Peaks and Pints Instagram Stalker: Snowmen drinking beer, dogs drinking beer and beers snowboarding There have been lots of posted photos to comb through this past week. A snowman drank beer. A man became a snowman drinking beer. Dogs drank beer. Beers snowboarded. You’ll find all that (plus silliness) right here in this weeks’ edition of Peaks and Pints Instagram Stalker. Be sure to keep posting those graham crackers in whirlpools and be sure to tag @peaksandpints if you’d like a chance to be featured! Cheers! https://www.instagram.com/p/BQL7gz4jJBp/?taken-by=dicksbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BQL5gCyFk0L/?taken-by=wingmanbrewers https://www.instagram.com/p/BQJro10BAEg/?taken-by=saranacbrewery https://www.instagram.com/p/BQQ3MGOjtPv/?taken-by=wingmanbrewers https://www.instagram.com/p/BQRTzSMD938/?taken-by=3magbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BQRhm_7Dmzk/?taken-by=3magbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BQRn9VdAS_v/?taken-by=bbaybrewery https://www.instagram.com/p/BQQyzCQAAjF/?taken-by=filip.adam https://www.instagram.com/p/BQTSF3_BhIv/?taken-by=odellbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BQUDn2qgJ4S/?taken-by=greatnotionpdx https://www.instagram.com/p/BQZUYtEhRAN/?taken-by=7seasbrew https://www.instagram.com/p/BQWLGDPghai/?taken-by=twobeersbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BQYkp8GAqpC/?taken-by=lalo1981_ https://www.instagram.com/p/BQWgRk4hBf6/?taken-by=10barrelbrewing
SUNDAY, FEB. 12 2017: South Sound events + craft beer … Tacoma School of the Arts + Peaks and Pints = Jazz and Bale Breaker Dormancy Breakfast Stout King’s Books + 7 Seas Brewing = Artists fair and Black Currant Wild Imperial Stout JAZZ TRIO New York City-based pianist Emmet Cohen will join Russell Hall on bass and Kyle Poole on drums for a 6 p.m. jazz concert at the Tacoma School of the Arts Theater in downtown Tacoma. The multifaceted American jazz pianist and composer plays with a striking and effusive elegance. He moves all over the keyboard with
Despite its name, the barleywine is indeed a beer but at wine strength — ranging as low as 7-percent alcohol by volume in British versions and upwards of 15 percent in American interpretations. Despite its name, barleywines aren’t made with tons of specialty grains, as one might assume. Historically, barleywines are brewed with pale malt, the same malts used for pale ales. Brewers achieve that rich caramel flavor that’s expected in barleywines by extending the length of the boil, which caramelizes the flavors and imparts that deep color. Yeast and hops vary between English-style and American-style barleywines, but either way,
Yes, another Valentine’s Day is upon us. Obvious expectations on this “special” day include the following: grumpy singles, unsavory public displays of affection, overly excitable girlfriends, an arsenal of disgruntled Hallmark employees, and, of course, lots and lots of chocolate. But before Peaks and Pints goes on, let us anticipate a few of your nagging questions. First, yes, chocolate is indeed an aphrodisiac! And, no, it’s not all right to buy her (or him) the Snicker’s Family Pak and call it a night. We hate to break it to you, but that’s just not worthy of your Valentine. Craft beer
SATURDAY, FEB. 11 2017: South Sound events + craft beer … Broadway Center + Peaks and Pints = Funambulists and Filaments Tacoma Comedy Club + The Copper Door = Bitter Antique Sandwich Co. + Narrows Brewing = Love ALVIN JR. As far as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is concerned, a lot of folks just can’t get enough. Year after year the company fills the Broadway Center’s venues with a multiethnic audience the likes of which you don’t see many other places. Alvin is back … OK, Alvin Jr. At 7:30 p.m. in the Pantages Theater, Ailey II, the
