Peaks & Pints has new beer and cider arriving daily to our 850-plus cooler. Peaks and Pints Cooler New Beer and Cider November 2024 Peaks and Pints Cooler houses more than 850-plus craft beer and cider cans and bottles, not counting all the bottles of wine on our shelves, including the new choice autumn 2024 arrivals listed below. Peaks & Pints strives to fulfill customer requests and supply our neighbors with the latest craft beer and cider. If you have questions regarding beer availability or special orders, please contact feedback@peakcandpints.com. Shop our cooler at 3826 N.
Grab a Deschutes Brewery Jubelale from Peaks & Pints and enjoy while ordering your Gardensphere Christmas tree online. Proctor & Pints: Gardensphere Jubelale Pre-funk It’s Christmas-pre-funk-time! It’s that time of the year when the weather gets colder and the people get warmer (generally), and when red and green become the most popular colors around town (and on ladies’ fingernails). The radio stations start playing that jolly Christmas music, and the cheesy — yet equally classic — holiday movies are on repeat on your TV guide. But soon we’ll be dragging trees, branches, and even holiday plants
This Peaks & Pints six-pack of new arrivals to our cooler could kick your butt. Peaks and Pints New Beer Six Pack: 11.6.24 Could you use a six-pack of beer? Stop by Peaks & Pints in Tacoma’s Proctor District and grab this 6-pack of new arrivals in our 850-plus cooler. Cheers! AVERY BREWING ISLAY: Imperial stout aged in rare Islay Scotch barrels for big aroma and flavor notes peat, whiskey and campfire wood, plus a little malt sweetness, 10.4%, 120z AVERY BREWING TEQUILACERBUS: Sour ale aged for several months in Suerte’s Añejo and Reposado barrels for
This week’s Wednesday Chicken Salad Sandwich Special pairs well with Fruh Kolsch. Peaks and Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: Chicken Salad Comfort Wednesday, Nov. 6 2024: Peaks & Pints Kitchen Brittany whipped up her weekly Wednesday Chicken Salad Sandwich Special — this week with garlic herb mayo, goat cheese, red onion, cucumber, and tomato on sourdough PAIRING: Früh Kölsch Pair the Peaks and Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: Chicken Salad Comfort with Früh Kölsch, a top-fermented specialty beer brewed according to the German Purity Law. Kölsch is fermented with ale yeast at warm temperatures, then conditioned at cold
Douville Home Group’s Hoppy Holiday Food Drive has brought together 10 Pierce County breweries and cideries for a friendly competition to collect non-perishable food and hygiene items for Emergency Food Network, or EFN. From Nov. 5 through Dec. 3, items can be donated in-person or monetary donations can be made online using the QR codes on all the marketing materials. Again, all donations benefit EFN, whose mission is, “… to provide Pierce County with a consistent, diverse and nutritious food supply so that no person goes hungry.” Overall, more than 2.6 million visits were made to EFN partner programs during
New craft beer arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler Peaks and Pints New Beer Six Pack 11.3.24 Peaks & Pints presents a six-pack of new arrivals to our cooler to enjoy during Sunday Night Football tonight. It’s a matchup of former Jets QBs Joe Flacco of the Indianapolis Colts and Sam Darnold of the Minnesota Vikings. Flacco already has two wins in place of Anthony Richardson earlier this season and now gets the No. 1 job after Richardson’s bizarre “tap out” for a key third-and-goal play last week because he was “tired.” Stop by Peaks
Raised in Puyallup, Colin Lenfesty was a longtime homebrewer who worked his way into the Schooner EXACT Brewing team where he met sales guy Mike Murphy. In 2014, the two opened Holy Mountain in Seattle’s Interbay neighborhood. Their oak-influenced and mixed fermentation beers, as well as hop-forward ales and lagers, instantly gained crowds and awards. During the pandemic, Murphy left Holy Mountain and the industry to open Outer Dark Coffee in Tacoma leaving Lenfesty to forge ahead brewing more hop-forward beers than sours and saisons. Forklift failures, whiskey wrestling, fly fishing and the quickest and most delicious entry into craft
