Peaks & Pints kicks off Tacoma Beer Week 2024 with Foster’s Creative “the ten” tonight. This year, Foster’s Creative is evolving their “ten of us” 2023 project into what is simply called, “the ten”. Carrying with it the spirit of the original “ten of us” 2023 community project is a multi-media, people-gathering, wave-making project featuring people, places, and happenings in the 253. Peaks & Pints kicks off their Tacoma Beer Week festivities with the filming of “The Ten 2024 Toast”. Enjoy the latest, local beer and cider while you check out “the ten”, chat with “the ten” team, and grab a special T-shirt commemorating Peaks & Pints’ 10-year association with TBW — all while enjoying Peaks & Pints’ new flatbread pizzas. Since our Western red cedar tap log is jammed with local beer, we offer an all-day flight of Tacoma beer — a flight we’re calling Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Tacoma Beer Week 2024. The official Tacoma Beer Week beer, “A Deal With Destiny” cream ale made with Almond Roca at Sig Brewing will be tapped at 5 p.m.

Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Tacoma Beer Week 2024

Narrows Mezcal Aged Gose

5.1% ABV

July 12, 2013, Scott Wagner, Gordon Rush, Matt Smith, Thair Jorgenson, Chris DeWald, and others opened the 15-barrel Narrows Brewing perched on pilings above the Narrows waterway. As guests gazed at the 700 feet of guest docking below and beyond to the Narrows bridge, Joe Walts, former quality control manager at Ale Asylum Brewing in Madison, Wisconsin, brewed in the back. After a couple years, Walts returned to Ale Asylum with former Harmon head brewer Mike Davis taking over the head brewing position. Davis eventually returned to his beloved Hawaiian Islands with Matt Rhodes — formerly with Stone Distributing and King Harbor Brewing out of Redondo Beach, California —letting his freak flag fly, injecting new recipes into the brewery, especially hazy IPAs, and crazy delicious imperial stouts. After Rhodes moved on to Fort George Brewery in Astoria, Parker Rush grabbed the brewing reins and the entire brewery as the new owner in November 2020. After graduation from the UC Davis Master Brewers Program, Parker cut his teeth brewing at Lowercase Brewing in Seattle before fulfilling his life-long dream to own a brewery. Brewer Zach Dowling has been with Narrows since the doors opened. Crafted with a hint of smoky sophistication from being aged on Mezcal chips, Narrows’s Mezcal Aged Gose harmonizes tartness with a touch of agave sweetness, culminating in a refreshingly unique brew.

7 Seas Hula Weizen

5.6% ABV

In 2016, 7 Seas Brewing opened a new location spanning two city blocks in Tacoma’s historic Brewery District adjacent to the University of Washington campus. Housed in the Heidelberg Brewery’s former distribution warehouse, the new facility was a 10-fold increasing in brewing capacity compared to their previous Gig Harbor location (7 Seas has since opened a new taproom along Gig Harbor’s waterfront. 7 Seas Brewing’s Hula Weizen is a hefeweizen brewed with coconut water, toasted coconut flakes, and a hint of lemongrass. It sways with a slightly sweet and bready flavor of a hefeweizen with medium coconut and subtle lemongrass. A sweet and smooth malt body dances on the tongue.

Odd Otter ODDitea

5.4% ABV

Five owners — three with ties to the military, two accomplished homebrewers — opened Odd Otter Brewing in downtown Tacoma during the summer of 2014 in a downtown Tacoma building built in the late 1880s, and later became the home of a Sailors and Soldiers Club during World War I and a USO Center in World War II. Odd Otter is the talk of the town for not only their fun, otterly unique taproom events but also for head brewer Shelby Bible’s latest brews. Bible’s ODDitea is a brown ale brewed with organic coconut chai tea and fermented on a very expressive English ale yeast. Expect notes of chocolate, warm spices, dried fruit and coconut.

E9 Brewing/Tacoma Beer Week Harpua Stout

6.4% ABV

In the early ’90s, Dusty Trail converted the historic Engine House No. 9 bar into a brewpub at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Pine Street, officially becoming the first microbrewery in Tacoma. Dick Dickens grabbed the Engine House reins in 2002, bringing in head brewer Doug Tiede. Heads turned and medals were hung. In 2011, The X Group added the Engine House to their local restaurant empire, with Shane Johns and Donovan Stewart running the kettles and hanging even more medals, mostly for their sours and saisons. Three years ago, they separated the brewery from the restaurant and opened E9 Brewing in Tacoma’s Historic Brewery District with Johns running a full team of seasoned brewers, Stewart leading the sales team, and former Parkway Tavern manager Sean Jackson running the taproom. E9’s Tacoma Beer Week collaboration Harpua Stout is a milk stout brewed with Emma Hibbs from the world-famous Browns Point Homebrew Club.

Wet Coast Mixtape For 1

6.7% ABV

West Pierce Fire and Rescue firefighters Bryan Copeland and Aaron Johnson are the brewers and co-owners behind the business, along with their wives Molly Copeland and April Johnson. They started planning their brewery for years but didn’t get serious until 2012. They opened in Gig Harbor in 2015 on a 3.5-barrel brewing system, with three 7-barrel bright tanks and four 7-barrel fermenters, which has since been replaced by a much larger system. The love affair with the Prohibition era is particularly evident at their Wet Coast Brewing. In the 1932 presidential election, King, Pierce, and Spokane counties voted “wet,” meaning those citizens voted for Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt and his desire to bring back the drinkies, instead of Republican Pres. Herbert Hoover’s desire to keep “the noble experiment,” Prohibition. Wet Coast’s Mixtape For 1 hazy IPA is brewed with Azacca, Citra and Strata hops for fruity notes, especially candied orange peel.

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