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, our palates and stomachs could use a warm-up. So we’ve compiled a list of luscious, indulgent, dessert beers to stimulate your appetite. Let’s sharpen that sweet tooth with Craft Beer Crosscut 2.11.17: A Flight of Dessert Beers. Pacific Chocolate Blonde 5% ABV, 15 IBU OK, let’s ease into this dessert beer flight. We know what you’re thinking, what is a blonde doing on this dessert list? But take our word for it, this one’s worth trying. Pacific Brewing & Malting Co. delivers an impressive balance of sweet and light, it hits your mouth
Arrington de Dionyso brings This Saxophone Kills Fascists to The Valley tonight. FRIDAY, FEB. 10 2017: South Sound events + craft beer … The Valley + Peaks and Pints = Doing things different Zog’s + North End Social Club = Mixing it up ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO There comes a time for many rock musicians when they get, well, bored of playing rock music. There’s only so many chord progression combinations and melodies they can think of before they start repeating themselves, essentially writing the same song in different ways over and over. The world of experimental
The question “What is black and white and red all over?” is a classic riddle with several possible answers. One answer, using a play on the homophonic words to change the word “red” to mean “read,” is a newspaper. Other possible answers to the riddle add an attribute that is red in color to something that typically is black and white in coloration. These answers include a zebra painted red, an embarrassed skunk, a Communist nun and a sunburned penguin. Variations of these answers interchange the attribute and the object. For example, alternative responses to the question include an embarrassed
MORNING FOAM FOR FRIDAY, FEB. 10 2017: A seven-taster flight of craft beer news, from the fluffy head all the way to the bottom dumb craft beer laws. … Boundary Bay Brewery released its Irish-Style Red seasonal. Every year it’s brewed to celebrate the spirit of the Bellingham Community and the Bellingham St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Ordnance Brewing, located in Boardman, Oregon, will release four, wine-barrel-aged craft beers in 2017, the first being an Oat Brown Ale aged in Oregon Pinot Noir barrels provided by internationally acclaimed Dundee winemaker, Jesus Guillen. Backwoods Brewing Co. has launched the Hidden Stash Series,
Rod Cook performs at G. Donnalson’s tonight. THURSDAY, FEB. 9 2017: South Sound events + craft beer … G. Donnalson’s + Peaks and Pints = Iron guitarist and Iron beers Odd Otter Brewing + Kristen Marlo = Release party BLUES GUITAR Rod Cook is a well-respected guitarist known for his stylistic versatility and soulful, melodic playing. A mainstay with folk/funk, Americana artist Laura Love in the 1990s and the early part of last decade, Cook began the guitar at the age of 9. Cook has backed up blues legend Taj Mahal as well as opened as
MORNING FOAM FOR THURSDAY, FEB. 9 2017: A seven-taster flight of craft beer news, from the fluffy head all the way to the bottom secret. … More than 100 breweries will open their doors for tours and special releases as part of the Washington Beer Open House Saturday, Feb. 25, including South Sound breweries 7 Seas Brewing, Dick’s Brewing, Dystopian State Brewing, Fish Brewing, Gig Harbor Brewing, Narrows Brewing, Pacific Brewing & Malting Co., Tacoma’s Ram Brewing, Tacoma Brewing, Top Rung Brewing and Wet Coast Brewing. RODENBACH Brewery, makers of world-class renowned sour beers in the traditional Flanders red style,
So you’ve stood atop the mountain and screamed your naked desires to the universe and you’ve had your share of barleywine-fueled hallucinations of images of the pagan goddesses in the sweat lodge and you have fever dreamed your way to what someone said might be nirvana but was more likely something akin to synapse epilepsy and you have asked your dreams and opened your heart and eaten the vegan bean sprout salads and cleansed your colon and detoxed in the tub 10,000 times and endured the self-help libraries and marinated your soul in the juices of desire and forgiveness and
