TUESDAY, JAN. 17 2017: South Sound series + craft beer …
The Grand Cinema + Peaks and Pints = Olympic pRide, American pRejudice and pFriem Family Brewers
The Valley + Narrows Brewing = Grape Jelly
TUESDAY FILM SERIES
It’s Tuesday, which means The Grand Cinema screens unique and thought-provoking films. At 2 p.m. and 6:45 p.m., the Tacoma indie movie house will show Olympic Pride, American Prejudice, a documentary that explores the hardships and achievements of 18 largely forgotten African American Olympic heroes who competed at the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin. After the 6:45 p.m. screening, Bernadette C. Ray — president of The Grand’s board and assistant principal at Wilson High School — will lead a post-film discussion.
PREFUNK: “Op uw gezondheid” is the motto of pFriem Family Brewers, a Dutch phrase with tricky pronunciation and a simple, honest meaning: “To your good health.” The use of such a statement perfectly encapsulates pFriem’s brand, aesthetic and ideology. The brewery is located in Hood River, Oregon, just south of the Washington state border, and in their mission statement, they describe their beers as “artisanal,” influenced by “the great brewers of Belgium” and dedicated to their “homegrown roots in the Great Pacific Northwest.” From the label to the taste, every pFriem beer showcases its commitment to simple excellence. Peaks and Pints has a couple rows of pFriem beers in our cooler, including the dangerously drinkable Pilsner — with a deep dryness at the back of the mouth and the faint minerality that’s so crucial to a pilsner — and the Cognac stout — that starts a little boozy but that feeling tails off to a mellow, rounded swirl of fig and vanilla, and the subtle aroma of cognac.
TUESDAY BLUES SERIES
Moby Grape was one of the most versatile San Francisco rock bands to emerge out of the Summer of Love. While rooted in psychedelia, the band injected elements of folk, blues and country. Unlike the jam bands of the time, Grape possessed a meticulously unique sound by way of multilayered triple guitar arrangements. Their debut album is still considered one of the best of all time by many critics, in part because of the nimble fingers of guitarist Jerry Miller. Miller was named one of the top 100 guitarists of all time by Rolling Stone — above Eddie Van Halen, Johnny Winter and Randy Rhoads. Sadly, through a combination of inner turmoil and bad management decisions, the mighty Moby Grape broke up in 1969. Thankfully, Tacoma native Miller moved back home. See one of the best guitars in the world perform blues at 7 p.m. in The Valley.
PREFUNK: Ghost Jelly isn’t a pepper, but rather a jellyfish with 100 tentacles and a bite. It’s not hoppy bite, but what does have a hoppy bite is Narrows Brewing Company’s recently released Ghost Jelly Pale Ale. This American-style pale ale was hopped with whole flower Cascade in the mash, with Chook and Centennial late in the boil and dry-hopped with Centennial. Hoppy, indeed. Narrows Brewing opens at 2 p.m.
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