We know, we know, you’re thinking, “Is there really a food holiday for every day of the week?” The answer: Yes, yes there is. Today, June 25, is National Strawberry Parfait Day, so we’d encourage you on this 78-degree day to head to Peaks & Pints for … strawberry beer. Strawberries have become more and more popular as a flavor component in malted barley brewed beverages. Though it has been pointed out that some hop varietals impart flavor characteristics likened to strawberries, there are in fact actual brews that use the scrumptious fruit to add their own deliciousness. Stop by
New craft beer in the Peaks & Pints 850-plus beer and cider cooler. Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 6.23.24 What’s better than shopping for beer? Shopping for beer while drinking a beer! Swing by Peaks & Pints, grab a beer on draft, and browse our 850-plus beer and cider cooler. Cheers! B-MOVIE MONSTER, Trap Door Brewing: Collaboration with Recluse Brew Works, this IPA is brewed with HBC 586, Azacca, Citra and Chinook for a tropical citrus profile with a touch of mango and pine, 6%, 16oz FRESH CROP IPA, E9 Brewing: Collaboration with H&L
Art Larrance was no stranger to the Oregon craft beer scene when he established Cascade Brewing in 1998. The founder of Portland Brewing and the Oregon Brewers Festival partnered with Brewmaster Ron Gansberg, who oversaw the design and installation of the Portland brewhouse. Together, they took their more than 40 years of combined brewing experience to create fantastic sour beers inspired by an abundance of Oregon fruit. Each of their beers is then aged on wine barrels from the Northwestern Oregon region. In April 2020, Larrance sold Cascade Brewing to a team that owned and operated FlyBoy Brewery in Tigard
The summer solstice is upon us; today is the longest day of 2024 for anyone living north of the equator. If pagan rituals are your thing, this is probably a big moment for you. If not, the solstice is still pretty neat. Technically speaking, the summer solstice occurs when the sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer, or 23.5° north latitude. This will occur at noon. Of course, Peaks & Pints has summer craft beer on the brain. In case you hadn’t noticed, American craft brewing prides itself in flaunting conventions and ignoring or breaking traditions, enough so that
In 2018, art took Stillwater Artisanal Ales founder Brian Strumke to Seattle, where he met Matt Storm, owner of The Masonry, the man known for his intensely curated beer list and wood-fired pizza. In 2020, the pandemic paused Strumke’s nomadic lifestyle and, allowing him to dive into Storm’s concept for a new brewery, Fast Fashion. The duo began brewing a series of small batch beers paired with a smart, fashionable Instagram account. Fast Fashion became its own fashion tribe of line-out-the-door beer culture. In the beginning, Fast Fashion operated as a contract brewery, but it now has Head Brewer Stefano
The closest Peaks & Pints has come to anything remotely cowboy is riding a mechanical bull one summer in downtown Tacoma. We have never worn a cowboy hat, not even after our relative left hers on our back seat. Clearly, we’re no Clint Eastwood. If you’re cowboy, or cowgirl, or feeling a little inner-cowboy or cowgirl yourself — or if you just want to break-in your boots — mosey on down to Peaks & Pints today and order our Tuesday flight, Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Cowboy Beer. Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Cowboy Beer Structures Plainsman 4.9% ABV Structures
Penny Pitchlynn and her Oklahoma City band LABRYS rock Real Art Tacoma tonight. 6-Pack of Things To Do in Greater Tacoma June 18, 2024 Peaks & Pints 6-Pack of Things To Do in Greater Tacoma June 18, 2024, includes Cowboy Beer, Almond Roca up close and personal, and Cellophane Eyes below — but first. … Sir Paul McCartney turns 81. THE TACOMA FACTOID Tacoma is locally known as the “City of Destiny” because the area was chosen to be the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad in the late 19th century. THE DAILY WORD lamentable
