This is a real-life story of a brewery left for dead in the north Washington wilderness following an attack by noise-complaining, rural residents. Clinging to the adage that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, the brewery found its inner strength. Five years after opening in 2007, Skookum Brewery gave up its “Beer in the Woods” adage and moved from a rural road in Arlington to a location across the street from the Arlington Municipal Airport. Skookum could now extend its hours and whoop it up without town folk bearing pitchforks. Today, everything Skookum does now, it does big: big taproom, big cribbage boards in said taproom and craft beers full of big flavor. The other big thing Skookum Brewery does is Peaks and Pints’ Lodge Meeting. Skookum will grab the gavel and podium for a night of Lodge announcements paired with Java Uncle Buckwheat Brown Ale, Amber’s Hot Friend Red Ale, Catch The Breeze IPA, Pile-Up IPA and Vapour Trail IIPA.

SKOOKUM BREWERY LODGE MEETING, 6-9 p.m., Thursday, June 22, Peaks and Pints, 3816 N. 26^th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma, no cover