Don’t let these dark days get you down, Eliza. Hop in the Puget Sound Revels time machine, journey back to the days of colorful folk stories, beautiful harmonies, lively dances, resplendent costumes, and intriguing traditions in this year’s “Midwinter Revels”. We’re talking singing, dancing, storytelling, beauty, mystery, and hilarity inside the Rialto Theater. This year, the Revels are travelling back in time to 19th century New York City. Seneca Village was a charming rural community founded by African Americans in 1825, and thrived for 30 years before the Parks Commission came in with plans for Central Park. Stage Director Michelle
Today’s six pack of new beer from the Peaks & Pints cooler. Peaks and Pints New Beer Six Pack: 12.17.24 Warm up inside with Peaks and Pints New Beer Six Pack: 12.17.24 BREAKSIDE BREWERY WHITE TEA LAGER: First brewed in 2019 and medaled at the Oregon Beer Awards and North American Beer Awards, this rice lager combines an herbaceous and tea-like hop character with a pronounced fruitiness from white tea flowers, 5.1%, 16oz E9 BREWING BOURBON BARREL-AGED SEKIU: English-style barleywine aged in Woodford Reserve, Basil Hayden and Willet barrels for notes of toffee, caramel, and dark
December 2024 new craft beer arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler. Peaks and Pints Cooler New Beer and Cider December 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. 26th St.
The son of a baker, Paul Hollywood originally trained as a sculptor before his father persuaded him to join the family business. Paul went onto become head baker at some of the most exclusive hotels, including Cliveden, The Chester Grosvenor and The Dorchester, gaining a reputation as an innovator and one of the country’s finest artisan bakers. Since 2010, the English celebrity chef is widely known as a judge on The Great British Bake Off where passionate amateur baking fans compete to be crowned the UK’s Best Amateur Baker. One of Paul’s favorite bake during the holidays is Christmas pudding, which
Founded in August 2020 by CEO Caitlin Braam and crafted by Head Cidermaker Monique Tribble, Yonder Cider makes savory, subtly sweet and high ABV ciders in Wenatchee with a taproom in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, which is shared with Bale Breaker Brewing from the Yakima Valley. Crafted using a blend of bittersweet cider apples and juicy dessert apples, Yonder ciders are hardly simple, and never straightforward, but you can always count on them being interesting. In August 2024, Yonder opened Yonder East, a new taproom in Eastern Washington near its production facility in Wenatchee. Stop by Peaks & Pints for an
It wouldn’t be December without a “Peanuts” special or a gift-wrapped tin of cashews in a Christmas stocking. The holiday season is when nut lovers come out of their shells. Sorry about that. But seriously. ’Tis the season for “chestnuts roasting on an open fire,” even though most people have never actually seen such a thing. Then, there are nutcrackers. Tacoma City Ballet’s The Nutcracker is a glorious production filled with spectacular dancing, live orchestral music, grand scenery, and lavish costumes. Held at the Pantages Theater, Tacoma City Ballet’s historical recreation of The Nutcracker, which premiered in St. Petersburg, Russia
Another new beer six-pack for your weekend. Cheers! Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 12.14.24 If you need an escape from the wind and cold, we’re here for you! Come hangout for a pint or two and check out the fridges, there are plenty of freshies to stock up for the rest of your weekend, including this six-pack of new arrivals. We’re open till midnight. Cheers! BAERLIC BREWING JIM PARKER’S HOLIDAY ALE: Jim Parker, who was a friendly, bearded fixture of Oregon’s craft beer scene and creator of the ubiquitous bar snack the totcho, passed a
No matter what name you know him by — Sinterklaas, Santa Claus, Kris Kringle, St. Nick, or Tim Allen — it’s no secret that Santa is better at “adulting” than the lot of us. How else would you explain his insane productivity (cheap elf labor?), varied interests, and ability to be in multiple places at the same time (quantum physics)? Anyway, he’s made a list, checked it twice, and regardless of whether you’ve been naughty or nice, he is going to show up at LeMay — America’s Car Museum today and tomorrow. It’s called responsibility — and it’s the true