Your mother? She’s easy. She likes spending time with you. She likes brunch. She would love that new Coach bag … but she’s way too selfless to buy it for herself. On Mother’s Day, you can be the hero. Father’s Day is another story. Your father is not easy. His hobbies mostly involve television, not that we’re stereotyping or anything. And if he needs something, he buys it for himself (or tasks Mom with it). What the heck could Dad possibly want? Beer and you. Peaks & Pints presents a Father’s Day themed beer flight that can be enjoyed with
Celebrate Britain’s national alcoholic drink and spread beery love throughout the land by joining the National Cheers To Beer at 7 p.m. June 15th as millions of people across Britain raise a glass, say “Cheers to Beer” and post a message on social media with the hashtag #CheersToBeer. Beer Day Britain was founded by Jane Peyton, an award-winning beer sommelier, broadcaster and author, in 2015 and is supported by all major organizations within the industry. Regarding beer, Britain was notable in that for almost a hundred years, it resisted the tide of commercial lager brewing that swept around the world
Structures Brewing founder James Alexander wanted to open a second location since opening in 2015 but kept his head down brewing Belgian farmhouse and mixed fermentation beers and hazy IPAs. During the pandemic, Chuckanut Brewery and pFriem Family Brewers head brewer Bryan Cardwell and longtime friend of Structures joined the ownership expanding their beer portfolio. In March 2023, Structures finally opened their second location in the former Chuckanut spot, which was taken down to the studs. It’s beautiful with two massive glass garage doors in that overlook the water, built a wrap-around patio, beautiful front door and added an entire
One of beer’s most remarkable aspects is its versatility. On top of the fundamental ingredients of water, grain, yeast, and hops, a brewer can add almost any extra ingredients (unless you’re in Germany, where there are literal brewing laws about what you can put into beer). Ingredients found in beer today include chocolate, coffee, nuts, waffles, cookies, spices, cocoa, marshmallows, breakfast cereal, toffee, and the focus of today’s Peaks & Pints to-go beer flight — fruit. When brewers add whole fruit, fresh-picked, never frozen, from a nearby farm or orchard to their beer, it’s magic. Yeast and souring bacteria live
In 2016, three neighbors opened Great Notion Brewing in Northeast Portland and opened the city’s eyes. Businessman Paul Reiter convinced his homebrewing neighbors James Dugan and Andy Miller to take their skills pro and basically freaked out the city known as Beervana 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 IPA in America from Paste Magazine, Ripe IPA. Great Notion was the first Portland brewery to become known for hazies, and the controversial style, and traditionalists hated
Pride is the civil rights movement of our generation. Fifty-five years ago, this summer, New York City bar patrons of many genders, sexualities, and racial identities trapped a group of police officers inside the Stonewall Inn after they shut down the bar in yet another routine raid. Riots continued the following two nights as the LGBTQ community spread word that something unique was happening in Greenwich Village. But whatever happened that night lit a spark that lasted for several days and propelled America’s gay rights — the Gay Liberation Movement – forward. Every June, Pride Month, we celebrate their uprising
Maybe because it’s a blend, maybe because there’s no point in aging it, or maybe because half-full bottles of it sit wedged into Tacoma refrigerator doors with decorative stoppers jammed in them, but rosé has a dodgy reputation. It’s grocery-store wine. It’s “cougar juice.” It’s simply an embarrassing color. Except, no, it isn’t. Well, get ready for a roséducation. The Greeks and the Romans made rosé. Monks made rosé too. Rosé wines are generally made from red grapes and are very versatile wines. A rosé wine will also be lighter in color than red wine, deeper in color than white
High school dropout turned tech industry entrepreneur Barry Braden met Ballast Point brewer Alex Tweet in San Diego. They became fast friends. Tweet went on to brew at Modern Times Beer. Braden knew Tweet needed his own brewery to flourish. Braden convinced Tweet to move to Northern California so they could open Fieldwork Brewing Company in West Berkeley. They opened Fieldwork in 2014, and adding satellite operations in Corte Madera, Monterey, Napa, Sacramento, San Leandro, San Mateo, and San Ramon. Fieldwork honors Northern California’s magnificent outdoor landscapes with an array of idiosyncratic, highly aromatic and well-balanced beers. Today, Peaks &
