Peaks & Pints cooler houses mroe than 850 different beers and ciders from around the world. Peaks and Pints Cooler New Beer and Cider Winter 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 winter 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
6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma: Jan. 26-28 2024 Orchids hold profound secrets. Peaks & Pints’ 6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma: Jan. 26-28 2024 is Friday heavy but sleep on the cool Johnny Cash film/live performance sync show Saturday. Cheers! BEER FLIGHT — FRIDAY, JAN. 26: In 2000, farmers David and Brenda Simmons switched from selling their slow-moving culinary grapes to making wine, they eventually added a brewery, taproom, and restaurant to their Columbus, Indiana, farm. In 2010, David fell in love with beer after he was gifted a home brew kit. Two years later, the Simmons
In 2000, farmers David and Brenda Simmons switched from selling their slow-moving culinary grapes to making wine, they eventually added a brewery, taproom, and restaurant to their Columbus, Indiana, farm. In 2010, David fell in love with beer after he was gifted a home brew kit. Two years later, the Simmons opened 450 North Brewing. In April 2016, their 450 North Brewing released a hazy IPA. Things blew up, in a good way. They rebranded and grew exponentially. Just as they were a pioneer of hazy IPAs, 450 North was also ahead of the smoothie fruited sour game. Their smoothie
Welcome to Tacoma, Cellarmaker Brewing! Cellarmaker beer at Peaks & Pints in Tacoma’s Proctor District … Tim Sciascia, Connor Casey, and Kelly Caveney founded Cellarmaker Brewing Company in San Francisco’s SoMa district in 2013. After meeting at Marin Brewing Company, they acquired a former auto shop, completely gutted it, and turned it into their brewery and tasting room. In November 2022, Cellarmaker acquired The Rare Barrel and its facility in Berkeley, California. Last year, Cellarmaker was part of the Fort George 3-Way IPA. The following six beers are in the Peaks & Pints cooler. Cheers! COSMIC
The American Lung Association’s Climb for Clean Air is an exclusive mountaineering training and fundraising program designed to give you the training, technical support, and guide services you need to summit Mt. Rainier, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Hood, El Dorado Peak, and Orizaba & Ixtaccihuatl in Mexico while raising money to fight for cleaner air standards and fund life-saving research. Peaks and Pints will host a Climb for Clean Air 2024 Info Session before the climbing season from 6-7 p.m. tonight in our Events Room. Chances are you know someone who has faced the challenges of asthma, COPD, lung cancer
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.24.24 More fresh delicious canned beer in today. The cooler is stuffed full of tasty options. Swing by and grab a pint or two and grab some to go. Cheers! JOOST, Matchless Brewing: Juicy citrus IPA brewed with Citra, Azacca, Triumph, and Cashmere hops, a grain bill of Malteurop Pilsen and Weyermann Carafoam malts, and tropical-boosting esters of Imperial’s Capri yeast, 6%, 16oz RE ZOMBINATOR, Beer Zombies Brewing: Collaboration with Movement Brewing this undead hazy double IPA is brewed with Citra, Citra Lupomax, and HBC 630 for citrus, bright lime, fresh grapefruit, tropical
Yes, it’s National Beer Can Appreciation Day today, commemorating that storied day in 1935 when the world was introduced to a beautiful and paradigm-changing concept: canned beer. Krueger Brewing Company of Richmond, Virginia walked into a grocery store carrying a steel can that weighed in at almost 4 ounces and opened with a church key. Not long after, beer cans fell out of vogue. Not so anymore: today, the beer can industry is overflowing with smartly designed graphics and artwork on canned beer. Many believe that today’s wave of craft beer in a can began with Colorado’s Oskar Blues, who
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock: 1.23.24 Once again, Tuesday is New Brews Day. Celebrate with these delicious beers. … BLACK LIGHT, Anderson Valley Brewing: Light dark ale with only 95 calories, 3.8%, 12oz BLACKBERRY & RASPBERY WILD ALE, Oude Northwest: Old World style wild ale made with blackberries and raspberries then aged a year in oak, 4.9%, 12oz FRENCH TOAST MILK STOUT, Left Hand Brewing: Brunch-inspired milk stout with notes of maple syrup, vanilla, and rich caramel malt, 6%, 12oz GREEN FUTURES, Modern Times Beer: This transcendental hazy IPA started with a base of pilsner malt plus some
