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
After years of homebrewing in college, Zach Turner spent 4 years brewing at Odell Brewing, overseeing beer quality, in Fort Collins. In 2012 Zach signed on with Hop Union where he became the director of Quality & Sustainability. His work continued in the same fashion when Hop Union became part of Yakima Chief Hops in 2017. Alternatively, Ty Paxton, originally from nearby Selah, Washington, majored in Marketing & Fine Arts at WSU, and then put his sales, marketing, and design skills to work. Turner and Paxton met by chance at a cider pressing party hosted by mutual friends in 2013.
More fresh hop beers have arrive at Peaks & Pints! Peaks and Pints New Fresh Hops In Stock 9.27.24 More fresh hop beers have arrived at Peaks & Pints! Grab a pint and a sandwich, then grab another pint and shop our massive cooler. 🍻 CHARLIE FOXTROT FRESH HOP, Aslan Brewing: Fresh hop IPA brewed with a mixture of organic Cascade, Chinook, Centennial, Crystal, and Columbus fresh hops grown at their farm 9 miles away from the Bellingham brewery for hop flavors of citrus, pineapple, pepper, and pine over a balanced bready, malt backbone, 6.9%, 12oz
Fresh hop season is a perk you get for living in the Pacific Northwest, with farm-fresh, bright-green hops throwing off beautifully idiosyncratic farm-y notes in beer made just a car ride from where the hops are grown. It’s more than just another feel-good “buy local” movement — with the yearly harvest comes a torrent of fresh-hop beers made from hops are at their peak of freshness, bursting with aroma from rhizome to rhizome. Why the time-sensitive frenzy? For something so associated with brash bitterness, hops are surprisingly delicate — breaking down almost as soon as they’re harvested. The Northwest leads
For the eighth consecutive September, Peaks & Pints is throwing a month-long autumn beer party marrying two popular seasonal beer styles on draft — fresh hop beers and Oktoberfest lagers — this year naming it, “Dawn of Fresh Hoptoberfest.” In September 2017, in keeping with our multi-rooted sensibilities, Peaks & Pints hosted The Hunt For Fresh Hoptoberfest, tapping fresh hop and Oktoberfest beers daily. Crowds discovered bright, fresh-hop beers, just hours from field to kettle and mere days from the fermenter to their glass AND drank to their health with clean, hearty Oktoberfest-style lagers from Germany and nearby. Peaks &
Consider the vanilla bean. The Aztecs did. In addition to inventing long words ending in “atl” and awesome mythology, they had the patience to figure out how to cultivate vanilla — a particularly difficult flavor to come by. The pods are the fruit of an orchid plant (Vanilla planifolia), and they must be cured and fermented over the course of about six months. If that weren’t involved enough, the high-maintenance orchid itself must be pollinated by hand. Vanilla beans, like coffee and chocolate, only proliferate naturally in tropical latitudes, and, like wine grapes, the various strains reflect the qualities of
Another round of fresh hop beers has arrived to the Peaks & Pints cooler. Cheers! Peaks and Pints New Fresh Hops In Stock 9.24.24 Fresh Hop Tuesday is on! A HOP OF ICE AND FIRE, Logan Brewing: Fresh Hop IPA brewed with fresh Centennial and cascade hops for notes of grapefruit, lime, and dank pine, 6.8%, 16oz ALL THAT CITRA, Ilk Beer: Fresh hop West Coast IPA brewed with Citra T-90, Citra Cryo and Citra 301 Cryo and of course wet Citra, 6.2%, 16oz DRIPPING WET HOPS, Ilk Beer: This 100-percent fresh hop IPA is brewed
October in Washington brings juicy plums, the smell of boiling Dungeness crab, and pumpkin spice lattes. But for beer drinkers, October means wet hop beers. One of the most seasonally specific styles that a brewery can make, wet-hop (or fresh-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 September, with the bounty arriving now, at least this year. Today, Peaks and Pints presents another round
Drekker Brewing’s building began its life in 1880 in the earliest days of Fargo, nine years before North Dakota would become a state. It was built by Northern Pacific as a locomotive repair building and foundry, and it’s the last standing piece of what was a large railroad facility that included a 28-car roundhouse and many other buildings. The building went through many uses and owners over the years but fell into disrepair after sitting mostly empty for several decades. Even still, its soul and character were undeniable, and it was where scientist Mark Bjornstad, builder Darin Montplaisir, businessperson Jesse
Peaks and Pints New Beer In Stock 9.21.24 Grab a pint of Oktoberfest bier and shop Peaks and Pints New Beer In Stock 9.21.24 in our cooler. Prost! BARLEY OASIS, Lumberbeard Brewing: Pilsner collaboration with Harland Brewing brewed with Citra DynaBoost, Motueka and Mosaic hops with 100-percent, locally grown and malted Steffi Pilsner malt, 4.9%, 16oz FRESH BOIS, Matchless Brewing: Fresh hop lager brewed Adeena hops and finished with a heaping dry hopping of fresh Citra hop cones from Carpenter Ranches for citrus plus notes of honeydew, mango & subtle lemongrass, 4.2%, 16oz FRESH HOP SECTIOR 7, Von Ebert Brewing:
The party began in October 1810, when a great horse race was organized to celebrate the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen. Everyone had so much fun that it was held again, and eventually became an annual event, dubbed “Oktoberfest” in 1872. It has since evolved into a 16-day Munich blowout, which begins today. Oh, to be in that great mass of humanity, dancing to the throbbing polka beats, scarfing down sausage, kraut, and strudel, and most of all, imbibing from the holy grail, er, stein, or today at Peaks and Pints — a taster glass.
Fresh Hop Friday! Peaks and Pints New Fresh Hops in Stock 9.20.24 New Fresh Hop Drop on a Friday! FIELD TO FERMENT STRATA (2024), Fremont Brewing: Fresh Strata hops from Roy Farms Strata hops were used to hop and dry hop this fresh hop pale ale, 6%, 16oz FRESH HOP IPA, Fort George Brewery: Brewed with 500 pounds of fresh Strata hops from Coleman Agriculture for a bright, zesty fresh hop IPA, 6.5%, 16oz FRESH HOP CRIKEY, Reuben’s Brews: Brewed with judicious amounts of Citra, Amarillo, Simcoe, Centennial, Mosaic, Columbus and Azacca hops for notes of
Pacific Northwest hops are harvested each year from late August through September, which means beers brewed with the freshest hops available, known also as wet-hopped beers, arrive this month. What are fresh hop beers? Simply put, they’re brews made with hops that are pulled off the bine and go straight into the kettle. The vast majority of the hops used by U.S. breweries are cultivated in Oregon and Washington. For the most part, these hops are dried and processed before being sold to professional and amateur brewers, which affects the flavor punch. With fresh hops, drinkers can expect more hoppiness,
In 2012, Chase Healey and his brother, Colin, opened Prairie Artisan Ales in Krebs, Oklahoma, in collaboration with century-old local institution Krebs Brewing, makers of Choc Beer. Chase brewed and Colin created Prairie’s colorful, cartoonish label art. Prairie Bomb became influential in the trend toward big, adjunct-laden imperial stouts. Chase sold Prairie to Krebs and went on to open his dream/side project with his wife, Erica, in Tulsa: American Solera. The Healeys’ plan involved coolship beers, mixed fermentation, and barrel aging. RateBeer users named American Solera the country’s best new brewery and second-best new brewery in the world in 2016,