Larry Murante will perform at B Sharp Coffee House tonight. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8 2017: Larry + craft beer … B Sharp Coffee House + Peaks and Pints = Larry Murante and Matchless Brewing GiGi Pop + The Red Hot = Larry Huffines and Airways Brewing LARRY ONE Larry Murante. Man, this singer-songwriter with a powerful, distinctive voice blew away audiences in the early 1990s. He was compared to Lyle Lovett, Hal Ketchum and Michael McDonald. His lyrics were filled with compelling stories about real life. His beautiful, smoky, full-bodied voice racked up a string of national
The names threaten. What to believe? How fearful and anxious to be, exactly? One thing Peaks and Pints knows for sure: It’s not advisable to live in fear. It’s a fool’s game to base your life choices around what might happen. After all, the Big One has been inevitable in the South Sound for decades (and it still is). Human extinction, too. Irish Death? Turbodog? Holy crap Velocihoptor? How to process it all? How to properly understand the real risks, the false alarms, the ominous and seemingly imminent potential for collapse? Try them. Today’s beer sample flirts with the scary
Drop in on the Open Book Club at Obsidian tonight. TUESDAY, FEB. 7 2017: South Sound events + craft beer … The Grand Cinema + Peaks and Pints = Transfiguration University of Puget Sound + The Copper Door = Farm To Table To Bottle shop Obsidian + Three Magnets Brewing Co. = Book Worms and Hop Heads REV. JAMES LAWSON In 1960, Rev. James Lawson helped to launch the Nashville sit-in campaign, which successfully desegregated the Woolworth’s lunch counter, and inspired a new generation of student civil rights activities throughout the South. After Nashville he pastored
Nugget hops were created in 1970 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in a breeding program that paired up Brewers Gold, Early Green, Cantebury Golding, Bavarian, and an unknown hop together to create this hybrid hop. The breeding was done primarily to aid in disease resistance, including downy mildew, powdery mildew and Peronospera. A true hop-lover’s hop, Nugget is woody, resiny and plenty bitter. Used mainly as a bittering hop due to its high alpha acidity, Nugget is sometimes used as an aroma hop to balance out the floral and citrus notes of other hop varieties. Because of its versatility, Nugget
Oh, no … all we have is Folgers. MONDAY, FEB. 6 2017: Proctor Tacoma Snow Day Blue Mouse Theatre + Peaks and Pints = universe release and national release RISE AND SHINE ASTRONAUTS Don’t you hate it when you wake up early? So do Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence, who are roused from suspended animation 90 years too soon and have to find a way to occupy themselves on the space vessel they’re traveling in. Job One turns out to be protecting their still-sleeping fellow astronauts from an unexpected threat to the ship. Those late risers,
MORNING FOAM FOR FEB. 6 2017: A seven-taster flight of craft beer news, from the fluffy head all the way to the bottom commercials. … If you couldn’t tell by watching the Super Bowl on Sunday, a new Nielsen Harris poll has made it official — beer is still the top selling alcoholic beverage in the United States. The next release in Firestone Walker’s Luponic Distortion revolving hop series is rolling out with Revolution No. 005 — a blend of five hops led by an emerging American cultivar from Washington’s Moxee Valley! Tickets for this year’s Firestone Walker Invitational Beer
Strap them on or sled your way to peaks and Pints for a flight of snow beers. Photo credit: Pappi Swarner First things first… SNOW. Snow prompts Peaks and Pints to think that the All Mighty, while he may not shoot craps with the universe as Albert Einstein said, at least has a sense of humor. She makes existence uncertain by conjuring up sea-level snow every now and then, but at no apparently regular interval, and throws in a few earthquakes, ice storms, floods and the like now and then just to let us know who