Peaks and Pints New Beer In Stock: 6.6.24 Stop by Peaks & Pints and grab delicious beer for this coming sunny weekend. Cheers! COMPUTER, ENHANCE! Ravenna Brewing: Collaboration with Structures Brewing, this modern West Coast double IPA has big citrus and dank pine before a hi-def tropical notes, 8.3%, 16oz DANGER DUEL, Unsung Brewing: Juice forward unfiltered IPA with Strata, Motueka, El Dorado, and Simcoe hops battling for notes of melon and mango, 6.7%, 16oz DISRUPTO, Unsung Brewing: Fruited sour with a blend of blueberry and plum, 6%, 16oz EDDY HOPPER, Old Schoolhouse Brewery: Brewed with Mosaic, Citra, Simcoe, and
If it were socially acceptable to drink beer in the morning, one with Amarillo hops would be the perfect way to start the day — combined with a balanced breakfast (of course). Amarillo provides a super-citrusy aroma verging on oranges, lively citrus flavor, and a medium-high bitterness, that is sure to wake the taste buds. The hop may seem as though they might be grown in the foothills of the Spanish Pyrennes but in fact come from Washington’s Virgil Gamache Farms. And while most strains can be propagated independently through the purchase of rhizomes, Amarillo is not one that you
A rare June weather event with two back-to-back atmospheric rivers hit the Pacific Northwest on Monday bringing record-breaking rainfall and leaving more than 200 000 people without power. According to meteorologists, the storms were fueled by the remnants of a former tropical storm in the West Pacific Ocean, with the first of two waves of rain pushing into the region on Sunday. This first atmospheric river, the more potent of the two, impacted the region yesterday and the second one last night. Today, a front will move onshore over the Pacific Northwest and inland to the Northern Intermountain Region and
Proctor Pride has Pride flags and pins for all at North 27th and Mason Street in Tacoma’s Proctor District. Peaks & Pints supports Proctor Pride 2024 Launched in June 2023, Proctor Pride has humble beginnings with a small “Happy Pride” display at the end of Mason path at North 27th and Mason Street in Tacoma’s beloved Proctor District. Fifty Pride flags and assorted rainbow pins were offered free of charge to help brighten people’s days and show everyone is welcome in Proctor. The response was overwhelming. The proposed monthlong supply of Pride gifts ran out in
Launched last June, Proctor Pride has humble beginnings with a small “Happy Pride” display at the end of Mason path at North 27th and Mason Street. Fifty Pride flags and assorted rainbow pins were offered free of charge to help brighten people’s days and show everyone is welcome in Proctor. The response was overwhelming. The proposed monthlong supply of Pride gifts ran out in less than two days. A restock brought more than 300 flags and 250 pins to the neighborhood. Proctor Pride 2024 has bigger goals with more neighborhood Pride support, more rainbows, and a commitment to support The
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock: 6.1.24 Everyone’s watching, to see what you will do Everyone’s looking at you, oh Everyone’s wondering, what Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock: 6.1.24 you’ll pick for tonight Everyone’s trying to get the weekend right, get it right. … ALL Y’ALL NW IPA, Everybody’s Brewing: Clean and clear with intense citrus flavors that are balanced with a tropical aroma, pleasant bitterness, and a dry finish, 7%, 12oz CHEERS TO 10 YEARS, Buoy Beer: Their 10th Anniversary Southern German pilsner, 5.1%, 12oz EVOLUTION, Aslan Brewing: The first beer brewed on their original 15-barrel
Californian Gary Fish established his brewpub concept, Deschutes’ Bend Public House, in downtown Bend in 1988. Named after the Deschutes Rover, Deschutes Brewery was Central Oregon’s first brewery. Fish hired John Harris (founder of Ecliptic Brewing Co.) from McMenamins. Legislation and a growing provincialism for locally crafted beers soon turned the microbrewer of Mirror Pond Pale Ale and Black Butte Porter in obscure Bend, Oregon into a macro success, as the state’s largest brewer by barrel count. Today, Deschutes sells more than 225,000 barrels of beer each year and can be found in 36 states, Washington, DC, and even a
