Peaks and Pints House Party with DJ dAb

Two women sidle up to the bar inside Peaks & Pints in Tacoma’s Proctor District. They pick the house cider, Yonder Cider’s House of Yonder, and the house beer, Fort George Brewery’s Blue Mouse IPA, then knock the bottoms of the glassware together and loudly toast each other for surviving another monotonous workweek. Behind them, a cascade of Thursday night beer and cider drinkers wash past the bar and into the small, makeshift dance area, where the concussive toom-toom-toom of local DJ dAb pulsates inside like the frantic heartbeat of a barleywine junkie. The two women discuss deviation line charts, school lunches, and hop varietals on their bar stools to the rapid tempo, cautiously lifting their glassware to take an unsteady sip of cider and beer. Welcome to Peaks and Pints House Party with DJ dAb, our second event during Tacoma Beer Week 2023.

The Peaks and Pints House Party with DJ dAb will be held 5-8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 17 at the craft beer and cider bar, bottle shop and restaurant in Tacoma’s Proctor District. Tacoman and longtime DJ, Sean Ober, aka DJ dAb, will spin while everyone enjoys the house cider and house beer plus multiple ciders and beer from Yonder Cider and Fort George Brewery.

Yonder Cider House of Yonder

The story of Peaks & Pints’ house cider, House of Yonder, lies fully with Yonder Cider and the apples grown in Wenatchee and the surrounding rugged, sun-drenched, windblown valley. Yonder Cider Queen Caitlin Braam held court with her Hand of the Queen, Monique Tribble, Lord David Alton of Sales, and Pappi Swarner of Peaks & Pints, which sits over the Cascade Mountains in the northern region of the City of Destiny. Tribble dribbled possible House of Yonder blends into chalices. Vilberie, Maria Mendre, and tiny red fleshed apples became the Holy Grail with the addition of Yonder’s proprietary culinary blend. The court sipped non-carbonated variations of the dry cider for sugar point perfection. “We sweeten with added fruit, juice or inverted cane sugar,” added Tribble. “We ferment everything totally dry without adding water back,” added Queen Caitlin. Peaks & Pints bends the knee before Queen Caitlin and her Hand, Monique Tribble, for creating a house dry cider that will rule Tacoma until Nov. 1, 2023.

Fort George Blue Mouse IPA

In 2021, Matt Rhodes — formerly with Stone Distributing and King Harbor Brewing out of Redondo Beach, California — left his head brewing job at Narrows Brewing in Tacoma to become the research and development brewer at Fort George Brewery. Oct. 4, 2022, Rhodes and fellow brewer Colin Rosenberger welcomed the Peaks & Pints staff to their “Sweet Virginia” 8.5-barrel brewhouse to brew Peaks’ 2022-23 house beer, appropriately named Blue Mouse IPA. In the early 1900s, John Hamrick opened the Blue Mouse Theatre for vaudeville and movies screenings in several Pacific Northwest cities, including Astoria in 1922, downtown Tacoma on Broadway in 1922, and Proctor District Tacoma in 1923, which is the only Blue Mouse still operating. Since Peaks & Pints could throw a blue mouse cat toy from our front door to the Blue Mouse Theatre in the Proctor District, we named the Simcoe, Cascade, Amarillo, and Centennial hopped IPA, Blue Mouse.

Tacoma Beer Week kicks off on Friday, August 11 and continues with 10 days of festive events at local pubs, taprooms, restaurants, and breweries, celebrating Pierce County’s craft beer community.

PEAKS AND PINTS HOUSE PARTY WITH DJ DAB, a Tacoma Beer Week event, 5-8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 17, 3816 N. 26th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma

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