Happy Sunday! This week on Instagram Stalker, we are reminded that even though the Super Bowl sponsors try to claim this to be the biggest drinking holiday of the year, a good craft beer can make any occasion better. We saw a lot of violence during Melvin’s 2×4 Day, women posing with craft beers and whatever that Russian guy is wearing. Be sure to keep posting those craft beer nestled against cactus photos and be sure to tag @peaksandpints if you’d like a chance to be featured! Cheers! https://www.instagram.com/p/BPtqpIUgcVO/?taken-by=hopheadhunny https://www.instagram.com/p/BP5crDABJdA/?taken-by=breaksidebrews https://www.instagram.com/p/BP8FVc1jfhW/?taken-by=redhook https://www.instagram.com/p/BP8sVCpAxbM/?taken-by=melvinbeer https://www.instagram.com/p/BP_kC_cjpjF/?taken-by=ninkasibrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BP_TnTKg3mY/?taken-by=culturebrewingco https://www.instagram.com/p/BQDwN49AaDH/?taken-by=hopworksbeer https://www.instagram.com/p/BQEKBEQAClJ/?taken-by=foundersbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BQE7YMLg6xD/?taken-by=deschutesbeer https://www.instagram.com/p/BQI1JJCghOD/?tagged=craftbeer https://www.instagram.com/p/BQILz99F4VW/?taken-by=andunion https://www.instagram.com/p/BQJE1rOAdd3/?tagged=craftbeer
An overly alcoholic, big beer will put a damper on your big Super Bowl experience; you need a lighter, easy-drinking beer that can keep you going from kickoff to the after-game celebration. But that’s where the trouble comes in: most people will grab a six-pack of a light beer from the big beer companies, thinking that only a light beer can sustain through the game. As Peaks and Pints has found in our craft beer brethren, it’s just no so. A low-alcohol beer doesn’t have to skimp on the essence of a craft beer, big flavor and big hops. Whether
Peaks and Pints will host the Uinta Brewing’s Rotating Park Series Golden Ale No. 1: Yosemite release party at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6. When national parks are mentioned what comes to mind? Mount Rainer, Olympic, or perhaps the Great Smokey Mountains? But what about Uinta? Yep, not a national park and not the noted national forest — Uinta Brewing Co. in Salt Lake City, Utah. We speak of the craft brewery founded in 1993 best known for the delicious pine and citrus forward Hop Nosh IPA. Uinta has introduced Golden Ale, a light bodied, slightly
When you drink local, you drink fresh — but you also support the local economy. We’ll break it down for you: When you drink a Wingman Brewers’ craft beers you’re not only showing some love for a local business, you’re supporting a business that’s outsourcing their graphic design to a local artist. Everyone benefits. Our beer sample flight centers on local breweries. Please stop by and enjoy Craft Beer Crosscut 2.4.17: A Flight of Tacoma. 7 Seas Water Chopper Gose 4.8% ABV This dry, moderately sour, and extremely refreshing beer is made in the gose tradition at 7 Seas’ Tacoma
Super Bowl Sunday is certainly a day about football. That much is for sure. But it’s almost as much about craft beer. While many will be doing their American duty and watching the game on Peaks and Pints’ 130-inch screen while enjoying our sandwiches, others will indulge in house parties. If you fall into the latter category, many new and restocked bottled and canned craft beers arrived at Peaks and Pints this week to pair with your friend’s bean dip. BALLAST POINT RED VELVET NITRO The deep red color comes from beets, which add a rich, earthy character that complements the
MORNING FOAM FOR SATURDAY, FEB. 4 2017: A seven-taster flight of craft beer news, from the fluffy head all the way to the bottom Budweiser. … Melvin Brewing — Wyoming’s astonishingly talented brewer of hoppy ales — celebrates its multiple Great American Beer Festival-winning 2×4 IIPA today by shipping fresh kegs to certain bars in 30 states and three countries. 2×4 is of course the star of the show, but other beers which will make special appearances include Drunken Master IIPA, Asterisk IIPA, Citradamus IIPA, Carlton CDA, Pilsgnar Pilsner, Hubert, MPA Melvin IPA and rare kegs of the brewery’s much-lauded Lambda