In 1920, Michael Loftus, an Irish immigrant and grandfather of BT Loftus, follows the railroad west, settles in Yakima, and buys the family homestead. Twelve years later, Leota Mae, wife of BT Loftus and great-grandmother to Bale Breaker Brewing owners, plants the first hop field, igniting what would become the family’s legacy for four generations and counting. Mike Smith, father to Bale Breaker owners Patrick, Meghann, and Kevin Smith, joins grandmother Leota Mae to run the farm after BT’s sudden passing, marking the third generation of hop farmers. Kevin Quinn marries Meghann Smith after meeting at the University of Washington
Geoffrey Barker and Andrew Pogue met as members of the North Seattle Home Brew Club. They shared a love for saisons and sours. They traveled to mixed-fermentation guru Jester King in Austin, Texas, where they added to their friendship circle. The duo spent years looking for a place to launch their brewery. Eventually they landed in a former home of an orchid retailer, a boxy, lightly industrial building at 936 Northwest 49th Street, in the thick of Ballard’s brewery district. With the help of Jester King, Barker and Pogue opened Fair Isle Brewing in January 2020 focusing on mixed-culture and
Summer is an exciting time for beer nerds. Regionally, the season is met with the release of Fort George Brewery’s (Astoria, Ore.) 3-Way IPA. The hoppy beer is an annual collaboration — in its 12th year — with two other West Coast breweries. This year’s brew is joined by Brujos Brewing (Portland, Ore.) and Ghost Town Brewing (Oakland, Calif.). Join Peaks & Pints for the Official Tacoma 3-Way IPA Release at 5 p.m. tonight. We will have not only 3-Way, but nine other Fort George beers, plus two hazy IPAs from Brujos on tap. Fort George rep Kyle will be
You float in a sun-warmed, peanut-shaped tile pool, watching the breeze flip the palm fronds against a turquoise Southern California sky, sipping a midday India Pale Ale. Rippling reflections of the afternoon sun on the water cast themselves against the six-foot-tall prickly pear, oak-planked door and the adobe-arched wall above it. Chimes sound; doves coo. Fantastic landscape scenes full of cliffs, ocean vistas, coves, rolling hills and deep canyons comes to life from San Diego, just north of the Mexican border, cross the bay to the resort city Coronado, up the coast to Los Angeles, home to Hollywood studios, fine
Peaks & Pints hosts Fort George 2024 3-Way IPA Release Party Summer is an exciting time for beer nerds. Regionally, the season is met with the release of Fort George Brewery’s (Astoria, Ore.) 3-Way IPA. The hoppy beer is an annual collaboration — in its 12th year — with two other West Coast breweries. This year’s brew is joined by Brujos Brewing (Portland, Ore.) and Ghost Town Brewing (Oakland, Calif.). Join Peaks & Pints for the Official Tacoma 3-Way IPA Release at 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 28. We will have not only 3-Way, but nine other Fort George beers, plus
The unofficial start of summer is officially here. As the amuse bouche of the summer season, Memorial Day weekend brings vacation time with it. For those stay-cationing this weekend, Peaks & Pints will transport you to vacation spots via our daily flights. Today, we’re taking you to Germany — specifically Aying, Germany, home of Ayinger Brewery. This 147-year-old brewery has a deep family history, and remained almost completely unchanged until a new, updated brewery was built in 1999 in order to keep up with the growing market. Again and again Ayinger has won awards for its beers, including the World
Collaborations are common in the friendly craft beer world, where like-minded brewers often team up to meld brains over the kettle for a day. In the case of Fort George Brewery’s annual collaboration, 3-Way IPA, the Astoria, Oregon brewery has invited two other “hot” breweries to dial-in a recipe with multiple “Beta” batches over several months since 2013. Well, it’s that time of year again. This year’s guest collaborators — Brujos Brewing of Portland and Ghost Town Brewing of Oakland, California — began this past summer experimenting and test brewing various batches of IPA, all in search of discovering the