Tacoma Beer Factoid: Clicquot Club Circa 1952 Tacoma, an unidentified young lady admires a display of two huskies pulling a sled of Clicquot Club beverages who are being urged on by a small, hooded figure. Clicquot Club Beverages was one of the largest national beverage companies. Posters on the wall behind the display advertise the Clicquot Club/KJR Theater Party on August 29. The Clicquot Club sponsored KJR’s Saturday Night Dance Party from 8-11:30 pm on radio station 950. The Theater Party on August 29th would provide live entertainment with Little Bill and the Blue Notes in concert. Admission was only
For the second year in row, Peaks & Pints will be a pit stop for AleSmith Brewing’s Speedway Grand Prix on the road. The longtime, San Diego brewery takes their San Diego Beer Week signature Speedway Grand Prix event on the road, popping up in cities nationwide, including Tacoma. As part of our 8th Anniversary celebration, join us for an epic night filled with exclusive Speedway Stout variants and other delicious barrel-aged favorites on draft. We’ll have fun AleSmith beers in the cooler, too. Come out and meet the AleSmith team and get your hands on some Speedway and AleSmith
Established in 2019 by Schilling Cider, the Washington-based cider company with Sasquatch as a mascot, launched October National Cider Month five years ago. Throughout the month, Peaks & Pints has featured Schilling Cider with cider flights and special parties. As part of the Peaks & Pints 8th Anniversary celebration, Peaks & Pints presents our National Cider Month with Schilling Finale Party tonight from 5-8 p.m. with many Schilling ciders on tap, a Schilling cider flight, and top-tier swag giveaways. Since Schilling and Peaks & Pints have partnered with Washington Wild many times, this celebration will also be a fundraiser for
New beer arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler for Tuesday, Oct. 29 2024. Peaks and Pints New Beer Six Pack: 10.29.24 Tuesday is a great new brews day. Stop by Peaks & Pints in Tacoma’s Proctor District and grab this 6-pack of new arrivals to our 850-plus cooler. Cheers! BLOCK 15 FLICKER IPA: Post leap into a pile of leaves IPA with notes of lychee, stone fruit, and pine, 7%, 16oz DESCHUTES BREWERY JUBELALE: Embodying the spirit of celebration since 1988, Jubelale winter warmer offers notes of spice, a robust malt character, hints of toffee
Peaks & Pints celebrates its 8th Anniversary with three parties Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2024. Peaks and Pints 8th 8Anniversary 3-Day Celebration Peaks & Pints turns 8 years old Friday, Nov. 1. We’re not looking for the traditional gifts such as bronze and pottery, or the modern takes of linen and lace. No, we’re asking for you to take a three-day vacation and party with us! Peaks & Pints celebrates our 8th Anniversary with three parties: National Cider Month Finale Party and Washington Wild Fundraiser with Schilling Cider on Wednesday, Oct. 30; AleSmith Brewing Speedway Grand Prix
Beer gurus Matt McLaren (Orcas Distributing), and Ron Swarner (Peaks & Pints), and Bethany Carlsen (The Funk Busters) explore and celebrate the craft beer industry, community, and history in Tacoma, Washington, and surrounding Pacific Northwest region, with assistance from opinionated beer industry insiders, on the Grit & Grain Podcast every Friday on YouTube, Amazon, Apple Music, Spotify, Google Play, iHeartRadio, and Channel 253. The Grit & Grain records episodes at 3:30 p.m. every other Wednesday at Peaks & Pints craft beer bar, bottle shop and restaurant in Tacoma’s Proctor District. All are welcome to hang, drink along with them, and
Halloween is creeping around the corner like a Commerce Street guttersnipe in search of a bag of cans. Spooky, eh? It’s said there’s nothing new under the sun, and that timeworn chestnut proves particularly true every Halloween. For instance, if you under the delusion that you’ll be the only Trump out and about on All Hallows’ Eve, think again. While it’s bad enough that everyone and their mother dresses like a pirate, ninja or zombie during this time of year, copycat costumes tend to be in abundance during All Hallows’ Eve. In other words, we’re expecting to see multiple clones
It’s safe to say Schilling Cider is more thrilled about National Cider Month than any other cidery in the nation. Schilling invented the monthlong cider hug five years ago to celebrate the apple-centric hard beverage and elevate the cider industry as a whole. As part of National Cider Month, Schilling has, once again, partnered with Washington Wild to raise money to help keep wild spaces intact. Since Peaks & Pints has partnered with Washington Wild many times, we’re donating proceeds from our Monday Cider Flights to Washington Wild’s mission to protect wild lands and rivers in Washington state through advocacy,