Rejoice, o pie lovers of Tacoma! Today, Jan. 23, is National Pie Day! Why Jan. 23? Why not the infinitely more logical March 14? (3.14 = Pi = Pie.) Why the hell not? Not that you necessarily need a reason to eat pie, but isn’t it nice to have an excuse? Especially during this month of cold and gloom and guilty, New Year’s resolution-induced gym-going? When it comes to delicious pie-inspired beer, we say, why the hell not? Enjoy seconds (or fifths) of dessert with Peaks and Pints’ in-house pie flight — a flight we’re calling Peaks and Pints In-House
You fancy, Oude Northwest Gristle v2! Fancy Pants Sunday: Oude Northwest Gristle v2 Stillwater Artisanal, now known as just Stillwater, is the brainchild of Baltimore native Brian Strumke, whose past life as an internationally renowned electronica DJ and producer led him down a path to crafting some of the world’s most unique and highest rated beers slapped with haute couture can and bottle labels. A homebrewer turned pro in 2010, nomadic brewer Strumke slapped his Stillwater sticker on many a brewery’s cooler around the world before the pandemic nudged him to place roots at the Talking
In 2009, Neil Fisher began home brewing with friends in his garage. Fisher’s driveway held a lot of friends’ cars during those homebrewing days, and they all drank a lot of those homebrewed beers. Then Fisher threw down the gauntlet. He announced to his buds that if he medaled at the homebrew competition attached to the 2014 Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines festival, which was held at the time in Vail, Colorado, then he would consider opening a brewery. He won two medals. Eleven months later he poured his first beer at his WeldWerks Brewing in Greeley, Colorado. His hefeweizen
Today is Baltic Porter Day, an event started by the Polish brewer and porter fan Marcin Chmielarz. In 1977, beer writer Michael Jackson penned the existence of porter brewing in Poland in his World Guide to Beer. Jackson is credited with inventing the expression, “Baltic porter,” the name by which the style is now known, even in Poland. The Baltic porter is a traditional English style, developed by the British in the 1800s for export to their buddies in the Russian Court. The Baltic porter is an interesting breed, because while it’s a porter in name and flavor, it’s not
Tacoma Arts Live is bringing in pianist Thomas Lauderdale and his legendary Portland-based jazz and classical pop ensemble will perform at the Pantages Theater next Friday. Pink Martini’s blend of American swing, Latin rhythms and chamber arrangements give the group’s largely original material mass appeal. Lauderdale of Portland, Oregon, founded the “little orchestra” Pink Martini in 1994. Twenty years later, Pink Martini still tours the world, singing in 22 languages at opera houses, concert halls, film festivals, museums, and fashion shows. In 2014, Pink Martini was inducted into both the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame and the Oregon Music Hall
He makes a killer Bananas Foster, gets teary-eyed when he hears the song “Ventura Highway” and has seen the movie Better Off Dead 11 times. He once did an oral report on the D.B. Cooper as a schoolchild and is currently the only eight-toed ecologist residing in Washington state. He became livid at his girlfriend when she decided that road-tripping to Burning Man with a bunch of his friends was more important than accompanying him to Utah for his uncle’s funeral, but he forgave her the following week when she bought him a boxed set of the best episodes of
Engineer Barry Chan adored homebrewing. He dove, kettle first, into the Seattle homebrewing scene asking questions and sharing his beer knowledge. His passion and dedication soon translated into a Beer Judge Certification Program judge where he earned a National score on his first tasting exam. One day, while homebrewing in his kitchen, his buddy Raymond Kwan sunk into the couch playing Mario Bros. and dreaming of his next big thing. His first idea was an East Coast-style sports bar since Kwan has roots in New Jersey and loves sports. Chan, from Pennsylvania, suggested opening a brewery in Ballard, which is