Rainier — A Beer Odyssey is an independent feature documentary on the iconic, groundbreaking Rainier Beer TV commercials that ran from 1974 to 1987. Produced by Peaks & Pints co-owners Robby and Justin Peterson, and directed by Isaac Olsen, the trio studied more than 100 hours of ads and outtakes to share the story about the small, ragtag boutique ad agency Heckler Bowker in Seattle that reinvigorates a beloved beer brand by embracing its local identity, and in turn, changes beer advertising, and advertising as we know it, forever. Rainier — A Beer Odyssey screens today at 11:30 a.m., 2:15,
Fremont Brewing’s 2024 B-Bomb and other new arrivals to our cooler make up the Thursday six-pack suggestion. Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 12.12.24 You snagged a foot-tall tree in a bag that, for just $17.99, comes with lights and ornaments, but not a six-pack of beer. Just so happens Peaks & Pints has another round of new beer to our cooler, including this suggested six-pack. Cheers! BLOCK 15 BREWING HOP PEN PALS: Collaboration with Behemoth Brewing, this lighter-bodied New Zealand IPA bursts with peeled pineapple and mandarin oranges from Southern Hemisphere hops, 6.7%, 16oz OUTER
Peaks and Pints has been making lists — and checking them twice — and at the top of every list is pFriem Family Brewers. Tonight, the Hood River, Oregon, brewery will be at Peaks & Pints for a lodge meeting we’ve titled, “We’re pFrieming of a Craft Beer Christmas.” At 5 p.m., coveted pFriem craft beers such as Belgian Christmas Ale, Bourbon Barrel-Aged Barleywine, Bourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout, and Winter Ale will be on tap. Be sure to “holidaze” your outfit tonight as Peaks & Pints will be decked out for the holidays, with pFriem gifts o’plenty under the tree.
Peaks & Pints leaned to ski during our years at Hudtloff Jr. High in the 1970s. The Clover Park School District arranged the buses to Crystal Mountain, which we boarded in the wee hours with our sack lunches and donning fitted jackets, tighter pants, and lots of color — all made from that reliable nylon. We strapped tree trunk-like skis to our feet, doggedly steering them like great monoliths across entire mountain. Back then, we had to ski uphill, both ways, in the snow. And we were grateful. It was the time of our lives. And we want to pass
New beer six-pack for Tuesday, Dec. 10. Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 12.10.24 Tuesday is a wonderful New Brews Day! Here’s a suggested six-pack from the new arrivals to our 850-plus cooler. Cheers! BELCHING BEAVER BREWING VIVA LA BEAVER: Multiple award-winning milk stout loaded with notes of creamy peanut butter, cinnamon, and coffee, 7.5%, 16oz E9 BREWING EVERY 2 WEEKS: Collaboration with Bethany Carlsen and Greer Hubbard of The Funk Busters draft system experts and line cleaners, this West Coast IPA is brewed with Pacific Sunrise and Citra hops for soft citrus and tropical fruit
Peaks & Pints Chef Mike Parker’s Tuesday Chicken Salad Bahn Mi Special pairs well with Saison Dupont. Peaks and Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: Chicken Salad Bahn Mi Tuesday, Dec. 10 2024: Peaks & Pints Chef Mike Parker grabbed our Tuesday Sandwich Special offering a Chicken Salad Bahn Mi with Chicken Salad, Spicy Mayo, Ginger Hoison, Cucumber, jalapeño, Pickled Carrot, and Diakon Radish Cilantro on a Baguette. Brasserie Dupont Saison Dupont with its zesty hop and citrus attack pairs perfectly. Soup: Chickpea & Lentil PAIRING: Brasserie Dupont Saison Dupont A banh mi’s refreshing, vibrant flavors need a
Apparently, today is National Lager Day. Let’s celebrate National Lager Day. Why the hell not. Of course, if you’re old enough, you remember when everyday was National Lager Day in the U.S. Because that was the only choice you had. Times have changed. Ales are everywhere. The difference between ales and lagers? In a nutshell, an ale is brewed with top-fermenting yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and lager with bottom-fermenting yeast (Saccharomyces uvarum). Ales tend to be darker, have a cloudier appearance, higher alcohol content and a stronger, fruitier, more robust flavor with stronger bitter tones from the hops due to the higher