Halloween is rapidly approaching, and if you’re like Peaks & Pints then that means you’re rapidly preparing to spend an evening dressed as your deepest, darkest fantasy. Peaks & Pints believes in early preparation with Halloween beers, too, and has gathered five Great Notion Brewing Halloween-themed beers as our beer flight today. In 2016, James Dugan, Andy Miller, and Paul Reiter opened Great Notion Brewing and stunned Portland, Oregon with their New England-style IPAs and boundary-pushing culinary-style beers. The awards followed: World Beer Cup, GABF, Best of Craft Beer Awards, and Oregon Beer Awards, as well as the 2018 #1
Peaks & Pints has new beer and cider arriving daily to our 850-plus cooler. Peaks and Pints Cooler New Beer and Cider Autumn 2024 Peaks and Pints Cooler houses more than 850-plus craft beer and cider cans and bottles, not counting all the bottles of wine on our shelves, including the new choice autumn 2024 arrivals listed below. Peaks & Pints strives to fulfill customer requests and supply our neighbors with the latest craft beer and cider. If you have questions regarding beer availability or special orders, please contact feedback@peakcandpints.com. Shop our cooler at 3826 N.
Today, Peaks & Pints presents a flight of beer brewed in the Baltic states. Beer has a long history in Estonia, originating on the island between 500 and 1000 CE. Traditional Estonian beer brewers used wheat, rye, and oats — three grains that have long been cultivated in the country. For many Estonians beer brewing was a matter of survival — before widespread sanitation and water purification, drinking beer was likely to be safer than drinking water. The craft beer movement, however, has taken root in Estonia in recent years, with smaller microbreweries popping up around the country and beginning
Fresh is best, they say, and beer is no exception. Brewing with fresh ingredients is important for flavor and quality, and hops are among the most celebrated — especially in the Pacific Northwest where most of the nation’s hops are grown. The hop harvest is like Christmas in August, though the harvest extended well into September as fresh hop beers are still arriving to Peaks & Pints craft beer bar, bottle shop and restaurant in Tacoma’s Proctor District. Typically, hops are harvested, dried, and converted into pellets that’ll stay usable for years. Brewers are on the clock with fresh hops, though, which are
Peaks & Pints bartender Trish, who owns Trish’s Dog Walking Service, suggests you grab a Here Today Brewery’s Fresh Hop Glitter Paw Hazy IPA to enjoy while your dog chews on a squeaky ZippyPaws Happy Hour Crusherz IPA from Wag Pet Market. Proctor & Pints: Wag Pet Market Squeaky Beer Wag Pet Market in Tacoma’s Proctor District Dear Mickey, The beers with the paw print are yours and squeak. The other beers are mine and contain actual beer. Please note, placing a paw print in the middle of my beer bottle does
In 2016, Phil Hottenstein, a railroad engineer, and Russell Mann, former owner of the Enoteca wine and beer shop in Post Falls, Idaho, and Matt Skillicorn, a mechanical engineer and homebrewer opened Bombastic Brewing after Mann sold the store. The brewery began on a half-barrel (15-gallon) pilot brewing system at the Panhandle Area Business Council incubator near the Hayden, Idaho airport. Last year, Mann bought out the partners, which came on the heels of their multi-state expansion and receipt of three medals at the North American Brewers Association’s International Beer and Cider Awards. Today, Peaks & Pints presents a flight
While Natalie Cilurzo was working full-time at a winery, Vinnie Cilurzo bought a 7-barrel system from Electric Dave, a guy that was in jail in Bisbee, Arizona, for selling marijuana mail-order. Electric Dave sold Vinnie an old soup vessel for a brewing kettle, a DIY mash tun, and plastic fermenters before the Cilurzos opened Blind Pig in Temecula in 1994. Vinnie was already a homebrewer and had helped form the local Temecula Valley Homebrew Club. Russian River brewery was started in 1997 by Korbel Champagne Cellars, a Guerneville, California-based winery specializing in “California Champagne,” or sparkling wine of the méthode
