Seattle Beer Week in Tacoma: 11 Things To Do Before Aslan Brewing

Craft beer lovers unite! Make Tacoma, Washington your day trip destination while celebrating Seattle Beer Week May 9-19, 2019.

Seattle Beer Week, or SBW, brings together industry, innovation, education and culture into an inspired 11-day-long series of events celebrating beer, food, and music. SBW gives King County breweries a chance to collaborate and experiment with new and exciting brews, but specialty beer stores and growler fillers also step up with a wealth of unique offerings for SBWers, including Peaks and Pints craft beer bar, bottle shop and restaurant in Tacoma’s Proctor District. The City of Destiny has earned its reputation as a welcoming seaport town by crafting community, culture, hospitality and kick-ass things to do and see. Peaks and Pints will champion such sights before hosting craft breweries during SBW.

Thursday, April 9, Peaks and Pints kicks off Seattle Beer Week with “Seattle Beer Week in Tacoma: 11 Things To Do Before Aslan Brewing,” which means we highlight 11 Tacoma touristy things to accomplish before or after stopping by Peaks and Pints for Aslan Brewing craft beer, including the official beer of SBW, Washington Gold Pilsner, beginning at 5 p.m.

Seattle Beer Week in Tacoma: 11 Things To Do Before Aslan Brewing

1. Buy a book at King’s Books, go read at Puget Park in Tacoma’s Proctor District, and then spend an hour at Backstage Video searching for the perfect movie, head next door to Peaks and Pints and enjoy two Aslan Brewing beers, then take a sandwich to go.
2. You should bike through Point Defiance Park and see a bald eagle nesting as you’ll have a clear view of the natural marvel Mount Rainer.
3. Attend the Tacoma Rainiers versus Reno Aces 7:05 p.m. game at Cheney Stadium and spare no expense. Get beer, a hot dog, peanuts — get them all. Watch dads and sons with mitts, old-timers, teenage girls tittering and scurrying about. Get a program. Do the scorecard. Buy a hat. Bundle up and hug someone. But park over by 19th for free.
4. Enter Bob’s Java Jive dressed as Neo, drink PBR, and play pool.
5. Walk the ravine from Magoo’s Annex on 21st to The Spar in Old Town Tacoma.
6. Make friends with someone who lives at Salmon Beach and join them and their friends for herbal jazz cigarettes and food.
7. Drive around the tideflats and look at all of the industrial crap. Watch a ship unload. Finish this excursion with pull-tabs at the Rock The Dock Pub & Grill.
8. Visit the Northwest Room–Special Collections at the Tacoma Public Library Main Branch to peruse old Tacoma newspapers and history.
9. Drop a line off the Old Town Dock. Catch bullheads and let them go. Bring a notebook, too. Write poetry — not trying too hard.
10. Walk the International District on 38th Street. Make sure to check out the weird stuff in the gift shops. Buy something silly to give to a friend. Eat pho then karaoke at the Flying Boots. Sing a Nancy Sinatra song.
11. Get someone to take you sailing under the Narrow’s Bridge with a barbecue grill for Northwest salmon and veggies along with beverages secured at Peaks and Pints.

Aslan Brewing on tap at Peaks and Pints April 9, 2019

Jack Lamb and his future partners, Frank Trosset and Pat Haynes, started their pilot brewing effort in the basement of a parent’s house, and soon moved to a garage. With the help of Frank’s brother, Boe, who would later also join the business as a fourth owner, the team built their brewpub with their own hands in eight intense months in 2013 and 2014. In May 2014, when they opened for business as Aslan Brewing Co., one of the Northwest’s first organic breweries, all four of the freshly minted owners were under 30 years old. Anyhoo, Aslan brewed the official beer for 2019 Seattle Beer Week, Washington Gold, a pilsner style lager, which Peaks and Pints will tap, along with other Aslan treats, beginning at 5 p.m. Thursday, April 9.