SATURDAY, NOV. 5 2016: South Sound events + craft beer …
The Compass Rose + Peaks and Pints = Proctor night
The Valley + South Sound Craft Beer Festival = Chazz and IPAs
Antique Sandwich Company + The Copper Door = stories and sours
Bob’s Java Jive + North End Social Club = Rudolph’s Redemption and Mr. Motorcycle
LADIES NIGHT
Ladies. Do any of you still have those girlfriends — you know, the ones who still want to have weekend sleepovers, do facials, listen to NKOTB and eat Doritos? Is it not as fun when you force your husband or boyfriend into facial night. It’s not their fault; they’re men. They care about their own stuff, like Hamms oil cans and Fantasy Football. Solution? The Compass Rose’s Ladies Night. Ah yes, shop, check out Washington artists from Tumbleweed Bead Co., toss questions at Seattle based body care experts from Herbivore Botanicals, enjoy tasty treats and delightful sips provided by Dry Soda. So call up the girlfriends and head to the Proctor District gift shop to relax, shop and indulge with Compass Rose from 5-8 p.m.
PREFUNK: In the early 1700s, London pub patrons demanded a blend of various available brews called “Three Threads” using a third of a pint each of ale, lager and a strong brew called “Twopenny.” Eventually, bartenders told the Three Threadheads to take a flying leap off the London Bridge. Around 1730, a brewer named Harwood came up with a solution. He re-created the flavor of Three Threads into a single craft beer called “Entire” before it reached the pub. This beer came to be loved by porters and other physical laborers, and so earned its name, Porter. Porter differed from common Sweet Brown Ales in its dry, aged character and full dosage of hops. Unlike regal Pale Ales, Porter ran with the rougher, cheaper dark malt crowd. Porter kicked ass, dominating the market for more than 100 years. And much like “The Bionic Woman” and “Frasier,” Porter had spin-offs. There were Plain Porter, Stout Porter, Brown Stout and Double Stout, among other terms. Stout (strong) Porters eventually became known simply as Stout, and regional characteristics further delineated the style, including Sweet Stout, in which brewers intensified the dark, chocolaty malt body with lactose, the sugar in cow’s milk, hence the name. Peaks and Pints pours Left Hand Brewing’s Nitro Milk Stout from our Western red cedar tap log, beginning at 11 a.m.
SILVER SHIPS
Silver Ships, the project name for singer, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and Tacoma native Chazz Bessette, who now resides in Portland. Shards of Harry Nilsson, The Beatles and Smile-era Beach Boys glisten in the sunlight like a broken lens that splays and twists into a psychedelic kaleidoscope when peered through. Silver Ships sails into The Valley tonight with Black Ocean Temple (featuring members of Motopony), Blonde Tiger and Big City After Dark, beginning at 9 p.m.
PREFUNK: The 3rd annual South Sound Craft Beer Festival will feature more than 40 Washington breweries pouring over 150 craft beers. The brewers will each bring an IPA, as well as two to 10 other beers. The presenting Washington Beer Commission has changed the look from last year, making the Tacoma Dome Exhibition Hall less cafeteria like as you sip 5-ounce tastes for each brewery, including 11 from the South Sound. Doors open at 6 p.m. and flows until 6 p.m.
TELLABRATION!
It takes cajones to be a good storyteller! You have to impress a crowd with no props, no fancy lighting and no CGI-crafted battle scenes! Each year around the world, “Tellabration!” is celebrated to honor these brave souls and their fans! In its purest form, Tellabration! binds people together in the most wonderful way: with stories and exclamation points, told in all languages and drawn from all manner of cultures — a way of detaching yourself from the video games and gnat-sized attention spans! Since stories were invented the Mt. Tahoma Storytelling Guild has hosted the national celebration at Antique Sandwich Company! It’s at 7:30 p.m.! Hurrah!
PREFUNK: You embrace Sour Beer’s heritage. You know Sour Beer is often called “the original beer” because, during the days when serfs clapped coconuts behind knights, all beers were slightly sour due to the bacteria and yeast that would naturally invade fermenters. You’re ready to hang with Sour Beer, and there’s no better place than at the community-oriented, The Copper Door during its two-day Sour for the Holidays festival. The 2-year-old beer store and taproom in Tacoma’s Stadium District will tap 10 Sour Beers, including Black Market Brewing’s Cherry Sour, Cascade Brewing’s The Vine NW Sour Ale, New Belgium Brewing’s La Folie ’15 and Pacific Brewing & Malting Co.’s Cherry Berliner Weisse.
MOUNTAINHOUSE PRESENTS
MountainHouse Productions is an all-encompassing production group that inhabits Sound West Recording Studio in Tacoma. They offer full-scale music production and recording services, as well as produce music series, such as The Cave Session on YouTube. Tonight, they dive into live shows. “MountainHouse Presents” will, er, present bands Sloucher (Swoon Records), Mr. Motorcycle and Etchings at 8 p.m. in Bob’s Java Jive. The MountainHouse crew will be tailgating in the Jive’s parking lot before the show.
PREFUNK: North End Social Club welcomes back Tacoma’s Tilted Tree Cidery and its three new releases and two new labels, Rudolph’s Redemption and estate blend Lil’ Red Farm Blend. And just to get a little crazy before the election, the Sixth Avenue taproom asks everyone to wear his or hers best wig. Get wiggy with it beginning at 5 p.m.