Check out these recent arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler. Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 10.15.24 Grab a fresh hop beer on tap and then shop our cooler for Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 10.15.24. BEFORE THE RAIN, Mirage Beer: Fresh Hop IPA collaboration with Howzit! Brewing in Honolulu, this fresh hop hazy IPA grabbed first place at the Yakima fresh Hop Ale Festival for its fresh Mosaic hops from Carpenter Ranches and dry hopping with fresh Chinook hops from Roy Farms, 6.8%, 16oz BOOK CLUB BLACK LAGER, Gold Dot Beer:
This October marks the fifth annual National Cider Month, founded by Schilling Cider to celebrate the apple-centric hard beverage and elevate the cider industry as a whole. Whether you’re a longtime cider aficionado or a curious newcomer, National Cider Month’s alignment with the harvest season makes this month-long celebration the perfect opportunity to pay homage to the craftsmanship and tradition of cidermaking and explore the diverse and rich flavor profiles of today’s hard cider. As part of National Cider Month, Schilling has, once again, has partnered with Washington Wild to raise money to help keep wild spaces intact. Since Peaks & Pints
Established in 2006, the Tacoma Film Festival has developed from small regional festival to a welcoming, interactive haven for regional and international filmmakers, industry professionals, students, fans, critics, and creative entrepreneurs. This year, TFF has shortened things to just a four-day weekend, running from Oct. 10-13; while there will be fewer movies than a week would provide, this shorter run has been stuffed with entertainment, both at The Grand Cinema and down the street from Peaks & Pints at the Blue Mouse Theater. Pairing the Tacoma Film Festival with Peaks & Pints on the last day of the festival seems
These craft beers just arrived in the Peaks & Pints cooler Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 10.12.24 Here are a few of the new beers that arrived this week at Peaks & Pints. Enjoy your weekend! DECAPITATOR, Buoy Beer: Viscous and velvety doppelbock aged eight weeks in bourbon barrels for malt aromatics and a smooth lager finish, 9%, 19.2oz FIELDS OF GREEN (FRESH HOP CITRA 2024), Fort George Brewery: Creamy, fresh hop hazy IPA with grassy dank notes, 7.6%, 16oz FRESH HOP MOSAIC PALE, Sig Brewing: Names “Best in Show” at the 2024 Fresh
What’s bilingual and is surrounded by music, dance, visual arts, traditional latine food, and a mercadito with local vendors reflecting the diversity of latine communities? How about the Festival Herencia Latina — the annual, free community event celebrating South Sound Latine culture presented by Tacoma Arts Live and Latinx Unidos of the South Sound. From noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct., 12, in the Tacoma Armory, Festival Herencia Latina will offer free afternoon of fun for all ages to explore the rich tapestry of Latin American heritage from in the Latinx communities of our region. In celebration, Peaks & Pints
It begins a couple weeks after you stop wearing white pants as the summer heat begins to ebb. There’s no official start date to the fresh hop season, which depends on the hop harvest. This year, he first of the fresh-hop beers came trickling in the first week of September, but soon there was a steady flow, and then, by the first of October, a flood from breweries released their fresh hop beers. Made from fresh-plucked, undried hops rushed straight from the field to the brewery, skipping the drying process they would usually undergo to preserve them. Fresh hops contain
New craft beer in the Peaks & Pints cooler. Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 10.10.24 Cheers to this beautiful Thursday! Here are a few of the new arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler. Cheers! ABSOLUTE VIRTUE: EARL GREY & LEMON: Urban Family Brewing: Light bodied sour packed with lemon and then steeped in 60 pounds of Earl Grey tea for a burst of lemon that transcends into a sweet melody of tea and citrus, 5.7%, 12oz BEER 300, Human People Beer: Hoppy pilsner brewed with Citra, Mosaic, and Strata hops, 5.5%, 16oz EMERALD
