MONDAY, OCT. 10 2016: South Sound events + craft beer …
Tacoma Film Festival + Narrows Brewing = squirrel apartheid and super alpha
University of Puget Sound + 7 Seas Brewing = wet goods and wet hops
NOT YOUR SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS
Tacoma Film Festival continues with seven screenings today, including “Not Your Saturday Morning Cartoons” showcase at 9:15 p.m. We’re talking sci-fi action thriller about squirrel apartheid; a wild, innocent cat vs. a strange monster; hip, party-loving bunnies, storytelling stranger in a launderette and more. Check out today’s schedule at tacomafilmfestival.com.
PREFUNK: Narrows Brewing Company has released a new beer, One Hop Doc, a single hop IPA named for the Dr. Rudi Hop used to flavor it. Developed at the New Zealand Horticultural Research Centre (now New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research) and released in 1976 as “Super Alpha,” Dr. Rudi is a triploid variety bred from New Zealand Smoothcone. Its name was changed to Dr. Rudi in 2012. As for what kind of medicine Dr. Rudi practices, you’ll have to try it when Narrows to opens its doors at 2 p.m.
TACOMA JEWISH PIONEERS
Author Deborah Freedman will share stories about the creation of her book, Tacoma’s Dry Goods and Wet Goods: Nineteenth Century Jewish Pioneers, in response to the question, “Grandma, where did you get the pictures?” at 7 p.m. in the Wheelock Student Center on the University of Puget Sound campus. The book presents the previously undocumented history of Tacoma’s Jewish community during the latter half of the 1800s, based on nearly two decades of the author’s primary research.
PREFUNK: 7 Seas Brewing has re-released its 100% wet hop ale, Hop Prophet. This years 2016 harvest edition showcases the Citra Hop. Expect wet, danky goodness with subtle notes of honey and biscuit-like malt tones when 7 Seas opens its Gig Harbor and Tacoma taprooms at 11 a.m.