In 2000, Mississippi homebrewer Robert “Beaux” Bowman moved to Washington and landed at Mac and Jack’s Brewing in Redmond. Next, he worked at Far West Ireland Brewing (now closed), The Ram, and Lazy Boy Brewing, and anywhere else that needed his services. In April 2009, Beaux and Kat Gillespie opened Black Raven Brewing Company on the southeast corner of Willows Road Northeast and Northeast 95th Street just blocks from downtown Redmond and the Sammamish River Trail. Tonight, their Sales Executive Nick Weitzel, aka DJ ABV, will spin vinyl by the band Sade with several of his Black Raven beer on
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream,” speech at the March on Washington in August 1963 serves as the touchstone for today’s annual King holiday. He brought hope to untold people both black and white. Remembering his dream matters more than ever today as we witness, still, the openly mocking and demeaning of women, blacks, Islam, and immigrants while ignoring human rights, denying science and climate change, supporting violence and conspiracy, and taking away the health care of millions of Americans. It’s Monday, which means in addition to Martin Luther King Jr. Day, it’s Peaks and Pints weekly in-house
You fancy, Lindemans Oude Kriek Cuvée! Fancy Pants Sunday: Lindemans Oude Kriek Cuvée Probably more than any other country, Belgium holds particular prominence to folks around the world who enjoy beer. This young (1830) small (11 million people) country has centuries of brewing traditions built into its history. For our Fancy Pants Sunday column — a weekly look at beers that rule with complexity, creativity and/or giant bottles — we tap into Belgium’s brewing history featuring a Lindemans Cuvée in what we’re calling Fancy Pants Sunday: Lindemans Oude Kriek Cuvée. In 1822 Joos Frans Lindemans married a desirable farmer’s
In a time where American craft beer is more obsessed with hazy IPAs, pastry stouts and sour ales, it’s refreshing to revisit Belgian-style Abbey and Trappist ales, which Peaks & Pints will aiming our daily in-house beer flight toward, a flight we call Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Trappist Ales. Of the many thousands of beers produced around the world, only 14 monasteries — six in Belgium, two in the Netherlands, and one each in Austria, Italy, England, France, Spain, and the United States — currently produce Trappist beer as recognized by the International Trappist Association. These beers are all
There are a few Northwest breweries that crank out numerous different beers every week. Block 15 Brewing is one of them. And, the Corvallis, Oregon, brewery releases a wide variety of styles every week, too. Offering unique hop-forward ales, crisp lagers, Belgian-style brews, barrel-aged rarities, and one of the Northwest’s most extensive wild and sour programs, Block 15 produces a range of artfully crafted beers, brewed with a nod toward fresh ingredients and fresh thinking. The Block 15 barrage has arrived again to our Tacoma Proctor District craft beer lodge. It’s time for another in-house Block 15 flight, which we’re
Black Raven DJ ABV in Sade Heaven at Peaks and Pints Tailored suits, well-fitting jeans, lots of knitted sweaters, denim on denim, all-black looks, slick back hair, and a red lip doesn’t describe DJ ABV, but rather singer Sade Adu who DJ ABV, aka Nick Weitzel, will be spinning in support of Adu’s 65th birthday and a Western red cedar tap log takeover of Black Raven Brewing beers Tuesday, Jan. 16, at Peaks & Pints in Tacoma’s Proctor District. It makes perfect sense that these kindred spirits are associated with a night of smoke-softened seduction and a Russian Imperial Stout
After Buoy Beer Company won double gold for its Helles Lager at Sip Magazine’s 2017 Best of The Northwest competition, it started self-distributing beers to a handful of Washington-area accounts. As demand grew in the years following, they decided it was time to create their own distribution company to grow into the market. River Barrel Distributing was established in 2020 to help bolster the presence of Buoy Beer and its sister company, Pilot House Distilling, in accounts throughout the Puget Sound area. Since then, the distributor has been expanding its portfolio with other regional producers. River Barrel’s portfolio includes Buoy