Jim Basnight and the Moberlys perform at The Valley tonight. FRIDAY, FEB. 3 2017: Tacoma concert paired with triple IPAs ROCK HISTORY Jim Basnight goes all the way back to the seminal Seattle Syndrome album from 1981 — a compilation of Seattle-based bands and artists released on vinyl and cassette by Engram records. He named his band after the director of the Seattle School District, David Moberly. Jim Basnight and the Moberlys have gone through breakups, reinventions, side-projects, re-releases, and reincarnations in the almost 40 years since they first hit the scene. According to Rev. Adam
Keith Henson Octet will perform at B Sharp Coffee House tonight. THURSDAY, FEB. 2 2017: Tacoma events paired with craft beer … B Sharp Coffee House + Peaks and Pints = Oscar and Oskar G. Donnalson’s + Silver City Brewery = romantic THE GREAT EIGHT The Keith Henson Octet will perform an extensive repertoire of jazz and American songbook standards at 8 p.m. in B Sharp Coffee House in downtown Tacoma. Led by Henson, expect five-horn arrangements from composers Shorty Rogers, Harry Warren, Mingus, Coltrane and others. PREFUNK: Why look, here comes one of Western Pennsylvania’s
MORNING FOAM FOR THURSDAY FEB. 2 2017: A seven-taster flight of craft beer and cider news, from the fluffy head all the way to the bottom love. … Gig Harbor Brewing Co. has been busy this winter. It just released its seasonal beer, Gig Harbor Spice Winter Ale. It’s also barrel-aging its beers, with a barrel-aged Imperial Stout currently on tap in its Tacoma taproom. Oregon dominated the 2017 Best of Craft Beer Awards, taking home more than twice as many medals as any other state. In a blind taste test with 88 certified beer judges, Oregon won 64 medals altogether, 18
Kali and hi Ancestors In Training perform at The Valley tonight. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 1 2017: South Sound events + craft beer … The Valley + Peaks and Pints = Family Tacoma Comedy Club + Parkway Tavern = Trickster Broadway Center + Pint Defiance = Silver and Soo SO STREET Kali Stoddard-Imari and his Ancestors In Training is a Boston-based band comprised of street musicians and open mic junkies with a passion for meeting new people and playing as much good music as possible. The body and soul moving music that emanates from the folk pop, rhythm
There’s a paradigm shift in the beer world. After work on Friday, the average beer mom or dad is buying fewer six-packs of Miller at Safeway. Instead, they’ll cruise by places like Peaks and Pints for a quick pint, grab a 64-ounce growler to go, and then cruise home and rejoin the family for dinner. That said, there’s still a large portion of the population that doesn’t get craft beer. The most common deterrent is the illusion that all craft beers are hop bombs served by beer snobs. Oh contraire. For our daily beer sample flight friendly Peaks and Pints
TUESDAY, JAN. 31 2017: And it was good … The Grand Cinema + Peaks and Pints = Heavenly CLEVER SPIRITUAL COMEDY Cheerily sacrilegious, the inventive comic fantasy The Brand New Testament by Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael is narrated by a 10-year-old girl in Brussels (Pili Groyne) who’s neglected by her drunken mother (Yolande Moreau) and beaten by her frustrated father (Benoît Poelvoorde). Imagining him as God and herself as Jesus’s kid sister, she vows revenge and hits the streets to recruit a homeless man as her Peter and various other lost souls as her disciples. Catch this wackiness at
Meet the American roughneck, Chinook. This hop is usually used for its bitterness but has lately gained popularity for the aromatics it imparts in many American craft beers across the style spectrum. The Chinook hop is a cross between the Petham Golding and USDA-selected male (#63012, if you want to be specific), and was first released from the breeding program in 1985. Primarily grown in the Yakima region of Washington state, this hop is primarily used for its high alpha acid content as a bittering hop. These days, however, late additions and even dry-hopping with Chinook is becoming more popular.