National Brownie Day is absolutely a thing, and we’re not talking about the Scottish goblins who clean your house in exchange for honey and gruel. Yes, it’s another day to indulge in chocolate, this time instead of warm, square, baked things; we’re drinking them. We live to serve. Although the origin of brownies is not known, some theories suggest they were created after a chef made a mistake. The chef accidentally added chocolate to a cake mix, thus creating brownies. The first officially documented brownies were made in Chicago for a ladies’ fair luncheon in the late 1800s. The event
Peaks & Pints New Beer Six-Pack for Saturday, Dec. 7 2024. Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 12.7.24 Stop by Peaks & Pints on your way home from shopping and grab a new beer six-pack hostess gift for the party tonight. Cheers! BLACK RAVEN BREWING GRANDFATHER RAVEN: Robust Russian imperial stout with rich dark caramel notes, unsweetened chocolate, and hints of coffee aromas and flavors, 9.5%, 16oz EX NOVO BREWING NEVERMORE: This year’s Nevermore barleywine was aged in a mixture of Willet Rye, Elijah Craig bourbon barrels and Pinot Noir barrels, and then fermented with house
The Peaks & Pints fajita-like Saturday Sandwich Special pairs well with Cloudburst’s Baltic porter. Peaks and Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: The Beefy Shroomer Saturday, Dec. 7 2024: Peaks & Pints Kitchen Kylee brought back Cremini Mushrooms for her Saturday Sandwich Special that includes Roast Beef, Spicy Mayo, Provolone, Bell Peppers, and Onions on French —flavors found in fajitas. PAIRING: Cloudburst Brewing Vampire Empire Cloudburst describes their beers the best: “Ok, fine. We know Baltic Porters peaked in like the 19th Century…back when vampires ruled the world. And thus, Vampire Empire was born. FUN FACT: Did you
Tacoma Arts Live, with help from the City of Tacoma’s Arts and Cultural Vitality Division, will host more than 100 local artists of all different mediums and disciplines under the historic roof of Tacoma’s Armory from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. This special event celebrates Tacoma’s rich artistic community while supporting our local economy. Peaks & Pints offers a flight of holiday beers to enjoy after Arts At The Armory — a flight we’re calling Peaks and Pints 2024 Christmas Beer Flight Dec. 7: Arts At The Armory. Peaks and Pints 2024 Christmas Beer Flight Dec. 7: Arts At The Armory
Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 12.6.24 ‼️ FRESHIE FRIDAY ‼️ We have another six-pack suggestion of new arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler. AECHT SCHLENKERLA EICHE OAK SMOKE: Doppelbock beer brewed with 100 percent oak wood smoke-kilned malt imparting a smoother, more multi layered smoky note than the aromatic Beech Smoke malt for complex smokiness paired with Hallertau hops, 8%, 16.9oz CLOUDBURST BREWING CORPORATE OVERLOADS IPA: “Welp, it’s been almost 10 YEARS since AB-Inbev purchased an important, local Seattle brewery and it appears to be going really well. Like, beer-business-geniuses-with-#noregrets well… NOT! HAHAHAHA!” writes Cloudburst Brewing for its
The Washington State Fairgrounds in Puyallup has turned into a Christmas lover’s wonderland through Sunday as the 36th annual Victorian Country Christmas festival opens at 10 a.m. Holiday music will fill the air as live musicians stroll through a festive array of Christmas décor and animated displays. The Victorian Country Christmas Festival hosts its fan-favorite shopping event, with classically decorated Victorian-style market booths featuring holiday shopping from local artisan vendors, including handmade art, décor, jewelry, bath and body products, specialty foods and more! For guests’ convenience, a parcel check will be available to store new purchases while they enjoy the
Here’s your Thursday six-pack of new arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler. Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack: 12.5.24 Here’s our Thursday six-pack of new arrivals to the Peaks & Pints cooler. … ANDERSON VALLEY BREWING BROTHER DAVID’S TRIPLE: Belgian-style triple with rich candied orange peel, maraschino cherry, orange blossom, and clover honey with a subtle hint of, pears, sourdough bread and a touch of freshly mown fields on the nose followed by a sturdy malt backbone supporting a spicy hop flavor and warming afterglow that lingers on into a comforting, subtly peppery/citrusy finish, 10%,
