Since its establishment in 1996, Shmaltz Brewing Company has gone from a Mission District, San Francisco apartment operation, where Jeremy Cowan brewed his first hundred cases of He’Brew Beer that he enlisted his mother to deliver, to a massive brewery just north of Albany in Clifton Park, New York, with national distribution, including Washington state. Cowan wears his Jewish heritage proud, from “schmaltz,” which is Yiddish for “excessive sentimentality in art or music,” to the beer being Kosher certified, to the artwork as well as incorporating Biblical Israel’s famous fruits and grains such as figs and pomegranates, aka the “Seven Species,” into the brews. Peaks and Pints is thrilled to orchestrate a last-minute Lodge Meeting with Schmaltz Brewing Company and regional rep Sean Friedman at 6 p.m., pouring Jewbelation, a 14 percent ABV barleywine-style ale made with 14 types of malts and hops sure to leave one feeling a little “ferschnoshked” (Yiddish for “drunk”), and Bittersweet Lenny’s R.I.P.A. Rye IPA, a 10 percent ABV brewed in honor of foul-mouthed comic Lenny Bruce’s death in 1966, with “an obscene amount of malts & hops” — eight grains, substantial amount of rye and seven different hop varieties, not counting the two varieties used during dry-hopping (see: ferschnoshked). Expect free Shmaltz pint glasses with every purchase of Shmaltz craft beer.

PEAKS AND PINTS LODGE MEETING WITH SHMALTZ BREWING CO., 6 p.m., Friday, Feb. 10, Peaks and Pints, 3816 N. 26th St., Tacoma, no cover