October in Washington brings juicy plums, the smell of boiling Dungeness crab, and pumpkin spice lattes. But for beer drinkers, October still means wet hop beers. One of the most seasonally specific styles that a brewery can make, wet-hop beers are brewed with just-harvested whole-cone hops rushed from farms to brew kettles to capture the most vibrant flavors and aromas of these pungent flowers before they begin to fade. This limits the brewing period to the very short hops harvest season every August and September, with the bounty arriving in early October, at least this year. Today, Peaks & Pints
Shop at Olympia Coffee in Tacoma Proctor District then head across the street to celebrate with E9 Brewing’s Tacoma Boys Fresh Crop IPA at Peaks & Pints. Proctor & Pints: Olympia Coffee Time Machine You do a double take. You so a triple take. You take another sip of your Cortado AND lean into a fourth take. You asked the barista, “Did I just exit Rufus’ time machine phonebooth with Bill and Ted and arrived in 1988? Olympia Coffee Roasters’ merch is trending back to 1990s nostalgia with their branded fanny pack made by Known Supply,
On sprawling farms clustered around Yakima and Willamette valleys, thousands of green Humulus lupulus vines snake vigorously skyward. A relative of marijuana, these hop plants produce resiny, cone-shaped flowers prized for their use as a bittering agent in beer. October is the traditional time for end-of-the-season harvesting and hops are no exception. That’s good news for beer lovers, as many breweries take advantage of the numerous Pacific Northwest hop farms, creating beers flavored by hops sourced 3-5 hours from the kettle boil. These beers typically have an aroma akin to that of a freshly mowed lawn and the resinous and
Peaks and Pints Tap List Saturday, Oct. 5 2024, includes Single Hill Brewing’s Energy Cone Fresh Hop Hazy IPA on our Western red cedar tap log. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Saturday, Oct. 5 2024 Peaks and Pints houses a mind-boggling array of suds: some 850 or so bottled and canned in our cooler, with another 28 on tap, including nitro lines. While craft beer remains our foundation, you don’t have to be embarrassed for ordering artisan craft cider, wine, cold brewed coffee, and hard seltzer as those delights are on tap too. To follow our
Dracula. That intensely sexual, seductively amorous icon of male machismo and magnetism — the hypnotic set of eyes, the broad shoulders and refined neck subtly shrouded beneath the sweeping cape, elegant hands that coax a slow simmer from the blood of his prey, silent footsteps, lingering fingers, full lips that teasingly reveal the orgasmic crescendo of long white teeth hidden behind them. … Feeling titillated yet? Pacific Northwest Playwright Steven Dietz’s adaptation restores the suspense and seduction of Bram Stoker’s classic novel Dracula via Tacoma Arts Live’s Theater Northwest under the direction of departing CEO David Fischer. Held every weekend
Peaks & Pints received a bunch of new beer to our cooler today, including many fresh hops. Cheers! Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 10.4.24 OK, we’re ready! We have loaded these new beers in our massive cooler for your weekend, or have our staff crack one open while you watch the WNBA playoffs from our bar stools. AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF HOPS, Fort George Brewery: Collaboration with Burial Beer, this extra pale ale brewed with fresh Vista hops from McKay Farms, plus Chinook T90, Vista T90, and Chinook CGX
Rob Lutz’ beer career began as a keg washer at Amnesia Brewing, the North Portland brewery that opened in May of 2003 on Mississippi Avenue. Amnesia moved to Washougal, Washington, then folded. Lutz went in the opposite direction. In late 2014, he and Dan Malech opened StormBreaker Brewing in Amnesia’s former spot. Their creative beer lineup earned awards. The duo opened a second spot in Portland’s St. John neighborhood, as well as expanded their Mississippi location, adding an axe-throwing platform. Since it’s a cold, rainy autumn Friday and still fresh hop season, Peaks & Pints presents a flight of StormBreaker
Thanks to Schilling Cider, October is National Cider Month. Established in 2019 by Schilling, the Washington-based cider company with Sasquatch as a mascot, Peaks & Pints joins the National Cider Month celebration hosting several Schilling Cider events in October, including a 5-8 p.m. kick-off party with Washington Wild tonight at our craft beer and cider lodge in Tacoma’s Proctor District. As part of National Cider Month, Schilling has, once again, has partnered with Washington Wild to raises money to help keep wild spaces intact. Last year, this campaign raised $20,000 for these charities. Since Peaks & Pints has partnered with