Well, it’s that time of year again. Christmas. We all know what that means. Twenty-four-hour marathons of A Christmas Story on TBS. Gaudy lights tacked onto just about every house in the suburbs. Overcrowded stores and that annual homage to Charlie Brown’s puny little tree. Oh, and then there’s our favorite — Old Scrooge: A Silver City Love Story at Peaks & Pints, which will turn the first page at 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 5. Like last year, the Silver City Brewery Christmas Party at Peaks & Pints will revolve around their Old Scrooge Christmas Ale, their classic old ale
We suggest pairing our Wednesday Pesto Caesar Chicken Salad Sandwich Special with Weihenstephaner Original Premium Lager. Peaks and Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: Hail Caesar! Thursday, Dec. 4 2024: Peaks & Pints Kitchen Brittany added Pesto and Caesar to her weekly Wednesday Chicken Salad Sandwich Special, plus Bacon, Onion, Tomato, and Romaine on French. PAIRING: Weihenstephaner Original Premium Lager In 1895, Spaten Brewery brewed a helles lager to compete with pilsner-style beers. Unlike German pilsner, helles lager emphasizes malt sweetness rather than bittering hops; the beer isn’t sweet by any means, but the hops just balance the
It’s freakin’ freezing outside. You have bundled up kids in thermal wear, ski socks, turtlenecks, snow pants, parkas, waterproof gloves, hats, and scarves. You cut your hand while trying to climb over bikes in garage to get the deicer bags. You bleed profusely onto your white Bronco. Frighten children, who have fallen on a patch of ice, run back into the house with wet boots and undo the hours of bundling it just took to get them outside for five minutes. You realize that these are hours of your life that you will never get back. You call your spouse
After a couple months of avoiding the elements, isn’t it time you get a little bit of exercise? Ice skating is the perfect way to get yourself off the couch and get the blood moving again. Experience Sprinker Recreation Center’s ice rink transformed into a winter wonderland with more than 35,000 lights, animated displays, cascading lights on ice, and falling snow with a giant lighted tree in the center of the rink. They’re calling it “Ice Lights”, and it’s open today from 10:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m., and again 6-9 p.m. You can also experience the thrill of driving bumper cars
6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma: Dec. 3-9 2024 Season’s greetings! There are plenty of hot times ahead during the South Sound’s coolest season, and Peaks & Pints’ 6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma will be unwrapping some treasures this season — including this week. TUESDAY, DEC. 3 — HOPPY HOLIDAYS FOOD DRIVE: The Douville Home Group’s Hoppy Holiday Food Drive is back for its sixth year with 10 amazing Pierce County breweries/cideries helping the Emergency Food Network feed those in need. This past month, the county community has donated non-perishable food and hygiene items at their favorite
From watching Elf to eating Aunt Bethany’s cookies to spraying fake snow on the windows, we all have our seasonal rituals. And it’s impossible to live in the greater Tacoma area and get in the spirit without a spin through ZooLights. Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium’s 800,000 light display depicts everything from a giant Pacific octopus and flame tree to the Narrows Bridge and Sasquatch. This year’s light display also features a magnificent heard of groovy goats that you can reserve time for a hang. Before or after walking through the twinkling lights from 4:30 to 10 p.m., swing by
You fancy, Nøgne Ø Dark Horizons 7! Fancy Pants Sunday: Nøgne Ø Dark Horizons 7 Øh, do we have Fancy Pants Sunday beer for you. It’s the most famous artisan brewery in Norway. Gunnar Wiig and Kjetil Jikiun launched it in January 2002 in Bergermoen, Grimstad, an industrial area on the border between the municipals Ringerike in Buskerud and Jevnaker in Oppland — part of the Sørlandet geographical region of Norway. The brewery’s name is Danish for “Naked Isle” and was, according to the website, a poetic term used by Henrik Ibsen in his 19th-century Norwegian