MONDAY, JAN. 30 2017: Blue Mouse Theatre + Peaks and Pints = Flight The Power MORE WIZARDS J.K. Rowling will always be aces in Peaks and Pints’ book. Got an entire generation interested in reading. Gave away so much of her money that she no longer qualifies as a billionaire. So yeah, she can milk the wizarding crap for the rest of her life as far as we’re concerned. Warner Bros. seems to agree, having allowed Rowling for the first time to adapt her own work in the form of Fantastic Beasts, a story that predates Harry Potter’s by some
Three Magnets teamed up with Diana Arens, former producer of the radio show Free Things Are Cool, program director at KAOS Olympia Community Radio, audio engineer at Dub Narcotic and Yoyo Studios, show organizer and Riot Grrrl band member who wanted to create “a strong beer for strong women.” The result is Free Things Are Cool Stock Ale, an 8.3% English strong ale. MORNING FOAM FOR MONDAY, JAN. 30 2017: A seven-taster flight of craft beer news, from the fluffy head all the way to the bottom beard bib. … Olympia’s Three Magnets Brewing Co. collaborated
Peaks and Pints has a proclivity toward lists and the ranking of favorites. High Fidelity inspires desert island-record discussions. March Madness is a drug. And when we were just Hills and Schooners, we’d sit cross-legged in the living room, surrounded by sorted mounds of Halloween candy and conduct elaborate trades and negotiations based on our arbitrarily prized possessions. The point being: we’re no different today. Building a desert island list is a delicate task. With records, you need to take into account all the different styles, eras, and at least one sentimental favorite. You probably want some reggae in there, being
Happy Sunday! Whew what a week, how did it go for you Peaks and Pints Pals? Judging by our bottle shop, taproom and eatery it looks as if everyone is finally getting over the flu. January is winding down and February is right around the corner. We stalked Instagram all week, running into some cool posts. Be sure to keep posting those craft beer buried in snow photos and be sure to tag @peaksandpints if you’d like a chance to be featured! Cheers! https://www.instagram.com/p/BPqwv7jh8_6/?taken-by=cascadebrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BPvoI-oh335/?taken-by=twobeersbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BPsr9PQDlsS/?taken-by=mikehessbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BPs9_sRBhEc/?taken-by=odellbrewing https://www.instagram.com/p/BPycWxqgW3p/?taken-by=draftmag https://www.instagram.com/p/BPyGpFZAwET/?taken-by=filip.adam https://www.instagram.com/p/BPyGO2cg9Gs/?taken-by=halflionbeer https://www.instagram.com/p/BP0SmV3AiGQ/?taken-by=bendbrewingco https://www.instagram.com/p/BP073jzAayk/?tagged=strangebrew https://www.instagram.com/p/BPyvd6Wl8wi/?tagged=strangebrew https://www.instagram.com/p/BPy1Wj9gTYQ/?tagged=strangebrew https://www.instagram.com/p/BP3J4WTBSJe/?taken-by=propolisbrewing
Regional bragging rights. Office betting pools. Weekend afternoon boredom. These are all worthwhile reasons to be a sports fan. But for Peaks and Pints’ money, the best defense of sports’ spectators has to be the vicarious thrill that we get from seeing athletes do all the cool stuff we can’t do. So unless you already know how to dance atop a stack of chairs or juggle jars, desks, ladders, and bamboo with your feet, you’ll want to check out The Peking Acrobats in the Pantages Theater at 3 p.m. Unless you’re completely dead on the inside, there should still be
Sam Calagione started making beer in 1995 when he opened Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats in the beach community of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. It was the smallest commercial brewery in America at that time. Within a few successful years, the company activated a major expansion, switching from making very small, homebrew-style batches to industrial-sized sessions in a sizeable brew house. Dogfish Head expanded and moved to a 100,000 square foot facility in nearby Milton, DE in 2002. They’re one of the largest craft brewers in America but yet there may be no brewery today that exhibits such a dedication to