Whether you’re a skim, two percent, or whole milk drinker, Jan. 11 is a day to celebrate anything and everything milk. It’s National Milk Day and, of course, Peaks & Pints celebrates with a flight of milk stouts — a flight we call Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: National Milk Day. ‘Milk stouts originated in Europe in the 1800s. The style emphasizes a malty sweetness with hints of chocolate and caramel. They are sometimes called cream stouts or sweet stouts. Brewers intensified the dark, chocolaty malt body with lactose, the sugar in cow’s milk, hence why they’re more often called
Fermentation, at its most basic, is the process by which yeast eat sugars found in wort and convert them into alcohol. Wort is liquid that contains grain sugars and is nutrient rich, that is then fermented with microorganisms to make beer. In typical modern brewing wort is transferred to a stainless-steel tank where it’s carefully inoculated by a single yeast culture. Depending on the type of beer, and a brewery’s preferred processes, after primary fermentation beer may be either packaged and sold, or it may undergo additional cold conditioning or lagering, also typically in stainless steel. In a barrel-aged beer,
Hemingway drank it in doubles and Bluebeard pirated the seven seas fueled on the stuff. It’s rum, and it’s having a day at Peaks & Pints. Rum is said to have originated in the Caribbean island of Barbados in the 17th century. Since then, it has made its way around the world, becoming one of the most versatile and beloved spirits. Rum is an alcoholic distillate from the fermented juice of sugarcane, sugarcane syrup, sugarcane molasses, and other sugarcane by-products, produced at no less than 190 proof in such manner that distillate possess the taste, aroma and characteristic generally attributed
Apples were among some of the first crops grown in colonial America. Potted seedlings and bags of apple seeds were brought over on the Mayflower. The Bible-thumping Puritans were not teetotalers. Apple orchards in colonial America usually meant one thing: hard cider. Apples flourished in the fertile soil and friendly climate, and soon apples were a key part of most colonial farms and menus. A thirst for beer and the introduction of prohibition laws meant hard cider became an almost forgotten beverage, but it is currently undergoing a revival with small producers and large booze brands all getting in on
You fancy, Deschutes The Abyss! Peaks and Pints Fancy Pants Sunday: Deschutes The Abyss Named for a sharp hook in the Deschutes River in Central Oregon’s high desert, the city of Bend was the abyss; decades ago, it was a bump on the state highway between golf resorts Black Butte Ranch and Sunriver. Lumber ruled the roost until the two large timber mills closed in 1994. Then, Californian Gary Fish opened Deschutes Brewery in downtown Bend on Bond Street, back when Bond Street was the abyss. Deschutes has since grown to become one of the United
Today, the Peaks & Pints bartenders will pour 20.5-percent cocktails — but the plotline thickens with apple wine, which is essentially apple juice that has gone through the same process as you would making wine. Craftwell Cocktails blends apple wine with real fruit and ingredients to recreate the cocktail experience. The Oregon-based team behind 2 Towns Ciderhouse created Craftwell Cocktails, prioritizing taste above all else. The ready-to-drink Craftwell Cocktails rely on the expertise developed over a dozen years using real fruit to make their cider. The initial launch featured four distinct flavors — Pineapple Margarita, Grapefruit Paloma, Blueberry Cosmo, and
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 1.6.24 Here are a few of the new beers that arrived at Peaks & Pints this week. Stock up for the next three days of football. Cheers! BEAST AT THE DOOR, Anchorage Brewing: Hazy IPA brewed and dry hopped a supple base with a heavy dose of Superdelic, Nectaron, and Luminosa hops for notes of ripe melon, drippy mango, and bright citrus, 6.4%, 16oz FOGGY GOGGLES, Everybody’s Brewing: Hazy IPA with flavors of honeydew, orange sherbet, and peaches from Galaxy, Simcoe, Azacca, and Ella hops, 6.9%, 16oz GRAPEFRUIT IPA, Fremont Brewing: Brewed with