Baerlic Brewing’s “Die Hard” Yippie-Ki-PA holiday IPA pairs well with our Sunday sandwich special. Peaks and Pints Tacoma Sandwich Special: Die Hard Sunday, Dec. 1 2024: Peaks & Pints Kitchen Kylee tweaked ingredients for her first sandwich special of December 2024. She’s pickled onions and whipped up a creamy sun-dried tomato pesto and added them to chicken, provolone, Parmesan, balsamic glaze and arugula on French. PAIRING: Baerlic Brewing Yippie-Ki-PA The high hop content of IPAs often pair well with rambunctious dishes, such as Kylee’s Sunday sandwich special. A higher alcohol content and rich flavor of American
You’re lagging in the Christmas spirit this year. Just like last year. And the year before. Scrooging has always been your go-to reaction to the yuletide, but as you grow older, and more sentimental, it’s increasingly unacceptable to be crotchety and contrarian. It’s unsavory. So, Peaks & Pints decide to be proactive. We will elicit Christmas cheer daily through Dec. 24, as we are closed Christmas Day. By which we mean Christmas beer. We will dedicate our daily beer flight to holiday and winter beers pairing it with a local holiday event. After all, Christmas is about nothing if not
Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack 11.30.24 A decadent six-pack of dark treasures with a lone hazy IPA … BLOCK 15 BREWING IMAGINE 2024: Blend of Belgian-inspired imperial stouts matured for 1 and 2 years in freshly emptied Willett bourbon barrels, 14%, 500ml BOTTLE LOGIC BREWING MIND OVER BATTER: Collaboration with Pontoon Brewing, this bourbon barrel-aged walnut brownie inspired imperial stout has a bitter Baker’s chocolate backbone, reminiscent of that perfect crispy corner piece of brownie with a silky finish of walnut richness, 12%, 500ml RAINY DAZE BREWING TOTALLY BAKED: Milk stout with layers of chocolate, hints of sweet vanilla
Menefee Tree Farm just delivered … for the fifth consecutive year … a ginormous tree to Peaks & Pints in Tacoma’s Proctor District. It’s another beauty, which we’ll decorate soon. In the meantime, we constructed a Saturday Christmas tree beer flight in celebration of Menefee’s dedication to adding amazing aromas for the holidays. In 1980, Lou Menefee along with his son, Scott, began selling Christmas trees in the empty lot next to their house. Lou would drive out to Shelton, cut down trees, and load as many trees into his 1972 Datsun Pickup as he could. Then, he would drive
Here’s a Black Friday six-pack that’s not bourbon barrel-aged. Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack 11.29.24 We hope y’all had a great Thanksgiving! Here are six new arrivals to our cooler. Cheers! BOTTLE LOGIC BREWING SHOCK BRACER: West Coast double IPA brewed and generously dry hopped with Mosaic and Strata hops for melon-driven aromatics followed by notes of cantaloupe, guava, and mango with a moderate orange-pithy bitterness finish, 8.5%, 16oz GRAINS OF WRATH HAIL SANTA: Spiced holiday ale packed with cinnamon, allspice, ginger, nutmeg, and honey, 7%, 16oz MATCHLESS BREWING MATCHLESS MADE: Hazy IPA brewed with
Take a whiff from your Peaks & Pints taster glass, have a sip, and you’ll discover. The flavors that develop when beer is aged in booze-soaked oak are stunning. Bitter, harsh stouts can turn seductive and smooth as silk. The alcohol percentage tips the scales over 10 percent, the body of the beer becomes silk-smooth, and wood characteristics — like oak, vanilla and dry tannins — sink into the roasted malts, creating a symphony of dark flavors. Today marks the last day of our Dark Days of Thanksgiving imperial stout festival, and we’re going out with a bang! We’ll tap
Here’s a six-pack of new arrivals for your Thanksgiving celebration. Peaks and Pints Pre-Thanksgiving New Beer Six-Pack: 11.27.24 It’s go time! BLOCK 15 BREWING HOPPY HOLIDAYS: This yuletide IPA is brewed with a sleighful of hops, orange zest, and foraged spruce tips for gifts of pine and citrus wrapped in a warm malt backbone, 9.2%, 16oz GRAINS OF WRATH NIGHTIME STORIES: Jet black American stout with notes of pine, dark chocolate, roasted barley and citrus, 7.2%, 16oz OUTER RANGE BREWING SNOHDEGA: Hazy IPA collaboration with Tripping Animals, Other Half, and Ology Brewing brewed with Krush and
The night before Thanksgiving is known as Blackout Wednesday, or Drinksgiving, and is a time when people often binge drink. This cultural phenomenon is driven by college students and young adults returning home for the holidays, and many people have the next day off for Thanksgiving. For those reasons (and the fact that Thanksgiving is for many a stay at home and cook family holiday) a large swath of pre-turkey day drinkers spends the night out hitting bars and restaurants. A holiday before “The Holiday” Black Wednesday now ranks as one of their biggest drinking dates of the year … right up
