Douville Home Group‘s Hoppy Holiday Food Drive has brought together 10 Pierce County breweries and cideries for a friendly competition to collect non-perishable food and hygiene items for Emergency Food Network, or EFN. From Nov. 5 through Dec. 3, items can be donated in-person or monetary donations can be made online using the QR codes on all the marketing materials. Again, all donations benefit EFN, whose mission is, “… to provide Pierce County with a consistent, diverse and nutritious food supply so that no person goes hungry.” Overall, more than 2.6 million visits were made to EFN partner programs during 2023. Emergency Food Network aided these visits by distributing 14.5 million pounds of food in 2023, providing millions of meals to hungry individuals in Pierce County. More than 10,000 pounds of that food came from last year’s Hoppy Holiday Food Drive. The event officially ends in a celebration with the breweries and ciders at Peaks & Pints Tuesday, Dec. 3. This event will include raffles for swag, guest taps from each brewery and cidery, a last chance to give donations, and finally, the awarding of the Hoppy Holiday Food Drive 2024 Tap Handle Trophy to whichever brewery/cidery raises the most. Since the Hoppy Holiday Food Drive began yesterday and ends Dec. 3 at Peaks & Pints, we celebrate with a Wednesday, all-day flight of beer from the Hoppy Holiday Food Drive participating breweries — a flight we’re calling Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Hoppy Holiday Food Drive 2024.

Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Hoppy Holiday Food Drive 2024

E9 O’Leary’s Coffee Milk Stout Nitro

7% ABV

Milk stouts originated in Europe in the 1800s. The style emphasizes a malty sweetness with hints of chocolate and caramel. They are sometimes called cream stouts or sweet stouts. Brewers intensified the dark, chocolaty malt body with lactose, the sugar in cow’s milk, hence why they’re more often called milk stouts. Brewer’s yeast can’t ferment lactose into alcohol, so it hangs around to give you a rich mouthfeel and a soft, creamy sweetness, balancing out the bitter and roasted qualities typical of its cousin stouts. E9 Brewery brewed a milk stout adding Organic Guatemalan and Sumatran coffee from Caffe Vita Roasters to the mix, a mix they call O’Leary’s Coffee Milk Stout. Peaks & Pints tapped the nitro version for even more creaminess.

7 Seas Red Raspberry Sour

4.7% ABV

7 Seas Brewing has re-released a gose-inspired ale in their rotating Sour Ale series. Red Raspberry Sour Ale is brewed with Pilsner malt, malted white wheat, Magnum and Golding hops, loads of red raspberry puree and a touch of San Juan Island sea salt. The flavor starts full of thick, ripe raspberry puree, with the hit of tart acid coming very early then trailing for the remainder of the flavor as the salt, carbonation and slight sweetness emerges with the lingering and pleasant lasting berry flavor.

Sig Fresh Hop Mosaic Pale

5.2% ABV

Sig Brewing’s Fresh Hop Mosaic Pale is brewed with wet Mosaic hops then dry hopped with Mosaic Lupomax concentrated pellets for an earthy body with a mild hop finish. Fresh Hop Mosaic Pale won “Best In Show” at the 2024 Yakima Fresh Hop Ale Festival.

Wet Coast Reply All IPA

6.1% ABV

Wet Coast Brewing brewed this delicious and bright West Coast style IPA featuring Mosaic, Cashmere and Strata hops for those who know the difference between Reply, and Reply All.

Narrows Griswold Hazy IPA

6.8% ABV

Narrows Brewing holiday beer, Griswold Hazy IPA, is brewed with 2-Row and malted wheat. The Tacoma brewery decided to double dry hop with Citra and a touch of Strata at six pounds per barrel resulting in an aroma of orange, strawberry, and a little coconut for the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny f—ing Kaye.

LINK: Peaks & Pints beer and cider cooler inventory