In 2009, Epic Brewing Company became Utah’s first brewery since prohibition to exclusively brew high-alcohol content beer. Having started an international aquaculture company in Utah in 1992, David Cole and Peter Erickson were no strangers to food and drink (and the art of making them well), so when they teamed up with acclaimed brewmaster and fellow beer geek Kevin Crompton to open epic Brewing in Salt Lake City, they saw rapid growth early in its existence. In 2013, Epic expanded its brewery operations into Colorado by opening a second brewery in the River North District of downtown Denver. The Denver
There’s a wonderful scene in the 2007 documentary American Brew where late British author Michael Jackson (a.k.a. the Beer Hunter) describes a perfect scenario for sipping a dark ale. He’s in a pub, holding a full pint of heavy ale. “This would be even better on a cold night,” he says, “just as the rain is hammering against your windowpanes, and you’re in a nice, comfortable leather chair, and your wife’s gone to bed, and you’ve a got a bit of peace. You can have a bit of beer and some quiet time.” That’s all fine and dandy, but winters
Why do English and toffee go together like Irish and stew? Belgian and waffles? French and fries? (Er, wait, let’s skip that last one.) What’s so freakin’ special about the English and their toffee? Peaks and Pints searched for an answer. Toffee in and of itself isn’t particularly complicated. It’s basically white sugar (or sometimes molasses) with butter and/or salt heated to the point of caramelization. Once the mixture reaches around 300 degrees Fahrenheit, it’s rapidly removed from the heat and poured onto a surface, at which point it cools and hardens (its malleability depends on length of cooling and
Blueberries. Who doesn’t love them? When we can keep the birds from eating the fruit, blueberries are one of the most rewarding edibles in the garden. They don’t take up a huge amount of space, and they are easy to grow in our area, given sun, acid soil, and plenty of water. And the plants are beautiful. Beer purists typically scoff at a brew that incorporates anything into its recipe besides water, malt, hops, and yeast. Offer them a beer with fruit in it and you’re bound to hear a speech on the German Beer Purity Law of 1516. But
You fancy, Oakshire Rye Whiskey Very Ill-Tempered Gnome! Peaks and Pints Fancy Pants Sunday: Oakshire Rye Whiskey Very Ill-Tempered Gnome When Jeff and Chris Althouse founded Oakshire Brewing Co. in 2006 they were the only employees, brewing Original Amber on a four-barrel system under the moniker Willamette Brewery. In 2008, Willamette Brewery became Oakshire Brewing — a name that embodies the strength of an oak and the connection between people and place that is a shire, an old name for a rural county. Today, New Year’s Eve 2023, we chose a special bottle from Oakshire’s Vintage
Let’s face it, 2023 has been a dumpster fire. We could fill an entire novel with all the tragic and unfortunate events that have proved to be a major bummer over the past 12 months, but will instead focus on turning the page, moving on and looking forward to a brighter future. New Year’s Eve is an occasion to drink with friends (if you wanna), to dress up in your nicest duds (if you wanna), to laugh your ass off (if you wanna), and to remember all the good things that happened over the past 12 months (yes, there were
Mosaic first entered the hop market in 2012, thanks to Jason Perrault, a fourth generation hop farmer — and hop breeder — in the Yakima Valley, where his family owns nearly 1,500 acres of hopyards. Perrault’s breeding company, Select Botanicals, is responsible for creating some of the more popular hops in the States, including Simcoe (impressively bitter, deeply floral), and Citra (citrusy, as the name suggests, and grassy, too). The Mosaic breeding program started in 2001, when they crossed a female Simcoe (YCR 14) and a Nugget derived male, which had a linage including Tomahawk, Brewers Gold, Early Green, and
