Grit & Grain Podcast goes with the Flow

Commencement Bay is one of the brightest spots of hope for environmental restoration — thanks to the work of Communities for a Healthy Bay, or CHB. On March 1, the opening day of Tacoma Beer Week 2025, a local institution that lives and dies by clean water, Silver City Brewery in Bremerton, joins forces with South Sound Surfrider for a community beach cleanup near Old Town Tacoma followed by the Gose With The Flow sour beer collaboration release party at Peaks & Pints in Tacoma’s Proctor District.

Following the success of last year’s Tacoma Beer Week community clean-up sessions, this year’s festivities include a beach clean-up at the Les Davis Pier and Jack Hyde Park near Old Town Tacoma from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, March 1. After the Saturday afternoon beach clean-up, go with the flow to Peaks & Pints for the Silver City and Communities for a Healthy Bay unique ocean-inspired sour beer Gose with the Flow release party from 2-4 p.m. The CBH team traveled to Bremerton to brew Gose With The Flow, a refreshing, tart, and subtly herbal sour crafted with regionally renowned lemon balm and San Juan Island sea salt, echoing the crisp essence of Puget Sound. The crushable gose with bright citrus notes and a whisper of salinity will be a worthy reward after several hours of bagging garbage on the shores of Commencement Bay.

The Grit & Grain Podcast will sit with the Communities for a Healthy Bay folks and Silver City Brewery owner Scott Houmes to discuss the collaboration at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19, in the Peaks & Pints Events Room. All are welcome to join us for the hour-taping. For the uninitiated, beer gurus Matt McLaren (Orcas Distributing), Ron Swarner (Peaks & Pints), and Bethany Carlsen (The Funk Busters) explore and celebrate the craft beer industry, community, and history in Tacoma, Washington, and surrounding Pacific Northwest region, with assistance from opinionated beer industry insiders recording at Peaks & Pints on Wednesday afternoons. Engineered by Doug Mackey of Channel 253, you can hear the three India Pale Yale graduates and featured guests every Friday as they think and drink in a room completely devoid of oxygen so as not to degrade the beer.

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GRIT & GRAIN PODCAST WITH COMMUNITIES FOR A HEALTHY BAY AND SILVER CITY BREWERY, 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19, Peaks & Pints, 3816 N. 26th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma, no cover