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 10.2.24 Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 10.2.24 pits Halloween against fresh hops. … APPLE CIDER DONUTS, Little House Brewing: Collaboration with Great Falls Brewing, this scotch ale has notes of cinnamon notes, cake doughnut flavor, decadent vanilla, and just a hint of snappy cidery-goodness, 7%, 16oz BEETLE JUICE JR, Great Notion Brewing: The official hazy IPA of the Netherworld dry hopped with Mosaic hops, 7%, 16oz BOO BERRY MUFFIN, Great Notion Brewing: Tart ale is brewed with Oregon blueberries and marshmallow cereal, 6%, 16oz CAUTIONARY TAIL, Fat Orange Cat Brew: Pumpkin
“Cerebral Brewing: A Scientific Approach to Beer,” Cerebral Brewing’s website declares alongside an illustration of a DNA double helix with hops growing from it, and a lab beaker full of brew. Makes sense. In 2015, Doctor of Physical Therapy Sean Buchan, microbiologist Chris Washenberger and financier Dan McGuire — all homebrewers — opened Cerebral Brewing in Denver’s Congress Park neighborhood along the city’s famed Colfax Avenue. The three met at Washenberger’s Denver homebrew club where the idea “to combine scientific methodology with an artistic viewpoint to create extremely drinkable beers spanning a broad spectrum of styles” became a reality. With
More fresh hops! Peaks and Pints New Fresh Hops in Stock 10.1.24 Fresh hop season continues, and Peaks has more to share! CGX FRESH HOP IPA – ESTATE AMARILLO 2024, Black Raven Brewing: Fresh Hop IPA brewed with fresh Amarillo from Crosby Farms, 6%, 16oz FRESH CUT, Sig Brewing: Brewed with a copious amount of wet Amarillo hops, then double dry hopped with harvest fresh Amarillo and Strata T-90 hop pellets for a dank and resinous sip with underlying strawberry and grapefruit, 8.3%, 16oz FRESH DAY BEER, Trap Door Brewing: Their GABF winning West Coast Pils
Death pours Death & Taxes before filing his taxes late today. Peaks and Pints Tap List: Tuesday, Oct. 1 2024 Peaks and Pints houses a mind-boggling array of suds: some 850 or so bottled and canned in our cooler, with another 28 on tap, including nitro lines. While craft beer remains our foundation, you don’t have to be embarrassed for ordering artisan craft cider, wine, cold brewed coffee, and hard seltzer as those delights are on tap too. To follow our tap list live from your phone, click here for iPhone and here for Android. The
This October marks the fifth annual National Cider Month, founded by Schilling Hard Cider to celebrate the apple-centric hard beverage and elevate the cider industry. Whether you’re a longtime cider aficionado or a curious newcomer, National Cider Month’s alignment with the harvest season makes this month-long celebration an opportunity to pay homage to the craftsmanship and tradition of cidermaking and explore the diverse and rich flavor profiles of today’s hard cider. Cider makers and retailers around the country are participating in this spirited occasion, hosting events and tastings that provide an immersive experience into the world of cider. Peaks & Pints
In September 2017, Peaks & Pints presented our first Fresh Hoptoberfest — a month-long autumn beer party marrying up two popular seasonal beers — fresh hops and Oktoberfest. Women dressed in lederhosen. Men got fresh … hop beers. Hop farmers and malters began living together — mass hysteria! This year, our eighth year, we named the celebration “Dawn of Fresh Hoptoberfest” at our bottle shop, taproom and restaurant in Tacoma’s Proctor District. Today marks the last day of Peaks & Pints’ annual Fresh Hoptoberfest, although fresh hop beers will be on tap at Peaks & Pints for several more weeks.
Most of us can’t function without our morning cup, whether it’s black, loaded with sugar and cream, or one of those $10 fancy-pants 20-ounce jobs. It’s part of our morning routine. It’s a ritual. It warms our souls and gets us moving. It’s a social custom and a hangover remedy. Not only do we love coffee, but coffee also loves us. Today is National Coffee Day. Of course, at Peaks and Pints International Headquarters, every day is coffee beer day. We salute National Coffee Day in the only way we know how — with a flight of coffee beer we