In 2013, J.T. Merryweather and Chris Browhan opened Real Ale Revival, or RaR Brewing, on the banks of the Chesapeake Bay in Cambridge, Maryland. The two graduates of Cambridge-South Dorchester High School had left the Eastern Shore for college and followed careers elsewhere before taking their homebrewing hobby to the next level, and by next level we mean a professional brewery in an 80-year-old former pool hall and bowling alley with a goal of producing well-balanced American pale ales and Belgian inspired brews 10 barrels at a time. Another round of RaR beer has landed in Tacoma — this time
In 2015, homebrewer and Doctor of Physical Therapy Sean Buchan, homebrewer and microbiologist Chris Washenberger and financier Dan McGuire 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 their scientific background, Buchan and Washenberger want to make quality one of their hallmarks — and idea that carries through in their name. From its hop-bombs to its luscious stouts and sophisticated saisons,
The Belgian quadrupel is the strongest in a series of Trappist styles, beginning with the single (better known as an abbey), the dubbel (double) and the tripel (triple). Quads are the strongest of the Belgian beers, often over 10 percent ABV. The monks seem to have stopped at four. They probably passed out. Quad is a dark beer that ranges from black to deep red or garnet, with a rich bold maltiness that combines with yeasty hints of raisin, dates, figs, grapes, and plums. The quad is not hoppy. It’s known for alcoholic warmth and a complex sweetness, with wine
Cantillon Brewery is the only traditional lambic brewery located within the city of Brussels, Belgium. Founded in 1900, today Cantillon operates both as a brewery and as a living museum, the Brussels Gueuze Museum (Musée bruxellois de la gueuze). Founded in 1900, Cantillon remains the world’s preeminent source of lambic — a sour style of beer, made by way of open-air fermentation, oak-aging, and meticulous blending. Traditional beer relies upon domesticated yeast in a closed system to maintain consistency; all the major variables are tightly controlled. With lambic production, fermentation occurs spontaneously, using whatever organisms are available in the air
Peaks and Pints New Beer in Stock 12.23.23 Special beer to enjoy Christmas Eve and Christmas Day from the Peaks & Pints cooler. … COCOBANGER, Pohjala Brewery: Banging imperial stout brewed with coconut and Caturra coffee from Costa Rica, 12.5%, 330ml FESTIVE MOTHER, Echoes Brewing: Special holiday release of Echoes’ Mother of all Tripels, a fruity, drinkable, Belgian golden ale aged on ripe cherries, 11.9%, 16oz HELL OF THE NORTH, 8 Wired Brewing: Inspired by the traditional uud bruin styles of West Flanders, Belgium, this Flanders oud bruin is aged in a single large oak foudre for 5 Years for
We have Northern California’s Dr. Elmo to thank — or blame — for the unsinkable Christmas novelty hit “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.” Annoying radio programmers love the song this time of year. So do kids in elementary school. But why couldn’t Run DMC’s “Christmas in Hollis” be the big contemporary Christmas classic, or “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” by Darlene Love? Or anything? “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” is now part of our cultural landscape, though, so you must give Elmo props. What the song doesn’t include is the fact that the reindeer each had
Christmas is everyone’s favorite holiday, but true beer fans know that the most wonderful time of the year is made even more wonderful with a pint in your hand. Winter warmers and other dark, comforting brews take over around the holidays to help carolers and Christmas tree shoppers thaw out after a chilly night. These beers dance on the tongue, fill the belly and warm the soul. Many of the traditional winter warmers are malty, high-strength ales with a sweet and/or roasty character. Old ales, strong ales and barleywines fit right in. Some new holiday beers boast Christmas-inspired herbs, fruits,
Today, Peaks & Pints presents our annual toast to barleywine and the holiday spirit, “A Barleywine Carol,” inspired by the classic Charles Dickens holiday tale A Christmas Carol, the festivities held at Mr. Fezziwig’s and Bob Cratchet’s, and a glass of Christmas cheer for the holidays. From open to close, we’ll have eight barleywines on tap. 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