SATURDAY, JAN. 28 2017: Tacoma events + craft beer … Doyle’s Public House + Peaks and Pints = Cody Ray and the New Favorites and the Chicocabra Tacoma Little Theatre and The Eleven Eleven = Wild Tacoma GUITAR DRIVEN In May 2014, Cody Ray Raymond and Jesse Turcotte formed Cody Ray and the New Favorites, each adding exceptional guitar skills, experience and huge hearts to the neo-soul/R&B funk-rock fusion group. Catch the guitar-driven, power-trio soul and blues explosion in Doyle’s Public House at 10 p.m. PREFUNK: Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.’s Beer Camp is the ultimate brewing experience. The Chico, California
Our beer flight heads east for Craft Beer Crosscut 1.28.17: A Flight of East Coast. Founded in 1997, Brewery Ommegang has been bringing Belgium to America with resounding applause. Designed with a traditional Belgian farmhouse in mind and built over a former hop farm in Cooperstown, New York, all of Ommegang’s beers are brewed with traditional Belgian ales in mind, courtesy of Belgian beer exert Don Feinberg. The company has since been acquired by Brouwerij Duvel Moortgat (that’s right, Duvel’s founders), and has flourished over the past few years. Founded by childhood friends, Bill Covaleski and Ron Barchet, Victory Brewing
FRIDAY, JAN. 27 2017: Tacoma music + craft beer … Dystopian State + Wingman Brewers + Peaks and Pints = Gigantic Sometimes you just need to bang your head. At least we do, and tonight’s head-banging option will satiate any and all neck-injuring, hair-thrashing needs you may have. Get ready for some hair metal rippers as Scorpions tribute band Dark Lady rock you like a hurricane in Dystopian State Brewing Co.’s taproom at 8 p.m. Also of note: Colin Scott Reynolds (frontman for alt-country stylists the Silver Dollars, drummer for both slippery math-rock act Etchings and crunchy alt-rockers Watermelon
After being relentlessly hounded by a spamming cake marketer — which conjured up horrific mental imagery of frosting — we are capitulating. We will inform you that today, Friday, is National Chocolate Cake Day. In the spirit of National Chocolate Cake Day – which has yet to be declared an official holiday – we’re playing to your craft beer. Luckily for us craft beer lovers, there are many delicious and unique chocolate beers being crafted by U.S. breweries — just in time for this national day. We present Craft Beer Crosscut 1.27.17: A Flight of Chocolate Beer, our beer flight
THURSDAY, JAN. 26 2017: South Sound events + craft beer and cider … Tacoma Comedy Club + Peaks and Pints = Tasting beer Broadway Center + Rainier Growlers = Walking Harlequin Production + Fish Tale Brewpub = Corrie & Chocolate & Cherry STAND UP COMEDY Probably best known as the cop in Dumb & Dumber who tastes a “beer” that more than smells like piss, Canadian actor-comedian Harland Williams has been doing some of the quirkiest stand-up around for years. His observational humor comes wrapped in a conventional appearance and stable, intelligent persona that can go off the deep end
Wonderfilled MORNING FOAM FOR THURSDAY, JAN. 26 2017: A seven-taster flight of craft beer and cider news, from the fluffy head all the way to the bottom show trick. … April 2, Portland Farmhouse and Wild Ale Festival and the inaugural Farmhouse Weekend will celebrate the rustic, working-class, yeast-driven beers that originated in France and Belgium but have had a new renaissance in the United States. The Lost Abbey Cuvee de Tomme is back in bottles. Last bottled in 2013, the quad — brewed with raisins, and aged with Brettanomyces in bourbon, brandy and red wine