Grab this six-pack for Turkey Day! Peaks and Pints New Beer Six-Pack 11.26.24 Peaks & Pints has our 13-door cooler loaded up with tons of fresh beer — including our Tuesday recommended six-pack below — so you can stock up for those Thanksgiving festivities. Cheers! EVERYBODY’S BREWING IMAGINARY FRIENDS: Winter warmer brewed with Crystal and Chocolate Malta plus generous amounts of Simcoe, Citra, and Cascade hops for a winter warmer meets hoppy IPA, 7.1%, 16oz EVIL TWIN BREWING BEFORE DURING AND AFTER CHRISTMAS: Revamped edition of an original hazy, double dry-hopped double IPA with big juicy
Peaks & Pints will released the 2024 Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout and its variants at 10 a.m. on Black Friday. 6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma Nov. 26-Dec. 1 2024 Must haves for the holiday season: food, air, water, 6-Pack of Things To Do in Tacoma. … TUESDAY, NOV. 26 — DARK DAYS OF THANKSGIVING FLIGHT: What makes a dark beer dark? It all comes down to the malts. Though all beer relies on malts (cereal grains that have been allowed to germinate, then dried to halt the germination process), dark beers are
What makes a dark beer dark? It all comes down to the malts. Though all beer relies on malts (cereal grains that have been allowed to germinate, then dried to halt the germination process), dark beers are unique in their use of black and dark malts. These grains are heavily roasted to achieve the characteristic color as well as the caramelized, toasty flavors we love. The blanket term “dark beer” encompasses everything from classic styles like schwarzbier (a dark German lager) to the return of black IPAs. The most familiar dark beers, however, are generally billed as either porters or
Go dark today! Peaks and Pints Fremont Barrel-Aged Six Pack: 11.25.24 Peaks & Pints kicked off our annual Dark Days of Thanksgiving dark beer tap takeover today and it runs through Black Friday — skipping Thanksgiving as we’re giving the entire staff the day off to be with family and friends. Today’s six-pack features some dark ditties from Fremont Brewing. Cheers! FREMONT BREWING 2022 COFFEE CINNAMON B-BOMB: Winter Ale aged in 8- to 12-year-old American oak bourbon barrels then blended with 9-, 12-, and 24-month-old barrel-aged Winter Ale, then cold brew coffee and cinnamon bark to
Darkness descends on Peaks & Pints this Thanksgiving week, and it promises to be an eventful week with at scarce and salient selections from the dark side. Beginning today and running through Friday, Nov. 29, the right side of Peaks & Pints’ Western red cedar tap log will house dark elixirs, including imperial stouts. In the Georgian-era, stout meant simply that: strong. Stouts were more potent versions of porter. Made with an extra helping of dark grains for added booze and body, stout quickly caught on, most famously in Ireland and Russia where the style received an extra punch for
You fancy, Tommie Sjef Spróng! Fancy Pants Sunday: Tommie Sjef Sprong It was not your typical young adult situation. Many early 20-somethings strive to be social media influencers while sipping hard seltzers. A young Dutch guitarist named Tommie “Sjef” Koenen plays different. People often refer to him as a beer blending prodigy. One taste of an oude geueze whilst visiting Antwerp just after entering his 20s changes his life path. Wasting no time, he became well-traveled between Belgian breweries and his parent’s backyard shed in Den Helder, Amsterdam. At the annual Amsterdam sour and wild ale
Our Mutual Friend Brewing, or OMF, opened their doors in 2012 starting with a modest 31-gallon brew system and would later grow to a 10-barrel brew system along with additional equipment including oak foeders affectionately named Bert and Ernie and a couple of lagering tanks. OMF would spend the next 11 years creating world-class beer using local ingredients and providing an inclusive space that welcomes creatives, locals, out-of-towners, brewers, and everyone in between — including Peaks & Pints in 2023 during the Great American Beer Festival. XBP Limited Liquids has brought OMF to Western Washington, including Peaks & Pints in
