When Ryan Rosen isn’t selling Dirty Bird IPA or Udder Tugger Milk Stout for Pelican Brewing Company based in Pacific City, Oregon, he spends the rest of his time trying to figure out the physical and mental limits of what he semi-jokingly calls extreme backpacking. He’s hiked all the big, long trails — including completing the Wonderland Trail around Mount Rainier in less than three days. He also knows how to pack the perfect backpack — whether it’s a day hike on the Thunder Creek Trail in the North Cascades or a 5-day excursion on foot along the Kettle Creek Trail in Eastern Washington. Rosen will combine both loves at the Peaks and Pints Lodge Meeting with Pelican Brewing Co. Thursday, June 15.

While you drink Pelican craft beers Five Fin Pilsner, Dirty Bird IPA, Udder Tugger Milk Stout and Father Of All Tsunamis Imperial Stout, Rosen will demonstration how to pack a backpack for different hiking scenarios. Enjoy Father’s layers of spiciness, vanilla and caramel coming from barrel aging and learn where to put Reynolds Oven Bags to keep your socks dry in wet weather. As Dirty Birds’ lengthy malt finish works your taste buds learn how to pack your boil-in-bag meals.

No, Rosen didn’t grow up in the golden age of backpacking. The young buck requested there to be Beer Pong tables at his Pelican Packing Party at Peaks and Pints. And it will be so.

PELICAN PACKING PARTY, 6 p.m., Thursday, June 15, Peaks and Pints, 3816 N. 26^th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma, no cover