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
Hitting the scene in the early 2010s, the New England style India pale ale came to fame thanks to a Vermont brewery, The Alchemist, with their Heady Topper, an unfiltered double IPA that became a cult favorite. The beer was a success, and other New England breweries followed suit: namely Hill Farmstead Brewery, also in Vermont, along with Trillium Brewing Company and Tree House Brewing Co., both in Massachusetts. Call them hazy, New England or Northeast style; they’re still all the rage — even if brewers and beer critics don’t totally dig hazy IPAs. The Brewers Association recognizes the New
Homebrewing buddies Wes Parker, Steve Napolitano, and Brandon Buckner decided to turn a hobby into a career. In 2013, they open Bottle Logic Brewing, a 6,000 square-foot tasting room and 15-barrel brewing facility near the 91 and 57 freeway intersection in Anaheim, California. The brewery is fashioned in a particular style that they call a “retro-future” aesthetic. Modeled after the golden age of science fiction following the post-war period, this style is marked by an unyielding optimism for the future that emerged with the end of World War II. This was the age where flying cars and atomic unicycles weren’t
Express your unique style and upgrade your wardrobe in a more sustainable way by following one creative strategy: Support local and independent fashion designers. Not only will this add a touch of exclusivity and art to your wardrobe, but it will also contribute to the sustainable fashion movement in Tacoma, which has a blossoming scene. Tacoma Arts Live hosts “Threaded: A Community Fashion Event” from 5-8 p.m. Saturday, May 18, in the Roosevelt Room in the Tacoma Armory — complete with DJ, bar, food and a community catwalk where the community can showcase their style. Slow fashion is one the
Back for its 15th iteration, Seattle Beer Week kicks off eight days of sudsy celebration May 17, 2024. Whether your goal is to low-key drink tasty brews with your friends or get a little more active while you sip, Seattle Beer Week has you covered. The festivities kick off today at 4 p.m. with the tapping of the official SBW beer, Old Stove Whereas IPA, at Old Stove Brewing – Gardens in Ballard. The Seattle Cask-O-Rama featuring 10 casks from 10 Seattle breweries at Beveridge Place Pub and the West Coast Pilsner Party at Full Throttle Bottles is also on
Belgium is a mecca of sorts for beer enthusiasts, and rightfully so. The countryside of this small European nation is dotted with breweries whose traditions go back hundreds of years. They’re producing styles of beers such as wild and funky lambics, seasonal farmhouse saison beers, and strong ales made in monasteries. Poland is currently the third biggest producer of beer after Germany and the UK, with the third biggest consumers of beer after Germany and the Czech Republic. Established in 1998, D&V International imports specialty beers from Belgium and Poland — from authentic abbey ales, abbey-style ales, artisanal ales, and
Bret Gordon left the University of Colorado with a degree in Economics and a passion for craft beer. He continued into the finance world, probably sipping an Avery Brewing beer here and there. It didn’t take long for him to realize that being at a desk was not for him and he wanted to become a professional brewer. That passion led him and his family to California where he went back to school to earn a Professional Brewing Certificate at the University of San Diego. He swore he would never go back to school, but beer will make you do
After making cider as hobbyists for many years, in 2001 Nancy and Steve “Bear” Bishop took a trip to the cider making regions of Spain, France, and England to observe commercial operations. When they returned home, Steve and Nancy took a class at WSU from an English cider master, ordered 800 French, English, and early American cider trees, clear cut the forest, burned the stumps, spread the ash for fertilizer, shaped the land to drain, plated the trees, and launched their commercial cidery Wildfire Cider in 2203, which they later renamed Alpenfire Cider. Located in Port Townsend, the Bishops, including
