Summer doesn’t really include a major shopping holiday, like Christmas or Valentine’s Day, so there’s no superego telling us where or what to buy. When it’s warm and sunny, we’re given over to lazy impulse buying and bargain hunting; we have the time to more completely enjoy our neighborhood shopping districts and chock-a-block markets and fairs. The annual Proctor Sidewalk Sale kicks off today with Proctor District stores hauling their goods out to the sidewalk through Sunday. Compass Rose, Proctor Arts Gallery, Tacoma Glassblowing Studio, Pacific Northwest Shop, Megs & Mo, Lapis, Chirp & Co., Museum Quality Framing Foxfire Salon & Spa, and others will offer the best deals possible. To keep shoppers fueled and loose, Peaks & Pints presents an all-day beer flight of summer beer to kick off the event. Grab Peaks and Pints Craft Flight: Proctor Sidewalk Sale and plan your shopping spree.

Peaks and Pints Craft Flight: Proctor Sidewalk Sale

Great Notion Rated G

Zero% ABV

Let’s ease into the Proctor Sidewalk Sale and this summery-y flight with Great Notion Brewing’s Rated G black cherry cream soda. A non-alcoholic beverage, this cream soda is made with cherry juice, cane sugar, and vanilla.

Schöfferhofer Grapefruit

2.5% ABV

Frankfurt, Germany’s Binding Brauerei takes credit for creating the globe’s first grapefruit-infused hefeweizen, a 50-50 blend of grapefruit juice and unfiltered wheat beer. Schöfferhofer’s bubbly offering is more benign and accessible than more citrusy radlers, with a heavier sweetness that could be a turn-off to some. Still, this 2.5-percent ABV radler would make a fine brunch alternative to a mimosa, or to chase away the thudding fog of last night’s bad decisions.

19 Acres Brazilian Limeade

5% ABV

Brazilian lemonade is tart, but sweet, made with fresh limes and sweetened condensed. The first question that people generally ask about Brazilian lemonade is why it’s called lemonade when it’s made with limes? In Brazil, lemons are not common Their word for lemonade, “Limonada” refers to limes. And in Brazil, they call this beverage Swiss Lemonade because the signature ingredient, Nestle brand sweetened condensed milk, shows a Swiss milkmaid on the label. So, Brazilian lemonade is called Swiss lemonade, which is limeade. Got it? 19 Acres Hard Cider does. Their delicious version is called Brazilian Limeade, a cider, with Key lime juice and sweetened condensed milk for an amazingly sweet, tangy and refreshing sipper.

Claim 52 Thicc: Rocket Pop

5% ABV

Summer nostalgia in a can! Claim 52 Brewing’s Thicc: Rocket Pop fruited gose is conditioned with sweet cherry, blueberry, raspberry, and lime.

WeldWerks Watermelon Margarita

5.1% ABV

Made with watermelon puree and margarita mix, this fruited sour is Jolly Rancher sweet, tart, and practically a margarita in a can.

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