique in the rapidly expanding Denver beer market and lending an impressive freshness to its brews. Stop by Peaks & Pints for lunch, grab our Thursday flight, Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Our Mutual Friend Brewing, and chat with Brandon and Jan. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Peaks & Pints, 3816 N. 26th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma, no cover
FRIDAY, AUG. 9 — GRIT & GRAIN EPISODE 106: Chris Chappell digs sustainability, Arizona Wilderness Brewery, social media, and Pacific Northwest watersheds. Brian Antonio Muegge digs Gonzaga, wildlife conservation, Nickelback, and keeping salmon safe. Chappell works to protect wild lands and rivers in our state via Washington Wild and directs their Washington Brewshed Alliance. Muegge is the Farm Program manager with Salmon Safe, which works to keep urban and agricultural watersheds in the Pacific Northwest clean enough for native salmon to spawn and thrive. For the last 12 years, Chappell has worked with breweries to protect wild lands and waters, as well as climate-resilient beer ingredients, in the name of craft beer. For three and a half years, Muegge has worked with hop farms to monitor agricultural runoff, wetland disruption, erosion, and irrigation that can make it difficult for salmon to get past third base. Together, the two environmentally minded badasses help the Pacific Northwest breweries brew delicious beer. Chappell and Muegge sat down with the Grit & Grain Podcast to share their education and conservation knowledge, share their friendship, and share their laughter on Episode 106. Yes, we had a blast with the two big brains that run the Brewshed Alliance and Salmon Safe programs. No doubt you’ll have a blast listening. To listen to Grit & Grain Episode 106 launching Friday with Chris Chappell of Washington Wild’s Brewshed Alliance and Brian Antonio Muegge of Salmon Safe, and previous Grit & Grain episodes, visit gritandgrainpodcast.com, or search your favorite podcast mediums, including @channel_253.
FRIDAY, AUG. 9 — PEAKS & PINTS TACOMA BEER WEEK LAUNCH PARTY: This year, Foster’s Creative is evolving their “ten of us” 2023 project into what is simply called, “the ten”. Carrying with it the spirit of the original “ten of us” 2023 community project is a multi-media, people-gathering, wave-making project featuring people, places, and happenings in the 253. Peaks & Pints kicks off their Tacoma Beer Week festivities with the filming of “The Ten 2024 Toast”. Enjoy the latest, local beer and cider while you check out “the ten”, chat with “the ten” team, and grab a special T-shirt commemorating Peaks & Pints’ 10-year association with TBW — all while enjoying Peaks & Pints’ new flatbread pizzas. 5 p.m., Peaks & Pints, 3816 N. 26th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma, no cover
SATURDAY, AUG. 10 — BREW FIVE THREE BEER & MUSIC FESTIVAL: This year’s Tacoma Arts Live’s Brew Five Three returns to Chambers Creek Regional Park with the stunning backdrop of the Puget Sound and Olympic Mountains. Sip beer and cider from more than 30 regional brewers and cidermakers and taste food from local restaurants while enjoying live entertainment on the main stage. This is an event for beer nerds and novice drinkers alike. Play, lounge, and hang out with friends as you soak up the sun and savor unique craft beverages in your souvenir limited edition tasting glass. The Grit & Grain Podcast will broadcast from Brew Five Three around 12:30 p.m. Noon to 4:45 p.m., Chamber Creek Regional Park, 6320 Grandview Dr. W., University Place, $10-$60 at Tacoma Arts Live
MONDAY, AUG. 12 — CREATIVE COLLOQUY TACOMA BEER WEEK: Tacoma will be saturated with verse during Tacoma Beer Week thanks to Jackie Casella’s Creative Colloquy. She’ll gather brilliant South Sound writers to tell short stories, prose, or poetry, and then the floor will open for listeners to do the same — all while enjoying cocktail-themed beers and ciders at Peaks & Pints. For the past 10 years, writer Jackie Casella has mined Tacoma’s rich literary talents and fostered relationships built upon mutual admiration of the written word. She was part of the “ten of us” last year honored for her Creative Colloquy, as well as years as the Weekly Volcano food critic plus pouring creative cocktails at several local bars through the years. Join Casella and her Creative Colloquy wordsmiths for Tacoma Beer Week at Peaks & Pints and get lit! 7 p.m., 3816 N. 26th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma, no cover
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 14 — GRIT & GRAIN PODCAST WITH KRIS HAY: Initially, Kris Hay launched the Tacoma Aroma Flavor and Instagram as companions for her upcoming Tacoma food and beverage pairing cookbook, Tacoma Aroma. An expert in local cuisine with daily discoveries posting on her @tacoma.aroma.flavor Instagram, her experiences writing, editing, organizing complex projects, and promoting community-based resources secured her a spot on the “ten of us” 2023 roster. The regional Grit & Grain beer podcast will host Hay and her basket full of Tacoma icon foods — Frisko Freeze, Johnson Candy, Almond Roca, Ice Cream Social, and others — for a food and local beer pairing double episode at Peaks & Pints, the podcast’s recording home on Wednesdays. Eat up the Grit & Grain Podcast with Kris Hay and her Tacoma Aroma Flavor palate during Tacoma Beer Week at Peaks & Pints. 3:30-5:30 p.m., 3816 N. 26th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma, no cover
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