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 5.11.24 Stayed up late to put some space in your face? Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 5.11.24 has wonderful beers for your lazy Saturday and Mother’s Day sippers. 9TH ANNIVERSARY, Lucky Envelope Brewing: West Coast IPA brewed with Pilsner and 2-row malts, a Citra-Strata cool pool, and loaded up with four pounds per barrel of dry-hopped Citra, Strata, Mosaic, and Chinook for notes of sweet mangosteen, pineapple, cara cara orange peel, and sweet pine needles, 6.5%, 16oz ACCORDING TO INSTRUCTIONS, Cloudburst Brewing: German-style pilsner brewed with Weyermann Pilsner malt with a
Today, the South Sound is a tropical paradise, a sunny destination, a place to don big sun hats and shorts and tank tops. And what’s that in your hand? Thanks to the Jimmy Buffet and the original Parrothead, fruity and tart margaritas are synonymous with sunny weather, and thankfully craft brewers are creating their own take of the beloved tequila concoction. A crossover between the beer and bartending worlds has emerged in breweries: beers inspired by the flavor profiles and recipes of cocktails. When beer is your job, you don’t necessarily want to go home and drink more beer. So,
Jean-Claude Tetreault and his wife, Esther, were expanding their “homebrew brand” with labels, more sophisticated equipment and eventually, homebrew at their wedding, when they decided to go pro. In March of 2013, perhaps dazed from property-hunting fatigue, the couple signed a lease on a space in Boston’s historic Fort Point neighborhood with the desire to create a lifestyle and experiences through the lens of a modern New England farmhouse-inspired brewery. Launched with three employees and the support of family, friends, and community, their Trillium Brewing located on Congress Street has grown to a team of more than 300. Today, Trillium
Organic chemist (Ph.D.) Todd Clement fell in love with traditional Belgian/Abbey-style ales during work trips to Antwerp. After spending seven years in the pharmaceutical industry as a process chemist Clement moved to Bend, Oregon. When he couldn’t find his beloved Belgian-style ales, he began homebrewing them — his first batch a Belgian triple. In 2014, he founded the one-barrel, home basement nanobrewery Monkless Belgian Ales with his friend Kirk Meckem who then left the business in 2016. Clement and his wife, Robin, moved their operation to a warehouse/garage space in Northeast Bend in the original home of 10 Barrel Brewing.
Natalie Rose Baldwin studied biochemistry at the University of Colorado; started washing kegs at Burnside Brewing and rose to lead R&D brewer before leaving for Breakside Brewery. She has won several medals at the Great American Beer Festival, is professional judge at GABF and the Wolrd Beer Cup, works with the Oregon Brewers Guild Diversity and Equity Committee, is a Pink Boots Portland Chapter co-leader, and was the recipient of a Pink Boots scholarship in 2018. In February 2023, she filled Kevin Davey’s boots at Wayfinder Beer, who was the founding brewmaster at Wayfinder when it opened in 2015. Baldwin
“Cinco de Mayo,” Spanish for “the sink is full of mayonnaise.” OK, not really. We made that up, which is only fitting, because the idea that May 5 is a big holiday celebrated throughout Mexico is also made up. This yarn was spun by some PR hack for Corona beer back in the ’80s when the company was looking for a way to get Americans to drink more beer. Since this is not an especially hard task, they didn’t work especially hard on the idea, not even hard enough to note that Mexico’s real Day of Independence is Sept. 16.
Peaks & Pints has space beer for your May The 4th Be With You celebrations. Peaks and Pints May The 4th Be With You: The Cooler Awakens Today is May 4 — which may not mean a lot to a lot of people, but it’s a special date for serious Star Wars fans. May the 4th (as in “May the Force be with you”) is the day on which we celebrate all things Star Wars-related. And what better way to celebrate the date than by drinking space-themed craft beer while watching Star Wars from your couch.
